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From Grunt to Operator — CircleCityCon, Indianapolis

Podcasts

A while back, when I was in between the Army and a job and going to school, I had quite a bit of free time on my hands. So, I decided to start…

Linux Commands

Most sticky notes are now off the computer! If anyone has a better way of doing something please post. I can always use the help!

My Experience So Far…

Quick disclaimer, I am by no means an InfoSec professional,ninja, rockstar, badass, etc. This is just my opinion on…

MySQL 5.1.58, PHP5, and Apache2 Issues

**Fixed version. All should work.

I was tasked with creating a VM as a test. This is my experience trying to install MySQL 5.1.58, PHP5, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I had quite a few issues trying to compile MySQL and apt-get…

C++

Been rocking some C++ pretty much all day today and busted out this decent start to a text-based rpg. Kind of cool. Just trying to put as much time in as available, only way to really become proficient. Source is up on Github (HORRIBLE name).

PHP and MySQL

Have been working with PHP and MySQL. It’s been pretty fun building a database and then incorporating a page with the database. Learning to properly hash with salt. Used SHA256 with a salt. There are a few things I could do differently, like creating a separate database to store the salts and maybe a…