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Socialnets Lets Connect Networks
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you can’t connect to your company VPN and want to do some quick tests on hosts lying inside the VPN? Or want to connect to machines in VPN via your mobile phone while travelling? Let’s think what is ...

Vpn Fishing
vpn phishing hack
Recently I encountered an interesting scenario where a link I clicked on a link in an email local to our VPN opened a public website. Link was similar to swarm/changes/674362 Now, I was expecting some diff of files described in the mail but I found...

Building Hbase 1.3.1 with JDK 8
hbase build jdk8
HBase is a opensource NoSQL store built on top of Hadoop HDFS filesystem. Read more about it here Building HBase 1.3.1 with JDK 8 will bring out some new problems (Well there are some other issues as well). This blog post is to help people who are w...

Building Jdk 8 On Fedora 31 Gcc 921
build jdk fedora jdk8
This blog lists out the steps to build JDK 8 on Fedora 31. I had some compilation problems while building it, so you may find this useful. I was building the openjdk 8u, so we have to clone it from the public repo $ hg clone http://hg.openjdk...

Jvm Agents And Jit
So… one day I notice a JVM hanging at the startup in one of our servers. It has not logged anything after it has started. jstack showed that the process is executing some premain function jstack # jstack 24692 ... "main" #1 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x00...