phrog blog » linux http://blog.phrog.org Let it snow, let it snow, let it SNOW! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:07:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Steamboat Springs Linux Users Group http://blog.phrog.org/2009/11/22/steamboat-springs-linux-users-group/ http://blog.phrog.org/2009/11/22/steamboat-springs-linux-users-group/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:45:30 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/?p=243 A few years ago I kicked around the idea of a Steamboat Springs Linux Users Group. The domain I purchased for this project has sat quite dormant until just recently, some other Linux users in the Steamboat area have shown some interest. So, here it is.. finally.. The Steamboat Springs Linux Users Group. If you a Steamboat Springs local and a Linux geek also. please visit and create your login.

]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2009/11/22/steamboat-springs-linux-users-group/feed/ 0 wma2mp3 with mplayer and lame http://blog.phrog.org/2008/04/16/wma2mp3-with-mplayer-and-lame/ http://blog.phrog.org/2008/04/16/wma2mp3-with-mplayer-and-lame/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:23:03 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/?p=150 So we all have friends that have tried sharing wma files with us. here is a script to change them into mp3s!

#!/bin/bash
# wma2mp3
for i in *.wma
do
if [ -f "$i" ]; then
rm -f "$i.wav"
mkfifo "$i.wav"
mplayer -quiet -vo null -vc dummy -af volume=0,resample=44100:0:1 -ao pcm:waveheader:file="$i.wav" "$i" &
dest=`echo "$i"|sed -e 's/wma$/mp3/'`
lame -V0 -h -b 160 --vbr-new "$i.wav" "$dest"
rm -f "$i.wav"
fi
done

]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2008/04/16/wma2mp3-with-mplayer-and-lame/feed/ 0 Twitter from the command line with tweet http://blog.phrog.org/2008/03/26/twitter-from-the-command-line-with-tweet/ http://blog.phrog.org/2008/03/26/twitter-from-the-command-line-with-tweet/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:59:42 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/2008/03/26/twitter-from-the-command-line-with-tweet/ /tmp/tweet aspell -c /tmp/tweet TWIT=$(cat /tmp/tweet) curl -u USERNAME:PASSWD -d status="$TWIT" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml rm /tmp/tweet [...]]]> This is a stupidly simple script for sending microblogs to twitter.com using curl and spell checking them with aspell along the way. it looks like this:


#!/bin/bash
# tweet - A command line twitter with spellcheck - me@phrog.org
echo $@ > /tmp/tweet
aspell -c /tmp/tweet
TWIT=$(cat /tmp/tweet)
curl -u USERNAME:PASSWD -d status="$TWIT" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
rm /tmp/tweet
exit 0

Save the code as “tweet” and use it like this:

you@yourprompt:~$ tweet testing my tweet script

It should spit out some success xml. You just sent a tweet to twitter.

Of course you will need to edit the USERNAME and PASSWD to your username and password at twitter.com. If you don’t like copy and paste you can grab it as a file here. Hope you find it useful.

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If you don’t know what irc is or irssi or blowjob.pl do not waste your time trying to understand this. Move along.. Don’t Waste your time.

apt-get install irssi irssi-scripts

Try to load blowjob in irssi

/load blowjob.pl

poop, im missing something.


11:06 ,--[ScriptAssist]
11:06 | The perl module Crypt::CBC is missing on your system.
11:06 | Please ask your administrator about it.
11:06 | You can also check CPAN via '/scriptassist cpan Crypt::CBC'.
11:06 `--->

Guessing I need libcrypt-cbc-perl and im thinking, libcrypt-blowfish-perl

apt-get install libcrypt-cbc-perl libcrypt-blowfish-perl

Next load blowfish in irssi

/load blowjob.pl

Loaded :)

Set a test key with someone your irc’ing with, and blow something.

