This is the blog section of www.cybereffect.net
It was started, honestly, without any real direction but the intent was to use it as an extension of the main site. Cybereffect.net generally focuses on Linux topics and as you will see I also add other material. Thus it is an ecletic compilation of different topics ranging from Linux installations, various articles, project and example pages, and the occasional rant.
I am an open source advocate. My operating system of choice is Linux and of late have been utilizing Ubuntu for most of the installations. I have thirteen working Linux installations personally and have installed and trained others on a couple of dozen other machines. Over the past few years I have downloaded and tried various Linux distros. Many are useful, some interesting, but Ubuntu has provided the all around environment that I need for the majority of my tasks and investigation.
I have been mostly Windows free for a couple of years. I say mostly because I still repair Windows machines, deal with the plethora of problems it presents to the user, as well as conducting data recovery and forensic discovery. Likewise I must use the OS at work. I do own a machine that has Window Server 2003 installed. It was used to learn more about the server environment both for school and work. It functioned primarily as a print and file server and was actively used for a number of months as a place for storing backups of my other machines. It also suffered from repeated “lab attacks” when I began to investigate BackTrack2 (now BT3).
You will find “rants” and “pokes” at the Windows OS and it seems incongruent by just a general reading. Again, while pro-Linux, I also understand that Windows still dominates various networks and people that understand the convergence of various OS implementations in a network are valuable. I chose Linux almost by accident. You can learn more about the journey here.
Linux is freedom, as in freedom to choose. I was never content with buying and installing a black box software program and then simply learning what buttons to push. I am a life-long hacker of various disiplines. This is why Linux is my OS of choice. Here I can explore how something works. Then I can investigate how to break it, then to rebuild it. In this way life-hackers own the things they know.
Another reason that I am pro-Linux is because I see the cost of computers and closed-source operating systems as a limitation for more than just a few people. The Internet is full of examples about the personal and business cost(s) of computers and software. In Linux there are a greater number of choices made available for people to make use of the vast potential of the computer. Even someone who has no real interest in learning the computer or networking itself, Linux can economically provide solutions found in the plethora of software packages available. The freedom of choice or the “free” software does not equate to cheap or less than adequate. In fact, Linux is at least as powerful as mainstream OS’s. Personally I and many others find it superior in its capability.
So, have fun here, stick around and puruse the various pages.
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