Port Forward Podcast

Show #23 | Google Dart Hackathon

_Ben_ — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:34:12 +0000

This week Ben and “The Original Chris” go to the Google Dart Hackathon! #DartHack

Show #22 | SkySQL and MariaDB Conference

_Ben_ — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:34:15 +0000

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Ben and Sam take the portable recorder to a database conference all about SkySql and MaraiDB. Check out the SkySQL website, or the schedule for the day.

Topics covered:

Show #21 | Betable.com Trip to Vegas

_Ben_ — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:50:04 +0000

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Ben and Merrick take the portable recorder with them on their trip to Vegas!! This trip and podcast was powered by betable.com’s new API. Please check them out:

Topics covered:

Betable.com has a new API blog and API Login for their awesome gambling platform. Check it out!
We cover second dinner and why it was so good
We catch up with Merrick’s hardcore MySQL work and Ben’s thoughts on logging an api
We find a QR Code in a suspicious place
There may have even been some coding going on in the hotel!

Thanks again to betable.com for making this possible!

Show #20 | Put Your Node.js V8 Hash Tables in my Ear-Hole

_Ben_ — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:35:02 +0000

Download MP3: Put Your Node.js V8 Hash Tables in my Ear-Hole

Next in our interview series, we speak with special guest Josh Gillies (@JoshGillies).

Help Support the Podcast:

(Powered by LaunchBit)

Feedback:

Mixes by @e_knudsen: Soundcloud.com/dj-e-ray
@keeganjacobson you guys are awesome! He runs ubuntu 11.10 has a nexus and test drives CM9

Topics:

Arch Linux ‘yaourt’ – (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt) && (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR)
history of linux, linux distribution timeline: http://futurist.se/gldt/
Suicide Linux http://qntm.org/suicide
Router disto: http://www.untangle.com/
Media center PC distro: http://www.openelec.tv/
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Big Fish Games and PayPal Recurring Payments… A case for why email verification should be mandatory.
Hash Tables and DOS vulnerability:
http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/19160-US-CERT-Hash-Table-Collision-Attack-Vulnerability.html
http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf
original paper from 2003: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/hash/CrosbyWallach_UsenixSec2003.pdf
compressed ram in linux: http://weirdfellow.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/compressed-ram-with-zram/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap_on_video_ram
http://www.orgnet.com/slumlords.html
http://blog.thesysadmins.co.uk/wifi-protected-setup-wps-vulnerability.html
Check out Ben’s Startup JoynMe:

Show #19 | Russian PDF Pump Downs Drone

Merrick — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:02:30 +0000

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In this titillating episode we cover pretty much everything you dreamed about last night. Wait, what!? Not that dream you freak! You need professional help!

On another note we had our fan Mike call into the show! We discussed the Carrier IQ disaster alongside other technological tidbits.

Our special guest, Mike, has prepared a collection of links for the show. Please check these links in addition to the ones below!
Carrier IQ disaster, a running log (see updates below short article):
theverge.com/2011/11/30/2601695/carrier-iq-controversy
The wiki:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_IQ
A Carrier IQ press release following the debacle PR.20111212.pdf :
portforwardpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/PR.20111212.pdf
Al Franken Inquiry & Carrier IQ response breakdown:
engadget.com/2011/12/17/senator-al-franken-asks-about-carrier-iq-the-companies-answer/
How to remove (bottom of article, for Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch):
geek.com/articles/mobile/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-hardware-20111216/
Carrier IQ in the iPhone:
electronista.com/articles/11/11/30/carrier.iq.may.have.logging.code.in.ios.too/
…but on in iOS5:
zdnet.com/blog/apple/apple-we-stopped-using-carrier-iq-in-ios-5/11803

From there we touched upon mobile OS’s, an ADD depth onto the awesome PeerBlock software, then moved the discussion to Iran’s jihad (GPS exploit) on our Drone. I’m tired of posting links so if you want more info on the Iran jacking drone lmgtfy.com/?q=Iran+drone. Then I recapped the supposed water utility hack. Finally we got to Ben’s sniffing packets on a local network tutorial.

