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, if I have violated some laws, please e-mail me and 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 only be 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 had played with windows ME for about five months on that HP walmart special (I still have that computer). Then one day a linux cd arrived in the mail, which was then quickly installed. I being the armchair scientist at heart that I am, have stuck to linux ever since. So now these days I enjoy making a living as a network engineer and security technician. Linux being my platform of choice. I really enjoy the science of routing, switching, and network security. I maintain a fairly large honeynet too, so intrusion forensics is a passion of mine as well. 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 hooked me into linux was the community and spirit in whole. Some of the most knowledgeable linux folks I have ever come across are nearly always willing to help another user understand something, the forums and LUGs are a testament to this. Some have compared it to certain Eastern religions, but in Linux the syntax is found in the manual pages. THANK YOU Linus Torvalds.

These cards are fairly cheap on ebay, so go for this hack. 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.