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The tcp is a protocol that is responsible for making sure that small packets of data can get to their destinations reliably.

It has a vast array of features that are designed so that tcp offers the best throughput and ensures quality of the transmission media, i.e. TCP will …


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Container

A container is a fancy Linux (unix) process.

The fancy-ness of the process comes from the fact that this process is running in a very isolated environment and a very restricted environment. This means that the process can not see other processess and it has very limited access to …


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A very brief primer on x86 Stack Frames. Stumbled onto this while reading about Linux performance monitoring tools. It's been a while since I looked at assembly code so this was more fun than I expected.

Anyhow, This post will summarize some basics of what are Stack Frames and How …


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Brief Update about the Pandemic and my work situation


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How do you run tcpdump only on a container ? How does container networking even work ?

In this we will explore some bits of container networking and figure out how to run tcpdump in such a way that only the traffic from a container is captured.

Normally running tcpdump on the …


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In case you are reading this from the future.


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A description of my accounting system at 2020.


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I am confused. When I got out of college i thought I had a plan. I would work for 2 years and then I would go off to university. I wasn't supposed to change jobs in those 2 years.

To say that things got fucked up, would be an understatement …


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Some bash tricks; named pipes, netcat, and a tcp proxy.


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How many times when we want to do something do we stop and think that maybe what we are attempting to do is futile because we do not have what the pros have ?

maybe it's because you don't have that cutting edge climbing shoes, or that expensive camera, or that …