And then an awesome Zelda rap battle:
kotaku.com/5861006/a-zelda-rap-so-ridiculous-its-amazing

Sam mentions some funny ftp login attempts, I ADD’d onto the awesome backup service Backblaze ($4/month). Then Sam recaps on Eric Reis’s awesome book The Lean Startup. Followed by another tangent into MD5 hashing and why you shouldn’t use it; check your favorite password MD5′d against this database of cracked hashes/passwords distributedmd5.com

Mike mentions the book Hacking Work. I still want to read How To Break Web Software.

An entertaining video is always good advertising:
epipheostudios.com/
Michael Arrington wants you to work for him:
jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-sell-a-con/

Show #18 | Stop Chewing on My Electric

Merrick — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:36:15 +0000

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Sam’s new service: http://sendnao.com/

& why we need it

ATM side-channel attack contributed by our favorite listener Neal: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/thermal-imaging-camera-can-read-your-atm-pin/

Catch-up on our life doings, Merrick: Drupal 7, Sam: Motion Graphics, Ben: JavaBeans & JSP (Java Server Pages).

Merrick was confused about the Das Keyboard being able to switch layouts & having a trainer (internal to the keyboard), if you know of a keyboard that can do this please email us at @packets

Sam tells us about his new GSpot: http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

Ben’s Asus Eee PC SSD upgrade debacle (ram easy, hard drive hard)

The dreaded SSD “write cliff”: http://www.denali.com/wordpress/index.php/dmr/2010/04/19/network-world-ssd-smackdown-shows-fusion

Ben’s thumb drive ISO boot adventure: http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pendrivelinux.com%2Fyumi-multiboot-usb-creator%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFbjlxNzx_IWe8dRWBGKi2sJD4b3Q

Bunny! Stop Chewing on My Electric!

Show #17 | Coded Hard & Put Away Wet (& numb)

Merrick — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:58:17 +0000

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We finally did another show! Sorry for the break we hope to record bi-monthly from now on! In this fantabulous episode we achieve both an ADD & distraction depth.

Ben hacking under ice-water!

Thanks again Peter for the awesome donation!

http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=93c9614b0b5471f03869d13f936859c6

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/04/ispy-software-can-read-texts-and-steal-passwords-with-its-little/

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/researchers-can-keylog-your-pc-using-your-iphones-accelerometer.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/researchers-hack-crypto-on-rfid-smart-cards-used-for-keyless-entry-and-transit-pass.ars

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45263325/ns/technology_and_science-security/#.TsAJOUOXunB

Sam needs beta testers for his new website: http://sendnao.com/

Ben’s Github: https://github.com/esromneb/

DUQU FIX: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2639658

Show #16 | NoSqlCamp UnConference

_Ben_ — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:28:00 +0000

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The gang goes to the NoSqlCamp 2011, and we meet … a girl!

http://www.nosqlcamp.org/
http://cassandra.apache.org/
http://couchdb.apache.org/
http://www.datastax.com/
https://mongolab.com/home/

Show #15 | Is it time to start(up)?

_Ben_ — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 09:12:47 +0000

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In this (long overdue) show we cover the many conferences we’ve attended. Also Ben’s winning streak and the future of the Port Forward Podcast!

