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 [...]
Posted in Geekery on Nov 16th, 2009
I wanted to convert some high resolution TIFFs that Lisa took of Bill’s paintings recently and came up with this quick and dirty conversion into JPEG: 1for i in *.tif; do tifftopnm "$i" | pnmtojpeg > "${i%.tif}.jpeg"; done That’ll convert all .tif files in a directory to JPEG (using default processing setting). I didn’t have [...]
Posted in Geekery on Oct 28th, 2009
I’ve had Evolution hang on start up a few times lately, I keep forgetting what I’ve done to fix it so I’m noting it here. All I’ve needed to do is to kill evolution-data-server and try to start Evolution again, so to fix this issue: 1killall evolution-data-server-2.28
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