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Dealing with USB power feedbacks

Date Thu 19 November 2015Tagshardware / usb / desoldering

Precursor

Let's start with a few quotes from Wikipedia to establish a baseline for this topic.

Voltage

Voltage, electric potential difference, electric pressure or electric tension (denoted ∆V or ∆U) is the difference in electric potential energy between two points per unit electric charge. The voltage between two points ...

Ruxcon 2015 Badge: Part II - Programming

Date Sun 15 November 2015Tagshardware / ruxcon / bus pirate / badge

Pre-Ramble 2: Turbo

The goal of this post is to install the tool chain for cross compiling for ARM, install OpenOCD 0.9.0 w/ buspirate SWD driver patch on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, compile the blinky LED demo, and write it to the badge's flash memory and have ...

Ruxcon 2015 Badge: Part I - Assembly

Date Thu 29 October 2015Tagshardware / ruxcon / bus pirate / badge

Pre-Ramble

Another Ruxcon has just passed and there was some awesome content that came through. We heard from @PanguTeam with some in depth details about their iOS work, David Jorm on Software Defined Networking, The White Australian Chris Rock on Hacking the Death Industry and Mark Dowd on delivering malicious ...

Compiling and Packaging Nginx 1.9.0 with custom modules on Debian Jessie

Date Sat 23 May 2015Tagslinux / debian / nginx

In this post I'm going to cover a quick and painless build and package of Nginx compiled with a custom, non-loadble module. That is, it's required to be compiled in and not available from the default packages.

Introduction

Generally speaking, using a repository rather than DIY is prefered ...

Magic Packets in Linux Kernel Land

Date Sat 23 May 2015Tagsrootkit / kernel / linux

What is a 'magic packet'

Basically a magic packet can be thought of as a secret handshake. It's a specially forged message that when read will trigger an action.

Introduction

In this post I want to cover the basics of writing a Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) that hooks Netfilter ...

TCP Elastic Load Balancer health checks on a TLS Nginx and a nodejs cluster.

Date Sat 23 May 2015Tagsnginx / nodejs / clustering / high availability / amazon

Introduction

This is going to be a quick spew of code and configuration snippets. If you put it all together it might help you.

The Setup

A process listening on a port that needs to be clustered on a host.
A series of hosts running Nginx in front of the ...

Encryptions are like Shreks, Fat, Green Ogres. With Layers.

Date Mon 04 May 2015Tagslinux / encryption

Recovering old Virtualbox VM's from an Encrypted disk.

If you are reading this, I have succeeded in what I set out to achieve this post. HIGH FIVE.

The scene.

At an old kitchen table, I built a dual purpose machine. Its tasks?

Serve as a headless VM server for ...

Idiot Developers of New Eden

Date Tue 05 November 2013Tagseve online

The Begining

I want to cover some of the common flaws I have picked up on in both major and minor 3rd party EVE Online sites, but first, some background, some tech and then forward onto the examples. It's been some months (maybe longer) since I last visited this ...