Jonny Brooks-Bartlett – Data Scientist at deliveroo They use predictive modelling and machine learning. Their hypothesis is “if they can show you more relevant places you will spend money” given a list of restaurants, can they rank them optimally how do they quantify that? how do you turn that into Read more…
Building a PWA vuejs app with wordpress API – Part 1 The aim in this is to make an offline-first PWA with vuejs / axios / bootstrap using wordpress as a backend service.Secondary considerations are: using cordova to aid us in building an android, iOS and electron app Beginning Building Read more…
Os Detection Techniques and OS fingerprinting Os Detection Techniques – Background information This is a list of Os Detection Techniques, with explanations for all the active and passive Os Detection Techniques I can find for remote operating system identification – there is a massive list of sources at the end. Read more…
Continuing on from my original metasploit beginners tutorial, here is a slightly more advanced Metasploit tutorial on how to use metasploit to scan for vulnerabilities. The outcome of this tutorial will be to gather information on a host and its running services and their versions and vulnerabilities, rather than to Read more…
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I’ll go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your Read more…
This is a burp suite beginners tutorial. Burpsuite is a collection of tools, written in Java used to perform various network security related tasks. Burpsuite can be used as a basic http proxy to intercept traffic for analysis and playback, a web application security scanner, a tool to perform automated Read more…
I wrote a previous post about kali on the hi10, and promised a followup on Chuwi hi10 pro kali linux wifi fixes; here it is. The on-board wifi works out of the box in kali 2018.01 :D Kali chuwi hi10 pro wifi fix if you have just installed kali on Read more…
After trying Kali on the hi10 pro (its totally not ready for the bay-trail / cherry-trail platforms) I decided to give ubuntu on the chuwi hi10 pro a go (after hearing good things about their support) This is a short tutorial on dual booting ubuntu linux and windows10 on the Read more…
This post is now updated with install information for using 2020 versions of Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro. When I first wrote this post I seriously wouldn’t have recommended Kali on the Chuwi Hi10 Pro as an every-day system – Starting with 2018.01 and the 4.14 kernel it makes Read more…
This post has a collection of Linux commands for networking. There are basic linux network commands, advanced linux network commands and some centos network configuration commands, but I’ve tried to keep it to the point. jump to:Linux Network ConfigurationBasic Linux Network CommandsAdvanced Linux Network Commands Linux commands for Networking Configuration 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…
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…
This is a short tutorial showing how to setup wordpress and cloudflare flexible ssl. Cloudflare offer a service called ‘flexible ssl’ this means that cloudflare encrypts your content between the end-user and cloudflare, but the connection between cloudflare and your site is not encrypted. This is a good solution if Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpcs and phpmd in sublime text on your mac: Following on from my post about using git and phpcs in brackets, I decided to try the same setup in sublime text. The first part is some background setup – installing phpcs and Read more…
This is a basic nikto tutorial for kali linux. It will get you started with nikto. For advanced usage, see ‘man nikto’ or the cirt website Nikto is a web application scanner – it will scan a web service and look for known vulnerabilities. It can be very useful to Read more…
MetaSploit tutorial for beginners This (updated for 2020) MetaSploit tutorial for beginners is meant to be a starting guide on how to use MetaSploit if you have never used it before. It assumes that you already have MetaSploit installed and that it works, or that you are running Kali / Read more…
Setting up brackets editor with git and phpcs with wordpress coding standard etc Brackets editor (brackets.io) is an editor that I’ve wanted to try out for a while now, but for it to be viable for me to use, I had to configure a few things: git in brackets editor Read more…
Woke up this morning and had bramley apple and pork sausages and freshly ground coffee. We decided that we were going to walk from milngavie to partick along the kelvin walkway so that we could complete the bit we havent done yet which meant getting the train from partick to Read more…
Oracle forms overview. Oracle internet platform consists of 3 components: oracle application server (forms service + OC4J) oracle developer suite (forms developer + object navigator + form module) oracle database Oracle application server includes forms service – new generation of tools that allow devs to deploy new and existing forms Read more…
This post will show you how to record your screen on mac with quicktime. This is something I use constantly at work (making help guides with this method is fantastic) 1) Open quicktime 2) Goto file > new screen recording You can now click the screen and quicktime will record Read more…
This post will show you how to encrypt your external drives so that your data remains safe. it really only works with new drives though, so if you have a drive thats already got lots of data on it, you might need to find a way to save that data 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…
How to disable sleepsafe hibernate mode on your mac. Your mac has a few cool features to let it wake form hibernation quickly. one is called sleepsafe. sleepsafe works by creating a file in your harddrive that contains all of the contents of your ram inside it so that it Read more…
This post will show you how to delete dmg disk image automatically – it will delete a mac disk image file (dmg) when you eject it from your mac There is an easier way to do the following (just drag the mounted dmg file to the trash, but this is Read more…
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best Snes emulators on ipad mini. first up: snes AD+ good: you can download roms from within the emulator games work bad: the controls are a little too ‘analogue’ Read more…
This post will show you hoe to delete the history of your chat messages in osx iMessage. firstly, you should disable chat history, this will stop all chats from being stored (but it wont delete the ones already saved) to disable chat history goto: imessage > preferences > messages untick Read more…
This post will show you how to get your bookmarks from chrome / firefox / chrome into your ipad or iphone’s safari browser firstly, make sure that you have safari on your computer also make sure you have icloud installed in your pc if you run windows next, open the Read more…
This post will list the various ways to get pdf ebooks (or anything in a pdf) on to your iphone / ipad / ipad mini there are a few ways to do it: if its just one or two pdf files then email it to an email address thats configured 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…
If you use the terminal app a lot, you will know that you can press the up arrow to get to the last command you typed to save you typing it again (it saves a load of history for you so you can pick the command that you typed ten Read more…
This post will show you how to enable HDR mode on your iPhone camera Open your camera, Click on options Click the slider to enable HDR mode. HDR stands for ‘high dynamic range’ which lets your iPhone take photos with a larger range between the brightest and dullest colours It Read more…
This will show you how to burn the downloaded osx lion to a dvd so that you can do a fresh install. 1) download lion from the app store. 2) right click the downloaded file 3) click ‘show package contents’ 4) go to contents > sharedsupport 5) right click on Read more…
Ripping a dvd to play on an ipad / iphone / appletv / ipod touch this will show you how to turn your dvd movie into a playable file for an ipad, apple tv2, ipod touch or iphone download and install handbreak open up handbreak insert your dvd in handbreak Read more…
I dont use the osx widget dashboard. This post will show you how to disable dashboard osx. I had to look for a way to turn it off to save some resources and to stop the default widgets showing in my virtual desktop spaces while I was looking for another 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 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…
This is my setup when using SVN for web development on a mac. I have since moved to git and a virtual machine running centos. I also use a continuous integration setup) General overview of my svn for web development setup 1) svn on my mac [it comes with the Read more…
Playing flv mpg avi files on apple tv 2 ATV2. This blog post will show you how to play all your video files on your apple tv 2 Install Perian on your mac to enable lots of different codecs in quicktime download perian from perian.org install it navigate to your Read more…
