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Wireshark: capturing in monitor mode from rt2800usb chipset 0

Wireshark would not allow me tick the box for “Monitor mode” (it auto-disabled itself again), and “sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor” says “device busy”. However, using airmon-ng to enable monitor mode worked: sudo airmon-ng start wlan0 {channelnum} (the channel number might be optional) gives a second mon0 interface which allows capturing in monitor mode just [...]

Building Android projects using Python 0

I’ve hated Ant since the first time I laid eyes on it. So I’m glad I finally took the time to understand the Android build process in detail, and sat down to reproduce it in Python. A while ago, I wrote about how to build multiple versions of an Android app (like a free and [...]

Jailbreaking AppleTV 2 / iOS 4.2.1 0

I finally managed to make this work and install XBMC. Oh what a frustrating process that was. I must have run into every single one of the various problems people have reported. Error 21, Error 1600, Error 1602, no SSH after jailbreak, no network after jailbreak. Trying with both Seas0nPass and PwnageTool/tetheredboot. Endless restores and [...]

Convert VirtualBox machines to VMWare Workstation 0

In VirtualBox, use File -> Export Appliance Fix the .ovf file. Use ovftool to convert: ovftool –diskMode=monolithicFlat export.ovf new-machine.vmx

On Games 0

Most big games today use story and character to explore themes we have explored before in other media that – simply put – use story and character to better effect. Demon’s Souls, Left 4 Dead and Captain Forever all explore the way we experience and perceive our world as individuals and collectively through our culture. [...]

Reconstruct VM if VirtualBox.xml, $vm.xml is lost 0

If you are using snapshots, this isn’t an easy feat. You need to reconstruct the snapshot tree, with only a bunch of UUIDs to go on. Fortunately, each (differential) VDI file stores the UUID of it’s parent VDI. The following Python script parses a set of VDI files and tries to rebuild the tree: http://github.com/miracle2k/linuxutils/blob/master/reconstruct-vdi-tree.py [...]

Merkur Bank HBCI in Hibiscus 0

Als Benutzerkennung muss der ursprüngliche numerische Online-Key verwenden werden, nicht der selbst konfigurierte Alias. Die HBCI-Version muss explicit auf FinTS 3.0 gestellt werden, via automatischer Erkennung scheint es nicht zu funktionieren. Die HBCI URL ist hbci11.fiducia.de/cgi-bin/hbciservlet.

Booting Ubuntu Karmic and Windows 7 from a GPT partition using BIOS 4

Those are some notes taken while trying to get this setup running. I’ve actually been running this for a long time, and so the post has have been in draft status far too long. I needed to finish it up before my memory would fail me. The roadblocks here are mainly related to weak support [...]

Android: Build multiple versions of a project 7

This is a question that comes up once in a while. For example, say you’d like to offer a full and a demo version, which isn’t really uncommon. Now, the Android Market enforces that each application package needs to use a unique package name, so you can’t just recompile your .apk with a DEMO=true variable [...]

UserVoice alternatives which aren’t crazy expensive 3

I really like UserVoice – unfortunately, the pricing is totally off. I don’t even think I’m asking for that much. All I would like to do is use it as part of a mobile Android app. Which means, there would either need to be a mobile version (there isn’t), or an API that would allow [...]