Some time ago I ran into a production issue where the init process (upstart) stopped behaving properly. Specifically, instead of spawning new processes, it deadlocked in a transitional state. To be precise, the init process itself was responsive, but the critical services were stuck in one of the pre- or …

I started playing some flash-based MMORPG for fun lately. The limited options available to the characters in RPGs are not as entertaining as programming, so this didn’t last long; but it definitely gave me an idea… Can I get the event stream and decode it without knowing anything about …