With this handy thing: http://splitbrain.github.com/googlephonefix/ It connects to Google Accounts and adds a default prefix to the phone numbers which don’t have one yet. Very handy if you moved abroad and you don’t want to add that damn country prefix by hand. Privacy wise it’s fine, opensource and it runs only in the browser.
Archive of posts tagged Tips
Running Traffic over SSH easy peasy
Last week I was stuck in a hotel located in the middle of a forest with crappy GPRS signal so my mobile internet wasn’t any good. On top of this the ‘free’ wifi at the hotel provided only web traffic connectivity ( ports 80 and 443). Sure, a smart guy would run a VPN over [...]
Bash and Template Files
Last week I had to migrate my dns server and to do stuff properly I also added a couple of slave DNS servers just to make sure. Problem: ~15 domain names that need to be added to a fresh bind installation. The zone files didn’t change too much so that was fine, sed helped me [...]
Hardware Keylogger Detection
Intro Keyloggers are nifty things used to grab keyboard input for later analysis and use. The most common type of keylogger is the software keylogger as it is just some program that records key presses. Running it usually requires administrator privileges and this limits the attack surface as one must first gain this type of [...]
Parsing XML data using bash and standard Unix tools
Parsing XML can be a tedious and unpleasant job if you insist on using just standard Unix tools like sed, awk, cut, grep and so on. One might say that it’s better to use python/perl/ruby/other language that ships with a full blown XML parser and use the standard Unix utilites for what they were meant [...]
Choosing random entries from a group
In the past two weeks we had a lottery-type thing on RGC.ro (Romanian Guitarist Community). Proguitar, the official importer of Fender products in Romania, wanted to give-away a custom made Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. To register, the community users had to fill out a form and choose from a series of custom options for the [...]
Get your personal email account
Most people use free email services like yahoo, gmail or live. Unfortunately all the nice sounding email addresses are taken by now so new users have to come up with strange combinations like johndoe19__smth_smth@yahoo.com. That’s very hard to remember and it sounds very unprofessional. Having an online presence is no longer such a big deal. [...]
Color that manpage!
Manpages are the last line of defence when it comes to unix troubleshooting. After you’ve tried everything you could have think of and it still doesn’t work you know it’s time to read the manual. By default linuxes use the less command to display the man page requested by the user. The manpage is displayed [...]
Quickie: Wrap to 80 columns
I got a complaint that my submitted text file is not wrapped to 80 columns. Rather than work my butt to mix and match the text lines until i get to the bastard’s requirement I used the neat little tool called fold cosu@cosu-desktop:~/Desktop$ cat file | fold -s my monitor resolution is soooooooooooooooooo small that [...]
Find script path
Azi am avut nevoie sa gasesc calea in care sa gaseste un script chiar din scriptul respectiv. Fiserul se plimba prin diverse locuri si eu am nevoie de cai absolute ( hint java classpaths) Solutie MYPATH=”$(readlink -f $(dirname “$0″))” hints: man readlink, man dirname
