Build RFIDLer with MPLAB X v2.2 and MPLAB XC32 Compiler v1.33
My RFIDler came in the mail not too long ago and I've been looking forward to firing it up! I noticed that I had to make a couple of modifications to get the PIC project to compile.
Getting started with Wifi Pineapple Mark V
I recently picked up a Wifi Pineapple Mark V. I've been getting familiar with it and want to document what I've found so far.
Defcon 22
Like last year, the Bored Wookie finds himself on a Pilgrimage to Las Vegas to join with Hackers and security researchers from all over the world. It's a great time to find out what the rest of the world has been up to and get ideas for new projects to do this upcoming year.
It's been a great experience so far, and the Electronic badge this year has been pretty interesting (more interesting information on the badge here). The best tip I have is to eat a big breakfast as you may not be able to eat a well-defined 'lunch' during the event (one of the tracks was WAY too small for the interest generated by the presenters and I was stuck in one room for 5 hours). See my Defcon Tips from last year for a few other useful thoughts.
Looks like there are at least 14,000 attendees (that's how many badges were created) and I know they ran out of badges this year!
Internet Share (SOCKS5) For BlackBerry 10
This app has been discontinued
I needed an App that supplies a SOCKS5 proxy for BlackBerry 10, so I decided to write one. It is titled Internet Share (SOCKS5) and should be available in the BlackBerry AppWorld for BlackBerry devices running OS 10.2 or higher.
Read on for details
Thoughts on Automated testing
The Bored Wookie recently changed employers and this has led him to ponder the state of automated testing. In my last 3 jobs I have seen the pressure for automated testers to be pressed into manual test roles in order to get releases 'out the door' on time. Often times this involves working overtime because of miscommunications about what customer expectation actually is.
I have to wonder, is there a better way to drive automated testing?
Outlook AddIn: Available Agillity
In my last article I talked about a Java based tool which I put together that lets Agile teams estimate their available hours by interacting with an MS Exchange server to get calendar details. From a practical standpoint it was a bit inconvenient since you have to supply username and password credentials and you get a CLI response back.
I decided to take things one step further and create a C# version that integrates direclty into Outlook. Now I can find out my agility with a few quick clicks.
MS Exchange / Outlook Availability Calculator (For Agile Teams)
We use various flavors of Agile where I work. In order for these systems to work, everyone has to estimate the amount of work they can get done in the next time block (sprint). Unfortunately, we have seen many issues where people have not properly estimated their time. One big problem is that nobody checks their calendar before comitting to get a certain amount of wok done.
To combat this problem I put together a java application that interacts with Microsoft Exchange and can calculate the time you have available after accounting for meetings scheduled on your work calendar. This CLI tool is called: jCalendarView. Source code and binary is available after the jump.
Multi-GPU Litecoin mining (AMD 7870 + R9-270X)
Like many people, my interest in cryptocurrency increased about 1000% once Bitcoin got above $800/1BTC. Seeing as the Bitcoin ship has probably sailed (requires ASICs to mine effectively at this point) I looked at the myriad of other currencies that have sprung up recently. I Settled on mining Litecoins as they seem to be minable on GPU and appear to have a better reputation than some of the lesser known coins.
This post will walk through how I got my multi-GPU litecoin mining rig up and running with Ubuntu 12.04.
MSTest, VS 2010 and reflected dlls
I am working on an automation framework based on C#.NET and VS 2010. One of the more annoying attributes of MSTest is that it doesn't copy over all the files from \bin\debug to the 'out' directory where it runs the tests.
Today I found out about 2 ways I can make working in MSTest more palatable (I'm an NUnit guy by nature).
VMWare Fusion: Stuck window, can't resize or move
VMWare Fusion did something strange today: as I switched between full screen and windowed mode on one of my VMs, the VM windows got stuck: It stayed full screen even though it was in windowed mode.
Since this was on a Mac, I had no obvious recourse to solve this problem. Fortunately, I was able to find a solution.