Adding HTML5 Geo Location data to your sites

Geo-location is generally the practice of pinpointing the locality of a visitor to a site based on their IP address. In the past, setting this up locally usually required installing databases containing matched IP subnets to the locality. With HTML5, this becomes much easier because of a new standard being worked on by the W3.

Most people who surf the web probably never think about using this data, (Read More…)

June 26th, 2011

Getting RSYaba to work in Back|Track 5

I recently wanted to test RSYaba in BT5. I had tried it before in BT3 or 4 with no issues, but since BT5 is using the most recent version of ruby, RSYaba fails to run. The following is a set of steps taken to get it working in BT5, without having to uninstall or modify the exisiting version of ruby. Thanks to DigiNinja (Robin Wood).

RSYaba uses ruby 1.8.7 but the default BT5 install uses 1.9.2dev

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-07-02) [x86_64-linux]

To fix, install rvm as a ruby interpreter (Read More…)

June 26th, 2011

brad