I'm writing this on the beginning of the day 2 of 30C3, as day 1 was so packed with action that I was not able to sit down and type, not even for a little while. Glen Greenwald's keynote was moving the crowd, making the audience interrupt him with ro ... read more →

I've spent quite some time recently trying to get a laptop running Gentoo boot from an encrypted partition with LVM. I thought that this might be useful for someone else, so here you are: First things first: I'm assuming you've followed Gentoo handbo ... read more →

Update from 10 years into the future ! It's 2023 and the repo is still going strong, using lots of Nix and friends tho and also hosted elsewhere - edited the URLs. All my dofiles live here now. Removed the links from the article below as they don't ... read more →

I gave a talk yesterday. It was on debuggers. From VM-level debuggers to JTAG, quite a packed, high level overview. In fact I gave it before on another occasions. And this time was different, hence this post. The thing I am particularly proud of is t ... read more →

I read a lot. Of books and news alike. Oh, and whitepapers too. And some recipes maybe. Some of them I find by my RSS reader. Some are given to me by colleagues at work, some arrive by mail, sometimes even in somewhat curated, described form. I read ... read more →

Hey, remember my search for the new laptop ? It's finally over ! I found that Clevo, Taiwanese custom laptop manufacturer, has recently added 13'3 FullHD laptop base to their offerings - W230ST. And to my surprise - there is a Polish importer which a ... read more →

I'm experimenting with service separation by having each service run in its own operating system, all of the sharing hardware though. Why ? Separation seems to be the only secure approach to running any software. Check Joanna's blog out. I went with ... read more →

Just a quick one, for me to remember and for you to enjoy. dpkg -l | grep :i386 | cut -s -d ' ' -f3 | xargs apt-get remove -y dpkg --remove-architecture i386 apt-get update read more →

Operating system I think my NAS box build is no longer in much flux, so I thought it'd be nice to describe it. I had some disks laying around, I had them installed and started playing with the software setup. Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 byt ... read more →

For a long time I've wandered the voids of the intertubes in search for the parts for my NAS/backup/home server solution. Online backup solutions are fine to some extent, however, someone else than you then is going through that cat picture collectio ... read more →