Author Archives: samurai

About samurai

I like computers... A lot. So I tend to spend a lot of time doing varied things with them. Often you'll find me playing with Python or PHP, fighting with operating systems, ranting about some off-the-wall concept, or preparing for zombies.

Mac-tacular backups, Apple, and OSX

Posted on March 17, 2012 by samurai

This post started out as a bit of a rant about back-ups I needed to make, due to a dieing Mac Book Pro.  Over the course of writing it, I’ve come across a few other issues and have looped in … Continue reading →

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New box: Juggernaut

Posted on November 21, 2011 by samurai

I’ve been working on getting Juggernaut up and running for a couple weeks now and have promised a few people pictures and a summary of what’s going on… so here we have it. I was lucky enough to be given … Continue reading →

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Updates to proxyElite: pE-API and fresher proxies

Posted on October 16, 2011 by samurai

Over the last few months, I’ve been working to refine the beast that is proxyElite to provide more functionality and better results.  One of the key ingredients for that was the pE-API, an HTTP API to our proxy databases.   This … Continue reading →

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Blog updates!

Posted on September 11, 2011 by samurai

After nearly 2 years, we’ve finally gotten the time and put in the effort to turn this boring, default WordPress blog into something a bit more unique.  (Took us long enough, didn’t it?)  The new banner was custom made and … Continue reading →

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Haikuports ii-1.6 package (with SSL!)

Posted on August 29, 2011 by samurai

I’ve been playing with different operating systems on my netbook, trying to find a fun one to suite it  and I’ve come across Haiku (alpha3.)  It seems that Haikuports is the primary package manger Haiku and all it includes for … Continue reading →

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Security in extremely hostile environments

Posted on August 13, 2011 by samurai

The Defcon network (and pretty much all internet sources within a few miles of that hotel) are probably among the most dangerous environments you can drop a piece of technology into.   This year proved that point more over with Lulzsec … Continue reading →

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