Idiot proof setup for persistent reverse shells / port forwards (same thing) under a Ubuntu VM remote and my Dreamhost server, but should apply to nearly* all *nix’s
Posts Tagged: code
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Oct 11
Unicode Characters in Mendeley Bibliography Breaking Latex?
I use Mendeley for my reference and citation management.
I use TexClipse for (most) of my 
I use Xelatex / pdflatex for project building.
These don’t always work so well together. Continue reading →
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Jul 11
The Road to Coreboot, Part the First: Introduction
So as part of my IAESTE placement with PC Engines, I’m investigating the possibility of them making a new board based around the AMD Fusion series of APU’s (CPU+(something else, usually GPU) on single die) and for that board to work with the Open Source Coreboot BIOS. This is my story.
Disclaimer
I am not a hardware guy, and have never done any pre-OS x86 hardware programming. This will bore
the pants of anyone who is an x86 expert, but hopefully some will find it useful and will contribute to the Coreboot project. Continue reading →
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May 10
Automagic Kernel Cleaning under Ubuntu
Sick of having dozens of old kernels sitting under your /boot/ dir? Want a simpler boot-life? Well we’ve got the solution for you. Continue reading →
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Apr 10
Add a Twitter @anywhere hovercard to links containing tweeps
Everyone and their dog has a walkthrough of adding @anywhere hovercards to your blog. But the default has a small failing that irked me when I was re-doing my Blogroll (check them out, they’re all great! I promise!), and that was that if you take a tweep, like @god for example, it’ll happily wrap the hovercard around it, but if you have a link to this great status that @god posted, @anywhere won’t pick this @god up.
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Apr 10
Listing just dot-files
Its a problem that I’ve come across, and I’m not the only one, so heres what works for me to find those pesky files that start with a .
ls -a | egrep -i "^\."
This only works in the current working directory, which is the normal usage.
FYI the reason that this is problematic is that the ‘.’ symbol is a single character wildcard; most people are familiar with the asterisk ’*’ indicating ‘anything, however long’, whereas the ‘.’ means ‘any single character’.
The command works by looking only at the first character of the file (‘^’, thats called a caret) and then removing the special meaning of ‘.’ by escaping it with the slash.
Update:18/4/10
@stevebiscuit correctly pointed out that the -i flag is unnecessary.
-iinstructs egrep to ignore the case of any matches, so that ‘HeLlO’ matches if you egrep -i for ‘hello’. Since there is no case for the ‘.’ symbol, the -i is pointless.
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Apr 10
Mod_Rewrite in Apache2
Just incase you forget how to fix this the easy way: Enable mod_rewrite for URL voodoo; (Or any module replacing the
rewrite
)
$sudo a2enmod rewrite $sudo service apache2 restart
Remember to fiddle with
/etc/apache2/sites-available.*< \pre> and change "AllowOverride none" to "all" in any places that you're having trouble with rewritten URL's
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Mar 10
Installing and Configuring NS-3 on a Ubuntu System
An Example of network simulation using NS
NS-3 Appears to have a staggeringly steep learning curve so I hope these posts help out someone else (or me, when i forget all this in a month).
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Mar 10
Mercurial Quick Start Cheatsheet
I hadn’t used Mercurial before so I thought it might be a good idea to leave a reminder for me and anyone else who comes across it…
For tidyness, I do all of my dev-stuff (Subversion, Mercurial, CVS, Git etc) under ~/src and only take root privileges when its needed; any good makefile should relocate the necessary files for you at the ‘make install’ or equivalent point.
Update:This article was picked up by the guys at DevCheatSheet.com and I’m really honoured to be included in a site that I’ve been dipping into over the years, so if you need any kind of cheat sheet or quick reference, I highly recommend checking them out. Anyway…
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Feb 11
Bolsters Code-Related Rants (An ongoing collection)
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hg add $filenamebefore updating or committing, otherwise noone has any idea whats going on. Ditto removals of files, itshg remove $filename ; rm $filename, not the other way around.You guys got any to add? I’ll be adding to this as I think of them… / come across them…