jaydeltathree

What happened to Monday?

So I'm already failing in my endeavor to post something every work day. I just wasted too much time yesterday. At some point I realized that I couldn't follow the example in Intrusion Prevention and Active Response because I'm running a 64-bit operating system, so I decided to run the homework in a virtual machine. I had Xubuntu already downloaded, so I installed it, but after I did and even copied the source I had over, then for some strange reason I decided I wanted to go with Slackware. One reason was that Xubuntu didn't have the C headers, which I thought was retarded, but all I had to do was download them. Instead I took a whole day to download Slackware, and though the operating system works okay (minus the terminal emulator) the virtual resize doesn't work. So then I thought about going back to Xubuntu, but I've already downloaded metasploit to the other. Whatever I do, I've got to stop making hard tasks harder, and work on accomplishing tasks rather than making more tasks.

I talked to Dave today, and he talked to the instructor, so there was some positive communication. We talked about setting up computers, our plan for the proposal and start of work, and setting up the wiki and using Jabber. We both need to read the materials. I should have printed the papers while I was at school, but I'm going to bite the bullet and just use my Windows VM to print to school from now on--don't need to make something like printing harder than it is.

I learned something valuable on the homework front--the addresses I saw in gdb weren't just strange, they were random. And I can stop that randomization by changing some variable using sysctl.