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If you run fix-splash on a backtrack installation and get: [codesyntax lang=”bash”] $ sudo fix-splash [*] Fixing Initrd [*] Extracting Initrd 181100 blocks cpio: File ./initrd grew, 46361600 new bytes not copied 181100 blocks [*] Reboot and bask in the joys of BootSplash [/codesyntax] The fix is really simple…..
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You might also want to see my article Installing JTR On Backtrack for Multiprocessor Cores I am too lazy to restore the old version of this file from my old website (it was hosted for years on mambo and I am just too lazy to do the db conversion). Anyways, this website serves a couple of purposes, […]
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Lets face it, John the Ripper has been around a long time and the reason its been around a long time is because its damn good at cracking passwords. Yea, hashcat and oclhashcat are great for gpu cracking, but it doesn’t support as many algorithms as JTR. So, imagine my surprise when I fire up John The […]
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When you upgrade pacman, you will get a message that says “run pacman –init” and when you do from a console (like on a remote server), you will then be presented with the following message: [codesyntax lang=”bash” lines=”no” capitalize=”no” doclinks=”0″] # pacman-key –init gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key… Not enough random bytes available. Please […]
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I had reviewed bibble labs bibble pro software several times as a solution to Digikam, Lightroom, etc in Linux. Most recently I tried the bibble labs pro v5 series in October. I was ready to shell out the $299 but for the life of me couldn’t figure out how to order the software from their […]
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I created this because I always forget the command to enumerate snmp and I am often too lazy to read man pages 🙂 [codesyntax lang=”bash”] #!/bin/bash # by Ed Wiget # This script takes an input ip or domain and performs a snmpwalk using common community strings # 20120204 – initial script function proghelp (){ […]
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You should see: Part 1 – why i quit smoking (yea, I can say that now) Part 2 – my first e-cig kit order and its problems Part 3 – the upgrade kit that has been a dream Part 4 – the flavor quest So today I placed an order for some needed parts from […]
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[codesyntax lang=”bash” lines=”no” title=”fix-dropbox.sh” doclinks=”0″] #!/bin/bash # By Ed Wiget # This fixes dropbox sync issues on linux # get a list of files executable now find ~/Dropbox -type f -perm -u+x > /tmp/dropbox_files-`date +%Y%m%d` # fix the permissions sudo chown -R $USER ~/Dropbox sudo chmod -R u+rw ~/Dropbox sudo chown -R $USER ~/.dropbox sudo […]
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For some reason, websecurify does not work in fluxbox…..well, it works just fine, you just can’t see the results due to a theme issue. It definately appears related to the chrome theme used in websecurify because changing qt theme and gtk theme has no effect. Also changing the fluxbox theme does not work and my […]