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Awesome! I'll be right out of High School when I'd be going there, looking to apply for any colleges in the area if I do go through with the move.
 
In all honesty I hate the whole netacad stuff, especially when packet tracer doesn't work half of the time. I got my knowledge from actually putting my hands on Cisco routers and seeing how I could break their proprietary protocols and outdated stolen operating systems. I know all my schools are using old Meraki controlled access points which have some gaping vulnerabilities, like I'm talking root access. What I've been slowly working on is finding exploits in some older equipment they have running a school network where I take my Cisco classes. Mostly where you can talk a router into sending it's running config via tftp onto your machine. Then in a few weeks you could probably crack their mda5 hashes and get all the passwords. I've seen each of these steps done before in different places, its just a matter of putting them together and making the tools to do it. It'd definitely be a neat trick if I could do it.
 
Anyway uh, let me know if you get to know anything. I really am interested, the kind of work they have interns doing there in CPOC seems to be exactly what I want to do right now. Just send me a PM if you get to know anything, so I can know what I need to be striving towards so when it comes time to apply in a couple years, I'll have everything I'll need.
 
Thanks for the help! <3

I'll let you know, I do now have the manager there for CPOC and I know a guy that used to be in tandberg who works for cisco now in TAC (I'm not sure about his name but I know he's canadian and speaks french, that's about all I remember haha) that can answer questions for me to if I have any. It'll be a couple years before I can work down there, I do need to get my Cisco certs and finish Highschool of course, I'm looking to get a degree here before I move too but I might not- just depends on what opportunities I'd have two years from now. Thanks for letting me know though! I'll keep my eyes on it.
 
What I've been using mostly as far as security goes is just pfSense. I know some people using it for huge enterprises and things, even though its just a open source operating system. I know Cisco bought the rights to use something called snort, which is a really amazing service pfSense has. Its amazingly secure and I don't know a single engineer who is dissatisfied with pfSense. Though, for more dependable or reliable solutions, where either I can't rely on having pfSense engineers in the area (only me and one other guy anywhere around here that can use it) that can replace me at a facility I put it in at in when I leave and need something that will self-heal and update itself, I'll use barracuda systems. Thats just what I've put my hands on though, I'm sure there are plenty more out there. 
 
I do have one question I never got to ask the managers there though. What kind of prerequisites would you need to be able to land an internship there at the CPOC lab? I think they were saying you don't even need to have a CCNA, just the desire to try and work towards getting the certification. I'm looking to get mine before I get out of High-School though. Or, are they looking more at degrees, age, or things like that? Just curious, in case I do apply.

Harder to break + cheaper

Harder to break + cheaper

well that's more of a side effect of why the reason is because they want the best cooling and since only people working on the servers are near them they don't care if they are loud since there's no reason to make them quieter

Thats a whole lot of SSDs dude.

Thats a whole lot of SSDs dude.

//ADAX//
First personal rig
 



 
//Specs//
AMD 8350 4.0ghz
Sapphire r9 Nitro Fury
8gb Fury X (Will expand later)
1tb HDD
Thermaltake View 27
 
//The Build//
As the name states, this is my first personal rig. But, I work on computers every single day. I just never had the money to buy anything high end for myself until now.
The build took initially about a hour to do, I've done some work since then on it though.
 
//Issues//
I had all kindsa things die in this. First, the PCI Riser that let me vert mount my GPU died after some light overclocking (why it's horz mounted now) and the three way fan splitter.
The case was a little hard to work with but, fur the price I got it for I can't really complain. Most of it was the intake fan filters and mounting.
 
//Why?//
I made this machine because for years I've been rendering and editing professional video on old shit laptops, and it was time to get something new. On the old i5 laptop I had something that would take me about a hour or two to render takes me ten minutes to do on this machine. It cost $800, I'll be reselling at a higher price so I can upgrade to ryzen/vega when that comes out.
 