Conferences We’ve Recently Attended:

Cloud.e 2011
techcrunch hackathon/Disrupt
twiliocon – web crawler, Dropbox API
html5 hackathon
Eric Ries Lean Startup book signing & fireside chat
High-Performance HTML5 @ Dropbox – steve sounders

LINKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectromechanical_systems
www.eventbrite.com
www.meetup.com
http://plancast.com/
kickstarter / tiktok
http://httparchive.org/viewsite.php?pageid=375143
https://www.dropbox.com/developers_beta
http://ycombinator.com/
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/
http://redis.io/commands
http://try.redis-db.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity

Show #14 | Sam’s obsession with CD-RWs

_Ben_ — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:04:58 +0000

Sam’s obsession with CDRWs

This show we take it deep into QR Code territory. Topics include:

- Our first ever bitcoin donation!
- Manually checking your iDevice *.IPA files for malware.
- Sam’s obsession w/ CDRW’s
- Really bad jokes in QR Codes
- Old school CD technology
- Please check out Krayon’s blog
- Sam & Merrick interview Ben about his job/micro-controllers/embedded systems
- CDCheck free software http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/cdrecovery-security.html
- unetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
- Avira anti virus boot cd
- CDROM Forward Error correction

Show #13 | This may break your iThing

_Ben_ — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 06:59:01 +0000

iOSDevCamp coverage, recorded July 25, 2011

Official Website: http://www.iphonedevcamp.org/
- 4Sight: http://seriousapps.com/4sight
- Real Money Slots: http://t.co/TGZvHDM
- Mashboard http://mikhailxu.github.com/
- RMS used http://glyphish.com/ for icons
- Google+ and why it’s so much better than Facebook

Bitcoin Cents:
- Neal mentions: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/weaknesses. The attacks we covered last week are “Probably not a problem” according to this wiki page

- Fail depth is level 2

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Show #12 | My Bitcoin brings all the girls to the yard

_Ben_ — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:10:37 +0000

Bitcoin Extravaganza, recorded July 12, 2011:

For starters, all knowledge comes from the original Bitcoin Whitepaper:
http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- What is currency vs fiat currency. Why does it matter if currency is rare? Brief history of bartering, banking, fractional reserve banking
- What is Bitcoin? Creator: Satoshi Nakamoto
- Why do Bitcoins have value?
- Describe btc client, what are transactions?
- All transactions are somewhat anonymous, all you give out is your public key
- https://mtgox.com/ last was $14.03
- Describe a block. Hard work done to get hash with leading 0’s. No known shortcut for this work
- Block chain, hashing
- 6 steps of network transactions
- All transactions are public. The block chain provides a Balance Sheet for all nodes in the network
- Chain theoretically grows at 4.2 megs a year but…blk001.dat 327megs, blkindex.dat 166megs
- Currency generated via blocks. Right you pay 50 btc to yourself if you ‘win’ a block by solving the hash. Chance of win = your-cpu / total-network-cpu
- Difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks or 2 weeks
- Right now difficulty is 52 bits: (number of 0’s in hex * 4) + top bits on first 0xHEX number) (http://blockexplorer.com/q/hextarget)
- Target money supply such that no more than 21 million coins ever exist. Exponentially decreasing. First 4 years half of the coins ever are minted, next 4 years half of remaining minted. This is done by blocks winning 25, then 12.5 then 6.25 etc. Bitcoin supports fractions of coins up to 6 digits.
- Question: BTCs will invariably become “lost” due to people’s computers crashing, wallet.dat corruption, etc. Over the looong term won’t hundreds of thousands of BTCs be missing? How can they be “replaced” or “replenished?” What about hoarding?
- Bitcoin client no longer can do CPU generation http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=4828.0
- https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/
- Mining pools
- SIDETRACK to CPU vs CPU pipelines
- What is a pipeline?
- Bitcoin Watch (Market Data) http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/
- Bitcoin mining hardware comparison https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
- MaxPC Dream Machine http://tinyurl.com/6g7539r

Attack Vectors on Bitcoin
- There is an infeasible kind of attack. Redo the block chain from the start
- Only kind of attack is spending coins twice, requires forking blockchain from the now. Only possible to work if your-attacking-cpus > total-network-cpu (aka 51%)
- System designed so that the most lucrative way to attack is it to mine
- CANNOT GIVE AWAY OTHER PEOPLES BITCOINS due to public private key signing

