The last few weeks have been pretty busy, what with a wrapping up of two projects and starting another one, on night shift for a week. What a strange schedule, working from about 8 PM till 6 AM, going home in the glaring bright lights of the public transportation, avoiding starting at the sun, and going to bed between 9 AM and 12 PM, depending on the days. Fortunately, I discovered that a previously-purchased blackout shade could be taped over the window frame to block out all light and even heat, making it many times easier to sleep even during the heat of the day (trying to channel S.Y. Agnon whom I really should read to understand a recent NYRB article). It also makes the room darker at night and blocks out some noise, too.
The same night shift schedule will be needed for the first week of May (plus a day) for a week of third shift testing, on site in an area around Sioux Falls in South Dakota. Should be interesting.
On the technological front I've been lazy. Beyond implementing part of my planned network with a new US-8 Ubiquiti Switch, physically wired and placed behind my desk with a network cable (finally learned how to cut and strip Ethernet/RJ-45), not much has been done. Ran a wire between the new switch and the router, and finally realized how something might be physically distributed but still in the same logical grouping (or Vlan for instance). The next step would be to get a Ubiquiti Cloud Key, or Security Gateway, or just an edgerouter, and redo the whole gateway router.
Recently I also updated a beloved flash drive (outer shell at top, guts at bottom):
It was a parental gift in 2007, when 512 MB was plenty of space. There's an activity light that actually bears no relation to the activity of the usb, and a whopper of a flash module. To this day it is still in use, now used to transfer small files during my pentesting work. However, at long last, when I grew tired of waiting a minute for 20 MB to transfer, I switched the original flash drive for a 16 GB Sandisc Cruzer Fit drive, that's much smaller and faster, and stuck some extra stuff behind it to prevent it from falling out. Now 20 MB transfers in less than a second, and what's old is new again.
You can still buy USB drives on ebay in the exact same case, incredibly overpriced.
P.S.
The same night shift schedule will be needed for the first week of May (plus a day) for a week of third shift testing, on site in an area around Sioux Falls in South Dakota. Should be interesting.
On the technological front I've been lazy. Beyond implementing part of my planned network with a new US-8 Ubiquiti Switch, physically wired and placed behind my desk with a network cable (finally learned how to cut and strip Ethernet/RJ-45), not much has been done. Ran a wire between the new switch and the router, and finally realized how something might be physically distributed but still in the same logical grouping (or Vlan for instance). The next step would be to get a Ubiquiti Cloud Key, or Security Gateway, or just an edgerouter, and redo the whole gateway router.
Recently I also updated a beloved flash drive (outer shell at top, guts at bottom):
It was a parental gift in 2007, when 512 MB was plenty of space. There's an activity light that actually bears no relation to the activity of the usb, and a whopper of a flash module. To this day it is still in use, now used to transfer small files during my pentesting work. However, at long last, when I grew tired of waiting a minute for 20 MB to transfer, I switched the original flash drive for a 16 GB Sandisc Cruzer Fit drive, that's much smaller and faster, and stuck some extra stuff behind it to prevent it from falling out. Now 20 MB transfers in less than a second, and what's old is new again.
You can still buy USB drives on ebay in the exact same case, incredibly overpriced.
P.S.
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