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

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: 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