Iron Sysadmin Podcast

Iron Sysadmin is a podcast about being a sysadmin, with a healthy dose of paranoia. We talk about IT news, and have a tendancy toward information security, as it applies to Operations. Our hosts have decades of experience in the field, from desktop support, networking, architecture, network engineering, windows, linux, and even some industrial automation.

Episode 133a - Insights Vulnerability Service with John Spinks! 02/24/2023

Episode 133b - VR, Meta Verified, Violent Bing!, 3d Printed Housing, and news about news. 02/24/2023

Episode 132a - Our favorite Linux Commands 02/10/2023

Episode 132b - AI, AI, AI, and RHEL on Oracle Cloud. 02/10/2023

Episode 131a - Security in the cloud 01/27/2023

Episode 131b - Cloud outages, NYSE backup snafu, Stadia bluetooth, FAA outage, Layoffs, and Hardwood 01/27/2023

ep130a - We Chat with PaulDotCom! 12/23/2022

Episode 130b - Trump Trading Cards, Russia Hacks, Lastpass Breach, and Okta goes unwittingsly opern source. 12/23/2022

Episode 129a - When Elon Ruins your Weekend 11/18/2022

EP129b - Birdsite Drama, Iranian Log4Shell, DeepFake Detector, and Fedora 37 11/18/2022

Episode 128a - The not-so silver lining 10/28/2022

Episode 128b - Meta and Google lose money, Surface duo finally gets an update, and google males a search for PII. 10/28/2022

Episode 127a - Microservices 10/14/2022

Episode 127b - Hostile Drones, Meta Disapointment, Mozilla Burner Phones, and more drones. 10/14/2022

EP 126a - Lift and Shift 09/30/2022

Episode 126b - Steamdecks, Matrix Vulns, Metas in trouble, and Stadia is going away 09/30/2022

Episode 125a - Cloud Terminology and technologies 09/09/2022

Episode 125b - Metas, video games, facepages, and Patreon 09/09/2022

Episode 124 - AI, Sentience, and Ethics 08/26/2022

Episode 123a - IT in 2022 08/19/2022

EP123b - Covid, meta, rage against the printers 08/19/2022

ISA July Update - We'll be back in August! 07/21/2022

Episode 122a - Rom Hacking and Retro Gaming 06/10/2022

Episode 122a - Rom Hacking and Retro Gaming Welcome to Episode 122a Main Topic yes it is i the boy - who am i even -son of unclemarc -stevens type kid -longtime mathematics enjoyer -"pro" gamer a quick personal history -first talk about how i got into older games -wii virtual console, snes emulator in 3rd grade (messing around with lunar magic, despite not knowing how to use it) -got into gba in grade 6 -got into fe in grade 8, fell out a bit, got back into it in junior year -got into hacking in freshman year of college retro gaming -old games are cool, but good luck finding the carts and consoles -if you're not japanese there goes a lot of games -solve these problems with emulation- play classic games, translate foreign games, etc. -pretty much every system you can think of has emulators developed -of note here is also the ability to play hacks what the hell is a romhack -take a game that you enjoy, and use your numerous powers to turn it into something new -graphics, sounds, level design, mechanics- the whole nine yards -why do you hack? for fun, to learn about old stuff, to show off to people -it's like making a game, but you kinda have to be purely passion driven (no profit for you) what do ya need, anyway -a rom, obviously (yeah sure i totally dumped one myself) -patience and perseverance -whatever hacking tools exist for the game you wish to tackle -god there's so many of them -game specific tools (ex. lunar magic, febuilder) -assemblers/disassemblers -debugging emulators (ex. no$gba) -graphical tools (ex. usenti, paint if you hate yourself) -sound stuff (usually working with midis, either custom made, downloaded, or ripped from other games) decomp vs. binary -binary hacking is more straightforward to setup (usually) -decompilations/buildfiles allow much more freedom -buildfiles also give you powerful version control -if you screw up, bug fixing is far more merciful -binary has you burning edits into your rom- scary! i just told you buildfiles are rad but anyway use binary hacking -that all being said, binary hacking tools are probably the best way to start -the simplicity allows you to acquaint yourself with the nitty gritty -gonna be honest, i started with very little knowledge on the specifics -never thought i'd casually pick up hexadecimal you don't even have to do it all yourself -lots of hacking communities have tons of resources -graphical/musical assets for the artistically unable -engine hacks so you don't have to reinvent the wheel adding cool shit -documentation on the inner workings of a game but sometimes you gotta -gba assembly haunts my dreams -thankfully, other options exist -pokemon decomps use C, CHAX is a somewhat recent thing in fe -with the gui methods, you can do a ton of stuff without ever touching asm -just gotta be clever and maybe rub an elbow or two screw it, fe hacking scene history -nightmare (good old csv editing), various general use gba tools -apparently hackers used to map in ms paint -feditor is a nightmare hellscape -despite this, we still had hacks -shoutout to the last promise, made by a highschooler with the equivalent of rusty sponges the golden age begins -event assembler- insert data with a powerful and versatile tool -buildfiles insert most of their data through EA -in march 2017, skillsystem dropped- a revolution in the hacking scene to turn fe8 into a game as feature rich as modern entries -emblem magic- an all in one gui hacking tool dropped in august 2017 -then febuilder dropped in september 2017 and kinda overshadowed it -an aside on pokemon romhacking making you download like 80 things -builder is a gift from a god known as 7743- easy to use UI with a ton of features and some underrated debugging power -skillsys got ported to builder early on, and it has a ton of ui to complement it -ever since, we've had tons more hacks Links Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! OR Discord Community: Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 /episode/index/show/ironsysadmin/id/23383988

