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EPISODE · Jan 13, 2020 · 57 MIN

Rick Altherr

from On The Metal · host Oxide Computer Company

You can find Rick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kc8apf and read his blog at https://www.kc8apf.net/.Some of the highlights of the show include:USBAnywhere: https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-remote-attack/Rick's talk at OSFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcdHHsfaKQOpenBMC: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ https://github.com/wireshark/wiresharkGhidra: https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ https://ghidra-sre.org/ https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidraASPEED: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440Nuvoton: https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/ibmc/?__locale=enCRAY 1: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cray/CRAY-1/2240004C_CRAY-1_Hardware_Reference_Nov77.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1Deutsches Museum: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/computers/Seymour Cray: https://www.cray.com/company/history/seymour-cray https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-CrayCDC 6600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/104327Alpha Station: https://web.archive.org/web/20060701073452/http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStationTru64: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q9yWE/cqlcCYfxmbAJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIXWindows NT: https://web.archive.org/web/20040610122846/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/winntfs.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20020503172231/http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=4494 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NTWindows NT on Mips: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)Palo Alto Goodwill: https://goodwillsv.org/store/palo-alto-store/SGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_WorkstationCray 1 on ebay: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/cray_1_gate_module_ebay/root calvin: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln306783/dell-poweredge-what-is-the-default-username-and-password-for-idrac?lang=en https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wem6s/is_there_any_story_or_history_behind_rootcalvin/Redfish: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish https://redfish.dmtf.org/iKVM: https://www.ikvm.net/ http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/intro.htmlIPMI: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_InterfaceI2C: https://i2c.info/Non maskable interrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interruptRead and write heads: https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/thin-film-heads-introduced-for-large-disks/ https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005-2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_read-and-write_headFly height: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/callafon/publications/2011/UweIEEETonM.pdfThe legend of the walking drives: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=103;t=000500;p=1Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io/Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/ChromeOS Firmware: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmwareEDK II: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2Open Compute Project: https://www.opencompute.org/Width of a Horse's butt: http://www.naute.com/stories/rail.phtml

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On this episode of On the Metal, we interview Rick Altherr, who has experience working all over the stack. Join us as we discuss impossible bugs, fires in the data center, reverse engineering BMC firmware, BMC vulnerabilities, Cray computers, and Windows NT on MIPS. Yup you heard that right!

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