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PancakesCon 2022 CTF, a write up
The PancakesCon 2022 CTF happened on January 16 2022 (writing that down just so I keep track of this stuff in the old pre-covid calendar way), and our awesome SpaceCows team led by the wonderful apiratemoo got second place! Well, tied to second place, but given how many CTF noobs we were, haha that’s a feat!
This was my first time doing a CTF, and I was definitely [insert pic of dog with no clue here]. I mostly focused on the crackme challenges, because at least I think I can do reverse engineering, and I did manage to get one (woot go me), the Nur geträumt! Also poked at the others but couldn’t crack them in time, unfortunately.
OSX, the Air and Recovery Mode, or how to make amazing software
This morning I decided I needed a case-sensitive partition on my MacBook Air. It comes with a nice juicy 250GB SSD and I still have about 140GB left, so, having woken up in an adventurous mood, I open up Disk Utility, peer at the partition, note it doesn’t complain at me if I shrink it a bit, so I go ahead and resize it. I do this, of course, without killing any of the 30 tabs open on Chrome, or closing down the 3 server connections and about 30 channels on LimeChat, not to mention the 10 terminal sessions running various scripts and remote shells, or any of the ton of widgets and apps happily fidgeting in the background. Life is good.
Mono Developer Room for FOSDEM 2010!
Some excellent news out of Brussels today, there is going to be a Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010! Call for participation is now open, so come and join us put together an awesome Mono day at FOSDEM!
Thank you so much to Ruben Vermeersch for spearheading this effort, together with Stéphane Delcroix. You guys rock!
Don’t forget, send in your talk!
New phone, Moonlight almost upon us and other little tidbits from the week
This week I got supremely frustrated with my phone(s). I have a very friendly Nokia 6288 which is unfortunately locked-in to Vodafone, and as some of you might know, I got a new phone number from a different operator, which means I can’t use my Nokia until I unlock it… and in this country, it’s not an easy thing to do. In the meantime, I have some unlocked phones, but they’re for emergencies only, really, when I’m travelling and just need to use a local card for a bit, not at all something that I would like to use on a regular basis. And I did try to use them, but it turns out I need a little more from a phone than what a Nokia Prism can provide… boy oh boy is that thing slow :PA little browser sample
By popular demand, here is the sample that I used at the ENEI presentation - a browser in 12 lines of code.
It's that time of the year again!
Hack week!
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If you’re not familiar with what it is, here’s the gist of it: For one week, all the geeks at Novell stop what they’re doing and dive into a project of their choice. That’s right, a full week of pure, anadulterated hacking!
This year I’m going to use this week to scratch an hitch I’ve been having with bugzilla, by getting together a proper GUI for the thing, together with uber-hacker Marek Habersack. Join up if you’re interested, the more the merrier!
Some busy days ahead
I had written this huge post about how awesome the Mono Summit in Madrid was, how great it was to meet everyone (some again, some for the first time face-to-face), how much I learned from talking and sharing ideas and watching the presentations… and then @#$@$% synergy went and turned on control again and when I scrolled, the entire page was gone!
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Of course, the autosave function didn’t work either, so I was left with the title and the first line…. sigh and I had pretty pictures in too sigh