Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Grub2 configuration is not booting menu entry

I messed up a lot; and, here I am.
The grub.cfg custom entry I have is:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry  'FreeBSD' --class frebsd --class bsd --class os {
                insmod part_msdos
  insmod ufs2
  set root=" (hd0,msdos2,bsd1) "
  kfreebsd /boot/loader
}
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
 
And it is not booting.
 
 

Monday, January 6, 2020

Something cool from the original driftnet page

As I was perusing the interweebs, I came upon a second reference to drifnet and some righteous software. It reminds me of what Fabrice Ballard has done.

First, the original driftnet site: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/

Second, the site to which I found the AM software. I am not able to test because of limited resources; yet, if anyone has a way of testing it along with mesh networking, let others know: https://www.vanheusden.com/mirrors/
the program is Tempest-AM

Third, some of Fabrice Bellard's work: https://bellard.org/

Fabrice is a cool guy; so, whenever any of you have a chance, give him thanks for all of his hard work he put into virtualization.


ASCII to Hexadecimal

Here is a list of the characters for those who will need an online reference for pinging a message. 20 is the code for space.

First set, standard alphabet: A a B b C c D d E e F f G g H h I i J j K k l l M m N n O o P p Q q R R S s T t U u V v W w X x Y y Z z

First set, hexadecimal code. Remember that 20 is the value for space: 41 20 61 20 42 20 62 20 43 20 63 20 44 20 64 20 45 20 65 20 46 20 66 20 47 20 67 20 48 20 68 20 49 20 69 20 4a 20 6a 20 4b 20 6b 20 6c 20 6c 20 4d 20 6d 20 4e 20 6e 20 4f 20 6f 20 50 20 70 20 51 20 71 20 52 20 52 20 53 20 73 20 54 20 74 20 55 20 75 20 56 20 76 20 57 20 77 20 58 20 78 20 59 20 79 20 5a 20 7a

Second set, numerals -with spacing:0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Second set, hexadecimal values for the numerals with 20 inserted as the space value: 30 20 31 20 32 20 33 20 34 20 35 20 36 20 37 20 38 20 39

Third set, the characters from the Shift-numerical value:! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )

Third set, hexadecimal values: 21 20 40 20 23 20 24 20 25 20 5e 20 26 20 2a 20 28 20 29

Fourth set, all other characters from the standard US English laptop: - _ = + [ { ] } \ | : ; ' " , < . > / ?

Fourth set, hexadecimal values- and, as always, 20 is the space value: 20 2d 20 5f 20 3d 20 2b 20 5b 20 7b 20 5d 20 7d 20 5c 20 7c 20 3a 20 3b 20 27 20 22 20 2c 20 3c 20 2e 20 3e 20 2f 20 3f

Fifth set:  Upper case Castilian, Portuguese, and other characters not included  on the standard US laptop:À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß

Fifth set, hexadecimal value with spacing value of 20. I keep stating this in the event someone becomes confused. The spacing between the values is the padding used with the online convertor: c0 20 c1 20 c2 20 c3 20 c4 20 c5 20 c6 20 c7 20 c8 20 c9 20 ca 20 cb 20 cc 20 cd 20 ce 20 cf 20 d0 20 d1 20 d2 20 d3 20 d4 20 d5 20 d6 20 d8 20 d9 20 da 20 db 20 dc 20 dd 20 de 20 df

Sixth set, lowercase nonstandard as stated from above, ascii values:à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ø ù ú û ü ý þ

Sixth set, hexadecimal values: e0 20 e1 20 e2 20 e3 20 e4 20 e5 20 e6 20 e7 20 e8 20 e9 20 ea 20 eb 20 ec 20 ed 20 ee 20 ef 20 f0 20 f1 20 f2 20 f3 20 f4 20 f5 20 f6 20 f8 20 f9 20 fa 20 fb 20 fc 20 fd 20 fe 20

That is it for now.

Please enjoy.

Saturday, January 4, 2020

Well, now, of all the things...

Some weeby things to do:

So, you want to do some hacking, uh huh? Goodly.
Here is a list of applications that I use and the reasons for using them.
1. SciTE. https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html This is probably one of the best editors that allows you to peer into the intricacies of binaries, images, and other files. For one, browsing through the file allows one to see any error messages, hidden text, and other weird things.
2. GIMP https://www.gimp.org/  This is what I use to make the images you see on my blog. To let you know: I draw most of the base images myself. The exceptions are the ant and other sphere based animations. These are done by adjusting the width and height.
3. Tupi 2D Magic https://www.maefloresta.com/ I had to learn something about this application suite. You need to adjust the smoothness to 0.00 and then start animating. If you don't, it will automatically make the lines a bit rounded. Also, every time you draw a line, it becomes a separate object. Pay attention to this when you make your animation. You are able to choose to copy and paste OR you may over-trace the image. Single clicking to select the object will allow you to adjust the width and height. Double clicking after selecting will allow you to rotate the object. Be careful as to how you select and move because the object may skew itself to a strange dimension of a line and nothing else. There is the undo key. I like it so far; and, it is a lot of fun.
4. Nmap https://nmap.org/ This is just basically fun if you want to know what others are running. Be careful of how you run it and your reasons for doing such. It is a good way of remotely testing the security of ports on your machine.
5. Ping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(networking_utility) Be smart when you use this application. There may be a way of sending certain information with ping using "ping -p <pattern>."  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31857419/how-to-send-a-message-with-ping I'm not sure if it is hexidecimal or some other format.

Enjoy!