Author Archives: ken_fallon

Posted on 2016-04-12 by ken_fallon

I am trying to mount a cifs share aka smaba/smb/windows share, from a Debian server so I can access log files when needed. To do this automatically I create two mounts, one which is read only and is automatically mounted … Continue reading →

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Adding SQLite as a datasource to SQLeo

Posted on 2016-01-16 by ken_fallon

An audio version of this post is available on Hacker Public Radio. I have been looking for a tool that will graphically and programmatically track identifiers as they pass through systems. I could have done this in Inkscape after following … Continue reading →

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not a dynamic executable

Posted on 2016-01-14 by ken_fallon

I sometimes have issues running a 32bit program under Linux X64. When you run ldd it reports that it’s not a dynamic executable # ldd /usr/bin/snx not a dynamic executable However if you run file, you do see that it … Continue reading →

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Posted on 2015-10-29 by ken_fallon

I was installing Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 as per http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-virtualbox-with-yum-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/. I ran into the following issue. Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modulesError! There are no instances of module: vboxhost 5.0.4 located in the DKMS … Continue reading →

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CheckPoint SNX install instructions for major Linux distributions

Posted on 2015-09-19 by ken_fallon

I decided to do a round up of how to install the software needed on GNU/Linux to enable access through a CheckPoint firewall. My focus was on distributions whose ISO downloads supported UEFI boot, and hard disk encryption out of … Continue reading →

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Stopping mplayer from displaying Album Art on Music or Podcasts

Posted on 2015-09-18 by ken_fallon

I use mplayer as my media player of choice. If it discovers embedded album art in the media files, it will display them as a popup window. To prevent this from happening you can use the switch -vo null which will tell it … Continue reading →

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Unable to access SharePoint in Firefox but it is possible in Chrome

Posted on 2015-09-11 by ken_fallon

Thanks to the the-edmeister  for giving a solution to this issue https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1007248 That type of message might be related to Insecure NTLM (pre-NTLMv2) authentication being disabled in Firefox 30. Type about:config in the URL bar and hit Enter. Accept the … Continue reading →

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Can’t locate CPAN.pm in @INC

Posted on 2015-09-11 by ken_fallon

Had a strange one while installing my new work laptop. I was migrating from one system to another, so I did a clean install of Fedora 21 and copied my data over. After that I could no longer open cpan, … Continue reading →

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Windows Remote Desktop on GNU/Linux

Posted on 2015-01-13 by ken_fallon

This is the accompanying shownotes for a Hacker Public Radio podcast episode. I wrote a bash script to connect to various different windows servers from my GNU/Linux desktops. I had a few different requirements: I should be able to call … Continue reading →

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Scripts based on your network location

Posted on 2015-01-03 by ken_fallon

I recorded an episode of HPR about a script that I wrote to make my life a little easier. The show is hpr1654 :: Using AS numbers to identify where you are on the Internet if you want to listen … Continue reading →

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