Gekitsuu's Geekery

Well it was a good first day at OSCON I got up around 5 and managed to snap some photos of the sunrise. Tomorrow I'm going to try and get out earlier so I can take it from the bridge. Speaking of bridges I found the list to sign-up for the Portland bridges tour on Friday. They were offering pastries and coffee in the hall in front of the conference rooms so after I checked in I made my way to the munchies and grabbed a chocolate croissant. After hopping on the wifi and checking my mail, harassing my friends and family with phone calls, and much pacing; it was time for the talk to begin. The first tutorial I went to was on robust authentication. When I saw the talk I thought I might be able to get some useful information from it but didn't have high hopes. I was pleasantly surprised when not only did I get answers to several questions for my company but I also reviewed some of the topics of the RHCE exam. All in all the talk was entertaining and I'm glad I went. The second one was on Snort Database reporting. I had hoped this one would cover advanced snort analysis but it turned out to be more of how to correlate data from the tables in a snort database. Don't get me wrong that information is just as useful to me but it wasn't what I was expecting from the name. Portland is a pretty place and I'm looking forward to tomorrow. It's time for Perl.