Author Archives: slinkyskirt

oracle sucks

I hate them because their ceo gets into politics and warmongering. He brags about killing people and does politics. I like the Neely and other editors comments: Oracle Denies Cloud Breach Because Servers Were “Obsolete”(April 8 & 9, 2025) After denying that a reported March 20, 2025 breach of Oracle Cloud took place, Oracle hasContinue reading “oracle sucks”

medi-cal

A experiment in healthcare done last year seems to not be working.https://calmatters.org/health/2023/12/undocumented-health-insurance-new-california-laws-2024/ I got an email from Carl DeMaio for State Assembly. I learned a bit. So we are now pulling from the general taxpayer fund, which is used for schools, state highways, all those things. We are taking that money to give some peopleContinue reading “medi-cal”

c++ class CIS-5

created a new win2016 azure vm. just to do learning on c++. I get segmentation fault running any program, compiles ok. Ok next step is add ram then reinstall cygwin. This worked fine on a azure windows 11. armadmin@compiler /usr/code$ gdb aGNU gdb (GDB) (Cygwin 13.2-1) 13.2Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNUContinue reading “c++ class CIS-5”

Kernel patch protection? Kernal DMA protections same thing?

Is Kernal patch protection available for ARM systems? Kernal DMA protection, is this the same thing? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-security/kernel-dma-protection-for-thunderbolt Kernal Patch protection. Same thing?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_Patch_Protection In x64 editions of Windows, Microsoft began to enforce restrictions on what structures drivers can and cannot modify. Kernel Patch Protection is the technology that enforces these restrictions. It works by periodically checkingContinue reading “Kernel patch protection? Kernal DMA protections same thing?”

Windows internals

Wow, I mean WOA (Windows on Arm). Reading about WOA and basic Windows program design. The HAL (hardware abstraction layer) details are mind blowing. If you know Windows then this is an easy read. . . wait thats not many people!! HAL and Syscalls – https://github.com/VirtualAlllocEx/DEFCON-31-Syscalls-Workshop/wiki/04:-Chapter-2-%7C-Windows-OS-System-Calls Blackberry research on ARM cpu and the emulation processContinue reading “Windows internals”

cisco sfp issues

https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/cisco-disabled-1gig-support-on-9400-x-sup2-starting-with-17-9-1/m-p/5216471#M572370 rt interest it’s interesting that Cisco branded sfps have this limitation. Meaning somehow the switch knows more about the Cisco SFP and a non Cisco SFP. I kind of wonder about Cisco being the king and gorilla of the networking world. They just have a lot of competition now and Nvidia is ruling withContinue reading “cisco sfp issues”

powershell versus windows shell

I am getting close to knowing enough powershell to make a clean up script. Years ago I had a clean up script to delete every folder and file in every part of a file system. It used a gather process to get all the files and folders, put into a txt file, then using winContinue reading “powershell versus windows shell”

security+ test

Application shims are on the security+ test, which is required for some federal jobs. Now if you want to make some money as a highly paid consultant, you might need to rebuild apps to work on newer versions of windows. How can you make that cash? You could use this shim kit to try toContinue reading “security+ test”

desert land

Desert land in Southern California. Date July 17, 2024 I have been looking at land around Mojave, Palmdale, and Lancaster areas,  also parts of Kern county (north of Edwards AFB).  Talking with several different realtors and many residents,  I found this out. 1. Empty land not on a paved road,  with no access to electricity,  goes for about 9,000 per acre. Continue reading “desert land”