Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Linux on XPS 13 9310 (Late 2020)

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 I was able to get the 9310 non-Developer Edition at a pretty good discount, but I couldn't find anything online about installing Ubuntu...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Linux on Asus Zenbook 13 UX325

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I recently bought a Zenbook 13 in a leap of faith as there weren't any reviews online indicating how well the new 10th gen (Ice Lake) mo...
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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Dropbox Stuck Syncing on Linux

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 Sometimes, the Dropbox client starts and hangs while reporting "Syncing..." in the status tray.  "dropbox status" unhel...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Source Code vs. Machine Code

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An excerpt from my upcoming book: Here is an example of source code: ``` int add(int a, int b) {     int c = a + b;     return c; } ``` This...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

How to Make BibLaTeX Actually Work

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I had a lot of annoying, surprisingly difficult to Google (or Duck ) errors when trying to do automatic bibliography management with LaTeX. ...

How to Not Mess Up your Python Dependencies Using Virtualenv

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Don't you hate it when you try to pip install something and you get some super annoying error?  Me too.  The solution is a virtual envir...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Python - Get relative filenames recursively

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I was working on a script where I needed to get all of the filenames in a directory and sub-directories, and it was a lot more convenient to...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Ubuntu Linux - Run jar for high DPI display

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If you run Ubuntu (or a derivative) with a high DPI display (for me, a 4K laptop screen), it can be annoying when you run a Java program suc...

Automatic Security Updates on Ubuntu

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Run the following to install the unattended-upgrades package: sudo apt update sudo apt install unattended-upgrades Now edit the file /e...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Packages Installed by Default on Kali Linux

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I recently needed to look up whether gcc was installed by default on Kali and I didn't find an easy way to do that. Here's a list ...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Aruba QuickConnect Onboard Wizard on Ubuntu

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The Aruba QuickConnect Onboard Wizard theoretically supports Linux hosts.  If you download the utility from a browser reporting Linux as the...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Installing Ubuntu on Dell XPS 15 9560

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The XPS 15 9560 is a great laptop and Linux works quite well on it, but it needs some tweaks out of the box, mostly to deal with the discret...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Simple Buffer Overflow Tutorial

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This is intended to be an accessible, simple tutorial for to explain how a buffer overflow works. Assumptions: - You have some basic pro...

Sample Cuckoo Malware Analysis Report

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Here's a sample Cuckoo report so you can easily see what the output looks like.  This is for a copy of notepad.exe I found online somewh...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Cuckoo Malware Analysis Framework Tutorial

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Note: This is horribly incomplete and very much a work in progress.  I'm posting in regardless so someone with the same error messages m...