Richard M. Stallman spoke last night for almost 3 hours on the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement and the history of the GNU operating system. It has been 6 years since he last spoke in Belfast. He signed my copy of “Free as in Freedom” book and I took some photos of… Read more »
Posts By: jonny
Unbranded Android Phones
I noticed some unbranded Android phones on eBay and I have bought two so far. The first one was a 4.3″ Android 4.0 with the MTK6575 processor, and the second was a 4.6″ Android 4.0 with the dual core MTK6577 processor. I tested the devices using Antutu Benchmark and the scores are shown in the… Read more »
OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner
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 »
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 »
