My Linux Page

   "Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."-- Linus Torvalds

These are a few things I've collected over the years, please e-mail me if I have violated some laws. I'll be some what immediate in removing the content. Shift click to download.

  Oh, where do I start. I use to be a full-time rock and ice climber, then I bought a computer at Walmart. I had played with computers when I was 11-13 years old. So computers weren't entirely a new passion for me, just a GIANT LEAP FORWARD IN TIME from the Apple IIc and the Atari 400.

   Toast to all those who remember the applecat modem, blue boxing, dial up text only bbss, the first mouse, box hacking and phreaking, the famous crack pages of the infamous Capt Crunch, the video game Captain Goodnight, and the good old 5.25" disk. There seems to be only a few of you folks left. And dear heavens, I would love to chat with you if ya live in my state and remember such things as The Frozen Wizard, The Freeze, The Farm, and The Pirates Guild. For it's been a long time.

    So I was plagued with windows ME for about five months on that HP walmart special. Then one day a linux cd arrived in the snail mail, which was then quickly installed. I, the armchair scientist at heart, have stuck to linux ever since. So now these days I enjoy making a living as a network engineer. Linux being my workstation and server platform of choice. I really enjoy the science of routing, switching, and network security within the Sonicwall, Cisco, and Dell platforms. I maintain a fairly large honeynet as well, so intrusion forensics is a passion of mine too. I know a few programming languages at the administrator level, I'm certainly not a programmer. I also enjoy water cooling and overclocking my personal computers.

   What really pulled me into linux from the very start was the ruthless free spirited user community. Some of the most knowledgeable linux folks I have ever come across are nearly always willing to passionately help another user understand something, the forums and LUGs are a testament to this. Some have compared it to certain feverish Eastern religions. THANK YOU Linus Torvalds.

  These cards are fairly cheap on ebay. Open up the antenna end to expose the board, solder remove the antenna that's in place; small yellow brick looking thing. Purchase or build a RP-TNC pigtail (got mine off of a bricked Cisco Aironet 350) and solder this in place. The big pad I used for the sheath and the small pad I used for the core of the coax (it works (shrug)). The results in Kismet are very noticeable, I pick up APs a Kilometer or more away with my Zaurus. Now the continued health of my Zaurus I know not, but those are kinda cheap on ebay too. At the end I use cardboard with electrical tape to support the pigtail weight.