Posted in Geekery on Mar 4th, 2011
I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a long time and hearing in Jonathan Holmes’ recent article on The Drum that he doesn’t have a complex password and reuses that password over and over again tipped me over the edge. I hear this time and time again and it doesn’t need to be [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 17th, 2010
Despite using Gnome for ages, I’ve never bothered to work out how to type special characters, like ™ or ©. I’ve normally just opened the Character Map application and copied from there – obviously this is a bit of a round about process. I finally decided to look it up and it’s as simple as: [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 5th, 2010
LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. The following few commands are all you need to encrypt your next external hard disk or USB key on a Debian-based distribution like Ubuntu. Installation Install the required software and load the module into the running kernel without restarting: 12sudo aptitude install cryptsetup sudo modprobe dm_crypt [...]
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 [...]
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