Movie theater staff are planning to wear military styled night vision googles to fight against movie piracy. This will allow them to see anyone who is using a camera to film a movie and create a camprip to upload to a movie sharing website. This is in Britain. But if someone uses a camera flash … Read more
I’m sure most everyone has had the following scenario happen once or twice during there lifetime of owning a computer, or an email for that matter. You log-in to your email account to catch up on work, personal emails, etc. The first email you see is from your mom. The subject line is a little weird but … Read more
This simple script will help create new user accounts on a Linux system. This is very useful when administering a Linux machine and it is necessary to create a few user accounts. #!/bin/bash clear trap "" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM SIGTSTP # Get username, check if its taken, and if it is the … Read more
This simple command will print the remaining free space on your hard disk. root@ip-172-31-20-16:~# df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 32G 9.6G 21G 32% / proc 0 0 0 – /proc sysfs 0 0 0 – /sys none 4.1k 0 4.1k 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none 0 0 0 – /sys/fs/fuse/connections none 0 … Read more
Many people are using wireless networks with WPS turned on. This allows a user to enter a pin or press a button to allow a new device to connect. But this approach will fall easily to brute force attacks unless the router has rate limiting enabled, this prevents brute forcing the WIFI, although even this … Read more
The steghide application for Linux allows a user to embed a file inside an image that may then be retrieved by another person who knows the passphrase. The example below shows how to embed one image inside another. I am sending a secret image, a Gnome icon of an AC adapter and I am embedding … Read more
Sun shining through grapes on the vine: Wallpaper. Black and white brick wall wallpaper: Wallpaper. Amanita mushrooms and glowing butterflies: Wallpaper. Concrete texture 1080p: Wallpaper. Old Ford car dashboard: Wallpaper. Rocky Mountains mobile wallpaper 1080p: Wallpaper. Railroad tracks glowing in afternoon light: Wallpaper. Push for the end mobile wallpaper: Wallpaper. More HD mobile wallpapers: http://mwp4.me/1080×1920/. … Read more
This program will return the IP address of a specified network interface. Use the –ip parameter to get the IP. For example, this will show the IP address of an Ethernet interface: my-ip –ip eth0. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 … Read more
The Nvidia drivers I am using with my Nvidia GT 740 are not working too well at the moment. I have to use nomodeset to get the desktop to come up. That is very annoying when the card works perfectly on Windows. That really needs to be fixed, Ubuntu is not a proper contender for … Read more
Linux command line in Mr Robot. This directory listing is showing a few files under the /opt/2/task/2/fd1info directory. The fsociety file is the one he was looking for. This file is only 4096 bytes in size, so does not contain too much juicy information. Or does it? The screenshot below, shows a computer store in … Read more
Themes This blog post: http://jfnlinuxproject.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/windows-10-theme.html has a list of links and screenshots that show a themed desktop that looks roughly like Windows 10. This does need more work. But I am sure that you could make a Linux desktop resemble Windows 10 if you so wished. In time, there will be an actual Windows 10 … Read more
Finding the location of an installed program can be annoying. But this is how to find where a program is. The whereis(1) command will print out the installed locations of various programs. darkstar:~/Documents> whereis tcsh tcsh: /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh /usr/share/man/man1/tcsh.1.gzdarkstar:~/Documents> whereis tcsh tcsh: /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh /usr/share/man/man1/tcsh.1.gz The find command will also allow you to locate an … Read more
This post will explain how to fork() off a daemon process from a program in C. This is good if you wish to run a process on a machine after the program has finished and you have been returned to the command prompt. The sample program below uses the int daemon(int nochdir, int noclose); function … Read more
This is a simple random number example in C. This will print a random number from 1 – 64. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main (void) { srand(time(NULL)); int r = rand() % 64; printf("Random INT: %i\n", r); return 0; }#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main (void) { srand(time(NULL)); int r … Read more
The hydra brute forcing program allows a user to attack a login trying many passwords until the correct login information is discovered. I have tried this on localhost and I managed to crack the password for my SSH login on my laptop. I used rockyou.txt downloaded from this website and I had to add my … Read more
How to define a string and print it out with the printf() function. #include <stdio.h> /* Defining a global string. */ #define hi "Hello Sire." int main(void) { /* Printing out the string. */ printf("%s\n", hi); return 0; }#include <stdio.h> /* Defining a global string. */ #define hi "Hello Sire." int … Read more
The /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections directory in Debian and Ubuntu stores files that are named after the WIFI networks you have connected to. These contain the passwords for the wireless networks that your machine has connected to. Here is a sample file. [connection] id=detportal uuid=539c7711-95ba-4f0a-8797-33d32ec779d7 type=802-11-wireless [802-11-wireless] ssid=detportal mode=infrastructure security=802-11-wireless-security [802-11-wireless-security] key-mgmt=wpa-psk psk=detportal [ipv4] method=auto … Read more
The hwinfo command for Linux will allow the user to get hardware information from the command line. Type sudo apt-get install hwinfo to install this command. It will be installed in the /sbin directory and therefore, you will need superuser privileges to execute this command and get the hardware information. jason@darkstar:~$ sudo apt-get install hwinfojason@darkstar:~$ … Read more
A lot of users are jumping on the Windows 10 upgrade bandwagon too early. This operation system has been in development for a while, but upgrading straight after release is not the best option. Best to wait until after everyone else has been installing the operating system and has reported their problems to Microsoft to … Read more
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gilpin/tutorial/. Debugging Under Unix: gdb Tutorial. http://docs.kali.org/general-use/starting-metasploit-framework-in-kali. Setting up the Metasploit framework in Kali Linux. http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=8154. Using the netdiscover command on Linux to scan for hosts on a network. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/. Watch Netflix on Ubuntu with the Google Chrome browser and ditch Windows on your media center machine. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-can-i-list-directories-only-in-linux-375219/. How to list only directories when using … Read more