So I cracked open OpenVAS today. Its been a while, and new vulnerabilities occur (and new devices wiggle there way onto my network in fits of weakness!). And OMG their was a lot of ‘High’ vulnerabilities (without even looking @ the medium and low ones). I let the discover run for a while (179 actives devices on…

Imagine you have a virtual machine. Its running peacefully inside the cloud somewhere. You are a bit curious how close it is to max capacity. You log in and run top. And then you are baffled. Maybe it shows 99% but you think it can do more. Maybe it shows 1% but you are skeptical…

Last evening I had a fairly crappy flight  (much delays, and i’m in seat 53A, back left latrine row non-recline). And of course, someone else was also assigned seat 53A. At any rate, the inflight entertainment system is kind of new looking and, what is that, an Ethernet jack (and PS/2 keyboard jack!). So… If…

As part of the fairly crappy flight from the previous flight, we had many hours to enjoy the delights of the ankara airport. Namely, a cafeteria-style food place, sort of like what you had in your university residence. As is my normal MO, when i can’t read anything, i just pick what looks interesting. So…

It been a bit damp here the last couple of days. And, it appears, Sam Knows whitebox probe detects that! if you look @ this chart, the July-17th 4am drop is where the rain started, and the 12pm is where it stopped. It then started again around 6pm, and stopped around 1am. And then again around…