The Demon Werx

Hello…

I’ve totally been neglecting my sites, well the security one has gotten a little more love than the rest… however, I’m going to see if I can orchestrate moving this blog to my demon117.net site. I’ve wanted to turn demonwerx into a business or a site used to produce something (what I don’t know yet).

We’ll see how this goes, maybe one of these days I’ll get rid of the horrible html main page .

~Demon

I was given the opportunity to come on as a Level 1 Information Security Analyst with my current company, I started last week… it’s been cool, I have a lot to learn. I will be putting a lot of what I find on my security.demon117.net site.

Life is good, always busy the boys are crazy…

-Paul/demon

So in an exercise to build a VM box that will take care of replacing all of the other machines on my desk I have employed Newegg.com with some server cues from HP/Dell.

Here’s the wish list:
Processor – Intel Xeon E5520 (Newegg) — Buy 1 proc now, buy a second later.
Heat Sink – Intel HS (Newegg) — Buy another with proc #2 later
MoBo – Intel S5520HC (Newegg) — Dual CPU support, onboard dual nic and video, 24GB of ram
HDD – WD 500GB 7200RPM (Newegg) x2 (maybe x3)
Ram – Kingston 6GB kit (Kingston) — buy another set for the 2nd proc when needed

Things to left to find/price out:
Power Supply, Case

Cost:
Proc (x1) = 384.99
Mobo = 434.99
RAM (1x6GB) = 242.00
HDD (x1) = 69.99
Heat Sink = 29.45

Current desired config cost (before tax) = 1231.41

Things to add in the future:
Proc x2, 6GB more of Ram, 2 NICs, 1 Heat Sink, 1 HDD

Total estimated price (with available numbers before tax) = 1957.84

This thing will be a monster server with dual Quad proc, 12Gb of Ram, 4 NIC, 1.5Tb of storage (for Raid, etc), built with mostly server tech (proc/mobo/ram)… how can it not make your mouth water.

Considering I looked at HP and Dell and couldn’t find a Tower server with near the horsepower at $2,000. Yes, it did have the processor, just not exactly what I was looking for. HP links below:

HP ML330 G6 – E5520 Based tower (HP.com) — $2,499.00 (x1 Proc, 4GB ram)
HP ML350 G6 – E5520 Based tower (HP.com) — $2,385.00 (x2 Proc, 6GB ram)

security.demon117.net

I’ve added [another] blog to my blogging portfolio, this one will probably get a good portion of my attention for a few days/weeks… I hope for a good amount of time, as this is definitely where I want my career path to go.

Check it out, leave comments.

-Demon

This stuff FASCINATES me!
Blackhat.com

The Archive is awesome, to read some of the white papers on exploits and attack vectors and just amazing ways to utilize technology to discover things. Something that blew my mind was the forensic-proof rootkit paper, 44 pages of how to dig in and confuse the hell out of investigators while doing whatever.

This stuff doesn’t fascinate me for the malicious reasons, but the sheer genius that is used to leverage the tech on hand to come to new outcomes.

~Demon

I don’t know if I caught it from the boys or just caught it… maybe it was from Work… anyhow, it sucks. My throat hurts when I cough hard, it yields almost nothing even on Mucinex, and it’s extremely annoying when I am attempting to sleep.

I have a doctor appointment on Thursday, but who knows what they will say.

Anyhow…

I am going to be trying to Blog more… no sense in not utilizing or under-utilizing what I web presence I already have.

-Demon

So we have a new house (#2)…

Here is the page I am building, it’s currently in the test phase:
New House

So I’ve always liked the lightbox/lightbox2 javascript effects, but whenever I tried to use it I couldn’t get it right.

And then came Lytebox, this thing is crazy fast compared to lightbox2 and is still being developed. Not to mention that it is one script compared to 5 or 6, it’s brilliant!

I will be using the Lytebox effect on more pictures I put on here, the post below with Conner has the effect.

~Demon

I have uploaded a ton of pictures of the house and boys to the site… Just need to decide where to put them. I guess I could add a “House #2″ or modify the house link on the front.

However, here is a picture of the ‘pants on head’ Conner to tide you over for a bit:

We are going a bit crazy and for good reason… new house and new car (the Roo survived). I will be taking pictures with the big camera shortly of both the house and the car and posting it here. FB is ok but not for the level of detail I like.

Getting this app on my phone may assist with keeping content flowing too.

~Demon

We are waiting for the go ahead from title on the new property.

Cool stuff, I’ll have to upload pics to the gallery again. Dang the ease of Facebook even though it has no soul.

So we went to Ammons wedding last night, it was pretty awesome. Laid back, low key, good stuff… the boys were cute and picked up a lot of attention which is always fun.

We are excited for the newly weds, they are great people and this is a good thing.

-Paul

I updated the position of the links on this page so they would be closer to the top, I’d recommend clicking on the YouTube link to see the videos of the boys.

So Amok has been hosting my sites for a long long time, 2006 (long in geek timeframes).

In the last 48 hours I think I’ve used more bandwidth than I ever had because of 2 images, linked to nasioc.com to sell my subaru, 458mb today and 48mb yesterday.

I realized it was mainly because the images were big 1.1mb and 2.2mb, so I resized them and will helpfully speed up load times and reduce bandwidth consumption.

Funny that that did it.

Demon

Technology is an interesting and very much evolving entity.

What if you had a hand in the next generation technology? Or the generation after that? What would you want available that is beyond bleeding edge today?

Who is to say you are not the driver of this tech, and how do we exercise our ability to push on the creators of tech to get there or make it ourself?

~Demon

The winds of change are afoot.

It is time to cut ties with the negative, release from the death hold of the chaos, move away from corrupt and monotonous and test the waters through a new door.

I’m not talking about me, but it’s time for the wife to move away from her current company. Much better for her and her dreams and sanity.

Another friend at work put his 2 weeks in yesterday, this is hopefully a killer move for him. I bet it is a nerve wracking experience leaving a place you’ve worked at through thick and thin for the last 6 years. It will be a sad day to see him go as he has defined and built absolutely critical pieces of this company. It will be interesting to see what ripple effect will be seen as we lose such a core and critical part of our environment.

It’s a game, you’ve got to know when to bulldoze through or fold and keep your wits about you.

Embrace the change, be dynamic, don’t just survive -> LIVE!

~Demon

Merry Christmas All!!!

I’ve uploaded a number of movies to YouTube but they are not showing, I will be working on getting them uploaded before we leave tomorrow.

The link is to the Right under Important links.

I bought the Moto Droid, it rocks!

They have rooted it, put busybox on it, and are working on recovery images.

I just saw a commercial from AT&T about Verizon where they say VZ customers can’t surf the web and talk on the phone. So I tried it out, and it’s true. The Droid disables the data link when the phone is engaged, I wonder why they did this?

Very interesting.

These are two excellent sources of internet music, I enjoy blip.fm for the ability to find a lot of the songs I listened to in the past at a few keystrokes away.

Last.fm is awesome as well, you listen to the stations of artists similar to the one you picked. My favorite so far is the DJ Tiësto station, it has enough trance and bite but also has a large chill factor to help mellow out.

Maybe they have WordPress plugins.