Monday, May 30, 2011

Awk regtime bodyfile adjustment

Here's an awk one liner for adjusting regtime bodyfile time stamps, in this case we're adding 600 seconds:

awk -F'|' 'BEGIN {OFS="|"} {$9=$9+600;print}'


One thing to consider when adjusting time stamps to compensate for clock drift, clocks don't drift all at once, but over days, weeks and months. Adjusting time skews affects everything all at once.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Time again

I gave a version of the Time Line Analysis talk at Cyber Guardian earlier this week. Some in the room asked if the slides would be made available. As promised, here is a link to the deck. Enjoy.

Grand Canyon Rim to Rim: New Gear and Best Intentions

I pulled my late 1980s backpack out of storage. My first thought was that it was heavier than I remembered, just over seven pounds empty. Ba...