After a glibc upgrade, I couldn’t merge gnupg again. The error messages pointed me to missing files and other strange things. A reason for me to fix it by myself – that’s what my local portage overlay is for.
Author: ToeiRei
Having fun with NetCat
As already told here (german), netcat is a pretty useful tool for nearly everything – even for doing backups. This time I want to take a deeper look at it.
Handy memory blues
My Nokia N70 mobile phone is one of those devices whose memory can be extended by some kind of flash cards. Those cards are a nice option for storing software or multimedia files – as long as it’s ok. In case of damaged memory, the phone crashes. Such crashes occur on read/write of the flash card and the […]
It’s not that they’re not out there…
My honeypots are located at static IPs, because they do not run on dedicated machines. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but those traps are getting known to botnet kiddies, as ‘common’ writes at the Nepenthes page. Because of them avoiding our ranges it is getting harder and harder for getting good samples every day.
Autodetecting swap space
Working with embedded systems brings a whole world to you and it might be that you have to adapt certain things to your current environment which might not be avaliable all the time like special devices or discs. In my case it was an optional card for a swap partition. How do you recognize it?
Touchscreens via USB
Touchscreens with linux can be quite a pain – even at the serial port. Since I am working at a project with an USB touchscreen, I have had to dig into it. The result: A touchscreen connected at the USB port gives – as many HID devices do – an event device. To be able to work with […]