A cool little Linux command that I found out about called “watch”. It runs a command repeatedly displaying its output and errors (the first screenfull). it will run the command every 2 seconds you can change this using the -n parameter to specify another interval. Again with thanks to the man pages and good old Read..
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01.08.10 - The watch command
11.07.10 - Network Attached Storage
As I love networks and love storage even more, I decided that I want to have a network attached storage device (NAS). Now my first location on my NAS quest was obviously CISCO, as they are pure awesome. After looking at the super expensive products they had for sale I decided to give the not so cool Read..
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Add a new Windows system variable with a variable name of “CYGWIN” and variable value of “nodosfilewarning”. That should disable the very annoying error, or you could fix it by using correct UNIX pathnames.
18.06.10 - Simple WEP Cracking
1 Introduction 2 Implementation 2.1 Action 3 Conclusion 4 References 1 Introduction This tutorial will show you how to crack a depreciated, but still used, wireless encryption algorithm called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WEP was introduced in 1997 and was designed to provide the user with a secure connection comparable to that of traditional wired Read..
11.06.10 - PHP .inc or .php
When including files, I have seen people use inc file extensions and most people using php. For php it is best to not use the inc extension as the code can be viewed in plain text. This is because most servers are set up to display it, it is used for server side include for Read..
22.02.10 - Firefox fullscreen
When using my crappy netbook I found that I needed to use firefox’s fullscreen thingy (f11), but because my netbook is so slow it goes laggy when the address bar goes back up. So to disable the animations goto “about:config” -> then type into the search “fullscreen” to disable the animation set “browser.fullscreen.animateUp” to 0 Read..
22.08.09 - Ogg Theora
The must have information on creating free and open source video codec. This manual shows you how to playback, encode, stream and edit. all this and with out having to pay any royalty’s. Theora Cookbook