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Today I was curious about whether a certain server was sending me keep-alives.
The fact is that Wireshark is capable of the feat. It has access to the low level data packets and can tell you whether one of those looks like a Keep-Alive sequence (SEG.SEQ) or acknowledgement (ACK).
So if you need to know for a specific server, it's easy enough. You need to connect that specific server and look at the packets using Wireshark.
However, in software, it is not actually possible to determine whether Keep-Alives are being sent. This is because the TCP stack just answers to a signal with a ...
Today I had a problem with letsencrypt. I did not want to give me the certificate as it could not verify the domain name I was trying to get a certificate for.
Looking into why I would get the error:
The client lacks sufficient authorization
I only found references to mainly stupid answers. Especially, answers that would tell you to create a directory under the .well-known folder as in:
http://example.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/test
Then make sure you could access "test" by going to that URL.
Sure enough that worked just fine. But it has nothing to do with ...
Once in a while, I want to create a struct which has a specific size because it has to match a file one to one.
To do that, you can use a simple trick which is to use a union instead of a struct.
union header_t { char unused[total_size]; struct { int field1; int field2; int field3; ... }; };
Note that the total size of the union may end up being more than total_size. It's up to you to assert that the size does not go over. However, this is an easy way to create a struct which has a hard coded size. However, it will not be ...
As I am now using git, I like to create my own repositories. In most cases the documentation is not that easy to follow. Here are the instructions I use depending on the type of repository I want to save my work in.
First of all, I setup my own personal configuration (it can be used as a global setup for you). This is written in the ~/.getconfig and looks like this:
[user] name = AlexisWilke email = me@my-top-secret-email-address.com [core] excludesfile = ~/.gitignore editor = vim [push] default = simple [giggle] ...
This is not the first time I try to look into getting a color in a cell when the value of the cell is such and such, not just smaller than 0 and it becomes [RED]... which is a default available in your formula.
The fact is that you need to create styles that you're going to reference either with the STYLE() function or using the Conditional Formatting window.
So...
P.S. This is only available in Calc.
First select a cell. You probably want to use an empty cell where you can enter a number or some text and then change it's ...
Today I found out that Qt actually checks the executable setuid flag. If that flag is set, then it generates a fatal error in your console as so:
FATAL: The application binary appears to be running setuid, this is a security hole.
Then it aborts the process as we can see on the following line:
Aborted (core dumped)
If you have core dumped turned on, then it will also generate a core dump about it.
The error is very sensible and actually well explain in the documentation:
Qt is not an appropriate solution for setuid programs due to its large attack surface. However some ...
As I upgrade to 13.10 of Ubuntu, I'm having to do work to get my system back to normal...
Today I stumble on the fact that USB ports are now not accessible by everyone by default. So when I tried to scan a document, it told me that I had no scanners. Panic... and then I found out that the permissions were changed, widely, so only users who are root (by default) can access the scanners.
I changed the group to a group I'm in and it worked without having to reboot or relog in. However, it is not unlikely that the group won't stick... Ah! Correct! But ...
Today I was thinking that I'd like to have a way to include my list of Jira issues in my Debian packages so users can see that list if they'd like to know where we're at. (what's left to do)
Looking around, I found nothing of interest that said:
Extract Jira issues from the Command Line
So I tried with other types of searches and found a few things, but no real command line tool. Well... it looks like there is one from the Jira people but I'm afraid that's Java and I did not understand what the command could be (i.e. all I could see was a list of what looks like a ...
Today I wanted to test a service directly on my developer system. That is, I wantedto start it with systemd to prove that it was working (it does not work right on a full install, though.)
I bumped in a few problems, though.
First, I got this cryptic error. I though that "CHDIR" would mean that when systemd tries to change directory, it wasn't happy. Sure enough, that was it. I have an entry which tells systemd what my Current Working Directory should be:
...
Today I noticed an error in my mail.log file about maildrop, a postfix tool, having permission problems.
The errors look like this:
Aug 22 20:58:01 snapwebsites postfix/postdrop[18189]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/255899.18189: Permission denied Aug 22 20:58:01 snapwebsites postfix/postdrop[12347]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/524431.12347: Permission denied Aug 22 20:58:11 snapwebsites postfix/postdrop[18189]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/258810.18189: Permission denied Aug 22 20:58:11 snapwebsites ...
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