How To Get Your Forking Money

2019-09-20

Several times Bitcoin has ‘forked’ or split off into different related coins. When this happens anyone who holds Bitcoin automatically gets coins in the new forked coin, for free. I will explain what a fork is and how to get your free money.

bitcoin, crypto

Dav2Mp4 Convert security cam DAV to MP4

2017-08-15

Many security cameras export video in a proprietary format called DAV which is difficult to work with. I wrote this program to convert DAV videos into standard MP4 video. […] I’ve worked on several projects involving video from security cameras, and in most cases the video was stored in…

python, forensics, programming, video-editing

Dave Says Thats Not Funny

2017-05-24

Dave doesn’t think any of my jokes are funny. I keep trying but he always says the same thing, “That’s not funny”. So like all repetitive processes, I automated it. This page scrapes jokes from Reddit/r/Jokes and presents them here as texts to Dave. I put a ‘Load more…

tech: javascript, programming, jquery

Ghost Solver - Now in Clojure

2016-12-20

My previous post was about a Python program to calculate the moves to guarantee a win in the puzzle word game ‘Ghost’. The algorithm was naturally recursive and felt ‘LISPy’. @pdlug has been telling me how writing in Clojure will expand my mind, make me more productive and…

tech: clojure, games, puzzles, programming

Ghost Solver - In Which We Ruin a Great Game

2016-11-26

My son showed me a new word game, ‘Ghost’, and I wrote a Python program to “solve” the game and find all winning sequences. The game played like this: We took turns adding a letter to a growing word fragment, trying not to be the one to complete a valid word. Each fragment…

tech: python, games, puzzles, programming

Breaking The Encryption

2016-07-07

I was presented with a hard drive encrypted with TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is unbreakable. Was there anything I could do? (tl;dr: yes) In this case I was presented with a hard drive encrypted with TrueCrypt. One litigant claims the other guessed his password and changed it so he can’t decrypt it. The…

tech: encryption, forensics, truecrypt

Tricky forensic hard drive acquisition of an iMac

2015-04-30

Recently I had to do a forensic acquisition of an iMac hard drive, and it presented many obstacles. The three basic ways to do an acquisition are: […] Remove the hard drive and use high speed dedicated imaging hardware such as a Logicube, or from a forensic workstation through a…

tech: mac, forensics, ftk

Upgrade your Inspiron 8600 to Windows 7 with this NVidia FX Go5200 video driver

2011-06-01

I have an old Dell Inspiron 8600 I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7. The problem was that there is no current video driver for the Inspiron’s Nvidia Geforce FX Go5200 video chip. Even the driver Dell is offering for download for Windows XP is the wrong one and causes all sorts of problems. There…

tech: windows

Unison 2.40.61 binary for Nexenta Core Platform 3

2011-04-01

I have compiled a Unison 2.40.61 binary (file-syncronization tool) for Nexenta (Solaris/Linux hybrid OS with ZFS) and made it available for download here. Nexenta Core Platform 3 is a Solaris-like operating system that has an OpenSolaris (RIP) kernel and GNU/Linux user-land commands layered on top.…

tech: unison, zfs, solaris, ocaml