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Returned from Belgium – Snow annual weekend

On June 17, 2009, In Weblog, by Remko

Last Sunday we returned from Belgium. I first opted to drive the same way as we did on the way in (via Eindhoven) but we got redirected through Antwerpen, which made the travel easy and comfortable. One thing: do not eat at the AC restaurant near Breda (just before the border); it’s expensive and we didn’t like the food. The sate(chicken) wasn’t quite ready yet (not cooked very well); my Schnitzel was “ok” and Luca’s spaghetti was just from the Microwave and not entirely interesting / nice to eat.

Anyway; on friday we arrived, having eaten already so we could pickup my new Macbook (which is just in front of me at the moment updating and things like that) and head for our little house. It was a very nice little house, it’s one of the best houses that we had while being away for a weekend. We showered Luca and took some resting, this was one of the first weekends that we had ‘time off’. Saturday we had breakfast in the house, we got a very large survival pack from Snow :-) and headed over to the Quad terrain where Luca was about to drive. We found out that it was right next to our house so very short walk :)

Luca was a bit over optimistic and flew the Quad (we have some pictures, see the gallery) and we drove together as well, which was much more fun for both of us :) .. The rest of the time we went to the swimming pool and the childrensplayground. We had dinner with the Snow people later that day, (Good food, we liked it :) ), and again retired for the evening making a slow stop, great to get back to strength a bit because of these weekends :)

Sunday we again went to the playgrounds and the swimming pool ; after which we headed home. Denise unpacked and packed, she’s away with her group 8 :-) , so the house is entirely mine :-) :-) (or at least for the moment).

Now heading out to fetch Luca from school and then eat and swimming (again :D )

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Michael Boelen in Insecure_Mag 18!

On October 7, 2008, In Weblog, by Remko

My Snow Collegue Michael Boelen was invited to write a `little” article for the Insecure Magazine for his tool “Lynis”. I think he did a very nice job at that, I read the article and I found it interesting to read!

What is Lynis?

From the Lynis projectpage:

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).

If you are interested in the tool, visit
The Lynis Projectpage

Insecure Mag:

Insecure Magazine is a periodic Magazine that talks about various Security related items. The one starring Michael’s article can be found here or via the local mirror at Evilcoder.org.

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[lang_en]Progression personally[/lang_en][lang_nl]De vooruitgang[/lang_nl]

On August 23, 2008, In Weblog, by Remko

[lang_en]Last week Denise and I had been shopping at Ikea's where we bought some new things for our upcoming house, yes OUR house :-) , and we did an inventory of potential victim's eh furniture for our house. We had a great time looking around and talking to eachother over what we liked and disliked for the house. I think we have around the same ideas wrt. how to build up the house. That said, we have at least one good candidate house so far, and we are going to inspect another house this week if possible. We envy one of the houses we saw (i wont tell which one :-) ) so that is a potential (did i say good potential) candidate for our future house.

We also share more and more time together, with Luca and with the two of us, so we are really really progressing forward. Perhaps not as fast as people would have hoped, but hey, we do not overrush things now so that we can do it right.

We had visited Jeugdland yesterday btw, and that was great, Luca had a great time and we walked around and did things with him that he really really enjoyed. Good idea Denise!

Personally my progression is also going well, I am learning a lot at my current assignment, doing much Juniper/Cisco work and some uSyscom (UMTS) and other related machines as well as Windows management (yes I am an Unix Specialist but hey, I understand this as well, which is not that bad, but I still envy the various *nix distributions, it's so much easier in a networking environment).

I also received my first Juniper certification and I am planning the second one already, including my CISSP and other things (which I will do at a little lower pace because those projects are somewhat bigger to obtain, more theory and more to learn). It remains great that Snow supports me this well![/lang_en]

[lang_nl]De afgelopen week zijn Denise en ik wezen shoppen bij Ikea, waar we een aantal nieuwe dingen voor ons aanstaande huis hebben gekocht, (ja we gaan samenwonen) en hebben we een inventarisatie gedaan van potentiele slachtoffers, eh ik bedoel meubilair voor ons huis. We hebben erg genoten van het rond kijken en het praten met elkaar over wat we wel en niet leuk zouden vinden voor het huis. Denise en ik hebben globaal dezelfde ideeen erover dus dat zit wel goed!
Daarbuiten hebben we minstens een goede kandidaat voor ons huis. We gaan nog een aantal huizen inspecteren waarvan een deze week als dat mogelijk is. We hebben serieuze interesse in 1 van de huizen die we tot heden gezien hebben (en ik ga lekker niet vertellen welke dat is), dus dit is een potentiele kandidaat voor ons toekomstig huisje! :-)

We delen de laatste tijd ook steeds meer tijd met elkaar, met Luca en samen, dus we gaan goed vooruit. Misschien niet zo snel als iedereen hoopt, maar hey we overhaasten het niet zodat we het goed kunnen doen.

