Articles
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Dream machines?
December 15, 2022
While installing Mac OSX 10.2 (~2002) on a crusty MacBook Pro on this late-2022 afternoon, it occurred to me that computers were not yet evil at that point on the timeline. Apple’s installer was pretty forward about requiring registration info, and threatened to report home to the mothership as soon as I connected to the Internet, but I would not have been concerned that the system might try to report on every binary I run, embed advertising into core OS functions, or any of the other malware-like activity that society seems to accept from system vendors today.
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Prospective employer negotiation notes
February 10, 2021
Contract to hire is an arrangement where you sign up with a contracting agency that serves as your “employer” for the duration of the contract–typically 3-6 months–while you perform work for a client. After that, if you are fortunate, you get the joy of re-negotiating employment with the client (with your contract ready to terminate–tick, tock). If you are less fortunate, you get to go through the whole job-search process again. Hurray.
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Sleuth Kit refresher
December 28, 2019
Computer forensic skills can go stale quickly if not regularly exercised, so I spent a few minutes this morning refreshing my knowledge of The Sleuth Kit (TSK). The Sleuth Kit tools provide a simple and repeatable interface for analyzing disk images and file systems, whether for forensic or data recovery purposes.