Of Penguins & Coffee

Turning Pcap dumps into Message Sequence Charts

Bolster — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:37:36 +0000

PCap files are a pain; weird format, difficult to parse viserally even if you have the ‘right’ tools handy. Wouldn’t it be easier to be able to ‘see’ the network flow,...

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NS-3 Click integration

Bolster — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:07:44 +0000

Intro Click is a modular router library developed at UCLA, allowing Click-definied router networks to be ‘attached’ to an ns-3- nodes layer 3 functionality. It has very little relevance...

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K8055 USB + Python + Twitter + IRC: Space Indicator as a OS Service

Bolster — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:52:11 +0000

After a long time in the oven, Farset Labs is up and running. Unforanately we don’t have any of the crazy equipment yet, since we’re broke. As my first ‘official’ Farset Labs...

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Python + irclib for IRC Status Updates

Bolster — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:08:44 +0000

IRC, Python, Ubuntu linux. Simples! Same as by Twitter post, but for IRC. Biggest problem with this one was working out that the IRC server needs to be kept alive with the irclib.IRC.process_once()...

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Python + Oauth2 for Twitter Status Updates

Bolster — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:46:08 +0000

Working on the Farset Labs Big Red Button for space occupancy, had to find a simple way to tweet a status. This is a post to remind myself and anyone else who has dived through hundreds of incorrect,...

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My Guide To My Own Favourite Ubuntu Setup

Bolster — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:29:31 +0000

This is my own self-indulgant reminder for how to do the things I like. I’ll keep adding to this as I think of them. Basic Setup Install Ubuntu Latest (currently 11.10), With the third party...

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Ringing in the New Year by seeing out the old

Bolster — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:15:38 +0000

2011 has been a great year for me; Graduated with a 1st MEng in Electronics & Software Engineering @QUB, Got Job offer to a major financial house, which I turned down, Got Job offer to a...

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Guide to Persistent Reverse SSH Shells and Port Forwards

Bolster — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:41:41 +0000

Idiot proof setup for persistent reverse shells / port forwards (same thing) under a Ubuntu VM remote and my Dreamhost server, but should apply to nearly* all *nix’s First off, some terms to...

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Guide to Expanding Oracle Virtualbox Drives

Bolster — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:01:43 +0000

The Idiot Proof Guide for Windows-host, *-guest setup. (Ubuntu in my case, and should work for any host) Make sure you’re working with a VDI, not a VDMK (if not, File>Virtual Media Manager...

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Unicode Characters in Mendeley Bibliography Breaking Latex?

Bolster — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:45:59 +0000

I use Mendeley for my reference and citation management. I use TexClipse for (most) of my editing, ViM otherwise. I use Xelatex / pdflatex for project building. These don’t always work so well...

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Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 2011/10/23

Bolster — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:01:01 +0000

Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas

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Mendeley Repeated Citations in BibTeX Library

Bolster — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:58:30 +0000

Problem: Had two citations with slightly different information appearing in library.bib, causing bibtex to shit itself, but only one citation appeared in the desktop / web interfaces Cause:...

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Today’s Accomplishments: The 2.0 Generation

Bolster — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:42:01 +0000

In short, I for one welcome our internet-based overlords; be there or be square.

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Vim Latex Suite Install on Ubuntu

Bolster — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:43:50 +0000

Ubuntu doesn’t manage vim’s addons, so installing the vim-latexsuite package doesn’t actually put all the relevant hooks into your vim installation. To do that, (after installing...

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Through The Drinking Glass

Bolster — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:48:37 +0000

Inspired by the drinking game ‘Kings’ Co-Authors:W.P.L. Cully, and L. Martin Requirements: 1 standard deck of cards 1 jug/tankard/chalice/large vessel 1 top hat (or suitably...

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Force 32 bit installs on 64 bit systems (Deb/RPM)

Bolster — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:52:23 +0000

Pre-built packages not releasing 64 bit versions? No Problem. Debian/Ubuntu based: dpkg -i --force-architecture whatever.deb RH/Fedora based: rpm -i --ignorearch whatever.rpm

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Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/09/2011

Bolster — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:05:48 +0000

Nigella Talks Dirty wolf howl Never Ending Story Thomas .VS. 50 Cent (the BEST VERSION original content!!!) 5 star wolf howl Never Ending Story Thomas .VS. 50 Cent (the BEST VERSION original...

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PhD Diary: An Introduction and A Little Light Reading

Bolster — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:31:10 +0000

So today is the start of the rest of your life. Seems kind of appropriate today. Had a meeting with my PhD Supervisor to start to develop my project. Of course at this point it would help to explain...

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Stuff I’ve found interesting in the past month – 23/08/2011

Bolster — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:00:44 +0000

Michael Jackson Fail The Italian Man Who went to Malta. The Sound of Nyan (Original) Rowan Atkinson is Doctor Who – Classic Comic Relief

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Best Description of Northern Ireland I’ve heard yet

Bolster — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:00:15 +0000

Northern Ireland, its history, and its current situation, are a guaranteed topic of conversation to any self-identifying Northern Irishman, especially one travelling around Europe. As I am neither a...

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