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 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 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 Nov 23rd, 2009
I recently needed to move a very simple ASP site to Apache for archival purposes. There was nothing of importance that the dynamic ASP was doing and as it was just for an archive, it made the most sense to turn it into simple HTML (as the whole site probably should have been in the [...]
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