After a long wait, indicative of the current state of knowledge sharing in the so-called “underground”, Phrack 70 is out. Read it here!
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Amiga 500 Decompilation using Binary Ninja
Hello again $WORLD. I am happy to announce that my Commodore Amiga BinaryNinja plugin is now available to the general public. You can find it here. Essentially, the plugin is a BinaryView with support for both Amiga Hunk file formats. To simplify a bit, Amiga has a different file format for “executable” files and for… Continue reading Amiga 500 Decompilation using Binary Ninja
Commodore 64 Decompilation using Binary Ninja
Dear $WORLD. I am happy to announce that I have released the first version of my C64 PRG plugin for Binary Ninja. You can find it here. It has KERNAL support, to make reversing life just a bit easier. You can find it here. As always PRs, issues and corner case reports are more than… Continue reading Commodore 64 Decompilation using Binary Ninja
Adventures with Linux Outline Client and aws-iam-authenticator
Hi all, below is a small engineering puzzle that I had to solve recently. The essential components: a Linux Laptop (in my case, running the excellent ClearLinux distribution) aws-iam-authenticator Outline client (A shadowSocks client) The setup was the following. A Kubernetes cluster, a bastion host using Outline as the means to connect and access the… Continue reading Adventures with Linux Outline Client and aws-iam-authenticator
Book Review: Managing Kubernetes
So as 2018 comes to a close soon, one fact can be pointed out: Kubernetes is the winner of the container orchestration frameworks “war”, short lived as it was. The popularity of the project is growing steadily and it is being adopted in a variety of businesses, from the small, but technologically adept startup, to… Continue reading Book Review: Managing Kubernetes
Hello world! (for the 3rd time)
Hope you enjoyed Commodity, and Cyberpunk as a Commodity before that, plus a number of personal blogs that thankfully are now presumed lost. Welcome back!
Book Review: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the cloud
Welcome back for another book review. This time, I am going to review a book that I have bought when it came out, in late 2013. I have always wanted to do a review of this one but it seems I had two options: Write a short review that probably does not do the book… Continue reading Book Review: Systems Performance: Enterprise and the cloud
Conference review: Distributed Matters Berlin 2015
“Kept you waiting, huh?” – to start the post with a pop culture reference. Yesterday, I was privileged enough to attend Distributed Matters Berlin 2015. The focus of the conference is, you guessed it, distributed systems, often within a NoSQL context. It was hosted at the awesome KulturBrauerei, a refurbished brewery. The format of the… Continue reading Conference review: Distributed Matters Berlin 2015
Book Review: DevOps Troubleshooting
Hello everyone and welcome back for another book review at woktime. Today’s edition is a short review of a short book called “DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices”. Without further ado, below is the Table Of Contents Troubleshooting best practices Why is the server so slow? Running out of CPU, RAM and Disk I/O Why… Continue reading Book Review: DevOps Troubleshooting
Book Review: PostgreSQL Replication
So for my series of System Engineering books, I will proceed with a short review of PostgreSQL Replication by Packt. The reason this book came to be a part of my collection is that while there is a lot of information regarding PostgreSQL replication out there, a lot of it is out of date, given… Continue reading Book Review: PostgreSQL Replication
Athanasios Kostopoulos 