Preserved Thoughts

My parents are devoted Filipinistas. No, not the nationality. It is what members of the Philippine Independent Church are called. In Spanish, it is known as Iglesia Filipina Independiente or IFI. In bisaya, it is commonly known as Filipinistas or Aglipay or Aglipayan - derived from the family name of the first head of the church who is a Roman Catholic Bishop in the year 1902 named Gregorio Aglipay.

So the Philippine Independent Church is a Christian denomination which is a faction of the Roman Catholic church as a product of the the 1898 Revolution against the Spanish colonization in the Philippines.

I grew up with the tradition of our church where every Holy Thursday, we attend a Holy Mass where the Last Supper of Jesus with his apostles is reenacted. This reenactment is very significant in our church because this is when the Mystery of Transubstantiation happened - the bread and the wine becomes the body and the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Wireshark is a great tool for capturing and analyzing packets for network troubleshooting, analysis, software and communication protocol development, education and reverse engineering. It is a free and open-source software that was originally known as Ethereal. It can run on various OS platforms like Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and many others.

If you are familiar with tcpdump, Wireshark is very much similar to it only that it comes with a graphical user interface which greatly simplify your task in analyzing the network packet.