Linux Basement Presents: Chad’s Blog

More Training and a Supercomputer

Today was pretty awesome. We learned about malware, viruses and botnets. The teacher, was Johannas Ullrich, who is the father of the Internet Storm Center. He was a very animated teacher and did a very good time. The class was completely linux friendly, and actually I had an advantage to those running windows, as most of the tools we used could be easily installed using apt-get. Some notable programs I learned about today:
Netdude
iftop
honeywall
graphiz
LaBrea
Honeyd

I am friends with couple of guys that work IT here at Virginia Tech. I met them last year and they’ve been kind enough to lead me around for lunch and show me the ins and outs of the town. Today, I got to tour where one of them works, in the supercomputer center. 1100 G5s. It was pretty incredible. The are currently migrating from mac os, over to Yellow Dog Linux, mainly due to flexibility. Yellow Dog is the same operating system used on the PS3, noted for its tweaked configuration for powerPC architecture. It was an amazing feat to see so many computers working on crunching numbers. They utilize almost all of the processing power, and the sight of all those processor monitors glowing is something that will stay with me. It was a geeky dreamland.

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