Rico's Nerd Cluster

「离开世界之前 一切都是过程」

Cyber Security - How SSL Works

nftables

what happens when you visit https://example.com (and why) HTTPS is secure because of TLS (formerly SSL). HTTPS = HTTP + TLS. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. TLS is Transport Layer Security ...

Linux - Networking 2 UDP Traffic Profiling

nftables

Loopback Traffic When profiling communication-heavy systems (e.g., DDS / ROS 2 workloads), it’s common to look at loopback (lo) traffic to understand inter-process communication on a single host. ...

Linux - Process Signals SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGKILL, SIGQUIT, and SIGTSTP Explained

NIC

Signal Number Description Keyboard How it’s sent / Source Handling / Behavior SIGINT 2 Interactive interrupt Ctr...

Linux - Networking

NIC, Wireshark

Networking Layers: From DDS Payload to Wire Format When we talk about “sending a DDS message,” it’s easy to think of it as a single thing moving across the system. In reality, networking is layere...

Linux - Power Loss Meltdown

initramfs

🚑 What broke Sudden power-loss left the system in an inconsistent state. (while /roota was being modified) First boot stopped in BusyBox with ALERT! UUI...

Linux - Provisioning of My Machine

fzf

NVIDIA Driver Open the Additional Drivers application Select NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-570 (proprietary, tested) Reboot Run nvidia-smi to ensure it worked Nvidia Dock...

Linux - Operating System

Paging, Concurrency, Time

Paging A page of memory is the smallest fixed-length block of virtual memory managed by OS. To use virtual memory, the OS needs to transfer pages between the main memory and the secondary memory. ...

Linux Miscellaneous Thingies

Window Focus, Screenshots, File System, Shortkeys, UART, Tmux, ffmpeg, Firefox, Chrome, Power Modes

Screenshots sudo apt install gnome-screenshot Open keyboard shortcuts -> add custom shortcuts I use ctrl-alt-4 to enable gnome-screenshot -a Window Focus ===========================...

Linux - Packaging Systems

apt, dpkg

Installation Chain apt, apt-get, apt-cache talks to the repository servers, download .deb, calculate dependency tree, the hand the final files to dpkg for the actual install. E.g., 1 sudo apt ins...

Linux - Programming And Toolchain

ldd

ELF and Dynamic Linking Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) is the standard binary file format on Linux, most BSDs, and many embedded systems. It replaces older a.out and COFF formats. | Aspect ...