mormanski

I recently switched from using Ladbrokes Poker Client to using Party Poker. I use linux and so I have installed it using Wine. Here’s how I did it.

Install wine
Configure wine
Install Mozilla
Install Mozilla ActiveX Control
Install Shockwave plugin
Install Party Poker Client

1. Install wine
I have installed wine version 0.9.29. My distribution is Gentoo and so as root I [...]

It has been my aim to get rid of Microsoft Windows entirely from my computer. The only thing that stopped me was the Ladbrokes Poker client which is only supported on Windows. However, I now have it working under wine. It is a little bit fiddly but here’s how I did it.

My wireless lan has been encrypted using WEP for a few years. After hearing that WEP was insecure I decided to try and crack it. It was suprisingly easy and this is how I did it.

Install Kismet and Aircrack
Use Kismet to find available wireless networks
Use airodump to collect initialization vectors
Use aircrack to find the [...]

Here is a screenshot.

I recently decided to use a php cache to speed up the response of my websites. I decided to use PECL-APC (Alternative PHP Cache) and I did the following

Installing PECL-APC
Check Installation
Fix Problems with PECL-APC and Gallery

1. Installing PECL-APC

I’m using PHP5 and Gentoo. The dev-php5/pecl-apc package is masked by the ~x86 keyword and so I [...]