With a new job I really haven’t had time to work on all my projects. I still have a crap ton of code to post, posts to write up on various other stuff from a TV B-gone hack to a hack lab set up and such. Tonight I was going through my Shazam tags and started to grab the tracks off Amazon, I heard a song that sparked a thought, what if I had my own TV show? There is already “What about Brian?” which I’m sure they modeled off my life. haha

This got me thinking, what would my soundtrack for my show sound like. While this will probably change, and I only put a small amount of effort into it, for now this is my play list.

Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well – Mike Doughty
Nothing Left To Lose – Mat Kearney
King of the Rodeo – Kings of Leon
The Mob Goes Wild – Clutch
Don’t Wait – Dashboard Confessional
In The Beginning – K’Naan
Wow – Snow Patrol
Skinny Love – Bon Iver
Use Somebody – Kings Of Leon
Ooh La – The Kooks
Slow Down Chicago – Canasta

Being a tea geek, I found this very humorous. Enjoy.

Remember the days of the Apple IIe and Mac OS 1.0, even BeOS and the NextStep/OneSetp OSes? Those were good times, and recently I have been jonesing for a fix of the old school. I still own a ton of old hardware, here is a partial list:

  • Apple IIe (x2)
  • Apple IIgs (x1) + (x1 Woz edition)
  • Macintosh IIcx
  • Macintosh Quadra 950
  • Macintosh 7200/120
  • Macintosh Beige G3 desktop
  • Macintosh Blue & White G3 tower
  • Macintosh  G4 tower

..and the list goes one. While I may repurpose a few of these boxes, (I have a project for the Macintosh IIcx) most will stay dormant in dust.

In the mean time I have found several old OSes on virtual appliances scattered across the interwebs. In the past liking BeOS, I have become fond of Haiku based on BeOS and usable on current hardware (i586 or newer). You can either grab an ISO or grab a VMware disk file (.vmdk).

While I havent used VMware in awhile, preferring Sun’s Virtualbox for the desktop without a web interface, one issue I have come across is the importing of VMware files into Virtualbox. If it was a OVF file this would be easy with the built in importer, but really, it’s just as easy with VMDK files.

Zero: Unpack your VMware disk to your Virtualbox disk folder.

One: Fire up Virtualbox and open the Virtual Media Manager.

desktop_vmimp

Two: Click on ‘add’ then navigate to your VMware file, and click open.

vb_vmm

Three: Create a new virtual machine, when you get to the disk creation step choose ‘existing disk’ and choose the VMware file.

Four: Boot your new VM and check to see if everything works, if so, you’re done!

Done it all to troubleshoot, can’t figure why this will not work. Stealth upgrade maybe cause? Any help here?

Output:

sh-3.2# port install metasploit3
—>  Computing dependencies for metasploit3
—>  Verifying checksum(s) for rb-activesupport
Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for activesupport-2.2.2.gem
Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for activesupport-2.2.2.gem
Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for activesupport-2.2.2.gem
Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: rb-rails rb-actionmailer rb-actionpack rb-activesupport rb-activerecord rb-activeresource rb-rake rb-sqlite3
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

sh-3.2# port install metasploit3

—>  Computing dependencies for metasploit3

—>  Verifying checksum(s) for rb-activesupport

Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for activesupport-2.2.2.gem

Error: Checksum (sha1) mismatch for activesupport-2.2.2.gem

Error: Checksum (rmd160) mismatch for activesupport-2.2.2.gem

Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Unable to verify file checksums

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: rb-rails rb-actionmailer rb-actionpack rb-activesupport rb-activerecord rb-activeresource rb-rake rb-sqlite3

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Update:

I can only assume the package was not compromised, and a stealth update was done. The Md5 was still a mismatch. So, in turn I uninstalled all of rb-*, ruby, and metasploit2, metasploit3. Cleaned everything, then reinstalled. As done on the commands below.

sh-3.2# port -u uninstall rb-* metasploit2 metasploit3 ruby && port clean –all ruby rb-* metasploit2 metasploit3 && port install -f -p ruby metasploit3

After Macports was done with this, All worked fine. One side note, if you want to have both metaspoit2 and metsploit3, since some exploits work better on older versions, you will need to deactivate metasploit3 to use metasploit2 and vice versa. FYI.

Tonight while making some tea, my favorite mug cracked right down the center. I have, in the past found similar mugs in antique stores, but in other colors (yellow, black, green) and have never seen them again.

This mug is about as old as I am, if not older (mid > late 70’s to late 80’s). Has no markings, and is ceramic. If anyone out there has information on these mugs, and I know they had plates, & bowls too, I would like to know more, and would be looking to buy one or two, if possible.

Below is an image of the cup, the crack, can’t be seen well in the brown area.

mug