It’s been three years since we upgraded the hardware that hosts our various sites. I contacted my provider (Crucial Paradigm) and got some competitive offers. Stefan, my friend in Berlin that I split the server with, and I agreed on the following specs: Athlon 64 x2 4000 (2 cores @ 2.1GHz, 512K L2 each) 4GB …
Category Archive: Computers
Mar
08
2008
Jan
11
2008
A Real Mac User
Josh’s envy has spun out of control. First he puts OS X 10.4 on his Dell: I really don’t know why people think it is soooo hard to get OS X onto a Dell. Josh has been running 10.4 like this for about 6 months. Now he upgrades to Leopard: At this point I just …
Jan
10
2008
SELinux Slogans
Lately conversations keep turning up new slogans for SELinux. I figure this is as good a place as any to keep a running list so here we go: SELinux – Because users do weird shit. SELinux – Fuck root. SELinux – Hampering administrators since before it was cool. SELinux – Take revenge against the BOFH …
Jan
09
2008
Did you hacked iPhone users learn your lesson?
Jarno over at F-Secure commented on the recent “trojan” for the iPhone : Hopefully this serves as a warning for those who have opened their iPhones using a security hole in the system and then installing unverified software without a second thought to what they are doing. Warning noted. The lesson here is not that …
Nov
19
2007
Security pwnz j00!
Scott Adams created two strips that are so on point I just can’t help myself… This should be required reading for security experts and “normies” alike…
Nov
11
2007
PS3 hypervisor partitioning
I’ve been thinking of researching the PS3 hypervisor. Mainly from a security perspective but this led me to thinking. You know what would be cool? Micro-partioning a PS3. Obviously IBM has experience with micro-partitioning on the PPC and the Linux distros are already tried and tested in these exact environments. You could use the system …
Nov
03
2007
An Idea for Leopard’s Time Machine
You know what we be cool for Leopard developers and perhaps others? If Time Machine could start to handle backup snapshot trees. You know – like VMWare Workstation for Windows/Linux’s snapshot manager that supports branching. VMWare even supports the deletion of images in the middle to save space and perhaps enhance performance. It merges disks …
Oct
31
2007
Man… more Apple issues
I’ve been having tons of wireless network issues lately. At work, which is not surprising being I work at tech company – only God knows who is running what service on their laptop or who is running the microwave in the kitchen across the hall. More worrisome, I’ve been having issues at home too. So …
Oct
30
2007
Leopard OS 10.5 Windows shares not showing up in Finder
Well like any good end-user I immediately installed the latest version of OS X without looking for problems others were having. Well my friend at work, Chris Ashworth, pointed out that my install didn’t list Windows shares in the Finder window under “Shares”. I was only seeing Bonjour systems and didn’t have the “All…” item …
Oct
30
2007
iPhone tiff exploit + jailbreak
We in the security community have been trying to explain the benefit of MAC to developers in the embedded device arena for awhile now. Maybe if people keep threatening devices with radio chips and tons of proprietary crap the embedded developers will jump onboard. Motorola has been using SELinux/SEBSD on the A1200 and other devices …
