zomo technology

Directory sizes and filesystems

Monday, 03. 19. 2012  –  Category: sw

kyero@fs02 ~/log $ du -hs . 1.7M kyero@fs02 ~/log $ ls | wc -l 24 kyero@fs02 ~/log $ ls -ild . 909313 drwxr-xr-x 2 kyero kyero 1630208 Mar 19 05:25 . This log directory was allowed to grow indefinitely (ahem) until I trimmed it this morning. Now it is mostly empty (1.7MB), but the directory […]

pf on OS X 10.7

Wednesday, 09. 14. 2011  –  Category: sw

Today’s the first day that my new laptop, which runs OS X 10.7 (Lion), will sit on an untrusted network so I figured it was time to port my firewall rules across from the old one, that ran OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I cut my UNIX teeth at a cryptoanarchist shop whose culture of […]

Cyrus saslauthd and passwords containing quote marks

Saturday, 06. 11. 2011  –  Category: sw

n the back of reading how affordable and powerful GPUs make for insanely fast brute-force software (eg: whitepixel2) I recently did a round of password strengthening, even for accounts that aren’t immediately vulnerable to 30 billion MD5s a second (yes!) attacks. I then found then whenever I sent mail using authenticated SMTP my mail server […]