I’m teaching Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis again this semester. And as usual, I’m retooling a laptop for the express purpose of using it for this class. I’m using the same laptop as last year (Asus Zenbook Prime UX31A). I’m just going to document the configuration and decision-making process here. If anyone has any questions …
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Seeking System 0.97
Lately, I have been dabbling with retro-computing (actually as part of co-adivsing a student group). One of the old machines in my collection is an original Macintosh from 1984. For the sake of authenticity, I have been looking for the version of system software that shipped on release day – Jan 24, 1984. That early in the Macintosh …
New Laptop: Asus Zenbook Prime
I hadn’t really thought about the long-term ramifications of teaching a Malware course, but it appears that I will be teaching it annually for the foreseeable future. Since I don’t think it’s the wisest idea to mess with live malware on my day-to-day system, I bought a “new” laptop last week. It’s actually a used …
BasicTeX 2013
Well that didn’t take long. Only 1 month after the release of BasicTeX 2013, I find myself in need of a new package. The TeXLive repository has already deprecated all of the 2012 pacakges, so I’m off and running installing BasicTeX 2013. This year the steps are mostly the same, with the addition of more …
Avoiding Cisco AnyConnect on the Mac
I haven’t had much luck with Cisco VPN software on the Mac in the past. Unfortunately, the Cisco AnyConnect software that we use at Towson doesn’t accept connections from the built-in Apple VPN client. Luckily (and predictably), the open-source community has a solution to this problem. OpenConnect is an open source replacement for AnyConnect. It …
BasicTeX 2012
I just upgraded to BasicTeX 2012, and here’s a quick synopsis of the steps: tlmgr uninstall download and install the current BasicTeX package from tug.org update PATH environment variable to include the current install location: /usr/local/texlive/2012basic/bin/universal-darwin tlmgr update –self tlmgr update –all tlmgr install collection-fontsrecommended tlmgr install subfigure tlmgr install exam The Exam package is …
Synergy
I’m such a geek. I just got Synergy running at work. Now my Mac keyboard and mouse are controlling both the iMac & PC. To generate the ctrl-alt-delete sequence needed to log-in to Windows, I need to modify the Group Policy to allow Synergy to generate the attention sequence. Open the Start menu, and type …
Uninstalling Java for OS X
Wouldn’t you know it, I install Oracle Java SE 7 for my Mac just days before a serious exploit is found in this newest version of Java. If you’re like me, it’s easier to just uninstall Java until Oracle has a chance to fix exploit. Here’s how: Using the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) enter the following …
CS4 Service Manager complaining about JRE
I finally got around to installing Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) this week. Most things seem to have gone smoothly, expect Adobe CS4 is now whining at after the initial boot. Specifically, I’m getting the following error: To open “CS4Service Manager,”, you need a Java SE 6 runtime… Very annoying, especially since I think Adobe’s …
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Project Glass: Looks like I was Wrong
Apparently Google does have actual Project Glass hardware. Some tired-looking, scruffy, old guy 🙂 wore a pair out to a charity event this week. So, I was wrong. But at least one article quotes him saying that they mostly just reboot. Either that or they are projecting everyone’s search history over their heads. Just kidding…(not …