This is the year when my wife asked me what I wanted for christmas, I exclaimed “Wii want to play!!”; and so began the quest for the ever elusive $249 Wii. We both thought it was going to be difficult, if not impossible .. until I just randomly stopped by the ghettomart. 

For anyone who is thinking about taking the CISSP (like me!); I found a nice site with a practice test for it. It actually doesn’t suck, and as of yet it hasn’t tried to con me into paying for anything .. yet.

The free practice test is located here. enjoy.

Today, I would like to introduce you to some of tcpdump’s advanced options. If you’ve ever used tcpdump you’ve probably captured traffic off a network interface, or examined the contents of an existing pcap file. In it’s most basic use (sudo tcpdump), all visible network traffic is dumped off the primary interface to stdout. While this is the making of a great screen saver, it’s not very useful. This is the moment at which you began reading the man page, and discovered Berkley Packet Filters (bpf). BPF statements can range from something as broad as # tcpdump ‘port 80′ or # tcpdump ‘host and/or host’. There are times where a very specific level of detail is needed. This is where Berkley Packet Filters become your best friend.

Today is the day (since I’m off work), to upgrade my systems to OS X 10.5. I already did a new install on my desktop system and all went well there. Right now I am doing an upgrade on my mac mini, a little nervous I will admit. The mac mini is the heart of my home theater system, so I can’t afford to have it out of commission for very long.

What I am really interested in seeing though, is the new features available in Front Row. As I said the mac mini is the heart of my home theater, I use Front Row almost daily. So I am really excited to see the revamped interface, that is supposed to look like the Apple TV interface. I am also excited to see these “new settings” that are available. I will try and put up a post about them tonight, after I finish the upgrades.

For now I will leave you with this… Time Remaining: About 7 minutes – WOOT!