//Preformance//
This thing is amazing. I work on some several thousand dollar workstations through the week and this thing can even outperform some of them in certain tasks. I could never be more happy with it. In gaming though, with my 21:9 2560x1080 monitor I'll usually get something like 80fps in Overwatch completely maxed out. I'd get quite a bit more if was at 1920, though I haven't tried that yet. Same thing for The Witcher III and about any really taxing game. My Furmark score is almost 6000 with this GPU, which is pretty damn close to the performance of a 960 ti (a $400 card) and smashes the 980 strix ($550) card. Got this one for $250, though I got it mostly for it's hbm, which is super awesome for video rendering.

Whoa whoa- okay. So I do this kind of work a few times every week at different places and, well, its REALLY something you don't want to be doing with either a dslr or mirrorless, but I'd go with a mirrorless if you really can't afford a real production grade camera.
 
A entry level camera/lens for something like this would be around $20,000. Without a real production camera you're gonna get huge overheating problems, noise problems, and the thing won't even broadcast or stream most of the time without it recording constantly. I recommend, if this is just a one-time paid gig, that you go and rent some equipment and add it to what you're charging. 
 
For a one camera concert gig you're going to need different things depending on what you'd be willing to buy or rent, depending on if this was a one time deal or not. I'm talking a real expensive tripod with handle controls, a viewfinder graded for 1080p video, a switcher to control your feed and convert the output from the camera into something that you can actually use, a control unit for the camera, and of course- the camera and the lens. 
 
To rent all this I'm not sure how much it would be but, it wouldn't be cheap. I can't really recommend that you do concert streaming and recording without at least entry-level equipment for that kind of thing. 
 
The lowest end camera I've seen for this camera would be something like one of these http://www.atsrentals.com/sony-nx5u-rental.html. Thats the cheapest thing that I can recommend for this use, as someone who uses these things all the time. Though, you're going to need more than just that to do what you're wanting.

i'm sorry

i'm sorry

M O M'S  O L D  C O M P  T U R N E D  I N T O  p f S E N S E  R O U T E R 
 

 
S P E C S 
AMD Athlon x2 (i think)
Some half dead foxconn motherboard
Nameless 10/100/1000 LAN card
Nameless 10/100/1000 wireless card
TP-Link LAN card
300gb 5200rpm hard drive
2.5gb of ram
 
This thing has a bit of a history surrounding it. Accidentally killed my entire county school's network by accidentally forgetting to put in the DnS host server. So, it started broadcasting to all the machines on the entire network- asking everyone what it was. Something like 2000 times a second? Crashed their network so bad that it took like five IT guys to find it. Took them so long because they were looking for an expensive proper server doing this much damage, not this little measly machine plugged in.
 
Used to be my killer router, though it died and since then have replaced with something a bit more stable. Right now it's an experimental machine I use for everything from pentesting to exploring new features and things in pfSense. 
 
 

That's very odd. Make sure it's being plugged into the wall and not your computer, and that you're using the power brick supplied to you by the company that made the phone. 

Okay well, it has to do with your subnet.
 
C - 255.255.255.0/24
B - 255.255.0.0/16
A - 255.0.0.0/8
 
All these really are is information that defines your network. Like for your C class Private IP that might be something like 192.168.1.1, the last part is what defines your host. Like 192.168.1.164 or something, all the way up to 255. That leaves a total possible connected devices of 254 (because 192.168.1.255 is reserved for broadcast)
 
It kind of works like this. In binary, 255.255.255.0 is 1111111 11111111 11111111 0000000. All those ones belong to your network and your network defines them, but all those zeroes define the host sending the information. Same going for 255.255.0.0. It'd be 11111111 11111111 00000000 00000000. This is because the last two octets are host bits. Which means they're defined as the host.
 
What does all this mean? Well, basically, it allows your network to be split up and subnetted. That is why it's split up into three classes, with those octets. For the first subnet, where you had just the single zero on the end, a device could have any number between 1 and 254. Which means you could have a total of two hundred and fifty four devices on that network. Though an enterprise or business might need more, so you have class B that has a possible of 64 thousand connections. That's because it has a subnet of 255.255.0.0. Which means you can have anywhere from 128.1.0.1-128.1.255.254 on your network. Class a, which is 255.0.0.0 has up to 16 million possible connections.
 
