Rainy Alley

Working on my 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

Working on my 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

Working on my 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

Working on my Alius 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

This is part 5 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 4 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 3 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 2 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 1 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

I made a tool that sends you an alert if your SSL/TLS certificate is due to expire.

A look at my collection of old computer chips.

I am not going to write much about each one, you can google the part numbers and I don’t know much more than what you can see.
Click on the images for the hires version.

A look at my collection of old computers and calculators.

A gold image tool for Archlinx and Digitalocean.

I made script that can build a img file for use with digitalocean. Now you can run Archlinux on digital ocean with ease.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 4

SMS and a scoreboard.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 3

Two more puzzles.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 2

Building a safe.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 1

Once again I created a puzzle for Kiwicon.

BSides Wellington - Badge Challenge

For BSides Wellington I created a puzzle.

When should you name a bug?

There has been a lot of talk about naming bugs, Heartbleed is the bug that started this trend, badlock seems to be the one that made people start to talk about how stupid bug naming is.

Why changing passwords can be good.

We have all seen a policy of changing password every 90 days (or 30 days), We all know that staff hate to change passwords and this will even lead to more calls to the helpdesk.

So the question is why should you change password every 90 days?

This post will look at next steps in the badge puzzle.<p>

For communication from the participants to the handler, sms messaging is to be used.

This post will look at telephone handset part of the console.<p> When you answer the phone you get a voice that gives you launch orders.<p>

Once I designed a machine, I need a case to put it all in.<p> Time to build a big box.<p>

The last of the puzzles from the badge challenge.<p>

This post will cover this red break cards, the plastic authentication biscuits.<p>

This one is all about the next puzzle.<p>

You can’t launch the nuke’s with out having two keys to turn, this post will look at the keys and buttons.<p>

This one is all about the onetime pad and youtube videos.<p>

If you followed along with part 6 you will have a PDF with some hex, and a collection of hex from badges.

Today we will look at more of the console design and build.<p>

This post will look at next steps in the badge puzzle.<p>

If you followed along with part 4 you should have solved the puzzle in the book.

In this post I will look at more of the console build.<p>

In this post I will cover more of the puzzle.<p>

In this post I will cover the design of the console.<p>

In this post I will cover the design of the badge challenge game.<p>

This is the first of a series of posts, outlining the kiwicon badge challenge.<p>

This post will look at next steps in the badge puzzle.<p>

For communication from the participants to the handler, sms messaging is to be used.

This post will look at telephone handset part of the console.<p> When you answer the phone you get a voice that gives you launch orders.<p>

Once I designed a machine, I need a case to put it all in.<p> Time to build a big box.<p>

The last of the puzzles from the badge challenge.<p>

This post will cover this red break cards, the plastic authentication biscuits.<p>

This one is all about the next puzzle.<p>

You can’t launch the nuke’s with out having two keys to turn, this post will look at the keys and buttons.<p>

This one is all about the onetime pad and youtube videos.<p>

If you followed along with part 6 you will have a PDF with some hex, and a collection of hex from badges.

Today we will look at more of the console design and build.<p>

This post will look at next steps in the badge puzzle.<p>

If you followed along with part 4 you should have solved the puzzle in the book.

In this post I will look at more of the console build.<p>

In this post I will cover more of the puzzle.<p>

In this post I will cover the design of the console.<p>

In this post I will cover the design of the badge challenge game.<p>

This is the first of a series of posts, outlining the kiwicon badge challenge.<p>

When should you name a bug?

There has been a lot of talk about naming bugs, Heartbleed is the bug that started this trend, badlock seems to be the one that made people start to talk about how stupid bug naming is.

Why changing passwords can be good.

We have all seen a policy of changing password every 90 days (or 30 days), We all know that staff hate to change passwords and this will even lead to more calls to the helpdesk.

So the question is why should you change password every 90 days?

BSides Wellington - Badge Challenge

For BSides Wellington I created a puzzle.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 4

SMS and a scoreboard.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 3

Two more puzzles.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 2

Building a safe.

Kiwicon 2038AD - Badge Challenge - Part 1

Once again I created a puzzle for Kiwicon.

Working on my 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

Working on my 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

Working on my 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

Working on my Alius 6502 computer I have gathered a significant amount of wisdom around working with SD Cards and FAT32. I am documenting all this as much for myself as others.

This is part 5 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 4 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 3 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 2 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

This is part 1 in a series of posts in which I will document my journey (and mistakes) of building a 6502 based computer.

I made a tool that sends you an alert if your SSL/TLS certificate is due to expire.

A gold image tool for Archlinx and Digitalocean.

I made script that can build a img file for use with digitalocean. Now you can run Archlinux on digital ocean with ease.

A look at my collection of old computer chips.

I am not going to write much about each one, you can google the part numbers and I don’t know much more than what you can see.
Click on the images for the hires version.

A look at my collection of old computers and calculators.