Elliptic curve DSA signatures:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips186-3/fips_186-3.pdf
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
See Section (4.7)

SHORT SUMMARY of public private key pairs
x private key
y public key
q and p are primes associated with the pair, g also related
Such math as y = g ^ x mod p

Feedback:
- Intellicache, (listener: Mike Shaw) points out that running a VM totally from RAM is EPIC. Problem is that the poster on reddit is moving VMs into and out of his RAM disk. He relies on dropbox to sync any changes he makes inside these RAM only VMs.
- If you use IntelliCache the RAM drive here could be used to dynamically cache any part of any running virtual machine it will keeping changes persistant to disk. If you shutdown all vm’s, the write caches flush before the VM’s shutdown. All that is left on the RAMdisk is read caches. These can safely be deleted once the machine is off. Rebooting host has same effect.
- Also I wasn’t clear, but my best suggestions for IntelliCache with SSD is to use SSDs for IntelliCache drive and slower spinning disks (aka thumpers) for your backend storage

SSDs:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ssd-value-performance,review-1455-5.html

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Show #11 | Almost Bitcoin

_Ben_ — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:30:17 +0000

We have our first listener call-in over Skype to discuss VMWare ESXi in this weeks episode:
- What is the Cryptographic function hash() ?
- What is the Mathematical operator mod() ?
- Listener Feedback: Antonio, Neal, Mike Shaw
- PSExec and features:
+ Scripting an exe to always open w/ a set affinity
+ Files by default are placed in \windows\system32, can be moved via commandline
+ Remotely start/stop services
+ Discuss pushing a ‘servlet’ in forensics (EnCase FIM/EE)
- Side topic into movies non realistic image “enhancement” :
+ Enhance Super troopers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPSkgAlJAY
+ Red dwarf Uncrop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU
+ Hilarious enhance montage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
- Merick’s review of Ecco the dolphin guy. Also a bit about how we were huge fanboys for consoles we loved

=== Interview with Neal from http://digitalllama.net/ covering VMWare ===
What is VMWare (ESX / ESXi / ESX embedded). From a small business perspective. What is possible with the free version, what are the benefits of getting the cheapest paid version, hardware required, storage options, logins, back up options etc.
Comparison of VMWare versions:
http://tinyurl.com/2aqesjn

VMWare supported hardware
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
- Veeam http://www.veeam.com/
- Ben compares XenServer to VMWare
- WINSXS server
- Revisit Side Channels:
+ Blinking LED’s (Neil) http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-854946.html
+ Van Eck Phreaking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
+ Acoustic: http://people.csail.mit.edu/tromer/acoustic/
===== We say Goodbye to Neal =====

- Please Visit Neal’s Blog:
http://digitalllama.net

- How we record the Podcast, and what “triple ending” means
- XenServer intellicache.
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129387 (page 21) of the pdf.
- xenserver desktop, ‘thinclients’
http://tinyurl.com/6k5w7jg

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Show #10 | Attacking from the Side

_Ben_ — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:47:31 +0000

- Go Daddy is the reason the last show has a decimal point (9.1)
- Known Chrome/Wikipedia bug; multi-threaded race condition http://tinyurl.com/3jlse84
- Sam tries release handles to a hard drive after backing up. Using process explorer failed
- NETBUS sucks, sub7 has more features came later ohrlly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub7 YA RLLY!
- Sam’s epic guide http://tinyurl.com/6gt4vsf
- Old school games >> url of ecco, fuck my life, i hate my life!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJCjJDLvCsg (must watch at least like 4 or 5 of them to get a sense of how pissed this dude is, and how hard this game is).
- (Greatest WOW freak out ever!!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc
- Side channel attacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_channel_attack)
- Audio Attack on keyboard: http://tinyurl.com/6jdqy8o
- What if, sound based keyboard!?
- Optical Time-Domain Eavesdropping attack on CRT Displays
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=830537
- Packet size of VBR (skype) audio to detect spoken sentences http://tinyurl.com/3rh3gyn
- Cold boot attack on RAM
- Firewire/Thunderbolt can to dump RAM
- USB adapter for Colemak… adapt a hardware keylogger for this purpose?
- Colemak correction, re: the prehistory of qwerty: http://tinyurl.com/5s6jkc7
- Ben is starting Colemak. How browser switched in middle of sentence. Win7 says to press alt+shift, but the hotkey is really ctrl+shift http://dl.dropbox.com/u/825637/win7-language-fail.png
- Batch OCRing with Adobe Acrobat X.
- Recaptcha, and books, and things,
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
- Peerblock list management resource:
http://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php
Possible to use peerblock to prevent fake a/v apps? YES!

