Seminars and group meets and systems down, oh my.
The Sourcefire seminar was fantastic. Marty presented the "why" of Snort as opposed to the "how" of Snort. It was awesome. I felt bad for the demonstration presenter who showed us the cool new product afterward. The guy had a very tough crowd to deal with.
Cute foam pigs with the Snort mascot branded onto them were handed out. I accidentally kidnapped Robert's pig. (Sorry, Robert. I'll keep taking it to meetings I get a chance to attend so you can reclaim it! Otherwise, email me and we'll figure something out--there's always the post office!) How embarrassing. One minute, he's there saying he has to go, the next he's on his cell phone and wandering off sans squishy foam Snorty. Oops...I'll just babysit it for now.
I'll try and post pictures of my cute foam pig, but I don't have a digital camera, so it may take a bit.
After that, I spent a lot of time in Barnes and Noble reading 2600 and a vegetarian crock pot recipes book. Ended up buying both. (That was my "fun" spending for the month.)
My partner and I went out for a meal and still got to the SeaSnUG meeting a few hours early, so we weren't sure where we were going. There were signs...after we got there and were there a while, attempting to nap in the car. Definitely my fault for being too early and not having printed out the information on the meeting time/place/et cetera. It's not recommended to try to nap in a car in the parking lot of a community college, BTW.
I won a prize at the meeting, but I didn't want a T-shirt or Marty's signature. He may be the father of Snort, but Jennifer Steffens is Snort's fairy godmother. I got her signature instead. :)
The meeting's presentation was actually a great overview of some of the topics presented in the seminar, but with some audience participation twists. My partner even asked a lot of questions I thought were great for someone who's not had much exposure to Snort. I tend to work with the rules every day, which means sometimes I forget that not everyone else has the same exposure.
Oh, well.
I was so glad to meet everyone. David, Robert, Lawrence, Anthony, James--and everyone else whose names aren't burned into my brain by exhaustion and repetition. Between this wonderful set of folks and the wonderful set of folks on #snort-gui on IRC, there's just such a wonderful community to celebrate. It's wonderful.
Unfortunately, the dreamy day had a dark side: I got to work and one of our major systems was in the throes of experiencing unscheduled maintenance. This means tomorrow should be a long day. Thankfully it's also Casual Friday.
Cute foam pigs with the Snort mascot branded onto them were handed out. I accidentally kidnapped Robert's pig. (Sorry, Robert. I'll keep taking it to meetings I get a chance to attend so you can reclaim it! Otherwise, email me and we'll figure something out--there's always the post office!) How embarrassing. One minute, he's there saying he has to go, the next he's on his cell phone and wandering off sans squishy foam Snorty. Oops...I'll just babysit it for now.
I'll try and post pictures of my cute foam pig, but I don't have a digital camera, so it may take a bit.
After that, I spent a lot of time in Barnes and Noble reading 2600 and a vegetarian crock pot recipes book. Ended up buying both. (That was my "fun" spending for the month.)
My partner and I went out for a meal and still got to the SeaSnUG meeting a few hours early, so we weren't sure where we were going. There were signs...after we got there and were there a while, attempting to nap in the car. Definitely my fault for being too early and not having printed out the information on the meeting time/place/et cetera. It's not recommended to try to nap in a car in the parking lot of a community college, BTW.
I won a prize at the meeting, but I didn't want a T-shirt or Marty's signature. He may be the father of Snort, but Jennifer Steffens is Snort's fairy godmother. I got her signature instead. :)
The meeting's presentation was actually a great overview of some of the topics presented in the seminar, but with some audience participation twists. My partner even asked a lot of questions I thought were great for someone who's not had much exposure to Snort. I tend to work with the rules every day, which means sometimes I forget that not everyone else has the same exposure.
Oh, well.
I was so glad to meet everyone. David, Robert, Lawrence, Anthony, James--and everyone else whose names aren't burned into my brain by exhaustion and repetition. Between this wonderful set of folks and the wonderful set of folks on #snort-gui on IRC, there's just such a wonderful community to celebrate. It's wonderful.
Unfortunately, the dreamy day had a dark side: I got to work and one of our major systems was in the throes of experiencing unscheduled maintenance. This means tomorrow should be a long day. Thankfully it's also Casual Friday.
posted by JD at
11:48 PM
1 Comments:
Man, why can't my company have a cute character like Snorty? Our mascot is a guy with horned rim glasses and a cell phone in hand, asking the same stupid question every few seconds.
During my short time with KeyBank, I noticed some people had stuffed anthropomorphic skeleton keys. Er, that's about as fun as the corporate attitude was in that call center.
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The Mushroom, at 1:59 AM
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