PHP Generated Visual Code Representation

I sometimes get the feeling I should have been a graphics programmer rather than a web programmer. I always seem to get some sort of satisfaction from communicating data visually.  Aside from this quickly outdated GoogleGraph class I wrote to wrap the Google Chart API, nothing I’ve created in this field has become useful. But this doesn’t stop me from dreaming up new ways of using the GD libraries.

My Ubuntu 8.04 Server

It’s no beast, but it’s more important than my left leg.  With a 2.2Ghz x86_64 AMD LE-1600 processor, 2Gb RAM, and just under 3Tb of combined disk capacity all on a 3Mb /s connection…my home server isn’t breaking any speed records (actually I’m considering some upgrades as I write this).  But you can find me logged in to it more often than WoW.

Torify Torrentflux-b4rt

In my quest to anonymize all traffic leaving my home network, I ran into the problem of torifying my bittorrent transfers. Routing the actual transfers through Tor would be far too slow so I will be showing you how to anonymize only the tracker requests. But remember, pirating is bad mmmkay.

Tab complete ESSIDs in Bash

Do you ever find yourself having to transfer AP information between terminals while using Aircrack?  Thankfully the new version supports BSSID resolution from ESSID, but what when a user names their AP “mY$up3RuNh@ckAbl3AcC3SSp01nT“?  Sure, that makes for a great password but it’s not going to stop anyone from cracking your 64-bit WEP encryption.  What it will do, is cause me frustration while typing and hassle while copying/pasting.

Customize Your Ubuntu MOTD

There was once a time when I was enthralled with Linux; Building Gentoo from scratch, customizing every possible configuration for optimization,  compiling binaries and such. I’d spent hours perfecting my ANSI MOTD using carefully placed escape sequences. It was beautiful.

But the novelty wears, and as I fell to the dark side of precompiled binaries, my motivation toward fancy MOTDs waned as well. Here I will show you a simple method of presenting colorful ANSI logos at login in Ubuntu.