Rants on code, security, randomness and games
I’ve been tinkering forever with parser generators; mostly to get behind how they work and what I can do with them.
A (long) while ago, I found myself in need for a Bison-like parser generator for PHP and there was none.
Instead of using hand-written notes or printouts, DCS World allows for custom kneeboard pages.
This one is a checklist for DCS World’s A10-C’s rather complex take-off procedure.
Who would’ve thunk that when it was released, Cyberpunk 2077 would be without bugs.
One major annoying bug is that some key bindings appear to be hard-wired and cannot be changed. For those that have evolved from WASD, binding everything “one key to the right” (namely: to ESDF), is impossible.
Sometimes it doesn’t work upgrading or downgrading via the UniFi Controller GUI. If that is the case, doing it via the CLI is quite safe and should work without any issues.
Below is a step-by-step guide:
Note: This manual procedure can be used regardless if you’re upgrading or downgrading.
Good luck!
Source: Instructions for down or upgrading Ubiquiti (UniFi) USG
For peer reviewing purposes on prepan.org (and to the general public as well), I released my perl module for object oriented sql query building.
Apparently, this ethernet device still causes problems to Debian’s “Wheezy” distribution.
In response to a request I present the pre-compiled kernel module for amd64 only.
Instructions on how to get this puppy running are still available via this post and the comments below it.
A proof of concept of a vulnerability in Parallels Confixx 3.3.9 (latest and final version) allowing an attacker to gain full write access (as root) to a UNIX server operating said hosting software.
A small comparison just cost me half an hour of valueable time.
In an ongoing series, I shall present another PHP WTF: The Boolean paradox.
While idly browsing pastebin (yes, sometimes I do that), I found something interesting. It’s some mildly obfuscated PHP scripted malware. Curious what it might do, I started reverse engineering it and found what must be the worst coded trojan ever.
At work I’m stuck with Microsoft Office XP Professional. My previous workstation was one that belonged in a museum (and now luckily is) and had no problems activating Office XP. With my new and shiny workstation (running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit), activating the software was impossible.
After some googling I found a forum with a post suggesting to contact Microsoft Support via chat. The following is my conversation with “Herbert” from Microsoft support…