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Show #9.1 | More Keyboards than you can type on

_Ben_ — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:44:48 +0000

We have Merrick back on the show for a Keyboard filled episode! This week:

- Listener feedback
- Using a catch-all email to prevent spam
- Duke Nukem Forever!
http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/13/duke-nukem-forever-sucks/
- Our stories about the day we first learned alt+tab
- Das Keyboard (blank keys)
- Sony security / PR debacle
http://hassonybeenhackedthisweek.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/07/lulzsec-sony-and-the-rise_n_872814.html
- Follow-up to audio QR code, “Manchester Encoding” a type of “Line Code” which will allow you to have multiple 0’s or 1’s in a row no problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_encoding
- ProBoolean in 3ds Max
- Follow-up on VIN numbers being stored in car. “Fuse Burning” chips. FPGA’s.
ASIC = Application Specific Integrated Circuit
- Ad-Hoc WiFi, Sam and Ben tested it

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Show #8 | The Typing of the Dead

_Ben_ — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:30:14 +0000

We bring back Merrick for coverage of the TechRaising event in Santa Cruz, CA. Also:

- Ben’s Tech War Story about a server getting hacked / root kit installed.
- IP Firewall on iOS!
- Steve Gibson’s upgraded password scheme:
https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm
- Merrick’s review of TechRaising, highlighting speakers, ideas & 48 hours of geekery. http://techraising.com/
- iOSDevCamp 2011: This event is July 15 – 17 in San Jose, CA at the Paypal/Ebay offices.
http://www.iosdevcamp.org/
- Audio QR Codes. Would be possible with frequency shift keying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-shift_keying
http://free-books-online.org/computers/data-communication-computers/frequency-shift-keying-fsk/
- Things you can do with a “Snapshot” offered by Progressive auto insurance. An OBD-II device that monitors your breaking and other values as reported by your car. Apparently does not record top speed?
- OBD-II and One time Burn in memory
- Boolean operations & welding vertices in 3dsmax!!!11
- Cracked 3dsmax at cabrillo college w/ unexplained glitches etc. Could glitches be intentional?
- Booting Windows over USB?
- Booting Acronis .TIB files in VirtualBox: 0x0000007B 0x80786B58 BSOD
- Typing of the dead.
- Why you should learn the Colemak keyboard layout, and why it’s awesome. colemak.com Switch your keyboard layout with the Master Key program. http://macinmind.com/?pid=2&progid=2
- How much Merrick hates programming/scripting in bash.
- Maya vs 3ds Max.
- Sam’s story about applying for a job without knowing all the software. “Do you know Avid?”
“Uuuuu ya!”
- Lol Live free or Die Hard Command Center http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzOhJ3mR8U
- How Ben’s IP got blocked from Hulu! (Could Tor be at fault?)
- Netflix error n8156-6013
Rename “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\PlayReady\mspr.hds”

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Show #7 | You got your Linux in my Browser

_Ben_ — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:38:17 +0000

In this episode we discuss a Javascript x86 emulator. This VM has a Linux kernel which is fully bootable! You have shell access and can run normal Linux commands. It even has a compiler!! (TCC, not GCC.) This is epic and deserves attention!

