News

Anime Contact Lenses

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 | Funny, News | No Comments

You've got to love Japanese culture!

Inventorspot.com recently posted an article about large, tinted contact lenses that give the wearer an Anime-like “appearance of a bigger, wider iris”. I can’t decide whether this is creepy or awesome?

Tags: anime, eyes, girl, japanese

Darkstat: UNIX Packet-Sniffing Daemon

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 | Linux, News, Tips & Tricks, UNIX | 2 Comments

Darkstat is a packet-sniffing daemon for UNIX machines that collects network traffic statistics and can display them as HTML pages.

For this example I installed and configured Darkstat on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) machine, but the same procedure should work for most Debian-based Linux distributions:

Like most Debian applications, Darkstat can be installed with apt-get by opening a new Terminal window and running the following command:

sudo apt-get install darkstat

After the package has been downloaded and installed, you need to modify it’s configuration file in a text editor by running this command:

sudo nano /etc/darkstat/init.cfg

Change this line:

START_DARKSTAT=no

To this:

START_DARKSTAT=yes

Then press control-X (to quit the text editor) followed by Y (to save your changes) and Enter (to overwrite the existing file).

Finally, you need to start the Darkstat daemon by running this command:

sudo /etc/init.d/darkstat start

Any computer on your network will then be able to view Darkstat’s HTML output by pointing a web browser to the IP address (and port 666) of the machine Darkstat is installed on.

In my case, I had to enter “10.0.0.119:666″ in my browser’s address bar to see this page: