charlesnw wrote a new blog post: Tasks between now and end of February 3 months, 1 week ago · View
1) Finish FNF production NOC setup 2) Finish FNF lab setup Dev box tasks: ( this will be used for all my security research, financial modeling etc). It will also monitor my production system in the colo (via AlienVault) 1) Setup smartmon/smartd monitoring/alerting 2) setup LXC 3) Setup Alienvault LXC instance 4) Setup GNS3 5) [...]
charlesnw wrote a new blog post: 2011 Status update 5 months, 1 week ago · View
What have I gotten done so far in 2011? 1) Shipped a working mesh at the end of my previous engagement. This was a very exciting milestone for me, and closed out a multi year effort of on again/off again work on mesh networks. 2) Shipped several major milestones of my data ownership stack. This was [...]
charlesnw wrote a new blog post: My current home network details 7 months, 2 weeks ago · View
Here is a quick write up on my current home network. Production Network: 1) pfSense on a Dell Optiplex x86 (connected to my TimeWarnerCable connection). 2) Cisco 3548 switch. This is the switch that everything else ties into it. My network core switch. It also provides POE for when I’m messing with various POE devices. [...]
charlesnw wrote a new blog post: Eating healthy in the month of May for less then $200.00 8 months, 1 week ago · View
So I got back from Los Angeles yesterday and needed to go shopping. Went to the local walmart and got food for the entire month. What did I get? Main dish: 8 boxes of 6 rib eye steaks for 9.95 each (main dish for most meals of the month) 13 sausages (main dish when I [...]
charlesnw wrote a new blog post: Releasing my memex 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Ok. This is a quick and dirty release of a tool I’ve built over the past several days. If it breaks you can keep all of the pieces.
Seriously though, this is a very quick and dirty release. I make no guarantees. It should work but it might not. My Personal Memex ( Tech note: [...]charlesnw wrote a new blog post: How I defined data ownership and how close I am to reach that 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
When I started my data ownership journey I had a goal: reduce the number of logins I need to one, and back it with a one time password system. That is the ultimate goal and will take me another 6 months to reach beta 1. In the meantime I have settled on a compromise: reduce [...]
charlesnw wrote a new blog post: My roadmap for the emergent technology initiative. 8 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Here are two mailing list posts I’ve done in the past couple weeks. It’s an overall roadmap for a vision I’ve been working on for the past few years. Enjoy. Phase 1: FreedomBox
Hello all, I want to share with folks what my idea for the freedombox is and how I’m continuing to work on achieving [...]
