A friend contacted me today running an Ubuntu live CD and trying to scan a windows drive for viruses. So for future reference the following antivirus packages can be tried: BitDefender Avira AVG Clam Clam is in the repositories so you don't... » More
The Gnu Data Language is an interactive interpreter/incremental compiler for the GNU Data Language, which is primarily used in scientific, astronomical, medical and geo-science data processing applications. It supports graphical output and is... » More
For editing GDL / IDL .pro files on Linux you can of course use any Text Editor (gedit, vi) or the IDLDE, but the following could prove useful: 1. Kate Kate Editor with GDL file Kate is a text editor for the KDE desktop environment but looks just... » More
Creating an Audio CD in K3B (my favourite CD burning software) I received an error that MP3 format was not supported and that the files need to be converted to WAV format first. p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Problems while adding files to the... » More
The Liza Moon attack targets Microsoft SQL Server installations injecting javascript tags into website files. Although we are primarily using Unix/Linux servers I performed some scans using the following to check for lizamoon infection:find . -type f... » More
I was trying to move some miscellaneous music files into directories by artist name. The files (and folders) have spaces in the file names. For my first attempt I tries a for loop e.g. for file in $(find /path/to/music -type f); do ... done A for... » More
We had this discussion over coffee one day so to back up my argument with a few figures: 30 percent of food never makes it into a human stomach (UK's Government Office of Science, The Future of Food and Farming) Rising energy prices encourage the... » More
"It is further evidence of the fact that Android is getting ever huger. Microsoft has failed in attracting any serious interest from device makers, and now it's trying to spread 'fear, uncertainty, and doubt' about the Android platform in an attempt to... » More
This is a simple example usage of the jqPlot jQuery plugin. The example on the author website omits the “, {}” options in the .jqplot function call. <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript"... » More
These are the steps I took to create a centralised location of system logs. In this scenario multiple servers (earth, venus, mars) send their system logs to a central server (sun 192.168.1.1). I'm not going to cover the configuration of Apache, MySql... » More