- Making a DNS server from scratch! Also using Webmin to control it

- Designing servers to handle massive amounts of traffic!

- Perfect Time Machine Server and Suse studio

- Mini tutorial on how to ssh tunnel

- Use “sudo bash” once instead of repeating “sudo command”

- Incentive-based advertising

- Sam gets interrupted by Sticky Keys and can’t remember what’s going on!

- A Javascript page which hosts an x86 emulator. This VM has a Linux kernel which is fully bootable! You have shell access and can run normal Linux commands. It even has a compiler!! (TCC, not GCC.) This is epic and deserves attention! http://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html

- Using BestCrypt or Cryptoswap to encrypt your swap file on Windows. Also what digging through your swapfile looks like!

- How to increase performance on a Linux box with a slow hdd! Tuning the Linux disk cache

Download MP3, You got your Linux in my Browser

Show #6 | Open Source HTML

_Ben_ — Tue, 17 May 2011 07:54:47 +0000

Introducing our biggest fan Benji!

- Perfect Time Machine Server!
- Benji’s Windows Phone 7

- PHP Templates -> Error where Apache runs out of memory

- http://www.ajaxload.info/ Beach-ballin!

- Microsoft Compielrs vs XCode and Pick-Whips!

- How we hate flash!
- How ethical is it to base your website design off of other sites? Is that similar to pirating?

- Creative commons licenses for music: http://creativecommons.org/choose/

- Darknet filesharing and the problems that CalPoly had
- Carbonite vs CrashPlan
- Dropbox Hashing. Comments on http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/7691/psn-breech-techsnap3/
- Benji has another method for making sure your .ipa files aren’t phoning home

Download MP3, Open Source HTML

Perfect Time Machine Server (.iso)

_Ben_ — Sun, 15 May 2011 07:19:47 +0000

Question?

Do you have a Mac or MacBook that doesn’t have backups? What would you do if you lost all the data on your hard drive?

Answer!

Enter the Perfect Time Machine Server! This lightweight Linux distribution will act as a network Time Machine Server and back up your Mac. This Linux is meant to run on its own computer with no maintenance or hassle. You can even run it inside a Virtual Machine if that suits you. It’s also FREE!

Some Background…

Here I am releasing the first version of my Perfect Time Machine Server! This Linux distribution comes with all the software needed to act as a server for your Mac. It doesn’t have a GUI interface and only runs on the command line. All the steps are easily explained on the introduction screen, so don’t worry if you’re not good at using Linux. You should have a large hard drive to store backups. About 500 gigs will be fine. If your Mac has a large hard drive, you will need to account for that with your backups disk. By default the Perfect Time Machine will use this entire drive for backups. Below you will find the .ISO or virtual machine download.

Download

ISO Version: Time_Machine_Server.i686-1.0.5.iso

Vmware Version: Time_Machine_Server.i686-1.0.5.vmx.tar.gz

Instructions

If you’re not sure which version to use, go with the ISO version. Burn it to a CD using a slower burning speed.

Insert CD into your computer and boot.
Login using the username “root”, and password “timemachine”. Type “./help” for instructions or keep reading.
Type “yast” and choose “Miscellanous”. Press tab to highlight “Live Installer” and press enter. Follow the instructions. Reboot.
From your Mac, open a terminal. (Press Command+Space, then type Terminal) Inside the terminal type: “defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1″
From your Mac, click on the desktop. Press Command+K. Type in the following, but using the ip of your server: “afp://192.168.1.100″ If you don’t know the ip of your Time Machine Server, type “./help” from the command line. Use the username “tux” and password “linux”
Now that you have connected to the Server, you need to configure Time Machine. Go to System Preferences, and choose Time Machine. Click “Select Disk” and choose the time machine volume.
All done! Your Mac will start backing up automatically.

