Building Snort 2.8.0 on MAC OSX 10.5 (Leopard)

Posted on June 20, 2008 in How-to

For those who use Snort on a MAC, this might be helpful...

The following is courtesy of Martin Fong, who's helped us track down
an issue seen when starting Snort …

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iMovie '08 Library Compressor | iNik

Posted on May 13, 2008 in How-to

This is a simple program to reduce the size of your iMovie 08 library.

I love iMovie ‘08. I know, I know, it has less whizzy features than iMovie ‘06 does, but darn it, it’s so darn fast and easy to build videos. I …


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Mac mini dual monitors using DualHead2Go - voice.firefallpro.com

Posted on May 08, 2008 in How-to

When we first set up the office here in NYC, we made an early decision to go with Apple products for development. Now don't get me wrong, I love Apple, indeed I am a recent inductee into the Apple Fan Club. However …

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html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup

Posted on April 29, 2008 in How-to

html2wiki - Convert HTML text to wiki markup

Use this browser based converter to format any html page (including tables) for:

Based on the perl module HTML::WikiConverter and it works great.


Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step) - remysharp.com

Posted on April 09, 2008 in How-to

Linked is a working example of loading twitters after the page has completed, thus preventing the whole page from locking up.

5 Ways to Test If Your ISP Throttles P2P « NewTeeVee

Posted on April 03, 2008 in How-to

Do your torrent downloads seem to be taking longer than usual? Are you trying to transfer, say, a home video to a friend via Pando and the upload keeps getting stuck? Or maybe you’re having problems with BitTorrent’s …

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How to Change the Timezone in Linux - wikiHow

Posted on April 02, 2008 in How-to

Most modern Linux distributions have user-friendly programs to set the timezone, often accesible through the program menus or right-clicking the clock in a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. Failing that it's possible to manually change the system timezone in Linux …

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Creating a HOSTS Editor in Windows XP - mvps.org

Posted on April 01, 2008 in How-to

This is by far the easiest way to edit the HOSTS file in XP that I've found. I also like the serving up a HOSTS file from a server (see the link).

Lifted from: myps.org 

To edit your HOSTS file you can create a custom Desktop or Quick Launch …

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How to unzip very large files

Posted on March 18, 2008 in How-to

Some windows programs use a compression for larger files that is not compatible with the linux unzip command. Resulting in the following error:

need PK compat. v4.5 (can do v2.1)

There is a special program for handling these large files: p7zip

Run these commands to install and run …


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launchd: Better than sliced bread - Chris Hanson

Posted on March 17, 2008 in How-to

Simply put, launchd is what makes it easy to get tasks launched on-demand on Mac OS X 10.4 and later. It obviates lots of different archaic Unix infrastructure — init.d, cron, inetd — in favor of a single self-consistent and easy to use …

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