I push buttons for a living.
whois -h Kimi Ushida
GSEC, GCFW, GCIA, GCIH, CCNA, CCNA Security, CCNA Wireless, OSWP, WCNA, Security+
I am certifiably certified and not as competent as I seem to be.
My job title amounts to Glorified Button Pusher. I've been in the industry for over 14 years dealing with almost everything - Active Directory, that Unix command line thing, halting packets at the borders, tunnels, protocol analysis, fixing stuff people break, watching wireless traffic, and documenting things no one else wants to bother with. I'm the jack-of-all-trades "computer guy" ... which means I'm superb at nothing.
This partition of my domain serves as my /dev/whatever, documenting thoughts from my experiences in the Information Technology field as well as (hopefully useful) technical articles and random opinions.
My first computer was a 386/DX with a whopping 32 MB of memory running DOS 5.0 which made me the cool kid on the block for a few weeks because Doom 1.1 ran on my machine, eventually upgrading to DOS 6.0 » DOS 6.22 » Windows 3.1 » 3.11, then installing Trumpet Winsock and fiddling with that Netscape Navigator thing. I had a GeoCities page and absolutely no idea what I was doing.
cat /etc/whatishere.conf
Like anyone else who has done his share of IT work, I've developed some ideas and opinions which others may find useful. I do plenty of documentation at work so I've developed a habit of writing things down before it leaves the limited confines of my available memory.
The articles covering technical material should be taken with a grain of salt like everything else on the Internet. I'm not an subject matter expert on anything. Writing just makes me feel more important than I really am.
My opinionated stuff is in the ramblings section and I make no warranties as to their correctness. Anyone who has had to implement / maintain network infrastructures will have some colorful stories to tell.
There's also a section on some random technologies I find interesting. It's stuff that I need, not want. Or maybe it's the other way around.
This site is not an interactive blog. It is not a forum. It's a place for me to perform memory dumps before my head crashes for the day. I write articles as free time permits. I'm real, real busy these days. If you discover any technical inaccuracies, please let me know based on the information in the contact section.