I wanted to experiment with sniffing data on the network. Of course, my own network. This was not a creepy sniffing of my neighbours’ network. I was keen in converting my Ubuntu VM into a router VM. Then I can redirect all traffic from ‘client’ VM via the ‘router’ VM on which the sniffer is […]
Often times I get into a situation where I mess up with my development (of personal projects). Though I use github for personal projects yet sometimes it is convenient to have a local SVN for all silly works (like .vimrc, .bashrc, etc…). After a lot of procrastination, I decided to set a local svn repo […]
The biggest problem I found was not identifying all the network interfaces available but the ones that are up. For instance, the 2 quickest way to identify all the available network interfaces are: ip link $> ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd […]
A simple problem I was facing in Ubuntu was finding an equivalent of “chkconfig” available on the Redhat flavors. Well, for the unaware people: ‘chkconfig‘ is popularly used for adding or removing any services during boot. In other words, it updates and queries runlevel information for system services. So, my search was for a similar tool […]
It has been nearly 5 years since I did any work on device drivers. Also since then I have been off C or its sibling languages (on Python now-a-days), I thought first lemme get comfortable with linux kernel (& C, of course) before I can even dream of getting back to my core. In that […]
Wine is a free & open source software application designed to run windows-based application on other operating systems. In English, using wine one can run any windows software (games including) in Linux! Trivia: WINE is an acronym for WINdows Emulator or Wine Is Not an Emulator. Wine for Ubuntu and Ubuntu derivatives Wine is not […]