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Install TcpDump on DD-WRT

shs — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:00:29 +0000

Mount a Samba (CIFS) filesytem first via GUI, then:

mkdir -p /tmp/smbshare/tmp/ipkg && cd /tmp/smbshare/tmp/ipkg


wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/packages/libpcap_0.9.4-1_mipsel.ipk 
ipkg -d smbfs install libpcap_0.9.4-1_mipsel.ipk 
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/whiterussian/packages/tcpdump_3.9.4-1_mipsel.ipk 
ipkg -d smbfs install tcpdump_3.9.4-1_mipsel.ipk 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/tmp/smbshare/usr/lib"

PATH="$PATH:/tmp/smbshare/usr/sbin"

Source: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=407287

DD-WRT – blocking ads

shs — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:50:59 +0000

From here:

wget -O - http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt | grep 127.0.0.1 | sed -e '2,$s/127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0/g' -e 's/[[:space:]]*#.*$//' > /etc/hosts logger "$0: Hosts-file downloaded" stopservice dnsmasq startservice dnsmasq logger "$0: DNSMasq restarted"

Reset a ‘frozen’ SSH session

shs — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:22:24 +0000

You sometimes find a SSH session gets frozen – especially when the remote connection suddenly vanishes. To reset, use:
Enter - Tilde - Dot
As in:
The Enter key,
A “~” character (tilde)
A “.” character (dot/full-stop)

StartPatch v4.0

shs — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:14:50 +0000

StartPatch v4.0.

The Homebrew Channel

shs — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:12:02 +0000

The Homebrew Channel.

One liner: unrar all rar files matching a pattern

shs — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:59:16 +0000

This will unrar all the rar files matching the pattern into the current directory, ignoring pathnames (-ep) and force overwrite (-o+) – handy for unrar’ing ISO’s.

for f in /source/dir/*.rar ; do unrar x -ep -o+ $f ; done

Wii – Super Mario Galaxy

shs — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:58:59 +0000

An absolutely brilliant platformer in 3D that has kept us entertained for a long time. Loads to do, loads to explore, good progressive difficulty, no two levels are the same or repetitive.

2 year old Jack: Excellent!
Daddy: A true work of art.

Gamespot review

PC – Wolfenstein 2

shs — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:11:40 +0000

Wolfenstein

Bloody marvelous FSP in a Nazi/scifi stylee.

Action right from the start – no retarded training missions. Cut scenes you can skip parst (yay!). Excellent GFX – runs fiine on my 2 year old PC. Good level detail – lots of exploring to do. Upgradeable weapons.

All round, it’s a winner.
Wolfenstein site

Linux/Firefox Backspace key.

shs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:26:35 +0000

I use Firefox in Ubuntu and prefer the way the backspace key works in Windows – that is, the same as the ‘back’ button. To do this, go to “about:config” in the Firefox address bar, accept the warning and set “browser.backspace_action” to a value of 0.

str_ireplace for PHP4

shs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:11:51 +0000

I needed a str_ireplace function for PHP4 (it’s a new in PHP5). It does a case-insensitive string replace thing.


function str_ireplace4($needle, $replacement, $haystack) {
   $i = 0;
   while (($pos = strpos(strtolower($haystack),strtolower($needle), $i)) !== false) {
      $haystack = substr($haystack, 0, $pos) . $replacement.substr($haystack, $pos+strlen($needle));
      $i=$pos+strlen($replacement);
   }
   return $haystack;
}

rtGui – a web based interface for rTorrent.

shs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:33:43 +0000

rtGui is a web based front end for rTorrent – the Linux command line BitTorrent client. It’s written in PHP and uses XML-RPC to communicate with the rTorrent client.
For more information on rTorrent, see the home page: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/

Features

List all torrent downloads or by started/stopped/complete/incomplete/seeding status.
Ajax-style refresh information without reloading page.
Sort view by any of the displayed columns.
View detailed torrent information.
Stop/start/hash-check torrent.
Set upload/download speed cap.
Add torrents by URL.
Upload torrent to rtorrent watch-directory.
Set priority per torrent or file.
Peer listing.
RSS Feed of completed torrents (rssfeed.php).
Does not require mySQL or any other database.
Bulk Stop/Start/Delete/Priority set.
Tracker URL display with configurable colouring.
Integrated RSS News Feed reader – download torrents directly to rTorrent (still work-in-progress).
Filter torrent list by tracker.

Generate random JPG’s from vidwhacker (xscreensaver module)

shs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:27:03 +0000

I’ve replaced the Ubunutu/Gnome screensaver with the superior (IMHO) Xscreensaver, using this guide.

I like the VidWhacker module, and have it set to choose a random image from my ~/Pictures/ dir. I wanted to save some of the funky random images it produces, so I did this:

while true; do /usr/lib/xscreensaver/vidwhacker -stdout | convert - `date +%s`.jpg ; echo "Generated jpg"; done

The GPS gets lost

shs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:34:43 +0000

Out driving the other day with 2 year old son in the back. We go through a tunnel and the GPS announces “GPS signal lost”.

Voice from the back of the car: “Oh no Daddy – the GPS is lost!”