Meetings come in different shapes and forms. Let’s chat about them. Decisions Most of the meetings come from the desire to have a decision made. The problem is in most cases is that these are not decisions to be made now. Software prototyping is cheap. We should just try to build a working solution and iterate around. Let’s prototype. Get someone most annoyed with the problem and leave them to build it. [Read More]

I needed to set up a Wordpress installation where https is on nonstandard port and the admin interface lives in that land, while the site itself is using plain http. In wp-config.php: if (!empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) { define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://example.com:12345'); define('WP_HOME', 'https://example.com:12345'); } else { define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://example.com'); define('WP_HOME', 'http://example.com'); } This allows the installation to properly see resources like images and css if accessed via nonstandard port. So if you don’t see image previews in the admin panel, your styles look weird, or you just don’t see new posts’ previewes - this might be it. [Read More]

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 rounds of applause every few minutes. Lots of mobile phone network exploitation talks along with general anti-buffer-overflow techniques. Tor folks talking about the interesting times we live in. [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 handbook and are operating from within livecd’s shell. You’ve done the regular luksFormat + lvm stuff and you’ve come up with a layout similar to this one: dagrey ~ # lsblk NAME SIZE TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 55. [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 work anymore. Hi ! Just letting you know that I’ve been working for some time on structuring my dotfiles and finally published them to github. [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 that I was able to entertain the crowd for the first half of an hour despite not having any computer launched and connected. You know, like, interacting with actual people ! [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 through most of them. And resend. Often I want to share a particular piece with friends of mine and possibly some other people too. [Read More]