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The author’s experience setting up offsite and local backup using restic backup program.

The author’s detailed post on their website/blog setup using Hugo, Github and Netlify.

The author’s experience using podman’s pod commands instead of letting podman-compose create an experience like docker-compose.

The author’s experience using Atomic Red Team for the first time inside a closed off domain-joined lab.

Author could not use Sigma (a generic signature format for SIEM), so they came up with their own format. This post details that YAML linting and schema validation adventure.

A Fedora user uses toolbox container to contribute a patch to Kali Linux package.

I decided to participate in this year’s edition of FLARE-On challenge. It is made by the fine folks from FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) team. I wanted to see how far I could go.

Whenever I finish installing a fresh operating system, be it Windows or a Linux distribution, I always remap ctrl and caps lock on my keyboard. As I use the Control key a lot more than Caps Lock, I like having the former on the same line as my home row keys.

After reading Jessie Frazelle’s Docker Containers on the Desktop post I was quite interested in making some Fedora image based docker containers for some apps I want to use.

Configuration options to get some third-party apps working nicely with HiDPI on Fedora 21

Install steps to get World of Warcraft on Fedora 20 working via wine.

Steps to get Voxelands - the Fun-Focused Free Software Voxel World Game; working on Mac OS X

Steps to get searx (a privacy-respecting metasearch engine) working with gunicorn and supervisord

It has been almost close to 5 years that I have set my foot on the Malaysian soil. Came over to Malaysia in July, 2009 with the aim of studying a bachelor, and now that I have completed, the journey in Malaysia is almost coming to an end in 2 months.

Points: 200 Description: There was a zip file on the desktop. I can’t remember the password for it. We saw a zip file named: “null password.zip” on the desktop. When opened, there are 2 files which are encrypted.

I play security competitions called Capture The Flag (CTF) with a group called Glider Swirley Points: 500 Description: The client says that the system was compromise. There was no evidence found for the same.

The magic of rsa (100) You were able to hear some whispering on the last crypto party! *whisper* $d$ is 35181901. Keep it secret or we are doomed! We were given 2 files for the challenge.

Disclaimer: This post was orginally posted on apucsfc.org1, which was a university security club where the author was a part of the CTF team and wrote this post back in 2014.

If you follow me enough on twitter (@mavjs), read my home page or follows my Fedora Ambassador wiki page, you’ll probably know that I study at the Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation, Malaysia.

Last night I was playing some games on Steam and closed it after I finished playing. Then I browsed around the Humble Bundle and bought the Humble Indie Bundle 9 since I wanted Mark of the Ninja, so to redeem it I switched on Steam.

About some weeks ago, I was trying to find a way to alias my favourite directory (~/Programming/Pythons) in zsh, and it should show me the directories contained inside it. But aliasing doesn’t work, except to cd me to that directory.

Hey folks, we, the Fedora Malaysia community in conjunction with UCTI Free & Open Source Software SIG, have planned for an introductory workshop on Grok, a web application framework. It uses the Zope Toolkit (ZTK).

I’ve been using GNU/Linux distributions for almost 2 years and with Fedora for about ~7-8 months. Every single day I do some experiments with python, and every single time it makes me feel comfortable using Fedora to write scripts.

Disclaimer: This post is actually abit overdue. Was supposed to be up by Tuesday, but some stuff caught up. Event Details Time: 10:00 - 16:00 Date: 23rd April, 2012 Venue: UCTI

What do you do when you’re a geek who uses Fedora, needs to write blog posts on blogspot.com and like only command line based clients? Well, you do a ‘yum search’, of course.

Welp, this is the first post on this blog. :) Watch this blog for some #GNU/Linux, #FLOSS, #InfoSec & #Coding tips ’n tricks! //posted from googlecl on fedora ;)