THE FUTURE
I have been looking into getting back into pentesting again. Kali Linux looks promising and I am waiting on the funds for another drive. I may just grab the drive back that I gave someone and they have not used yet. 64GB crucial SSD should do well. I have been going back and fourth about repartitioning one of my encrypted disks and just dual booting but it just seems like way too much of a hassle and I like the idea of an isolated drive that I can swap. I think it would be a good way to get into tutorial mode again…it has been a while since I released a guide. I usually just pump info into the wiki.
I have two nice dell monitors that I need to get together and put on the main system. Displaylink is great!
PROJECTS
I am impressed with the updated linux support for some of the HP laser printers that I have to use. A lot of the bugs have been ironed out in the Archlinux package which is nice. Though I just had a friend mention that Linux printer support is horrid.
My python project is a bit halted right now but all is not lost. I just need to get it up into get and move forward that way as it will make the project more portable and solve some of the problems I have been having moving computers around and such.
I was looking at vid.me and was wondering why there is not a public indexer out there….you can just change the url and look at any video…there are no privacy settings and after seeing what people post on there…I think they think some of those videos are private… It seems that they do not use a or b in there vids…the best way to find a vid url group is to start with a url ending in z. So tYz….99 percent of the time something like tYc would not work, but 99 percent of the time, tYd would load just fine. I may build an indexer.
I am working on using tracmor again at work for inventory and asset control…it looks like it is going to be perfect…may have to customize some things.
PROBLEMS
Firefox keeps crashing on both my of Archlinux boxes. I have to look into this. Archlinux also changed the way system dumps are processed.
I have to get rid of all my useless hosting! Not even using it really…..
GENERAL STUFF
The last few weeks have been good. Making progress and the vehicle has been treating us well. We put many thousands into it to make it the way it needs to be. We are going to be taking a trip and I have a few things to accomplish but over all it should be decent. The last day is going to be harsh. 15 hour drives are not fun :/ Getting the cash situation straitened out. That seems to be better. Overall getting back in the swing of things after being in Hawaii really. I guess the island of Hawaii affected me a bit more then I understood. Too much vacation mode in my mind. Need to focus on the grind and the simple things really. I have halted the job search for a bit to focus on the next move to AZ. It is up and coming and I need to get things lined up before I push forward.
Comcast customer service is trash. I spent 8+hrs on various chats with them which ended up with them telling me I have to pay to have someone come out to fix whatever causes my modem to go offline 5-6 times a day and range for a bit before it reconnects. If they merge with timewarner I do not know what to say…it is just going to get worse. I believe in a free market but these guys have to be manipulating it! On the other end I have a client that has timewarner and we had a call about something else. Night and day…it was a 5 min call, got all the info I needed. Still that time warner rep was reading script and I am sure if he was having the same problems I was having he would have had the same problems.
I ended up getting someone to come out by asking our leasing agent to get a hold of Comcast for me. They have something like 20 accounts so maybe it was easier. Comcast did not show for the fist appointment one weekend, did not call or anything. I called 4 hours after they were supposed to show and got the you will be next speech. Still nothing. Never showed, never called to reschedule.
I got the appointment rescheduled for the next weekend and the guy showed up. Well almost. I was walking the dog and saw a Comcast guy drive up to the gate, search the gate names for entry for about 30 seconds (how can you even find my name in the first place in that amount of time, those things suck) and then park in the parking lot. I put the dog away, and walked up to him…he was watching netflix or at least listening to music in the parking lot. When I asked him if he was there for me he said yes. He said he called someone and asked how it was supposed to get in. He did not call me though, you know, the number on the invoice. (who did he call?)
The guy was just going to sit in the parking lot, and do whatever, and then move on! All he did was replace the modem with a different brand. (did you know that all the Comcast modems look the same but have different manufactures? (serious)) It seems to be working but who knows. I have friends in the apartment complex that had the same problems as me. I wonder if they all have bad modems. The funny part is, that as I was leading the guy to my apartment, another guy started asking him what is up because he has the same problems that I do. I think they all have bad modems, or the cable network at the complex is broke.
Anyways, Comcast in GA is horrid. Funny thing is, I paid like 300 a month for 100MBIT DS and 10MBIT US in Tacoma, WA while I was there and did not have any problems. Though, the installers constantly ‘joked’ (harassed is more like it) that no one would ever need this fast of speed. I actually thought it was 100/100 and not 100/10…and when I called the rep to ask what was up the guy acted like I was an idiot and started to ignore me. I guess his and Comcast’s Internet must be just to good for me. I figured they would monitor usage and use the statistics on my account as most probably do not have the 100/10 package and use it restrict people in the future so I maxed that connection as much as I could, when I could. Download to /dev/null!
Residential Internet is crap. Even Google really. I find it a joke that they make themselves out to look like the good guys but there TOS prohibits severs and such. They should have a tagline like: “Break Our Rules Faster with Google Fiber”. I should be able to MAX that connection 24/7 and they should not say a word. Owell, there goes the future.
As of late in some of these places I go, I get BW limits on total data transfered. In fact I am in one of Comcasts 300GB ‘test’ areas. I am glad to be one of the select group that Comcast is screwing over. It feels great. Thanks Comcast. I once had that problem with ATT fiber too. (I never hit the caps though, I try and stay under if I can) I asked an ATT rep if I could just get a business line instead if I wanted and they told me I need to show ‘proof’ that I had a business. WHAT WHAT WHAT?!? I guess my peasant status is not enough to get full unlimited, unfiltered access to the Internet. My money is no good. I am not worthy! I could be dangerous with all that bandwidth.
Idiots. The lot of them.
Dam. A lot of text above. At least I got that info out and should not have to type it again in the future. I can just reference this!
Kaplan university, props to you too. I know a special someone who ran out of financial aid at the end and took a loan out from the school. What they did not tell her is that she will not get her degree or transcript until the ‘loan’ is paid off. Thanks guys!
SHOUT OUTS
ArthrD3nt…keep up man!
MEDIA CONSUMPTION
Still working on Startrek Voyager…the 2nd time around. Re watching all eps again.
INTERNET THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4NRJoCNHIs