I recently upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 7.10 ‘Gutsy Gibbon’ from 7.04 ‘Feisty Fawn’ and needed to install VMware Server again. Since my previous post was very popular in helping people get VMware Server installed on Feisty, I thought I would do the same for Gutsy for those who are interested.
There are several prerequisites before […]

Add this to your .bashrc to make tab completion with bash more useful when handling multiple files with similar names:
bind ‘”\t”:menu-complete’
Ctrl-D can be used to exit Bash. This can be very convenient and then again, almost too convenient. Specify it must be pressed twice before exiting by adding to .bashrc:
export IGNOREEOF=1

C’mon guys, what in the hell are you releasing a .1 for just to fix four lines of code. I realize that an exploit in netfilter could be a serious issue, but netfilter doesn’t belong in the kernel to begin with; it should be userland code. Grrrr. This is exactly why I […]

I went ahead and tried to run Burp suite on my laptop running Ubuntu today. First, check the readme.txt, which says I need JRE 1.4 or later installed.
marcin@thinker:~/burpsuite_v1.01$ java –fullversion
java full version “gcj-1.4.2″
Okay… 1.4.2, but it’s Java built into gcc. When I first tried to run it, I got this error:
marcin@thinker:~/burpsuite_v1.01$ java -jar burpsuite_v1.01.jar
Exception in […]

Over the course of a day, I could log in to five different systems I’m currently working on. On each I’ll get a Bash or Tcsh shell and it’s almost guaranteed I’ll need to edit a text file at some point during the day. On my home system, my choice of editor is Vim, because […]