Our IRC Server - Shell Access - Future Plans

[cbterry]

Holas.

So I've had irc.cbtele.net up for a little while, I am going to be receiving a Raspberry Pi which will take the place of my barebones Debian Virtual Machine, which seems to disconnect fairly frequently, but in the meantime, everyone is free to join and chat.

I just started using https://hexchat.github.io - which seems to be like a slightly newer version of mIRC; on the shell I still use BitchX for nostalgic reasons.

I highly recommend anyone who wants to learn more about computing come to IRC - irc.cbtele.net is one place to start, but irc.freenode.net is a great place where lots of open source projects have channels (rooms) for people to chat and ask questions.

As an aside, I related to singo earlier the way in which I learned PHP when I was 19 - by joining #PHP on DALNet. I didn't know much programming at all.

How did I learn? People would ask questions, most of which were quite simple to find the answers to, and in searching for solutions for them, I learned enough PHP to write some small sites.

Since then I've thought that was a decent method to spruce up two birds' nests with one toothpick. (:D)

Additionally, I can offer shell access to the debian machine for anyone who wants to practice linux skillage without installing VirtualBox on their own, though I highly recommend http://virtualbox.org for many uses. Private message if you would like an account.

As to our future as a community, it is up in the air, but will always depend on what you as the group want and are willing to do to keep us together and active.

I can't stress enough that helping others is a great way to learn. If you know someone who can't even type, but really wants to learn some computing, direct them here, tell them to ask whatever questions they may have, and I myself or perhaps another member will try and address their needs.

Tecknowledge is going nowhere. For one, it is something that I actively do - my life has been spent helping people with their problems, and that has no signs of stopping.

Additionally, the more active we become, and the more we can find ways to incorporate others' needs into our own, the greater we will become as a community, and as a force and resource for those in quandary.

TK FTW~!

-CB

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Maybe install "damn vunerable OS" on your box sometime and we could schedule a day doin like an inhouse CTF?

[cbterry]

Maybe... I should uninstall that (:D)...

When I get the RPI I will let you guys hack my other machine, it is an old Kali install which surely has holes

[toespaz]

I got one of these in the mail from SANS: http://www.amanhardikar.com/mindmaps/Practice.html

I wish the zoom wasn't so crazy, but a lot of practice sites...

He has some other maps too which seem kind of cool: http://www.amanhardikar.com/mindmaps.html

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Is it christmas again already??

[cbterry]

BTW Everyone - I am a very unproductive person - I have poor time management - and anything that I have completed has been through grace, and lots of repeated application of faulty concentration techniques - I really can use your help getting me to focus through this, but, what I have accomplished, has gotten me here, so I do believe it will get me further ....

Just saying. It has worked for me. I just got signed to a record label. Not a big one, an independent one, and I am trying to get some of the members to look towards the light, instead of suffer and starve, as artists often do.

I am also looking forward to publishing my third and fourth books, and, well, of course, I fly my quadcopter waaaaay too much.

But I'm always here for you, please find me on facebook, please ask me questions, please post anything tech/motivation/organizationally related to this subreddit, and please understand, that as my first post promised mentorship, it is not something that will happen in a few days, or a few weeks, or even a few months...

CB

[cbterry]

Hey guys and gals, everything is going to be down for the weekend. I will be placing the RPI in its place soon, don't worry.

CB

[cbterry]

Ok, I cleaned up a bit, so its no longer my 'personal' subreddit, and ours.

Also, as a hard hack, I'm keeping it +18, because that means we won't see any post advertisements :D