9th Jun, 2008, 11:22am
Archive for the 'Random Toad' Category
23rd May, 2008, 9:46am
ssh-vulnkey
There’s a flaw in ssh-vulnkey, it doesn’t always show you the name of the file with an offending blacklisted key in it. Here’s a couple of ways round this:
For a small machine, inspect the files by hand:
strace ssh-vulnkey -a 2>&1 | grep ^stat64| grep -v NOENT| cut -d\” -f 2| sort | uniq | xargs vi
Or, a little longer, using ssh-vulnkey to find all relevant keys & reprocess them displaying the filename & then the result of the ssh-vulnkey for the individual file:
strace ssh-vulnkey -a 2>&1 | grep ^stat64| grep -v NOENT| cut -d\” -f 2| sort | uniq | xargs -i bash -c “echo ; echo {} ; ssh-vulnkey {};”
This really is a dirty hack, using strace to extract the files ssh-vulnkey and then reprocess them individually, there are a million ways this could be done better, but not on a single bash line 
30th Apr, 2008, 10:33am
Thunderbird Essentials – Revisted.
I wrote this some time ago, Thunderbird has moved on quite a bit since then (I’m now running 2.0.0.12 on my XP laptop), so here’s a quick roundup on the Add-ons/Extensions installed:
- British English Dictionary
Hey, colour has a u in it. - GMailUI
mostly just so that I can use j/k to navigate around - Lightening
Quickly check my published calendars (also see this: exchange to ics). - Mnenhy
Mostly so that I can see what SpamAssassin (personal) or PureMessage (work) has thought of the email. - Nostalgy
The major time saver for me these days, rapid filing of email, works well across IMAP accounts.
I was having various problems with GMailUI & Keyconfig not playing together properly, but Nostalgy has largely removed my need for keyconfig, as the rapid filing using Nostalgy’s Save function is great.
28th Apr, 2008, 4:01pm
History Meme
Following on from Mark and others, this is my VPS, not my Ubuntu desktop, laptop or MacBook…
simonm@mccartney:~$ uname -a
Linux mccartney.ie 2.6.16.33-xenU #8 SMP Wed Sep 12 22:06:48 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
simonm@mccartney:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
90 ls
73 cd
48 sudo
34 vi
17 svn
16 grep
13 cat
11 rm
8 cp
7 top
simonm@mccartney:~$
23rd Apr, 2008, 3:15pm
Excellent Job Posting: OmniTI
Here: Site Reliability Engineer found from this rather find blog post
, 3:09pm
accelerometers: can they be used to work out what your doing?
So more & more devices are coming with accelerometers, can they be used to work out if I’m sitting, walking, driving, dancing (as if) etc? is there an API or SW toolkit to do this? Should I write one and become a millionaire? [or just be lazy/evil & patent it ]
This though is brought to you by: The Reg
17th Apr, 2008, 4:07pm
Mobile Monday comes to Belfast
I’m one of the speakers at the first Mobile Monday event in Belfast, I’m still working on my slides, I have a “tech” talk and a “business” talk, I may have to toss a coin to make the decision.