Recent thoughts

I’m on vacation right now.  I have a couple of  books by Kevin Mitnick, which I’m hoping to get through reading by the end of the week.  My thinking is that these books will help me understand how to secure my systems better, and also understand the “human nature” side of hacking.  I also have a theology book to read, actually it is church history.  That book is “Turning Points” by Mark Noll.  This book is about the points in history that the author believes to be most important in the history of the Christian church.

I’ve been setting up IPv6 on my servers, and also doing lots of traceroutes to determine what VPS systems I have give optimal routing for different networks.  So far, the one at Interserver.com has some nice routing to just about any top-tier network that anyone would be on.

Also, I’ve been experimenting with broadcasting video streams.  I’ve downloaded Quicktime Broadcaster, and will be playing around with making movies on my iSight camera.  Not very high-quality or professional, but will experiment so I know how to do video streams and feeds.  Note:  This is also a service I intend to offer with my consulting company.

I’ll post more thoughts on the books I’m reading in a few days.  If you are a regular reader of my blog, I’d love to hear from you, and ideas for discussion topics are always welcome.  I’ve been reading some books on science and religion, and hope to be able to blog and comment when I have my head fully wrapped around the subject material.  There is alot to digest in each book I’ve read.