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Resume

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What kind of experience do I have?
I am a web designer with a background in print and package design with a strong focus on technology.

Portfolio

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Here you will find examples of web and print projects, as well as other random work I have completed.

Blog

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Do I really need a soapbox?
No, but here I discuss the many facets of my life, interests and maybe even something unexpected.

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Locate and Mac OS X 10.6

admin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:34:26 +0000

One of my favorite search apps on linux is locate. OS X also has locate. There are other tutorials out there that show how to use locate on OS X but it is for previous versions. This tutorial is specific to 10.6 ( snow leopard ). Lets get to the good stuff.

1. sudo su ( drop to root )
2. cd /usr/libexec/ ( navigate to the proper folder )
3. ./locate.updatedb ( update the index )

Note: launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist ( this is the job that will build the index once a week. If you are adding files constantly however, you need to rebuild the index often. )

Issues:
Q. Why didnt you just use ’sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb’?
A. Received these errors

Note: I received the same errors trying to run it as root. It seems in order to run the update script error free you must be inside the ‘/usr/libexec/’ directory, then run the script.

For more information see the man page.

Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:41:44 +0000

Last night I did a fresh install of Apple’s Snow Leopard. I have a early 2008 macbook pro which isnt the latest and greatest hardware, but I am hopeful I get some performance increases. One app i was worried would not work was Unsanity’s Shadow Killer which says it does not work on 10.5, but does and the same is true for 10.6.

Apps Successfully Installed:
VMware Fusion 2
Shadow Killer
MacPorts
Proteus
UnrarX
Firefox 3.5
more to come…

VMware Fusion 2.0 – Windows XP Guest and VMware Tools

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:31:24 +0000

Question:
You use a macbook pro and want to install VMware tools for Windows XP?

Answer:
1. VMware Tools on it is located at /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/isoimages/
2. Mount the Windows.iso in the vmware player
3. Browse the cd under My Computer and run the ‘Setup.exe’
4. Relax.

Metasploit3 Mac OS X and MacPorts

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:22:45 +0000

I based this off of the official install guide here.

Needed Items:

Get and Install MacPorts here
Once you have MacPorts installed its time to begin the installation process needed for MetaSploit3.

port install sqlite3
port install ruby
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17190/rubygems-0.9.2.tgz
gunzip rubygems-0.9.2.tgz && tar -xf rubygems-0.9.2.tar && cd rubygems-0.9.2
ruby setup.rb
gem update –system ( say Y to every dependency )
gem install -v=1.2.2 rails
gem install sqlite3-ruby
cd ..
wget http://spool.metasploit.com/releases/framework-3.2.tar.gz
tar -xvzf framework-3.2.tar.gz
cd framework-3.2
./msfconsole

Notes:

While following the official guide on the Metasploit website, I noticed that they used the version 0.9.2 of rubygems which is dated 2007. Here in this guide we also use version 0.9.2, however we update versions when we issue the command ‘gem update –system’. It seems possible to download the latest version of rubygems and skip the ‘update –system’ step, but at this point I personally have not tested it.

i cant write

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:44:12 +0000

i cant.