TRYING TO FURTHER MY EDUCATION...

its has been a hell of a last few months. my father died in july, i finished my cyber security bootcamp in august, inherited a house in missoula, moved my fiancée up from colorado over september and october, had friends here from hungary in november, than was down to denver for thanksgiving and again to denver in early december before heading to hungary via istanbul for the holidays. i took my comptia security+ exam in january, spent two weeks skiiing and exploring japan in february, and now back in montana looking for work in a more serious way. but after all this time cramming hungarian and cybersecurity and japanese into my brain and figuring out how to care for my father in his last days and my house and my dog and booking flights and getting engaged…

so now i am taking a course to prepare for my AWS cloud practitioner exam and working through google’s cyber security certificate course work as well just to keep my head in the game. just got home from driving to denver where we attended owasp’s snowfroc conference and did some skiing with my fiancée’s family. its be fun, its been hard, its been everything in-between. woof.

STANDING BAR SOBA

one of my favorite things in japan is super hot kakiage soba for breakfast in shibuya across the street from the new national theatre and tokyo opera city. cash only, boxes and crates stacked high next to the heat-pump exhaust outside, surrounded by the slurps of salarymen, musicians, and labors alike, the dashi broth’s just barely sweet undertones shining through the savory and glistening with the mild sesame oil of the tempura: more food than i can eat for about $2.

ANTIX, DEBIAN MINT, AND SSH...

i was determined to set up my cisco 2960 before connecting it to my home network and even though i had a perfectly good connection to it via usb i wanted to be able to access it through ssh. the only laptop in the house with an ethernet port was this dusty old x86 asus eee pc. after some digging and a partition or two i got it running antiX32 and eventually LMDE 6 “Faye” a 32-bit debian based linux mint, as though that makes any sense.

of course i wasn’t connected to a dhpc server so i had to configure static IP addresses for both devices, and for some reason the eee pc kept giving itself an IPv6 address, which caused some headaches. after some trials and tribulations: voilà! we can manage the switch remotely through ssh.