A and B are mostly for where you have to split up and subnet a network, where you'll be loosing quite a few possible ip addresses from borrowing bits and things like that. Though, at that point it gets really complicated and almost redundant unless you're making business grade networks. All that really matters is the scale to which the IP can be used, and all the possible subnets and IP's inside of that network.

Well- if you're not wanting to spend more than five grand on a camera, you'd probably want to go for a Panasonic GH4. 4k, nice sensor, decent colors, and a 4/3rd mount. Why the 4/3rd mount? Well, it's cheaper than PL. WAY cheaper. You can find some really nice voightlander lenses that snap right in for under five hundred bucks that are at the same quality, if not much better than entry level Canon and Fuji glass. That is, if you don't mind using primes. 
 
If you're looking to spend a bit more, I'd really recommend getting you a Blackmagic. I can't really talk for a lot of their lower end models, though I'm sure they're fantastic. Though their URSA line is about two and a half or three grand grey market- pop on some decent Fuji glass for it and you've got most of what you're going to need. Yet, like they said in that video LTT made about the camera- you're going to have to buy something called CFAST cards, because this thing doesn't really take typical SD cards, or SSD. Unless you can get one of those handy monitors that record straight to SSD, you're going to be putting down a few hundred on just a sixty four gig card- and for this cam, that shoots something like 4k in 120fps, it's only going to give you just a few minutes of recording time. 
 
There's a lot out there, and in the production world it isn't always about what's awesome- it's about what you want to avoid. If you're going for 4k in video, I'd say you keep away from those cheaper camcorders and mirrorless cameras. The GH4 and the GH3 are really the only cameras I can recommend you buy in the small and (relatively) cheap market. For a bit more, blackmagic makes some good stuff. So does Sony with their bigger bodies, though those are going to run you down quite a bit more.
 
To keep this from getting super, super long I'll just say one more thing. With photo/video work a lot of stuff really is good enough. A lot of these awesome features and stuff don't really matter, honestly. You don't need them. A lot of the stuff you can get for even under a thousand bucks is going to be professional and it's going to bring you professional results. The Sony A7 line- even though I really don't like those cameras, will bring you professional results. Same for the cameras I recommended as well. What you need to do is figure out exactly what you need from a camera, and look for whatever you need that will fit that mold as best as possible. 
 
If you need super high specs like 60fps, 4k, 360 degree shutter, and so on- a sony might be what you need. Though if you're looking for good colors, awesome depth, and to still keep that 4k option I think that those Blackmagic cameras are going to suit you just fine. If you can handle the huge video sizes that go with that quality. To me, I think the GH4 and GH3 are more suited for someone who needs portability, 4k 60fps, and they still retain good color depth. And even though these are really the only camera's I'm going to bring up, you could honestly go out and buy quite a few things. These are just examples, there's a lot more out there.
 
If any of these have interested you, that's awesome. If not- even better. Just go out and see exactly what you need and try to find the camera that does that for you. Personally, I went with Fuji and Nikon because of their awesome lenses. But, that's just me. Look out there and see what you think is going to suit you for the needs you face and go with it. Because like I said- it's probably a professional camera, and it's going to get you professional results. 

Haha- yeah it was a broadcast issue. Took them like a whole day to find it. I was about to spoof my MAC, though I forgot to. If I had they probably wouldn't have been able to do so.

i'm sorry

i'm sorry

Well- if you're not wanting to spend more than five grand on a camera, you'd probably want to go for a Panasonic GH4. 4k, nice sensor, decent colors, and a 4/3rd mount. Why the 4/3rd mount? Well, it's cheaper than PL. WAY cheaper. You can find some really nice voightlander lenses that snap right in for under five hundred bucks that are at the same quality, if not much better than entry level Canon and Fuji glass. That is, if you don't mind using primes. 
 
