1 - first and foremost I want to learn C programming. I’ve spent a lot of time up until now learning Java and at my peak I was very capable with it. I’ve since lost a lot of the abilities I’ve had (especially related to GUI aspects and mouse events) but I’m sure I can get it back. But I want to learn its mother, C. C seems much more capable and much more advanced and anything UNIX related is going to be closely tied in with C so I want to learn it more in depth. I can do basic things with it (such as writing to the screen and calling functions, passing variables, having control statements etc.) but nothing too hard as of yet. I need to learn input still (it uses pointers which are still not committed to memory as of yet) and from there I’ll probably start playing with it at home. I’ll need to find some problems to solve otherwise I’ll get bored with it and won’t stretch my understanding of it. I’m on my way with C though so that’s good.

2 - I want to learn how to hack. Not the evil computer hacker that steals your files and money and identity type hacker. But the whitehat hacker that helps secure networks and servers and the such. I want to learn it because it forces me to learn a LOT of different aspects of computers all at once. There’s the networking aspect (like hiding your IP and redirecting internet traffic for Man in the Middle hacks and accessing files on a servers) and theres the Server Side aspect (like accessing files from hidden folders and learning SQL and PHP injection to get around things that are blocked) and theres the coding side of things (like attacks directly aimed at the OS and other software on the server to do things like buffer overflows and other cracks like that). It includes so much knowledge all in one task that I can’t possibly say no to learning it. I want to try to find someone with a network that will give me permission to try all the things I learn. I’m thinking I could setup my laptop as a server on my friend Rob’s home network (since I have Apache on my laptop already so its easiest that way) and use his computer or some other computer to try to access some files from my computer. It’d kind of be cheating because I’d already know the info location and everything on my machine but that could help because I would see how that is related to the information I find out with attacks. Plus that way I also have to learn how to hack through a router which is something I haven’t read up on yet.

Those are my two main goals right now and both are fairly huge. I’ll start to tackle them more consistently.
That’s all for now

First post in ages. Lots has happened. New Years Eve sucked and there’s ongoing ramifications from that. But I’ll post about other stuff.

1 - I might be buying a non-Mac laptop. I broke my Macbook and I need a new laptop and I found a decent HP for $900 that is a laptop/tablet and has a fingerprint scanner and a webcam and its 12 inches and a bigger HD then my laptop and its got an AMD chip. I like AMD . Of course I’d install OSX on it. It’ll just be hard to find a patched version of it lol

2 - I want to invest in AMD. They’re at their lowest in 3ish years and they just released the new Phenom chipset as well as some other mobile chips that seem to be promising. I fully expect them to climb from the $6 they’re at to about $20 (at least, but I’d likely pull out at $20-25 ish to be safe). That’d be a lot better than my 4% savings account. And right now I can assure you I’m in desperate need of money. Legal stuff, computer that I bought for my rents, computer to replace mine, money for college, money for loan for car. Its a big bill that I need to sort out. It’ll work out though. God’s on my side

3 - I’ve decided to give up on Java. Not entirely because I bought a huge book from value village about coding Java and Java applets so I’ll probably go through that. But I’m going to start focussing on C so I can learn pointers and buffers and anything else that’s cool and advanced. I want to be prepared for class next year, even though we don’t touch C til second year I don’t think. But I’ll definitely be able to work my way through C. I have 7 months to do it in and I know a lot of the concepts for Java, which are fairly similar to C syntax and concepts. Shouldn’t be too hard. I just need to not give up.

Anyway. That’s about it as far as non-relationship stuff goes. Things are looking up. And even if they’re not I say they are and I’ve been delegated authority from God so they are.