Tag Archives: psych0tik

IRC Upgrades (and downtime) … [and other issues]

Posted on May 5, 2013 by samurai

The IRC has been a bit dodgy the week due to some updates we’ve been working to push out.  As part of our irregular upgrade cycles, I’ve been working on getting Storm re-built and back online.  A large part of … Continue reading →

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A look at PHP session write locks

Posted on December 23, 2012 by samurai

Recently, I was working on a web application in which we were passing PHP session IDs around to emulate users.  As a result, the app experienced severe slowness on page load as well as in a few other places.  Upon … Continue reading →

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DefCon XX

Posted on August 12, 2012 by samurai

This year’s DefCon may have been the most anticipated for me yet and it certainly lived up to expectations.  For the last few years, we’ve discussed the possibility of a psych0tik meet-up at DefCon, and with a little bit of … Continue reading →

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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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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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