/setkey foobar
/blow yo testing
“Ciphertext does not begin with a valid header for ’salt’

Shit still not working! Seems the script is old. It needed to be updated for the newer Crypt:CBC. I changed a couple lines and came up with this fixed blowjob.pl

Working now!

]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2008/02/01/irc-with-irssi-and-a-blowjob/feed/ 2 Anonymous browsing with tor and privoxy for linux http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/19/anonymous-browsing-with-tor-and-privoxy-for-linux/ http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/19/anonymous-browsing-with-tor-and-privoxy-for-linux/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:46:13 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/19/anonymous-browsing-with-tor-and-privoxy/ Someone asked me this morning about browsing the web and masking the IP of the origin. The most effective way to do this is with tor and privoxy. These are my notes on setting this up with a debian or ubuntu linux desktop.

Step 1 Get the applications.
apt-get install tor privoxy

Step 2 Configure privoxy to use tor.
echo "forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 ." >> /etc/privoxy/config
/etc/init.d/privoxy restart

Step 3 Configure your browser to use the proxy.

At this point you should have a tor enabled socks4 proxy server running on localhost port 8118. Configure your browser to use the proxy in it’s preferences.

If your using Firefox I would suggest getting the SwitchProxy extension and using it to manage the different proxies you have access to. If you don’t have any other proxies to manage then I would recommend the Tor Button extension instead, its very simple.

Step 4 Test

Visit whatismyip.com or similar and confirm the IP result is not your own.

done.

I soon will be forced to do this in windows as well, I will post my results.

]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/19/anonymous-browsing-with-tor-and-privoxy-for-linux/feed/ 4 Ampache install notes http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/14/ampache-install-notes/ http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/14/ampache-install-notes/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:29:12 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/2007/10/14/ampache-install-notes/ Today i’m installing ampache with a nerd in training on his ubuntu laptop heres the notes

install required stuff
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 phpmyadmin mysql-server
Go to http://localhost to see if “It Works!” if so then apache2 is running.
Then try http://localhost/phpmyadmin if it loads then ya have php5 working with apache2! requirements done. Let’s move on

make your web folders
mkdir ~/www
mkdir ~/www/ampache
cd ~/www/ampache/

get subversion
sudo apt-get install subversion

get ampache
svn checkout https://svn.ampache.org/trunk

set up a virtual host
jed /etc/apache2/sites-available/ampache

create a virtualhost similar to this and save



ServerAdmin webmaster@ladybug
DocumentRoot /home/eek/www/ampache/svn.ampache.org/trunk
Options Indexes
ServerName ladybug
ErrorLog /home/eek/www/ampache/svn.ampache.org/ampache-error_log
CustomLog /home/eek/www/ampache/svn.ampache.org/ampache-access_log common

restart apache
apache2ctl restart

edit your /etc/hosts to include “ladybug”
echo "127.0.0.1 ladybug" >> /etc/hosts

goto http://ladybug in your browser if you get an ampache install screen..
You will need to have created a mysql user and database with http://your-ip/phpmyadmin

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]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2007/05/28/dell-puts-ubuntu-linux-on-its-main-page/feed/ 2 Nymserv install notes http://blog.phrog.org/2007/05/12/nymserv-install-notes/ http://blog.phrog.org/2007/05/12/nymserv-install-notes/#comments Sun, 13 May 2007 05:47:25 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/2007/05/12/nymserv-install-notes/ If you know what a nymserver is then you may also know there is little or no documentation on getting one installed. Its a bitch. These are my notes from the install. They are quite brief but I figured they may be helpful if your working with nymserver.pl and are stuck on something, so I’m sharing.

