Our new house has a garage, which I’m going to use as a workshop area (though I wont be changing its actual use from a garage, it will still be a garage, only with nice shelves on either side and some computers and screens) – let the DIY Garage makeover Read more…
people though ‘only girls have this’ and lots of people though it wasnt even a thing. everyone stood up when asked of they had experienced what was on screen Don’t believe everything you think. your self talk is killing you! write a list of all the negatives then write the Read more…
I have decided to start studying towards a CISSP and / or an OSCP, as part of that I saw an excellent blog post recommending to go through a lot of CTF challenges from vulnhub.com. These are my Kioptrix walkthrough guides / findings and observations for each of the first Read more…
This is a WordPress Security 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. Read more…
Metasploit for website pentest using wmap. This is a short tutorial on using the wmap module inside metasploit. Wmap is a web application scanner that runs within metasploit. We can use wmap to get an outline of the application we are probing. Start dvwa inside vagrant In this tutorial I’ll Read more…
I finally swapped my iPhone for an android phone. I’ve been an iPhone user since the iPhone 3gs, right through till the 6plus. I was spoiled a little in the last 3 years as I didn’t change my phone (it shows how good the 6plus is) and I didn’t need Read more…
My iPhone 6 plus was going slow, so I got a battery from ebay and followed the ifixit iPhone battery replacement tutorial – my phone is now much faster (it feels like a new phone again) starting – all my tools ready screen open screen detatched battery removed new battery Read more…
After playing with my google home mini for a few days I decided I needed a chromecast (I have appletv, roku boxes, and an old android tv box, but none work woth the google home. nice box. the chromecast. setup on the tv (complete with ice-lolly splashes from olivia) the Read more…
build your own blockchain application in less than an hour Edward Ciggaar developer advocate IBM I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while now :D starting with an example of a game (coffee with blockchain) the hyperledger platform was explained – a map was shown on the screen Read more…
Replace iphone home button: The home button on my iphone 6 plus stopped working, so I had to fit a new one. Unfortunately touchId won’t work any more but at least I’ll be able to open up my phone and see inside and also get a working button! I ordered Read more…
I made another modified gba with backlit screen mod – this time the modified gameboy advance with a backlight was a present for my brothers birthday. I ordered the original gameboy advance, a new case, transparent buttons and a new backlit screen and an adaptor ribbon for the screen from Read more…
Night shift, or night mode is a setting that reduces the blue in your screen, turning everything a calmer, sepia-like tone. This post shows you how to enable night mode in ios11 swipe up from the bottom of the screen to enable the controls tap-and-hold on the brightness setting the Read more…
Blackarch on the chuwi hi10pro – prereq’s a usb hub a usb flashdrive a usb mouse a usb wifi adaptor (at least for the initial setup) Download blackarch from https://blackarch.org/downloads.html write to a usb drive (I used Etcher to do this part) Plug into chuwi and boot – Press F7 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…
Chuwi Hi10 Pro ultrabook tablet convertable surface – That’s some title, but I’m not sure how to describe my new machine. Its a tablet, but its also a laptop – it has a real keyboard and works exactly like a laptop, except you can remove the screen! It was a Read more…
I finally got my backlit screens delivered from China (took 7 weeks) and ordered some ribbon adaptors (again from gooeysstore on ebay uk) I used the instructions in this github gist. I have the 40pin motherboard, but didnt know which screen type I had (figured out it was the type Read more…
I ordered a gameboy pocket backlight mod from the internets (ebay). I went for a white backlight and used the instruction video from “this does not compute” on ebay to guide me through. It was fairly easy to install (though I did break my screen at one point and I Read more…
When I ordered transparent buttons for my Gameboy Pocket, I alos picked up a set of transparent buttons for my Gameboy Advance. The set of buttons included shoulder buttons (L+R) A button, B button, D-pad, power switch and the side rail button things too! this set was perfect for my Read more…
