Glad that's over...
The week is finally over. The tests weren't as hard as I anticipated, but they sure made the week seem pretty hard. Pete's (my data structs prof) tests usually take me no more than 25 minutes and the rest of the class's papers trickle in until the end of the period when about half the class turns them in finished or not. This week I spent 45-50 minutes on his test, and was the first one done, with only five minutes left. Pete realized that he had made the test longer than he intended and gave the class 25 more minutes to work on it yesterday. That was good for me because I got to leave early.
Recently I have been spending a lot of time on research. It's nice because it's like a big puzzle that I'm trying to solve, and it keeps my mind off other things. I get to go work by myself trying to find out the inner workings of computers and networks. I just recently installed MySQL onto our project's server so that I can create a mock database that I can start testing. You may not understand what I'm about to say, or even what I just said, I apologize for that. Even though this shouldn't be my area of research, I want to get it done because my research depends on it, and the person who should be doing it, isn't. So I'm going to figure out how to take the stream of network packets from the sniffer and put them right into the database. Early on, it will be very inefficient, but at least we will have something that allows about half our team to actually do something. I mean, if it were efficient, what would we have left to research? So then, after I can get the database to start receiving information about the traffic going through the sniffer, I get to start running triggers. A trigger is something that watches for 'events' happening in the database management system (DBMS). They often times are tied to security. For example I may have a trigger that logs all the changes made on the database. I want to know if someone goes in and manually changes the database because all the information should be hard-coded directly into the network packets and directly translated into my DBMS. So my trigger would then fire, sending a signal or a message to a log file that lists the timestamp and information that was changed. Man, this is exciting, I'm really looking forward to having triggers with thousands of signatures, like virus-checking.
ahh, CS...
-AZ
Recently I have been spending a lot of time on research. It's nice because it's like a big puzzle that I'm trying to solve, and it keeps my mind off other things. I get to go work by myself trying to find out the inner workings of computers and networks. I just recently installed MySQL onto our project's server so that I can create a mock database that I can start testing. You may not understand what I'm about to say, or even what I just said, I apologize for that. Even though this shouldn't be my area of research, I want to get it done because my research depends on it, and the person who should be doing it, isn't. So I'm going to figure out how to take the stream of network packets from the sniffer and put them right into the database. Early on, it will be very inefficient, but at least we will have something that allows about half our team to actually do something. I mean, if it were efficient, what would we have left to research? So then, after I can get the database to start receiving information about the traffic going through the sniffer, I get to start running triggers. A trigger is something that watches for 'events' happening in the database management system (DBMS). They often times are tied to security. For example I may have a trigger that logs all the changes made on the database. I want to know if someone goes in and manually changes the database because all the information should be hard-coded directly into the network packets and directly translated into my DBMS. So my trigger would then fire, sending a signal or a message to a log file that lists the timestamp and information that was changed. Man, this is exciting, I'm really looking forward to having triggers with thousands of signatures, like virus-checking.
ahh, CS...
-AZ
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