Os Detection Techniques Background information This is a list, with explanations for all the active and passive techniques I can find for remoteoperating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Background information: techniques Active fingerprinting – Active fingerprinting is the process of transmitting packets Read more…
“A Coronal Mass Ejection has happened and the effects of that are expected to arrive later tomorrow evening” /me downloads skyview augmented reality star map and aurorawatch UK. Now looking on Google maps and met office weather app for a dark location with no cloud cover tonight. https://t.co/GtYtSSTpjD The Northern Read more…
This is a WordPress mega-post containing a lot of best-practice information on securing, hardening, updating and maintaining a WordPress site. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. (wikipedia) Read more…
Malware detection on Plesk systems using maldet and clamav Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that Read more…
This is a short post on how to factory restore android on chuwi hi10 1) Download and install intel phoneflashtool https://01.org/android-ia/downloads/intel-platform-flash-tool-lite 2) Download the version of android you need from here: http://forum.chuwi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2341&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D25 The password is en.chuwi.com 3) Connect your chuwi to your mac with a usbC cable 4) Turn your Read more…
Configuring free ssl certs with letsencrypt in centos Using letsencrypt in centos requires a few modifications to your centos before you can run the letsencrypt client. The setup for vhosts in centos is different from the setup in debian based distros. This is how I modified my centos install to Read more…
How to copy a file to multiple locations in linux. cp doesnt let you copy one file to multiple locations; There are a few ways to do this, but the one I always return to uses find To copy the contents of a directory to multiple other directories find /location/to/folder Read more…
This post will show you how to use iptables on centos7. Centos7 has moved its firewall service to firewalld, away from iptables, but if you have been running centos for a while (I’ve been running iptables since I moved from ipchains), you will no doubt have a big list of Read more…
Characteristics of SOA services Granularity Size / Scope of service Encapsulation Separation of interface form implementation Modularity Business processes can be decomposed into services which can be decomposed into smaller services Loose-Coupling Minimise dependancies to increase flexibilities Isolation of Responsibilities Similar functionality / information should be grouped into services Autonomy Read more…
This post will show you how to mount a remote ssh filesystem as a ‘drive’ in osx using a bash script, osxfuse and brew. There are a few ways to go about this, all of them require a bit of setup and tweaking, But I found this to be the Read more…
This is the change log for multiloquent 6 1 01 11a7be0 psr2 fixes abe3129 psr2 changes 80cbc30 misc tidy ups 00d17a1 tag link 5ea34c5 pagination dd3582f pagination still 9443ffa pagination b44f9be pagination 2a7d85b pagination 74f362f pagination 694c07f pagination 283bc75 pagination 8329440 pagination 59ed693 pagination 313d6f5 mb class in css 02ff70a Read more…
RCA 6226 Aeropessure Type microphone The âAeropressureâ was a rugged radio announcing and public address microphone designed for on-location use, featuring exceptional wind noise suppression. During its some five decades of microphone production, probably no other single manufacturer came close to the technical engineering expertise, development innovation, and product line Read more…
Importing google reader starred items into pocket. As you all know google reader is being killed very soon. there are lots of google reader alternatives. I use reeder on my phone, ipad and mac to read all my rss feeds. it syncs with google reader and so I have built Read more…
This post will show you how to set location based reminders from the reminders app on your mac :) its a little backwards, so I thought I’d explain it here for others. 1) open reminders.app 2) add a new reminder, give it a name, eg ‘dont forget keys’ 3) double Read more…
This post will show you how to sync reminders (including location based reminders) between your mac and your iphone or iPad. enable location services on your mac goto settings > security & privacy > privacy click ‘location services’ in the left hand menu tick ‘enable location services’ at the top Read more…
How to change the default save location from icloud in osx mountain lion and newer. The default save location for icloud enabled apps is no longer on your own hard-drive. Textedit, keynote, pages, etc are all icloud enabled now, so when saving, the save dialog opens with iCloud. You can Read more…
I have an iphone 4s. the battery life is awful. I have found a way (that works for me) to increase the battery life by at least double. it has to do with location services. go to settings > location services > system turn them all off. this will prevent 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…
This command will force spotlight to reindex your drive. It is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results you know it should. This post will help you force spotlight to reindex either your whole machine, or a specific folder. force spotlight to reindex your drive using the terminal open Read more…
This one is pretty cool, you can find your friends location using siri on your iPhone! make sure you are logged in to your ‘find my friends’ app (get it from the app store if you dont already have it) ask siri ‘where is contactname’ and it will look them Read more…
Disable reportcrash osx. This post will show you how to disable the dialog box that appears when a program crashes in osx. Doing this will stop your system crawling when something crashes! How to disable reportcrash osx launchtl can disable and re-enable crash reporting. To disable crash reporting: launchctl unload Read more…
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
This will show you how to force iTunes to re-scan your library to fix missing metadata by re-scanning all your music files. You can re-fresh individual files by playing them in iTunes. If you have used an external program to change data and you don’t want to have to play Read more…
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3 files, and will make your itunes look perfect :D 1) download and install you can download the app from the 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 post will show you how to subscribe to your Basecamp calendar in iphone calendar. For instructions on how to subscribe to your basecamp calendar in google calendar please see this post Basecamp is a great way to keep track of lots of things in your projects. You can use Read more…
This post is about setting up XMAPP on a mac with xdebug. The first thing we are going to do is to change the document root inside xampp to the ‘Sites’ folder. Changing the DocumentRoot has a few benefits – one being that its far easier to get to in Read more…
There are lots of firefox addons for web development; here are the best firefox addons for web development I use on a daily basis. firebug Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, Read more…
Do you have a folder called ‘ipod photo cache‘ on your desktop that, no matter what never ever goes away, even if you delete it, it comes back ? This post will show you how to remove it. The reason that this folder appears is that iTunes will create images Read more…
This guide will show you the iPhone stop screen rotating trick when you turn the device on it’s side. On an iPhone the feature that you use to stop the screen rotating is Orientation Lock. Orientation lock has been available on the iPhone for years now. In every major version Read more…
I have a little hp mini 210 that I decided to mount an external wifi antenna on. here are some pics of the Hp mini 210 external wifi aerial mod and some little descriptions to go with it. The main aim of the mod was to get an rp-sma connector Read more…
What the digital economy bill means for you as a copyright holder. I am a holder of copyright. I do sell music online. this new digital economy bill ( #debill ) is going to change the way the internet works. forever. the internet is our legacy to the children, not Read more…
fairly un eventful. as per. notable improvements / bug fixes: Application Firewall CVE-ID: CVE-2009-2801 Available for: Mac OS X v10.5.8, Mac OS X Server v10.5.8 Impact: Certain rules in the Application Firewall may become inactive after restart Description: A timing issue in the Application Firewall may cause certain rules to Read more…
I made a new wordpress theme. It uses a couple of html5 things, like the <nav> tag, <section> and <article> too. I have tidied up the stylesheet (I started again) so that it is more readable – it still has a lot of work to do on it, and im Read more…