Episode 112b - Spotting conspiracies, duck duck go, and identifying mass shooters 06/10/2022

Episode 121a - Finding software to learn on 05/13/2022

Episode 121a - Finding software to learn on Welcome to Episode 121 Main Topic How do I get a hold of expensive software, for the purposes of learning? Check with your school, a LOT of vendors have super-cheap solutions for education. Your school may be able to provide you a learning license/sub for software you are interested in Less than Legal alternatives Red hat enterprise linux Red Hat Developer Sub Centos literally feeds RHEL, Centos stream is an extremely similar platform. Fedora feeds Centos, Ubuntu Ubuntu Server is free, but you can buy support from Canonical Windows Server Try it on azure’s free tier Windows server will run for some time without activation Talk to a partner about a trial Red Hat Openshift Trial, ask your account rep OKD is the upstream for Openshift OpenShift Online has a free tier First, are you a student? What if i Just CANNOT find a demo? Operating Systems VM/Container platforms Vmware vsphere https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html . Vmware has a surprising number of public trials/demos, and even labs, here: Or just stand-alone esxi? Industry Software Included with most RHEL subs, but not the dev sub. Trials are available. The Katello project is the open source upstream Oracle DB Their site seems to steer you toward an account rep, or their cloud. I believe that oracle will operate without a license, but I do not know that they have an official trial Red Hat Satellite Oracle SaaS and Cloud Aws AWS Free Tier Also, amazon linux is pretty similar to RHEL… Google compute You get a $300 credit to get hooked. Azure Effectively a 30 day trial, you get $200 to use for 30 days Digital ocean Currently a 60 day/$100 trial Linode $100 trial credit Rotating list of promotions: Github Free for all, as far as I know Enterprise: (includes a free trial link) Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! OR Discord Community: Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2 /episode/index/show/ironsysadmin/id/23097302

Episode 121b - RHEL 8.6, Metaverse Face-Punches, and Nvidia Drivers 05/13/2022

Episode 120a - How do we Learn 04/29/2022

Episode 120b - Twitter is Musky, Steamdecks, Elden Ring, Open Internet, and NSA on AWS 04/29/2022

Episode 119a - Being healthy while working at a desk 04/15/2022

Episode 119b- Metaverse Immortality, Meta's greedy, Heat batteries, and Musk wants to buy Twitter 04/15/2022

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