Windows – My 30+ Year Journey I’ve used nearly every iteration of Windows since the 3.11 days in the early 90’s (I was spared with Windows Me, but made up […]
The Year of Linux on the Desktop (finally?)
Oh how I’ve joked. Every year for nearly the last 20 or so years, the joke was “This is the year of Linux on the Desktop!” Of course, I knew […]
Wireshark Workbook – Lab 6
This was a really fun couple of labs for me (challenging as well). Lab 5 was all about TCP Sequence and Acknowledgment numbers, and it wasn’t until this lab and […]
BICEP Basics – Up and Running in 10 Minutes
Just a quick one on getting started leveraging bicep to deploy resources in Azure since it’s actually significantly easier than it sounds. Let’s get right to it… Bicep is a […]
Wireshark Workbook – Lab 5
Wow, over a month since lab 4? I’ve been slacking. No, that’s not actually true. A week off of work to prep a newly-purchased RV kept me busy. Then life, […]
Wireshark Workbook – Lab 4
Lab 4 is complete, and I’d probably give myself a passing grade for this round of questions. The subject this time was TCP SYN analysis. Now, if I were asked […]
Wireshark Workbook – Lab 3
Lab 3 involved looking at some HTTP vs HTTPS data. Another shorter lab that I managed to get done late Friday before the weekend got underway. The labs and their […]
Wireshark Workbook – Lab 2
I’ll admit, Lab 1 took me longer than I’d hoped to complete, review, and write about. We had the Labor Day Weekend in the mix, so that’s my excuse. I […]
Wireshark Workbook – Lab 1
I’ve taken my time and enjoyed the exercises in Lab 1 of the Wireshark Workbook. It contained 25 questions to work through, and I was pleased with my own results. […]
The Journey of a Thousand Packets…
Somewhere back in the 2007-2009 timeframe I bought a book about “Wireshark & Ethereal” (see the bottom of this post). I was only a couple years into my post-college career […]