Year 2015

Apple Disk II drives

Apple II Copy Protection

Growing up during the heyday of Apple II computers, I learned about something mysterious called copy-protection. This meant floppy disks could be used to run software, but the software couldn’t be copied to other floppy disks. As a 10-year-old nerd,…

Welcome to the IIgs, System 6.0.2

GS/OS 6.0.2 for Floppy Emu

If you follow the Apple II world, then you probably already know that a group of hobbyists recently released GS/OS 6.0.2 – a new version of the Apple IIGS operating system based upon Apple’s last official version from 1993. This…

Nibbler PCB built by William Buchholz

Nibbler PCB Build

William Buchholz has designed and built a PCB version of my Nibbler 4-bit CPU for his local hackerspace. Nibbler is built entirely from standard 7400 series logic chips – individual counters, registers, buffers, and gates. It’s an educational example of…

Login history

Web Hack Analysis, Part 3

Web Site Hacked Web Hack Analysis Part 2 Web Hack Analysis Part 3 I believe I’ve identified how the hack on my websites occurred, and it wasn’t a WordPress vulnerability. It looks like the hacker got my Linux user password…

Web Hack Analysis, Part 2

Web Site Hacked Web Hack Analysis Part 2 Web Hack Analysis Part 3 Yesterday I described how the BMOW web site had been hacked, and my efforts to clean it up. Today I began looking at some of the hack…

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