Make a folder to work in.
mkdir Nym
cd Nym

get the nymserver code from cvs

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@nymserv.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nymserv login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@nymserv.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/nymserv co nymserv

run setup to build the pgp folder and make our keys
cd nymserv
sh ./setup.sh

then we make sure it built the key fine
cd ~/Nym/pgp
gpg --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring ./secring.pgp --list-secret-keys

sign and check the signature of the key
gpg --keyring ~/Nym/pgp/pubring.pgp --sign-key nymserverKeyID
gpg --keyring ~/Nym/pgp/pubring.pgp --list-sigs nymserverKeyID

edit the key to add send@
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ~/Nym/pgp/pubring.pgp --secret-keyring ~/Nym/pgp/secring.pgp --edit-key config@nym.whatever.net

dump the public key to a new file
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ~/Nym/pgp/pubring.pgp --armor --export nymserverKeyID > sigedkey.pgp

create some stuff

mkdir ~/Nym/users
mkdir ~/Nym/queue
mkdir ~/Nym/.gnupg
touch ~/Nym/.gnupg/noring.gpg

create user files for admin and postmaster
echo my@emailaddy.not > ~/Nym/users/postmaster.forward
echo my@emailaddy.not > ~/Nym/users/admin.forward

create a reply email
echo 'From: nobody@nym.whatever.net' > ~/Nym/users/remailer-key.reply
echo 'Subject: PGP key for nym.whatever.net' >> ~/Nym/users/remailer-key.reply
echo '' >> ~Nym/users/remailer-key.reply
cat ~Nym/pgp/sigedkey.pgp >> ~/Nym/users/remailer-key.reply
cp ~/Nym/users/remailer-key.reply ~/Nym/users/help.reply

Next we edit nymserver.pl a little to set it up for our environment check the first line to ensure it is your perl path and then edit $HOMEDIR $HOSTNAME and so on. Most important is $NYMKEYID

Then set up dns and MX and added this to postfix master.cf
#nymserver
nymserv unix - n n - - pipe
flags=FR user=anon argv=/home/remailer/Nym/nymserver.pl -d ${user}

add a line to main.cf
relay_domains = nym.whatever.net

add a transport
nym.whatever.net nymserv:

hope for the best
postmap /etc/postfix/transport
postfix reload
Oops,had to chmod 700 nymserver.pl
and the server was missing a few things.
apt-get install libmd5-perl
apt-get install libgnupg-interface-perl

If your mixmaster is disallowing clear text you may not receive any config requests.. if this happens add --UNENCRYPTED=y to the nymserver.pl mixmaster line.

If your postfix is configured recipient_delimiter=+ your nym configuration confirmations will break with “User Unknown” because the cookie delimiter is also “+”.

Now test a bit and if it’s all good then open up finger on the firewall and add this line to your inetd.conf
finger stream tcp nowait remailer /home/remailer/Nym/nymserver.pl nymserver.pl -fingerd

]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2007/05/12/nymserv-install-notes/feed/ 2 etree.org mail list server upgrade http://blog.phrog.org/2007/04/03/etreeorg-mail-list-server-upgrade/ http://blog.phrog.org/2007/04/03/etreeorg-mail-list-server-upgrade/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:27:59 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/2007/04/03/etreeorg-mail-list-server-upgrade/ If your on an etree.org mailing list then you know the server has been borked for a while. Well I upgraded the server to a 1Ghz machine yesterday. you can keep an eye on it here.

]]> http://blog.phrog.org/2007/04/03/etreeorg-mail-list-server-upgrade/feed/ 1 Steamboat Springs Technology Commission Ready To Spend! http://blog.phrog.org/2007/03/13/steamboat-springs-technology-commission-ready-to-spend/ http://blog.phrog.org/2007/03/13/steamboat-springs-technology-commission-ready-to-spend/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:34:00 +0000 phrog http://blog.phrog.org/2007/03/13/steamboat-springs-technology-commission-ready-to-spend/ The tech commission is ready to spend some money. They have lots of it burning holes in pockets, Wait an idea! Let’s buy some really expensive software that will need constant spending to keep updated. Then we can spend all that tax money and everyone will feel great!

This could really happen.
Read this article from the pilot

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