Monday, October 20, 2014

Changing Timezone in Wireshark

Hi

I don't think there is an outright method in wireshark to do it.  However you can set you TZ to some other value as described in this link  http://seclists.org/wireshark/2011/Oct/402


Get the list of TZ from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones


Now start wireshark like so to start displaying Time in EST.  Note this works in GNU/Linux OS.  Not sure about other OS.

$ TZ='America/New_York' wireshark &



Friday, October 3, 2014

Ubuntu not discovering other OS on my friends computer

I got burned by Ubuntu not discovering other OS on my friends computer.  I found the answer in the link shown below.


http://askubuntu.com/questions/11916/how-to-restore-windows-xp-menu-entry-in-grub




All we need to do is include the following five lines under /boot/grub/grub.cfg #40 custom OS detections......





As always try to take backup before you screw up something real bad.

menuentry "Some Operating System (on /dev/sda1)" {
    insmod ntfs
    set root='(hd0,1)'
    chainloader +1
}