Technical notes, my online memory

I finally bit the bullet and spent a bit of time learning some powershell and WMI querying basics. Unfortunately lots of the tutorials and ...

I wanted a cross platform (Mac/Win/Linux) method for calculating disk free space. For my application ideally I'd like to: read it out o...

I wanted to write a quick and dirty file-type identifier for Mach-O, turns out this is more tricky than I expected. From /usr/share/file/ma...

There are many pages out there describing how to get coloured bash man pages. Tuxarena has one of the better ones that tries to explain...

Python mix-ins are a handy way to augment functionality of a class.  LinuxJournal has a good detailed article about them .  To mix in a clas...

TIL: You shouldn't use == to compare HMACs, or anything sensitive really. Doing so creates a timing side channel that can reveal the se...

Watching the winter and summer olympics is literally the only reason I have to watch TV these days, and since the content is so locked up in...