Dual Screens

Well I indulged a childhood dream and got myself another screen recently. After a few little niggles with the Nvidia driver and a messy Xorg.conf, I have it running smoothly and it works a treat!

Photo below, I also have a Samsung widescreen hiding under my bed waiting for me to get a spare graphics card. Sometimes I can pretend I'm a super-villain...

The Belated Return!

I know that I promised to update this blog some time ago but for various reasons I was not able to do this. Anyway, I've managed to sign on now and decided that I wanted to share a cool application I've been toying with.

It's called Ubigraph and is Python compatible (I've been learning Python recently) and offers a pretty fun way of creating complex 3D models with only a few lines of Python.

Within about 15 seconds of installing the program I was trying out a snake simulation with 30k nodes (quad-core processor came in useful!).

Screenies:





I would highly recommend that you download Ubigraph and try it out. My one hesitation lies in the fact that it feels like a commercial project just wanting testers and will then charge for its product. I hope I'm wrong!

Other than that, I've been coding a bit of Ruby, revising for prelims and waiting for the summer!

Quick Update

I am going to be posting more regularly to the blog. Things have just been a wee bit hectic recently!

Eee PC and Backtrack 3

So my Eee pc was laying dormant on guitar amp for a bit and I decided that it was high time for me to do something useful with it. Here I am with an awesome wee bit of kit and I'm not doing anything with it. Sacrilege!

So I installed Backtrack 3 to my SD Card (after laughing at people selling pre-installed cards on Ebay for £19!) and it booted up fine.

So after firing up airmon-ng and kismet I noticed a slight problem, it wouldn't inject. So here's the solution!

Open up a Terminal by clicking once on the Terminal Icon near the bottom left of the display. A text window will open, now enter the commands below.

Type everything after the # and press enter.

# airmon-ng stop ath0
# airmon-ng start wifi0
# airodump-ng ath0

When you find a channel you want to pay closer attention to, press CTRL-C and type.

# airodump-ng ath0 –-channel 11

If you want to save a traffic dump as testcap, CTRL-C again and type
# airodump-ng ath0 --channel 11 -w testcap

So yeah, if that's helped you any, feel free to leave a comment.

I'll be posting more often on wifi cracking and bluetooth fun!

For Adv.Higher Computing Class

So the (ruby) solution to the addition task is as follows:

puts "Enter first digit please"

num1 = gets.to_i


if num1 > 0
puts "Now the second"
else puts "The number can't equal 0 you twat"
exit
end
num2 = gets.to_i
if num2 >0
Result = num1.to_i + num2.to_i



print "The result is " + Result.to_s
puts "

"
else puts "The number can't equal 0 you twat"
exit
end

Simple huh?

Fun little ruby script

Since my school insists on using shiny, yet useless Mac computers (no arguments, I will not be swayed on this), I decided to write a wee script to use their considerable computing power and inbuilt scripting engine.

The result?

system "osascript -e 'say \"I am mac. Please kill me.\"'"

Now would you fulfill it's request if I put that into a loop?

Why on earth?!?!

Seriously, CompTIA certification? Why doesn't everyone hold one of their qualifications?

I took a look at the CompTIA A+ study guide out of curiosity and my eyes nearly dropped out of my head when I saw how simple it was.

Network Topology, Binary, OSI Model, Networking Terms, IEEE, DNS/WINS/DHCP, TCP/IP, Backups, etc.

The study guide was about 40 pages long (including title page and acknowledgments) and I got 100% in the practice exam without reading the book. Same goes for Security+ which is one of their "hard" ones.

If any of you are hoping to go into IT, bag these, get an RHCE and an MSCA in Windows Server 2008, a CCNA (or CCENT), a cert for virtualization (I believe VMWare do something) and believe me, you'll be in extremely high demmand.

Oh, need further evidence that CompTIA is easy? MI5 and MI6 list them as desired qualifications when applying for a technical support role in "the business".

If our Intelligence Agencies want it, can't be complicated right?