Networking

Web Development

"The Get Down" of Operations

The Get Down is a Netflix miniseries about a group of kids in the Bronx New York during that summer of 1977 when Disco was dying and Hip Hop/Rap was being…

1 min read
Web Development

Make: Online | Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese

via Make: Online | Why Every Maker Should Learn Chinese.

Nǐ hǎo 你好! Permanently on my desk, and everywhere I go is an iPad/iPhone app called Pleco, which has my custom flash cards that I use to quiz myself about 300 Chinese (Mandarin) characters. I’m getting pretty good with the help of a weekly instructor found via Craigslist, daily walks through Chinatown in NYC, and a website called Memrise. In less than a month I’ve been able to specifically translate (a lot of) the data sheets for products I’m sampling/purchasing for my job at Adafruit Industries, and for fun/downtime I’m translating some of the Chinese graffiti in Blade Runner (I always wanted to know what they said).

2 min read
DevOps

What is SPDY?

The SPDY project defines and implements an application-layer protocol for the web which greatly reduces latency. The high-level goals for SPDY are:…

3 min read
DevOps

Tomato Firmware | polarcloud.com

| Tomato Firmware | polarcloud.com | Tomato is a small, lean and simple replacement firmware for Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS, Buffalo WHR-G54S/WHR-HP-G54 and other Broadcom-based routers. It features a new easy to use GUI, a new bandwidth usage monitor, more advanced QOS and access restrictions, enables new wireless features such as WDS and wireless client modes, raises the limits on maximum connections for P2P, allows you to run your custom scripts or telnet/ssh in and do all sorts of things like re-program the SES/AOSS button, adds wireless site survey to see your wifi neighbors, and more.

1 min read
Programming

Test Early » Hudson - Tips and Tricks

This article describes a few real-life tips and tricks that we have found at work and will assist in configuring Hudson to work most effectively in your…

1 min read
Linux

SSH and SCP: Howto, tips & tricks

A basic tutorial about the Linux commands ssh and scp. It features explanation about the syntax, the possibilities and the differences between the two. It…

1 min read
Linux

ShellSQL - SQL for shell scripts

| ShellSQL - SQL for shell scripts | ShellSQL is a suite of programs designed to enable LINUX/UNIX shell scripts to connect to SQL engines and execute SQL queries and commands in a simple way enabling intergration with the rest of the script. For example, it can do things like..

#/bin/shHANDLE=`shpostgres dbname=mydb`

shsql $HANDLE "begin"

for ARG in $

do

shsql $HANDLE "insert into mytable fld1, fld2" \

"values nextvalmyseq, $ARG"

done

shsql $HANDLE "commit"

if [ $# -gt 0 ]

then

ROWS=`shsql $HANDLE "select count from mytable"`

echo "No of rows now in table is" $ROWS

fi

shsqlend $HANDLE

For details on how it hangs together have a look at the overview.

1 min read
Linux

The Mad Philosopher » ssh keep-alive tip

Whenever I login remotely to my machine in Canada, the ssh session dies after a while if I don’t actively type something. This is not the server timing…

1 min read
Web Development

iMovie '08 Library Compressor | iNik

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 can create…

1 min read
Security

Wfuzz - A Tool for Bruteforcing/Fuzzing Web Applications | Darknet - The Darkside

| Wfuzz - A Tool for Bruteforcing/Fuzzing Web Applications | Darknet - The Darkside | Wfuzz is a tool designed for bruteforcing Web Applications, it can be used for finding resources not linked directories, servlets, scripts, etc, bruteforce GET and POST parameters for checking different kind of injections SQL, XSS, LDAP,etc, bruteforce Forms parameters User/Password, Fuzzing,etc.

As heard on the pauldotcom.com podcast.

1 min read
Linux

How to unzip very large files

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

1 min read
Linux

Using Rsync and SSH

A classic guide to setting up automated rsync backups over SSH with key-based authentication, originally from Troy Johnson’s tutorial.

2 min read
Web Development

Ubuntu Linux view the status of my NIC

A. You can verify connectivity or status of your network Interfaces/card using standard Linux command. Open your terminal and use following commands:…

1 min read
Security

macosxhints.com - OS X VPN client and Cisco ASA

Problem: A Cisco ASA or PIX firewall can be a VPN server, but a basic VPN configuration will not allow the default OS X L2TP/IPSec client to connect, even…

1 min read
Linux

Linux HOWTO: NetMasks Explained

Every machine needs an individual address. To keep things simple, we assign them in clumps; each network of machines generally gets a range of addresses.

2 min read
Productivity

SXSW Panel: How to bluff your way in Web 2.0

Andy and Jeremy ROCKED THE HOUSE. Panel discusses how to bluff your way through Web 2.0 at a party or conference. Don’t be the idiot who does not know how…

1 min read
Tutorials

Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

| Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders | The Hipster PDA Parietal Disgorgement Aid is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options. Best of all, the Hipster PDA fits into your hip pocket and costs practically nothing to purchase and maintain. Let’s make one together.

1 min read
Windows

Accessing a Airport Network with a Windows XP

A great step-by-step guide to hooking that rouge PC up to your Airport wireless network. You are going to need the HEX Password Key which should be…

1 min read
Web Development

Intro to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X

One of the biggest advantages of Mac OS X’s UNIX heritage is the huge range of open source scripting languages available. Scripting languages are often…

1 min read
Web Development

HOW TO - Enhanced Podcasts

| MAKE: Blog: HOW TO make Enhanced Podcasts (images, links and more with audio) | Apple's new iTunes 4.9, iPod color, allows you to view (and listen to) "enhanced podcasts" these are audio files that can have slideshows, URLs and some cool features we have discovered. Apple's included documents and a Wiki was all I needed to make our MAKE enhanced podcasts, but I also wrote a how-to. Here's how to get, make and all you need to know about enhanced podcasts! As a bonus, we put together some fun ideas we think many might use...

1 min read
Web Development

iPod ebook How To

| MAKE: Blog: MAKE ebooks for your iPod guide! | There’s a somewhat little know and often-unused function of iPod called "Notes" which can actually be quite handy for storing and reading text, creating a locked "kiosk mode", quizzes, games as well a full-length ebooks. The Notes reader is located in Menu > Extras > Notes. Only the more recent 3G and 4G iPods, including the iPod photo and iPod mini both have the iPod Notes application. Here’s our how-to on making them!

1 min read
macOS

Macs on Microsoft Networks

Read this article.

If you work in network support for Windows, sooner or later it's bound to happen. You'll be sitting quietly at your desk, and someone will walk up with a long list of questions about their Apple Macintosh computer. How do we connect it to the existing network? How will users access file shares, print, browse the Internet, and use e-mail? What do you do? You don't know anything about a Mac beyond plugging it into the wall. In a perfect world, you could plug in any device and go to work. Unfortunately, it's a little more involved than that. It isn't as hard as it sounds, though, nor is it as difficult as it used to be. Just remember that there is more than one way to peel an Apple!

1 min read