Blue Knight Sojourn of the Mind

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Dictionary Description: sojourn \SO-jurn; so-JURN as “To stay as a temporary resident”.

So here is your chance to visit the things that I think about on a daily basis. Be warned, as the Eagles song “Hotel California” states, “You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.”

I started this blog a while ago on the Wordpress blogging service but because of some of the things that I like to do on my own server such as pictures, photos and files I got disillusioned and basically killed off the blog.

This is my second chance at this as now I run it on my own server and may do with this blog as I please.

Initially I was thinking of running two blogs, one for technology and one for just regular things, but decided to make it one blog instead.

So now a little bit about myself!Why do I Blog?

Its simple! I read, I have an opinion, and I do not mind sharing it with people. There is also information that I feel I should store for later use. What better way then with a blog that I can reference.

Who Am I?
My name is Yury German and I am a Techie! I started with computers at the days of the Commodore 64, as a 12 year old (Now you can guess my age :). I started off playing games, but then got interested in programming, and started programming using assembly. After a while I discovered the 300 baud modem and started adventures of the Bulletin Board. For a while I visited others, and then ran my own using my commodore 64 and a modified hard drive attached to a floppy controller (You had to see this 40 MB monster).

As time progressed I upgraded to an Amiga computer (Which is sitting unused in my closet now but will be revived as soon as I get a network card for it) and started playing with Video. So after doing a lot of fun stuff and working with some old video gear, getting involved in 3D and producing some nice commercial adds and videos. I started working for GENIE (General Electric Information Service) in the Amiga Forum. Lots of fond memories of this time.

As Intel Based PC’s came out of the dark ages I actually built my first PC. It was a 486Dx266 “Monster” with maximum memory and SCSI Fast Wide Drives. So initially I played games on it, as there were good games coming out for the PC, but that gets boring fast, and so I installed another drive and installed Linux (pre 1.0 release of kernel), and started playing with and learning Unix. At that time I was using Slackware (I think I still have the CD’s somewhere).

So after some time and a job as a general administrator including building bastion hosts out of Linux systems for a small publishing company I started working as a Unix admin on HPUX and Solaris systems. After a while this got very boring for me, as being a Unix admin is a daily grind. So I transitioned in to the world of Information Security. My Unix background gave me lots of experience to work on early firewalls which were all based on Unix derivatives. I have worked for the largest banks and insurance companies, and even worked for a few years as an Ethical Hacker, and got paid to break in to banks officially (Now that was fun).

I still work in information security and Unix although with a different twist, by working as a Sales Engineer for a company called NIKSUN which sells specialized systems for performance, network monitoring, security and Voice Over IP Monitoring.

So thats enough about me!

Why Blue Knight?

Well BlueKnight has always been my handle all the way from the days of the Amiga. In my days as a C64 hacker kid I used an acronym of Mr. Wizard for a while, based on J.R. Tolkien books. But that got old. So since I love Fantasy and as I grew up a little bit, I decided to “morph” myself in to BlueKnight. It has nothing to do with the police motorcycle club called BlueKnights, or anything else of that sort. I like the color blue, and I like Knights.

So now you know when I post as BlueKnight where the name came from!

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