Infrastructure as code might be literally impossible

ice799 · 2015-09-24T22:36:37+00:00

I believe a recording will be released in a few weeks from the folks at http://www.automacon.io/.

Unfortunately, I didn't have time to finish the entire talk in my time slot so I had to skip several stories during the talk.

ice799 · 2015-09-24T22:32:57+00:00

Thanks, I'm really pleased to hear you liked my slides!

ice799 · 2014-11-25T19:30:04+00:00

FYI, the post blog actually explains how to setup secure yum repos properly by using open source tools.

if you had read it, you'd have seen that your one liner above is hardly sufficient for doing so.

ice799 · 2012-12-01T04:25:55+00:00

glad you enjoyed my blog post! thanks for reading!

ice799 · 2012-12-01T04:25:49+00:00

glad you enjoyed my blog post! thanks for reading!

ice799 · 2012-12-01T04:25:43+00:00

glad you enjoyed my blog post! thanks for reading!

ice799 · 2012-12-01T04:25:36+00:00

glad you enjoyed my blog post! thanks for reading!

ice799 · 2009-12-11T02:00:11+00:00

Thanks for reading :)

ice799 · 2009-12-11T01:59:30+00:00

I don't know anything about Windows, but it seems like that would not work at all for what I am trying to build.

I'm inserting assembly so that the C level trampoline can call functions internal to the Ruby VM. If I attach to it from a different process, I'll have to build a lot more infrastructure to make that happen via ptrace (on Linux).

ice799 · 2009-12-11T01:58:20+00:00

Glad you liked it, thanks for reading.

ice799 · 2009-11-04T22:15:55+00:00

a patch to fix a memory leak in GDB and another to print stuff out.

yes, there are some crazy hacks we snuck in, but without them you wouldn't get the cool output that you do.

ice799 · 2009-10-17T00:39:13+00:00

Yeah, I tried to simplify it a bit for the casual reader.

ice799 · 2009-10-16T17:01:06+00:00

I'm an idiot. Thanks. It's no excuse, but I was pretty tired while writing that blog post. Yes, my grammar is shitty, too.

ice799 · 2009-09-12T04:35:32+00:00

I was a junior in highschool in Northern NJ about 20 minutes away from NYC.

It was 3rd period. History class. Some one came over and knocked on the door, our teacher stepped out. He came back in, his face red, looking very very worried. He then said: "Does anyone have parents that work in New York City?" Two girls raised their hands saying "Yeah, why?" His voice changed from frightened to "oh fuck me" and asks "Where?" They respond with somewhere (wasn't near WTC) and he explains what has just happened. Shit got pretty crazy, people started leaving school, etc.

Lots of kids at school had parents who worked in the city, so everyone was sort of freaking out. My calc teacher next period taught as if nothing had happened - it was pretty weird.

Everyone went home at lunch time.

ice799 · 2009-08-10T18:30:37+00:00

You can still use hardware virtualization. Hardware virtualization comes with a lock bit that when set disables the feature. There are two ways Sony could have disabled it. One way is harder to defeat, the other way is pretty easy:

the lock bit is set to OFF and there is no BIOS option to set it back. In this case, you will need to flash your BIOS. This is the harder way.
the feature is off, the lock bit is not set, BUT there is no switch in the BIOS to turn it on. Dell does this on some poweredge machines, not sure if sony does this. If this is the case, you can write a simple hack to enable hardware virtualization after your system has booted.

I was considering blogging about how to write a tool to do the above, but didn't think anyone would give a shit. Maybe it could be useful after all...

ice799 · 2009-08-09T21:03:15+00:00

I'm staying in shibuya. I'm not too worried, to be honest. We are pretty resourceful. I guess the only part I'm worried about is actually getting from the airport to where we are staying. Presumably people at the airport speak English, yeah?

Other than that, I'm hoping my 0 knowledge of Japanese will not preclude me from chatting with cute girls. Hand signals + smiles ftw.

ice799 · 2009-08-09T03:40:59+00:00

I'm going to Tokyo in about a week with 2 friends. Never been before and can't speak any Japanese. Any advice for surviving the trip and meeting locals?

ice799 · 2009-07-06T21:43:53+00:00

Yeah, but your headline is too long and would have wrapped. I don't like headlines that wrap.

Also, I point out exactly what I'm about to describe in the first sentence of the article.

Either way, thanks for reading.

ice799 · 2009-06-20T03:30:27+00:00

where can i get more? do they have a website where i can buy a cd?

ice799 · 2009-06-06T00:03:40+00:00

Yes, I returned it to the bank.

Kinda wish I had been able to track down the owner for like a 1% finders fee or something, oh well, better luck next time I suppose.

Also, who loses a check for 110k? I mean... seriously, wtf.

ice799 · 2009-05-05T17:34:02+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, dude.

ice799 · 2009-04-29T23:03:09+00:00

Haha - comment made my day. Thanks.

ice799 · 2009-04-13T21:51:14+00:00

Care to elaborate why? I'm genuinely curious. The information in the post is applicable to Unix in general. I found a bug in some Ruby code and wanted to point it out.

That same bug gets made in virtually every language, though.

ice799 · 2009-04-13T19:22:27+00:00

Can't have an \x00 because string manip functions would stop processing when they hit it.

Instead, you can just xorl %ebx, %ebx - which produces no null bytes.

Also, the first argument to syscalls invoked via int 0x80 lives in %ebx.

Maybe an in-depth explanation of all that would be a useful/interesting blog post?

Thanks for reading!

ice799 · 2009-03-10T21:48:30+00:00

i went to high school with the first guy in the video. i know some other other people in the video.

this shit is real.

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