More Configuration

You will probably want to keep the Time Machine at a fixed IP. To do this, type “Yast” and select “Network Devices” and then choose “Network Settings”. When the page loads press the right arrow key twice. This takes you to the “routing tab” from which you can put in your router’s address. Now tab back to the top and press left twice to get back to Overview. Tab to Edit, and choose “Statically assigned IP Address”. Fill in an fixed IP. You can probably use “255.255.255.0″ for the subnet mask. You can also choose a hostname here.
To configure where backups are stored, edit the symlink in the home directory by typing “nano AppleVolumes.default”. The very last line is an entry for the default share, which is /macbackups Change this line to backup to a different location.
If you have two hard drives, one large and one small, you can still install the Time Machine server. In the installer, mount the larger drive at the mountpoint /macbackups. You can also use a different mount point if you want, just be sure to change the share as.

Show #5 | fml AT&T

_Ben_ — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:15:58 +0000

Introducing a new podcaster, the all around powerhouse, Merrick!

This Show:

- Check hash of .ipa files for viruses
- A bit about version control
- Being family tech support guy
- samba \\sharing issues, and “nblookup” http://paradisj.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-query-wins-server.html
- MobileMe to track a lost iPhone story
- Symbolic links on Linux and Windows.
- Sata 2 connectors, aka how I booted into Linux I didn’t even know I had
- Windows Home Server
- Linux developer style vs Windows
- How Merrick (+all) hates ATT

- Correction: Drobo has a battery which saves ram. when power is lost all drives instantly shut off. When power is restored, the memory is read for pending writes as the Drobo checks for consistency:
http://support.drobo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/12/page/22/

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Show #4 | Wireshark

_Ben_ — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:30:14 +0000

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Discussion of port forwarding a bit (router)
Inbound and outbound ports, NAT
Vista Home 2011 virus, MSE & MS Safety not able to detect
Office 2010 the movie, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I
Emacs has tetris built in, so does uTorrent http://www.orangeinks.com/tips-n-tricks/hidden-tetris-game-in-utorrent/
Scrolling penetrating into OSX + VirtualBox + pspad
How to extend the life of your laptop
Wireshark tutorial for programmers
Palmos + companion link

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Show #3 | Skynet in the Cloud

_Ben_ — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:22:44 +0000

In show three we pick it up a notch and propose ways to dominate storage in the cloud.

IE 8, repeated clicking sound in bing >O<
“We’ve reached the point of diminishing returns” – Win7 searching
I have a f-ing VIDEO of showing the search feature in 7 failing. Yes. I documented the whole f-ing thing. I uploaded the whole damn thing to YouYube. fml. http://www.youtube.com/user/VariableGHz#p/a/u/0/rTZH7D0-A9U
Viruses on iOS, using a hex editor to identify malware .IPA files?
iOS device as an FTP server for hosting a website? lulz (serversman)
QR Codes
Proposal for CLOUD Storage Workaround; adrive
3DS augmented reality, and Ben’s 3D research at UC Davis
My research at UC Davis
XenServer 5.6 and raid fail, good disk practices for SuseStudio

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Show #2 | SMS Internet

_Ben_ — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:50:27 +0000

In this second round, we introduce tenacious podcaster Sam. Topics include:

Skydrive, Amazon Cloud Drive
Amazon Cloud Player review: http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20048416-12.html
SMS / MMS for Internet
Bryan Lunduke’s Approach to no cellphone: http://lunduke.com/?p=1359
Virus with sound only advertisement on boot!
90’s CW/RW
Acronis backups Windows Volume Shadow Copy
MacBook / Apple Mouse with tiiiiny holes
Imitation Android device; Miumiu Ramos

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Show #1 | Java Threading

_Ben_ — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:44:29 +0000

Welcome to the first ever Port Forward Podcast!

Topics Include:

Writing a clone of the original Zelda game in Java, threading
Giving Linux to your sister
SuseStudio.com
Package management and app stores in general
SSH Man-in-the-Middle attack.

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