Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/15
Any web developer should know how to capture and trace HTTP traffic.
I’ve written about Fiddler before, but that’s a Windows specific tool.
Time to have a small list of posts and links to tools that work on various platforms.
I’ve left out Java based tools as there have been too many security issues with Java over the last couple of years.
Tools: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/01
For DOS programs, date and time stamps were used to mark versions of files. For instance, Turbo Pascal 6.0, had a 06:00 time stamp on every file.
You can still do this in Windows, but need to watch for a couple of things:
There are various ways to do it. Besides a graphical Attribute Changer at www.petges.lu (thanks User Randolf Richardson), these are console approaches via How can I change the timestamp on a file?:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/06/24
Last week, I thanked Jaykul for helping me out on PowerShell.
But he taught me another thing that was new for me: on his site, he has hidden his email address behind a 302-redirect.
I didn’t even realize that was possible until I saw his site start my mail program without initially showing a mailto in the url. A quick check showed me he was using a 302-redirect: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/19
I always forget where SuSE keeps its’ version number.
Hence my alias:
alias suse_version='cat /etc/SuSE-release'
–jeroen
via: SDB:Find openSUSE version – openSUSE.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
Fazit:
You’ll probably want a standard OS for day to day tasks, and only use Tails if you really need to remain anonymous.
–jeroen
via A Quick Test Drive of Tails, a Privacy Focused Linux Distribution.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
Fun project with potential: pickhardt/betty that was pointed to me by Ilya Grigorik – Google+.
Betty is a natural language (for now: English based) front end for tools like curl, find, wc, whoami, find, etc.
It requires ruby, and runs on *nix or Mac OS X (where it uses osascript for iTunes).
–jeroen
via: Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Betty is an english-like interface for your command line:….
Posted in *nix, Apple, Development, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Ruby, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/01
SDB:System upgrade – openSUSE.
Every once in a while, I feel like I have been living under a stupid rock.
This was one of these cases. About 5 years ago, openSUSE added this feature:
openFATE – #305634: Debian-like dist-upgrade live system full version upgrade.
It is awesome, requires a bit of twiddling and afterwards you have a system that:
I don’t know of any drawbacks yet (will soon try it). If I find ones, I will post a new entry here.
The basic steps are like these: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/29
I needed AntiVir on an openSUSE workstation.
Too bad the default installation package from YaST installed an old license: AntiVir would not work, and I was getting emails like these at regular intervals:
<br />Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2014 08:57:11 +0200<br />From: Cron Daemon <root@....><br />To: root@....<br />Subject: Cron <root@...> /usr/lib/AntiVir/guard/avupdate-guard --product=Scanner > /dev/null<br /><br />Error: No valid license was found<br />
After searching the web for a while, I found a lot of posts with wrong information, basically coming down to these 2:
hbedv_key (wrong: it is hbedv.key)http://dlce.antivir.com/down/windows/hbedv.keyhttp://personal.avira-update.com/package/peclkey/win32/int/hbedv.keyAt the bottom of the post, you will find a small shell script that I use to keep the hbedv.key up-to-date.
First some more about HBEDV, then how I found about the new download location, and a command to show you the current license information. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, bash, Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux, wget | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/24
Getting Apache configured on a *nix installation like openSUSE installation is always a bit of a challenge.
A few things I observed: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/23
I’ve been using rsync as my MacGyver style backup-tool of choice on *nix systems and sometimes even Windows systems.
It works both locally and remotely, is simple to setup and over the years has gathered a lot of nifty functionality.
It is way easier to backup using rsync one directory to another than using tar (tar has the benefit of putting everything in one archive though) using a command like this:
rsync -aiv /path/to/source/directory /path/to/destination/directoryFor remote copies, I usually add replace
-aivwith-aivzor with-aiz.Given the ubiquitous of hard disk space, I hardly compress or archive directory trees for archival purposes any more.
For an introduction of basic functionality read Everything Linux – A Tutorial on Using Rsync. An article from 1999 that is still very valid now.
Besides my praise for rsync, there are a few small things I want to mention in this article:
-a option archive option implies -t, so the solution is to expand -a into its parts -rlptgoD, then remove the -t from that.Posted in *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | 1 Comment »
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