Gameboy Pocket case mod I got a gameboy pocket to go with my gameboy advance (again from ebay). I had already decided to match the case and buttons to the gameboy advance. I ordered a glass screen, gameboy pocket transparent dark blue case and a set of button pads from Read more…
Gameboy Advance case shell change I got a gameboy advance from ebay a few days ago – I didnt own one when they first came out, I did own an original gameboy dmg-001 and a gameboy colour when they came out (they are probably still in my mum’s loft) and Read more…
This post is a wapiti tutorial. You’ll find various wapiti options, how to import wapiti scan results into metasploit and how you can disable wapiti modules to speed up your scans. A basic one-liner command to get you started would be: More about the command line arguments: These basics will Read more…
Multiloquent 9 0 0 Changelog 3015a81 – Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/localhost8080/multiloquent a79d3a3 – Update to version number as this removes backward compatibility with the old amelia theme df0d6df – Update to bootstrap code 9bd8d60 – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes b39a9f3 – update to all bootstrap and Read more…
Changelog 90f2b7e – update to all bootstrap and bootswatch themes 5f251e3 – mods to css to provide a bigger target on menu for mobile device clicks 0cc6afe – Updated ruleset for phpcs 5219872 – WordPress coding standards have changed 7dcb6e6 – Yoda conditions use, you must not. comparing, assigning instead 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…
The LG 34um95 yosemite resolution bug is pretty annoying. I have an lg 34um95 screen – it runs at 3440×1440 – its a great screen, unless you have upgraded to OSX Yosemite. This issue is now fixed on Yosemite 10.10.2 – if you are using a macbook air, then you Read more…
This is a basic openvas tutorial for beginners. I will explain a little of how to use openvas web ui to perform a test of your systems. It will give you the basic options for using metasploit msfconsole to run an openvas vulnerability scan. You will also learn how to Read more…
This tutorial is a basic Kali linux arachni tutorial: to get arachni up and running on your kali linux system and perform a basic scan. Arahni is a vulnerability scanner for web-apps, it is installed as part of kali-linux, their site is here Arachni via the command line Open a Read more…
This post will show you how to lock the auto-focus on your iPhone camera (or your iPad camera). The camera is great, and you can get to the camera in an instant, even from the lock-screen so you never have to miss a potential photograph. But sometimes the autofocus goes Read more…
Commonwealth games Glasgow green: We walked along to Glasgow green from the underground at st Enochs to see some of the commonwealth games on the big screen – it was 28 degrees :| after waiting in a huge queue we got a beer and wine and I waited in a Read more…
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…
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 lists all the shutdown / sleep / lock screen keyboard shortcuts mac osx that I have found on my macbook air. (I haven’t discovered the combos myself – I just run across them on the ‘net and sometimes they stick, these are the keyboard shortcuts I’ve learned) 1) Read more…
Multiloquent 6 2 0 changelog development 646e320 – fix for readme file adding multiloquent url at jonathansblog.co.uk development 90f0277 – revert – its easier to read development 708ca0f – fix development afdad58 – small fix for readme development 0a54442 – version bump and changes to the readme development 5f08e9b – Read more…
How to change the number of icons in launchpad – this is a great tip: change the number of icons in launchpad! if you use launchpad a lot (I don’t, because the icons are too big) then you can change the number of icons that are shown at any one Read more…
Games console emulation android – I recently got a jxd s5110b android game tablet thing. My first driod. It is basically a small android tablet, but with hardware controls for gaming :) It comes with a few emulators pre-installed, but they aren’t that great, so Ive collected a list of 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…
Investment appraisal evaluation SCOTLAB TC COP Savings Achieved Cost of investment Opportunity cost Time-value of money Life of investment Available finance Benefits of investment Timing of income Compound Interest using the above factors you can calculate: Cash flow Opportunity cost Profitability
I had an issue with people trying to send iMessages to my phone number. for some reason ios7 had set iMessages to only send to my email address and not to my phone number. to fix it, I had to get the help from my boss at work :) its Read more…