Posted in Geekery on Jun 24th, 2010
Wireshark is a network protocol analyser, or packet sniffer, available for Ubuntu 10.04 via a simple sudo apt-get install wireshark. However to use it correctly, we need to change some permissions to ensure we’re not running the whole application as root. The following commands will let the adm group run Wireshark without elevated privileges – [...]
Posted in Geekery on Jun 11th, 2010
ABC’s The Drum is the ABC’s analysis and opinion site. It has a diverse range of contributors and I’ve found the RSS feed a little too active for my liking. That said, I love the latest presenter of Media Watch, Jonathan Holmes, and I wanted to read just his articles posted on The Drum. I [...]
Posted in Geekery on Jun 9th, 2010
If you’re like me and love your nipple, you might prefer to disable the touchpad on your ThinkPad. In openSUSE this is a trivial affair of opening up the Gnome mouse preferences and unchecking the Enable Touchpad option. When I went searching for this option in Ubuntu 10.04 I couldn’t find it, so I searched [...]
Posted in Geekery on May 21st, 2010
Here’s a little bash script to display the name of all lists in your mailman site and the number of subscribers for each list, just run it in the same directory as your mailman binaries (/usr/lib/mailman/bin on Debian): 123456#!/bin/bash LISTS=$((`./list_lists | wc -l` – 1)) LISTS=`./list_lists | tail -n$LISTS | awk ‘{ print $1 }’` [...]
Posted in Geekery on Apr 12th, 2010
Subscribing to feeds from Apple’s iCal Server with OS X’s iCal may be a relatively straight-forward affair but working out what CalDAV address to use with Mozilla Sunbird is another story completely. It took me ages to work out where these magic feed addresses were but once you know, it’s trivial. In iCal, just select [...]
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