the monster on my desk....

I suppose that most are fine without it… but around here, at least, USB hubs follow the same laws that govern hard drives and power strips – “build it and you will fill” – I’m hoping this one will last me awhile: (From amazon, with a link that will presumably die someday soon…) It’s amazing how many little USB devices I’ve started to collect and use on an ongoing [...]

 

Well, not really.  Actually I.tar.gz.  In the gzip’d tar there are 3 files; little IPMI/BMC configuration file sucker, a suggested set of security recommendations that could be checked, and an even smaller program to parse the first program’s output. Because… well, no good reason, actually, one is in python3 and the other in python2. I guess I’m testing your readiness. The programs are pretty heavily commented, especially ipmifreely.py, so [...]

 
The infamous Daryl, er, Cipher Zero

Now, a few words on looking for things. When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you’re sure to find some of them. [...]

 
OMG, finally!

I’ve waited for a over a decade, but finally – per process packet tracing on the mac (mountain lion.) For example, finding out the traffic that a python script sends via UDP and the return (both python programs on the same machine); the first sends “foo”, the server sends what it got plus “bar”: # dtrace -n ‘syscall::sendto*:entry /execname == "Python"/ { printf("%s sock=%d sockadd=%x buffer[%d]=%s",execname, arg0, arg4, arg2, [...]

 
Dark Cat Rising

Appropos of nothing…

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