Gisteren zijn we overigens naar Jeugdland geweest, en dat was geweldig, Luca had een geweldige tijd en we hebben ons suf gelopen :-) en dingen gedaan met hem die hij erg leuk vond! Goed idee van Denise!

Persoonlijk gezien heb ik ook enorme vooruitgang. Ik leer veel op mijn huidige opdracht, veel Cisco en Juniper werk en wat uSyscom (UMTS) en andere gerelateerde machines, evenals Windows beheer, ja ik ben een Unix Specialist, maar dit snap ik ook in grote lijnen wel, uiteraard blijft mijn voorliefde bij Unix liggen wat zoveel makkelijker werkt in een netwerk omgeving!

Ik heb ook mijn eerste Juniper certificering binnen gehaald en de tweede wordt geplanned, evenals mijn CISSP en andere dingen die ik nog wil doen daarna (die doe ik wel wat rustiger aan want deze projecten zijn wat groter, meer theorie en meer informatie die verwerkt moet worden.

Het blijft geweldig dat Snow me daarin zo goed kan steunen![/lang_nl]

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[lang_en]New TTY Layer moves into FreeBSD[/lang_en][lang_nl]Nieuwe TTY Layer in FreeBSD[/lang_nl]

On August 20, 2008, In FreeBSD, Technical, by Remko

[lang_en]Today is a big day, for me, for Ed Schouten and for FreeBSD (And it's consumers ofcourse). Why? Ed Schouten today integrated his MultiProcessorSafe (MPSAFE) implementation of the TTY Layer for FreeBSD. From the beginning that I heared about the project, Ed and I had been in contact, both working at the same company (Snow B.V.), we flew to Canada together (Facilitated and sponsored by Snow B.V.), visited eachother, been in contact for ages (or at least it feels like ages, which is a positive point in this case). Ed also gratuated in the meantime by working on this TTY layer. So a lot of good things had been evolved because of this!

For FreeBSD this means that finally the TTY layer is GIANT-less. One more big obstacle removed to entirely getting rid of the GIANT lock ;-) , as Poul-Henning Kamp mentioned at some point: This is one of the latest chapters that needed rewriting (since a long time as far as I know).

So I am really happy about this. Good Work Ed!!![/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Vandaag is een belangrijke dag voor mij, voor Ed Schouten en voor FreeBSD (En zijn gebruikers).
Waarom? Ed Schouten heeft vandaag zijn MultiProcessor Veilige (MPSAFE) implementatie gedaan van de TTY Layer voor FreeBSD. Vanaf het begin dat ik hoorde over het project, zijn Ed en ik in contact geweest, werkten we bij hetzelfde bedrijf (Snow B.V.) Zijn we samen naar Canada gevlogen (gefaciliteerd en gesponsored door Snow B.V.), bezoeken we elkaar, hebben we al eeuwen contact (althans zo voelt het, in positieve zin!), is Ed afgestudeerd ondertussen dankzij dit onderwerp... Dus een berg goede dingen is voortgekomen uit dit project!

Voor FreeBSD betekend dit, dat eindelijk de TTY Layer GIANT(-lock less) is. Een groot obstakel verwijderd om ter zijner tijd de GIANT-lock in zijn geheel weg te krijgen. Zoals Poul-Henning Kamp op een gegeven moment al zei: Dit is 1 van de allerlaatste hoofdstukken die nog herschreven moest worden (sinds een hele lange tijd voor zover ik weet).

Dus ik ben hier bijzonder blij om! Goed werk geleverd Ed!!!![/lang_nl]

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CCSE

On July 16, 2008, In Technical, Weblog, by Remko

Today I did the CCSE exam in Zoetermeer, this is the second exam you can do for checkpoint. After preparing it for around two months (in which time I went on holiday to Tunesia, been on business trip to Canada, had a weekend-holiday with Snow in Texel, searching for and arranging side-paths for a house which we are looking for, so basically study time was ~2 weeks) and spending a weekend and yesterday mainly to learn for the exam, it was time to do it.

I passed with a score of 85% (70% was required); so I didn't do that bad. I got all kind of enthoustic responses from Snow, and I got a lot of text messages from my current assignment. Thanks folks! It's appreciated!

Onward to CISSP (the materials seem boring so far) and Juniper (Which I am preparing already as next candidate) (also a dual track, the initial one, and the second level one), and then Cisco (if possible) and if then still possible, the BSDP (second level BSD certification) so that I have broad knowledge in multiple regions of the activities that Snow is offering :-) .

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