Jonathan Mitchell Portfolio About Me I have a BSc in Electronic Engineering, and an MSc in Advanced Computer Systems Development with Distinction. I was awarded the University Court Medal for excellence twice – in my PGDIP year, and in my MSc year. I am also a professional member of the Read more…
I have made a simple bash script to convert your xml sitemap to html anchor tags e.g. For importing into Firefox or chrome bookmarks (or for any other use you can think of) It has been tested on linux mint and osx mavericks, but it should work wherever you have Read more…
I needed to find all the files symlinked in linux that were linked to a certain file. I had a quick search all over the internet, and eventually came up with a thread on stack exchange. there were a few suggested answers, and the answer marked as suggested did work, but Read more…
If you keep backups on time machine you can browse these backups from a different mac. there is a little trick to it, but its simple once you master it :) if you click on the time machine icon in the menu bar then the time machine menu will appear. Read more…
pentesterlab.com is a very cool site. its built with bootstrap too ;) they have various exercises and assets for those exercises available. each exercise has a vmware image, so you can download a copy of kali linux and load pentesterlabs vmware excercise and learn all sorts of cool things :) Read more…
This is an excellent tweak to make to your osx or linux system open man pages in safari (or firefox or chrome): man pages are great, but they arent the most usable. browsers are far more usable. You can set an enviroment variable in your osx or linux system that Read more…
Teamviewer 8 ubuntu linux tvwine.dll.so failed to load: I just installed teamviewer 8 beta in my linux machine. On first run it complained of a missing file – tvwine.dll.so failed to load. A search through the ubuntu forums revealed this handy little answer: in a commandline, type: sudo apt-get install Read more…
mc for mac osx! GNU Midnight Commander – mc – is an excellent orthodox text mode file manager. mc runs in your console, and has mouse support. It also has support for utf-8. It has a builtin editor (though you can configure your own, so you can use vim if Read more…
I wrote before about how to use your iphone as a game controller to use with a snes / playstation emulator on your mac the app that I used then has been replaced, with a new version that only works with ipad games, unfortunately :( they do have a ‘legacy’ Read more…
customise osx bash prompt: I was reading over an old lifehacker post (I was looking for the bash profiles site, and found this too), its a pretty good way to customise your terminal command prompt, so I thought id share it with you http://lifehacker.com/5840450/add-a-handy-separator-between-commands-in-your-terminal-on-mac-os-x-and-linux there are other cool things you Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a macox dmg image file in linux. firstly, open terminal sudo mount -o loop /path/to/image.dmg /place/to/mount now your dmg file will be mounted in the /path/to/mount folder :)
This post will show you how to convert all filenames in a directory to lowercase (or uppercase). This is on that I don’t use often, so I’m adding it here in order to find it later on, hopefully! convmv –lower –notest * you can use *.jpg to rename all jpeg Read more…
A rundown on some productivity apps that I use with my iphone first and foremost, I use google a lot. I have my iphone set to sync all my contacts and calendars with google calendar and contacts you can also sync the notes from notes.app with your gmail account evernote Read more…
This post will show you how to setup a LAMP [linux apache mysql php] development environment in linux mint or ubuntu firstly, open a shell. then, type sudo apt-get install tasksel once you have installed tasksel then you can sudo tasksel install lamp-server this will download and install mysql, apache Read more…
This short blog post will show you a command that will let you find the ten biggest files or directories in linux and osx machines. I forget these commands every time I need to use them, so I have added a post to my blog to help me be able Read more…
Using an apple magic mouse with linux is very easy: this post will show you how to setup an apple magic mouse on linux ubuntu, fedora, mint, etc. The apple mouse uses bluetooth to connect, so you need a bluetooth device (it may be built-in if you have a laptop). Read more…
This will show you how to find bios version information from linux command line terminals. open the terminal / command prompt and run the command: sudo lshw -html > lshw.html then open the html file in a browser you will find out all sorts of useful information about your hardware
This will show you how to [drastically] speed up your linux netbook 1) install prelink sudo apt-get install prelink 2) edit the config file sudo vi /etc/default/prelink Near the top of the file change the following line PRELINKING=unknown to PRELINKING=yes 3) add in a cron job sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink it will Read more…
This will show you how to airplay from iPhone or iPad to linux. This way you can stream from your iPhone to a linux media server, or a raspberry pi :D If you don’t know what airplay is already, then this post most likely isn’t for you, but here is Read more…
