I noticed some strange results in my google analytics account recently, getting a very high bounce rate from visits, and since this is a very small blog about very geeky stuff, a fairly high increase in traffic. After some tweaking around in analytics it turned out that most of the new bouncing traffic came from [...]
By default LaTeX generates some international characters in a weird way when building a PDF and so on. For example, the norwegian Å will be represented as ˚A, and thus making any word containing the letter impossible to find when searching for it. This can be solved by using the package fontenc, with the parameter T1 [...]
Found on a bathroom door at “Høyteknologisenteret i Bergen”… word on the street has it Saiboten may in fact be geeky enough to have accomplished this feat
When ever you use the terminal in Linux or OS X, and forget to add sudo in front of a command that needs the privileges, you can simply type sudo !! to run the same command with sudo. awesome. “!!” Will repeat the last issued command, and can probably be used for other useful things, [...]
In the new Thunderbird 3, Mozilla included tabbed browsing. Since you usually don’t have tabs open all the time, it would be nice to be able to hide the tab-bar when no tabs are open. There is a hidden option to accomplish this. Thanks to Truben for pointing this out! Read his article at http://truben.no/journal/auto-hide-tab-bar-in-mozilla-thunderbird-3/
After upgrading to Snow Leopard, one of the few things that stopped working for me was Wireshark, a really cool network analyzer I’m planning to write more about later. What happened was that at startup you get a long list of error messages, and then no network interfaces could be found. Luckily, Michael Gracie has [...]
At the ROOTS 2009 conference I attended a workshop with Martin Knobloch called “Application Security – Awareness.” Martin works for OWASP, The Open Web Application Security Project, and they have created a lot of cool stuff. On the workshop we got an introduction to WebScarab and WebGoat, and for learning how a lot of software [...]
This might not be the most useful hack, but in some scenarios it might be good to know. And it does show those who believe that blacklisting MAC-addresses on their access point is a good security feature that they are mistaken. For example the system they used at the college I lived in at the [...]
The guys at the office, Peder1, Tobias and Morten have started a podcast called Podcastination. It’s being hosted here, at josteinb.com/podcastination. Who knows, maybe I’ll have to chip in soon too. It’s supposed to be a weekly event, with light entertainment. The podcast is in norwegian. The pilot is out now! Edit: The podcast can [...]