iftop reports in binary / IEC based 1024 units
iftop unit This article aims to clarify the units used in iftop, a popular network monitoring tool. A common point of confusion is whether iftop uses base 1000 or base 1024 forRead More…
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Generating Timelines with Mermaid – US Wars and Birth Years
I was curious about all of the birth years that US has been in and which birth years have no had to go to war. Turns out pretty much everyone except thisRead More…
File Slicing: Extracting Data from Non-Standard Offsets Efficiently with Binwalk and dd
Introduction Extracting specific content from a file can often become a complicated task, especially when the desired data starts at an irregular byte offset. While the dd command is a versatile toolRead More…
Cleaning up $PATH
If you have a huge $PATH, run this to split every item into new line echo $PATH | tr : \\n Sort the output so similar items are together and count themRead More…
Samba and HTTP Container To Provide ISOs to IDRAC / IPMI Virtual Media
If you have a server that hosts your ISO images. Let us assume it’s a Centos 8 server and your ISOs are sitting in a directory /root/webroot/ISO and some tools in /root/webroot/tools.Read More…
Quick Way To See If Python and Pip Are Synced
Its important to know if your pip and python are using the same paths. Otherwise you might install a package with pip and it will not be accessible via python. Here isRead More…
Full Path Json With Node.JS and Python (Also JQ + Gron)
NOTE: This article presents 3 node.js and python scripts. Scroll to the section “Full Path Json with Python (Better – version 2)” at the bottom for the best one. See GIST withRead More…
Tmux Mouse Mode Support + Terminal Apps Support Across OS
Click to scroll to my list of supported apps Once you start using tmux with your terminals, you will literally uproot your progress exponentially. It is an absolutely game-changing application of productivityRead More…
Colored Shell For Easier Reading With Lolcat
Lolcat is a great color tool for the shell. I will show you how I use it to increase my shell productivity. Consider some wall of text output (like from journalctl) IsRead More…
Wifi Password Cracking On AWUS036ACS and QGOO 1750 Mbps on Ubuntu
These notes are more of a massive cheat sheet for me for Wifi connectivity and Wifi SSID / password cracking. To do “wifi password hacking”, you need a special Wifi adapter thatRead More…