Installing on CentOS 6.2: Configure Atomicorp Repository (as user root, only once) wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh Quick-Install OpenVAS (as user root, only once) yum install openvas openvas-setup Openvas-setup takes some time to run and downloads rules and prompts for an admin user and password etc. Openvas Setup, Version: 0.3 Step 1: Update NVT’s… Read more »
Posts By: jonny
Skipfish on CentOS
I’m using CentOS 6.2 and needed to install the following dependencies before Skipfish would ‘make’: yum install pcre-devel openssl-devel libidn-devel libidn2-devel Some of the errors listed before this included the following: In file included from src/auth.c:30: src/http_client.h:26:25: error: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory In file included from src/auth.c:30: src/http_client.h:214: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘SSL_CTX’… Read more »
Android Tablet: Superpad 8
I purchased an Android Tablet on eBay named the ‘Superpad 8’ or ‘Flytouch 8’ so I thought I would post a few thoughts about it for others. A quick search for ‘Superpad 8’ on eBay or Amazon should get you started. Inevitably any device like this will be compared to an iPad but at £120… Read more »
Photoshop CS5 on Linux
Great instructions for installing and running Photoshop CS5 via Wine: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/idiots-guide-installing-photoshop-cs5-ubuntu-1004/
My Raspberry Pi has Landed
So my Raspberry Pi arrived a few days ago and I have now managed to get it out of the wrapper. After realising that I should have been using an SD card in the dedicated SD Card slot rather than trying to boot from one of the USB ports I was up and running. On… Read more »
jQuery, jQuery-Validate and Twitter Bootstrap Dropdowns
I was having difficulty combining the use of Twitter Bootstrap, its Dropdown menus, jQuery and the jQuery Validate plugin. I was playing around with the order of the .js files finding that I could sometimes get the menus to work but not the validation and vice versa. The order below is what is working for… Read more »
Partition table entries are not in disk order
A friend contacted me with a problem booting into Windows. I asked him to boot into Ubuntu and this is what we found. Gparted reported the disk as ‘unallocated’ and ‘Cannot have overlapping partitions’ an ‘fdisk -l’ told me ‘Partition table entries are not in disk order’. The NTFS partition for Windows could not be… Read more »
Using Sed to convert Mac Address
I have output from a router (but I believe modem output may be similar) with mac addresses in the format: 0050.56AC.4022 Four digit blocks separated by dots but I needed it in the format of 2 digit blocks separated by colons. My router output was lines like this: INTERNET 123.111.123.111 8 0050.56AC.1765 ARPA VLAN.1.16… Read more »
Install PEAR modules on CentOS
Pear is used to fetch and install additional PHP packages from the Pear project. To use on CentOS first install Pear so we can run the pear binary: yum install php-pear Now pear is installed we can install the Net_MAC package – which can be used to discover the manufacturer from a Mac address: Example… Read more »
Windows Permissions
After restoring files from a backup on Windows 2008 I was receiving the message: “unable to display current owner”. To recursively change the owner on the folders right-click on the Command Prompt and choose “Run as Administrator” then use the command: takeown /f “c:\folder\subfolder” /r I also had to use the icacls command to actually… Read more »
