Here is a script I wrote that scrapes the web interface of a router running DD-WRT. The script looks for the MAC addresses of wireless users. When it sees a MAC address that it hasn’t logged before it issues an … Continue reading
Occasionally I find myself wanting to removing leading and/or trailing occurrences of a character or string from a larger string in bash. A couple common uses are removing quotes, or stripping an unknown number of spaces leading into the data … Continue reading
Is your Ubuntu MOTD warning you of a zombie process? Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-20-server x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/C System information as of Thu Jun 28 18:36:57 EDT 2012 System load: 0.0 Processes: 94 Usage of /: 68.2% of … Continue reading
I recently wrote about running an ActiveX component without Internet Explorer. I used that technique to come up with a shell script front-end for downloading, unpacking and running an executable in Wine for accessing an APC IP KVM (model AP5456). … Continue reading
Here’s a quick and dirty little script I wrote to rip fax.com. I had a bunch of faxes that I wanted to download so I put this together for my own use, and then added a little bit of extra … Continue reading