Hey nixers. I'm just a computer nerd that's just recently begun truly digging into the innerds of the linux system. While growing up mainly on Windows machines, I had a Ubuntu dual-boot years back and was introduced to the beauty of *nix. I've returned to the Linux family recently(two machines with Debian) and am digging into everything that makes it tick. I stumbled across this forum and thought it'd be a great resource for me to learn.

Great to hear about your journey and glad we can be part of it.

Welcome to nixers hadmatter.

(30-11-2016, 02:44 PM)venam Wrote: Great to hear about your journey and glad we can be part of it.

Welcome to nixers hadmatter.

Thanks for your podcasts! It's nice to hear about these things from a perspective of someone who has knowledge of the topics

Hey hadmatter. Have you got any specific interests? Maintaining a unix system, programming, computer-related art, interests in philosophie regarding computers and computer science? We got you covered!

Welcome to the site!

(01-12-2016, 06:48 PM)pranomostro Wrote: Hey hadmatter. Have you got any specific interests? Maintaining a unix system, programming, computer-related art, interests in philosophie regarding computers and computer science? We got you covered!

Hey pranomostro! I eventually want to tackle C. For right now, I'm completely content learning and understanding how Unix works, and the neat tricks I can do over my local network with two linux machines(ssh in particular has been interesting), and starting to familiarize myself with bash and scripting. I'm learning things somewhat organically as I use the system, which is fine, and have some O'Reilly texts on relevant areas(in case my googling ends up fruitless on a particular problem). My big hurdles at the moment are:

a) What the hell is all this stuff systemd is doing?(Not that I have a stake in the systemd war, just that a daemon of this size - I'm sure it'd be the same with init - at first glance is hard to understand conceptually, with so many moving parts).

b) These guys who "rice" their systems are fucking awesome. Need to ween myself off of Gnome and truly figure out a nice tiling wm(eg i3-gaps, bspwm, etc.).

c) Okay, what do I need to know so I can monitor my network traffic to be able to see if anyone or anything is attempting anything dirty on my network.



Basically, I'm just a nerd who has always been into computers(spent many hours on the phone with free 1-800-GATEWAY tech support as a kid, when breaking my old Gateway Astro, learned a lot!), but never really "got his hands dirty" in any majorly significant way. Now, I plan to learn as much as possible to truly have a computing environment I understand, through every niche.

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(03-12-2016, 03:51 PM)oxa Wrote: Welcome to the site!

Thanks oxa! ^.^

(03-12-2016, 04:25 PM)hadmatter Wrote: c) Okay, what do I need to know so I can monitor my network traffic to be able to see if anyone or anything is attempting anything dirty on my network.

https://www.wireshark.org/

We had to use this in several labs for our networking class. It's a packet sniffer that captures packets going through an interface (wired or wireless) and you can filter through the capture to see what all is going on. Catch DNS, HTTP, general TCP, DHCP, you name it.

(03-12-2016, 04:25 PM)hadmatter Wrote: ...but never really "got his hands dirty" in any majorly significant way. Now, I plan to learn as much as possible to truly have a computing environment I understand, through every niche.

Semi-similar issue here. A great way to begin is to have a home server for whatever nefarious deed to go on at the estate. Seedbox? Personal dashboard? Who knows what else?

(03-12-2016, 06:02 PM)rocx Wrote: https://www.wireshark.org/

We had to use this in several labs for our networking class. It's a packet sniffer that captures packets going through an interface (wired or wireless) and you can filter through the capture to see what all is going on. Catch DNS, HTTP, general TCP, DHCP, you name it.

Woo! This is exactly the kind of tool I was looking for! Though I think I'm gonna have to rebuild it since I did a bare "aclocal, autoconf, ./configure" - and then noticed I was building it with very, very limited options. Crossing fingers "make uninstall"(since I already ran make) will clean things up for me.

(03-12-2016, 06:02 PM)rocx Wrote: Semi-similar issue here. A great way to begin is to have a home server for whatever nefarious deed to go on at the estate. Seedbox? Personal dashboard? Who knows what else?

I'm definitely not looking to "get my hands dirty" in any sort of black-hat way, just in the nature of digging into the linux system - but setting up a home server is definitely on my path!

Quote:welcome to nixers

Since there are plenty of solid advice I wont chime in on the issue. Other than that welcome!