November2009

Eclipse – The executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library

Eclipse – The executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library. This problem is so generic, there’s a ton of things that could be wrong. It also depends on which OS you’re using!

Role Playing Games instill a false sense of achievement

RPG video games praise you for the deeds of your characters. RPG’s, from the old school Ultima series, A Bard’s Tale or even Final Fantasy, it was obvious that time invested eqated to the character’s skill improvement. Most tasks eventually became repetitive chores that never came close to pushing the envelope of thought provoking. Modern mmorpg’s are even worse.

Building qpidc AMQP C++ libraries on ppc

Wow, there are a crap load of dependencies to build qpid, the AMQP client/server libraries for C++! What do you mean my architecture isn’t supported? Bah, whatever… Add ppc to the list or rip it out for now. Just build it and stop complaining!

Batch add users to the cc list for all components in the bugzilla database directly

If you want to add a user to all of the components in bugzilla, you don’t have to go through the gui. In fact, you can change just about anything in bugzilla by connecting to the database directly and modifying the tables. I find this much faster than repetitively navigating through the web front end. Connect to the database, match up user id’s to user names, figure out which components you want to modify, then update the component_cc table. Step-by-step.

Enable ethernet bridging through your firewall using iptables or sysctl.conf

Which is better? Which is faster? For a desktop system, I don’t think it really matters if you have to process a bunch of rules. How many can there be, and how much network traffic are you seeing anyway? It’s probably more efficient to modify your sysctl.conf, but it seems more organized to do it all with iptables.

Modern Warfare 2 aim bots and wall hacks

I got booted with this message after watching a replay of a guy using an aimbot to instantly target my head while simultaneously being able to see everyone in the game, right through the walls.

Enabling links to UNC file paths in Firefox

Links to file UNC paths are disabled by default in just about every browser except Internet Explorer because it is an easily exploitable security vulnerability. Malicious sites could detect your operating system or installed applications by checking default installation paths, or worse, browse your cookies, sifting for sensitive data. As system vulnerabilities are discovered, files related to exploits could also be detected.