You can get osx like reversed two finger scrolling in linux [mint or ubuntu or Backtrack], if you install ‘naturalscroll’. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zedtux/naturalscrolling sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install naturalscrolling
It took me a while, but I finally jumped on board the evernote bandwagon. i was happy with the built in notes.app for my iphone and I was happy syncing it via gmail to my mail.app on my mac. i got an iphone 4s, and donated my iphone 3gs to Read more…
This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that’s already indexed. The first thing you have to do is to make sure you connect your network drive to the Read more…
This will show you how to create standalone desktop applications from a website using fluid.app 1) goto fluidapp.com 2) download and install fluid 3) open fluid once fluid is open then simply type the url and a name for your app. it will magically appear in the dock and you Read more…
Re-arrange virtual desktop spaces in osx: Virtual desktop spaces are a very powerful tool, Ive been using them in linux for years, and they are very powerful in osx too, once you get a hang of the way that they work, they allow you to put similar applications in their Read more…
Teamviewer is an excellent (and free for non commercial use) remote access and remote desktop app for mac, linux and windows. and it now has an iphone/ipad app. it lets me log in to all of my machines remotely from eachother and I can now access them from my iphone Read more…
Wpscan wordpress vulnerability scanner. WPScan is a vulnerability scanner which checks the security of WordPress installations using a black box approach. WpScan checks the security of your wordpress installation by enumerating installed themes and plugins and checking against vulnerability databases for known issues. Details Username enumeration (from author querystring and Read more…
This will show you how to increase the resolution of your netbook or any other X window system screen beyond the maximum capability of its screen. I have an hp mini 210 netbook. it has 1024×600 resolution. i found a nice hack that allows me to get scaled 1600×1200 and Read more…
This is a short linux bluetooth scanning tutorial with some tools you can use in backtrack linux (now kali linux) or any distribution you prefer to perform bluetooth scans. Its not comprehensive, but will show you the tools that you need to get started searching for nearby devices. linux bluetooth Read more…
This post will show you a few of the cool useful linux and osx commandline tools that I use every day. They are mostly available for osx, but some require fink or brew to install on a mac. # ssh available by default on osx and linux. lets you log Read more…
This will show you how to turn a downloaded iso file into a bootable usb drive using mac osx there are two methods. the first is the better way: go to unetbootin.sourceforge.net download it and follow the instructions you will now be done. the following method is the old way Read more…
Linux! Slackware floppies! zip-slack! Redhat 5.2! Tomsrtbt! Downloading zip-slack over modem for a week. Getting a shell and thinking ‘wtf’ trying dos commands. Having to reboot to read documentation! Trying random commands. Learning that xemacs needs x to run. Wtf is x? I was now at university. it was 1998. Read more…
Setting up eclipse with xampp and xdebug to debug php code. This post will show you how to setup eclipse on your mac to work with xdebug inside XAMPP. This setup will allow you to step through your code as it runs, line by line, add breakpoints in your eclipse Read more…
This blog post is quite easy, it shows you how to install rkhunter on a linux machine and how to configure rkhunter to run periodically using a cron job. RKhunter (rootkit hunter) is a program that takes a fingerprint of installed files and directories in your machine during install and Read more…
Here are the detailed instructions on syncing iphone notes app and mail app using gmail . This will enable bi-directional syncing: you can edit the notes on any device and it will be synced to the others automatically =) After doing this you will have all your notes on your Read more…
This is a short nessus tutorial to help you get to grips with nessus. Nessus is a vulnerability scanner. Nessus can scan your assets for network security vulnerabilities. Nessus allows you to be proactive in securing your base so that all your base belongs to you :D Nessus tutorial quick Read more…
This post will show you how to Install backtrack repo in ubuntu – I got an HP mini netbook a couple of days ago. I’m mostly going to use it to check sites at home in IE; but it will also have another use: hacking =) I need to check Read more…
keeping chrome firefox and safari synced is hard. browser wars are good. and bad. now with the launch of a dev build of chrome for the mac and linux there is now a decent choice of fast browsers on mac. one problem is how to keep all the data synced Read more…
Yesterday I was securing a server to pass the PCI tests and the Mcaffee tests for a client of our’s. We have a Basic iptables firewall for linux that we use as a template – I didnt manage to get the firewall rules set properly for the client, so I Read more…
What are the few things that everyone has on their computer ? well, everyone has a browser. everyone has a calculator and everyone has media players. what media players are out there ? Every one knows about iTunes. there is also windows media player. Winamp is another, as is foobar2000 Read more…