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 Feb 28th, 2010
Running Jira on FreeBSD, I wanted to be able to pick up email from a Google Apps account and feed it in as tickets. This is normally a straight-forward process but I was getting these errors in the Jira logs: 1javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested [...]
Posted in Geekery on Aug 7th, 2009
For OpenAustralia DevLive, I wanted the browser to open straight into the local machine’s development instance of the web application. I also wanted to provide a bunch of project related links as bookmarks to make it easy for users to get help or submit bugs. To change the browser start page you need to add [...]
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