Wireshark as non-root user

When in Windows, you get the NPF service... in Ubuntu/Debian, you get:

apt-get install libcap2-bin
setcap 'CAP_NET_RAW+eip CAP_NET_ADMIN+eip' /usr/bin/dumpcap

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TomTom maps - latest version

Determine which version is the latest for your TomTom device:

1. Go to tomtom.com/products/maps and select map (for ex. - Europe-840 for x50 devices)
2. right click on map's picture and get properties - you'll see ....tomtom.com/lib/img/mapshop/maps/map14477.gif - here 14477 - is map ID in TomTom store.
3. create url-path with this ID: http://num1.id.tomtom.com/14477
4. put this link to your browser - voila! Now you got almost all map's info including region, build, IQ Routes™ supporting, supported devices

Et voilá!

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Ubuntu & NVidia :: Dual screen setup and gnome-panel

Dual monitors, set up with nVidia TwinView in a way that the gnome-panel does not stretch across the whole desktop but is only on one monitor.

Now I want to add another panel on the second monitor, but if I create a new one, I can only add it to the primary display.

Solution:

• add a new panel as usual
• run gconf-editor and go to apps/panel/toplevels/panel_
• set the variable "monitor" from 0 to 1

And that's it!

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Jumbo Frames on VMware ESX

From the Service Console:

1. Change the MTU on the vSwitch "esxcfg-vswitch -m 9000 "
2. Do an "esxcfg-vswitch -l" and a "esxcfg-nics -l" to make sure the vSwitch and the physical NICs associated with it are now set to an MTU of 9000.
3. Create the port group and add it to the vSwitch "esxcfg-vswitch -a "
4. Create a VMkernel interface and associated port group "esxcfg-vmknic -a -i -n -m 9000 "
5. Test it "vmkping -s 9000"

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VMware machine on Linux over NTFS

When you get any VMware host software on Linux (Server or Workstation) running any guest on NTFS filesystem, you get ntfs-3g to 100% CPU usage on a regular basis.

This can be overiden by setting

• mainMem.useNamedFile=FALSE

in the .vmx definition file.

This gets 'mount.ntfs-3g' CPU usage back to manageable levels... 3~10%.

Pidgin home dir

What once was '%GAIMHOME%', while Yahoo did not do their thing, now on Pidgin is '%PURPLEHOME%'.

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Firefox 3 disable extentions compatibility checks

• Type about:config into Firefox's address bar and click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button.
• Right-click anywhere. Choose New>Boolean. Make the name of your new config value 'extensions.checkCompatibility' and set it to 'false'.
• Make another new boolean pair called 'extensions.checkUpdateSecurity' and set the value to 'false'.
• Restart Firefox.