Category: tech
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I wrote this almost a decade ago when walking with dona on the streets of San Francisco; today I learned that John Dobson is dead. I remember you, john; RIP. The original link to his personal site no longer works… replaced with a wiki entry ;( This happened with a waxing moon about 88% full,…
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1001 nights
My main server/gateway/everything finally passed the 1000 day uptime mark, a first for me (at home, at least!) $ uptime 23:17:43 up 1001 days, 3:06, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01 Of course… being up all that time means an older kernel that can’t be upgraded (without rebooting, at least), an old creaky out-of-date…
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Linda and Doris rule the ‘net
Some misc ramblin’ notes/data on IPMI & SSL Certificates. So I used the SSL observatory software (oddly written, but still cool) to scan for certificates on a bit over 300K systems suspected of running IPMI (which in turn were had from HD Moore of Rapid 7 – thanks HD!) and who were on the net. In case…
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the monster on my desk….
[EDIT nov 24/2014] – the beast is dead… fried somehow, but was great for a year and a half. Onto a USB 3.0 one ;) 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…
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ITAR
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…
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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”: #…