Well, I'm back in Iowa, and back at work. I came back today for my first annual review since joining my new department. It was a good review, pretty accurate, both in where they complimented me, and where I was criticized. I was rated "Highly Satisfactory" overall, so I think that means they're keeping me. :)
Just so I don't forget about it when I get home, I need to add this site to my list of daily reads, it belongs to another Sysadmin in Higher Ed who also runs NetBackup.
I hacked my first wireless network today, but don't worry, I had my white hat on. One of the neighbors had left their wi-fi network wide-open to anyone and everyone, and didn't even bother to change the default password. It took me 15 seconds to gain control of their access point, but once I did, I merely changed their wireless channel. If you have a wireless access point, please set it to something other than channel 6, as that's the default channel of almost every brand of access point, which leads to a lot of access points (4 in range of the house here) that are speaking on the same channel, which is a bad idea. It's too bad I couldn't easily identify which house the network belonged to, or I'd have set their password for them, and let them know that they need to secure their network better, but I don't really have any easy way to track that down.
Well, my first day of training was a bit slow at times, but I think the week is going to be well spent overall. My trainer seems extremely competent, and is very willing to answer other questions. When I got back from training, I set up a wireless network in my aunt & uncle's house, when I opened my laptop up to test it, I discovered *four* other wireless networks in range, and was able to jump on them and start browsing the web. I'm going to secure their network so that won't happen here...
I'm leaving for Washington today, flying from Wateroo -> Minneapolis -> Dulles. I'm going to be attending some Veritas Netbackup 5 Solaris training for a week, which costs more than a year of college. For this price, they should include a free Sun workstation...
