How to disable Unity animations in Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04?

Compiz manager can be used to disable animations.

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Look for Compizconfig in Unity Dash --> Effects --> Disable non-desired animations

Compizconfig Settings Manager

Banana Pi: How To Install OpenMediaVault (NAS)

This was done on Bananian 14.09. OpenMediaVault is a simple out-of-the-box solution to set up a Network Attached Storage (NAS) and supports services such as SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent etc.

sudo su
wget -O - http://packages.openmediavault.org/public/archive.key | apt-key add -
apt-get install python-software-properties
apt-add-repository "deb http://packages.openmediavault.org/public kralizec main"
apt-get update
apt-get install openmediavault-keyring postfix
apt-get update
apt-get install openmediavault
omv-initsystem
reboot

Now open a browser and enter the IP address of the banana pi: e.g. http://10.0.0.x . Default user/password is admin/openmediavault.

How To Extract Page(s) From A Single PDF File Using Command Line

PDFtk allows users to perform common pdf tasks from the command line such as merging or splitting PDF files and pages.










To install the program:

sudo apt-get install pdftk

To extract a page from an existing pdf file. For instance just the first page (A1):

pdftk A=/home/user/Desktop/cv.pdf  cat A1 output outfile.pdf

How To Install sqlmap on Debian (or Ubuntu)

sqlmap is an open-source pentesting tool that automates the exploitation of SQL injection flaws.

The tool makes it pretty easy for anyone with basic command line knowledge to exploit and break into databases.


Installation

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap.git sqlmap-dev
cd sqlmap-dev

To list available options:

python sqlmap.py -h

Fetch database names of vulnerable url:

python sqlmap.py -u www.example.com/home.php?ID=10 --dbs

Enumerate tables of a website's database (e.g.: test)

python sqlmap.py -u www.example.com/home.php?ID=10 -D test --tables

Dump all data in database (test) and table (e.g.: costumer_data)

python sqlmap.py -u www.example.com/home.php?ID=10 -D test -T costumer_data --dump

More examples are available here: https://gist.github.com/stamparm/5335217

Banana Pi: I2C Barometric Sensor BMP085

Wiring

---> 3.3 volts - to vcc on board
---> ground - to gnd on board
---> SDA - to sda on board
---> SLC - to scl on board

Wiring, BMP085

Locating the sensor

root@lemaker:~# ls -l /dev/i2c*
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 0 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-0
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 1 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-1
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 2 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-2
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 3 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-3
crw-rw---T 1 root i2c 89, 4 Sep 19 14:43 /dev/i2c-4

As you can see there are 5 I2C buses. With the i2cdetect tool we are looking for the 0x77 address, which is the BMP085.

# -y 0, -y 1 etc
sudo i2cdetect -y 2

We are using the  Adafruit BMP Python Library to access the sensor.

sudo apt-get install git build-essential python-dev python-smbus
git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_BMP.git
cd Adafruit_Python_BMP
sudo python setup.py install

There are some example scripts in the examples folder.

cd examples

# we need to change the bus number
nano simpletest.py
#uncomment sensor = BMP085.BMP085(busnum=2)
#and comment #sensor = BMP085.BMP085()

#run code
sudo python simpletest.py

#sample output
Temp = 23.00 *C
Pressure = 97607.00 Pa
Altitude = 313.47 m
Sealevel Pressure = 97607.00 Pa

Banana Pi: Temperature Sensor (DS18B20) - Tutorial

Requirements

--> Banana Pi running Raspbian for Banana Pi
--> Breadboard
--> Jumper Wires
--> DS18b20
--> 4.7K Ohm resistor
--> Breakout cobbler

 

Hardware Setup

Refer to the graphic for the correct wiring. Make sure the Banana Pi is switched off to prevent any possible damage.

Software Setup

Double check the wiring and boot the device. In order to be able to access the temperature data, we need to make some minor adjustments to the script.bin file, which is a binary configuration file used by Allwinner SOC.

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools
cd sunxi-tools
make

#location of the script.bin file
cd /boot/bananapi/

#get the fex file
sudo /home/bananapi/sunxi-tools/bin2fex script.bin bananapi.fex

#edit the fex file
sudo nano bananapi.fex

#add the following at the end, save (CTRL + O) and close
[w1_para]
gpio = 4

#.fex back to .bin
sudo /home/bananapi/sunxi-tools/fex2bin bananapi.fex script.bin

sudo reboot

Reading raw data from the sensor

After successfully rebooting your device, you will notice that /sys/bus/w1/devices is no longer empty.

bananapi@lemaker ~ $ cd /sys/bus/w1/devices
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices $ ls
28-000006203041  w1_bus_master1
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices $ cd 28-000006203041
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-000006203041 $ ls
driver  id  name  power  subsystem  uevent  w1_slave
bananapi@lemaker /sys/bus/w1/devices/28-000006203041 $ cat w1_slave
5e 01 4b 46 7f ff 02 10 8d : crc=8d YES
5e 01 4b 46 7f ff 02 10 8d t=21875

t=21875 is the number we are looking for. E.g.: 21.9 degree Celsius (°C) in my case.

my setup

Building Wireshark from Source - Linux (Debian 7.6)

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy)











Latest releases can be found here: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

wget https://1.eu.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2
tar xaf wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2
cd wireshark-1.12.0
#could be that you need to install libgtk-3-dev before compiling
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev 
#to compile
./configure
make
#now run it
sudo ./wireshark