If you're looking to spend a bit more, I'd really recommend getting you a Blackmagic. I can't really talk for a lot of their lower end models, though I'm sure they're fantastic. Though their URSA line is about two and a half or three grand grey market- pop on some decent Fuji glass for it and you've got most of what you're going to need. Yet, like they said in that video LTT made about the camera- you're going to have to buy something called CFAST cards, because this thing doesn't really take typical SD cards, or SSD. Unless you can get one of those handy monitors that record straight to SSD, you're going to be putting down a few hundred on just a sixty four gig card- and for this cam, that shoots something like 4k in 120fps, it's only going to give you just a few minutes of recording time. 
 
There's a lot out there, and in the production world it isn't always about what's awesome- it's about what you want to avoid. If you're going for 4k in video, I'd say you keep away from those cheaper camcorders and mirrorless cameras. The GH4 and the GH3 are really the only cameras I can recommend you buy in the small and (relatively) cheap market. For a bit more, blackmagic makes some good stuff. So does Sony with their bigger bodies, though those are going to run you down quite a bit more.
 
To keep this from getting super, super long I'll just say one more thing. With photo/video work a lot of stuff really is good enough. A lot of these awesome features and stuff don't really matter, honestly. You don't need them. A lot of the stuff you can get for even under a thousand bucks is going to be professional and it's going to bring you professional results. The Sony A7 line- even though I really don't like those cameras, will bring you professional results. Same for the cameras I recommended as well. What you need to do is figure out exactly what you need from a camera, and look for whatever you need that will fit that mold as best as possible. 
 
If you need super high specs like 60fps, 4k, 360 degree shutter, and so on- a sony might be what you need. Though if you're looking for good colors, awesome depth, and to still keep that 4k option I think that those Blackmagic cameras are going to suit you just fine. If you can handle the huge video sizes that go with that quality. To me, I think the GH4 and GH3 are more suited for someone who needs portability, 4k 60fps, and they still retain good color depth. And even though these are really the only camera's I'm going to bring up, you could honestly go out and buy quite a few things. These are just examples, there's a lot more out there.
 
If any of these have interested you, that's awesome. If not- even better. Just go out and see exactly what you need and try to find the camera that does that for you. Personally, I went with Fuji and Nikon because of their awesome lenses. But, that's just me. Look out there and see what you think is going to suit you for the needs you face and go with it. Because like I said- it's probably a professional camera, and it's going to get you professional results. 

M O M'S  O L D  C O M P  T U R N E D  I N T O  p f S E N S E  R O U T E R 
 

 
S P E C S 
AMD Athlon x2 (i think)
Some half dead foxconn motherboard
Nameless 10/100/1000 LAN card
Nameless 10/100/1000 wireless card
TP-Link LAN card
300gb 5200rpm hard drive
2.5gb of ram
 
This thing has a bit of a history surrounding it. Accidentally killed my entire county school's network by accidentally forgetting to put in the DnS host server. So, it started broadcasting to all the machines on the entire network- asking everyone what it was. Something like 2000 times a second? Crashed their network so bad that it took like five IT guys to find it. Took them so long because they were looking for an expensive proper server doing this much damage, not this little measly machine plugged in.
 
Used to be my killer router, though it died and since then have replaced with something a bit more stable. Right now it's an experimental machine I use for everything from pentesting to exploring new features and things in pfSense. 
 
 

M O M'S  O L D  C O M P  T U R N E D  I N T O  p f S E N S E  R O U T E R 
 

 
S P E C S 
AMD Athlon x2 (i think)
Some half dead foxconn motherboard
Nameless 10/100/1000 LAN card
Nameless 10/100/1000 wireless card
TP-Link LAN card
300gb 5200rpm hard drive
2.5gb of ram
 
This thing has a bit of a history surrounding it. Accidentally killed my entire county school's network by accidentally forgetting to put in the DnS host server. So, it started broadcasting to all the machines on the entire network- asking everyone what it was. Something like 2000 times a second? Crashed their network so bad that it took like five IT guys to find it. Took them so long because they were looking for an expensive proper server doing this much damage, not this little measly machine plugged in.
 
Used to be my killer router, though it died and since then have replaced with something a bit more stable. Right now it's an experimental machine I use for everything from pentesting to exploring new features and things in pfSense.