An ethernet bridge is very useful when debugging with WireShark.  In Linux one can bridge 2 network interfaces very easily… Here, I’m using a development machine with 2 ethernet adapters.  eth0 is connected to my LAN, while eth1 is set as a development subnet. I typically don’t run the bridge unless I need it for

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Creating the local proxy: >> ssh -D 9999 -p 2223 -i ~/.ssh/private_id login@my.domain.com This is the regular way of opening a client-side/local ssh session to a remote ssh server on my.domain.com:2223 using the login account with the private_id secure key. Except for the -D option… The -D option specifies a local port on which to

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I installed Aptana Studio 3 on my Ubuntu 10.10 with local RVM (ruby 1.9.2.)  All was good and the IDE looked promising.  However, launching a debug session gave way to a popup window stating that ruby-debug-ide was missing! I tried installing >> gem install ruby-debug-ide but the install failed while trying to build native extensions.

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I updated my dev machine to Ubuntu 10.10 (from 10.04) and wanted to get started on Android development.  I already had an Eclipse-CDT installed and figured I’d upgrade it too. First, for development purposes, it’s recommended to install the Sun Java JDK/JRE.  However, to my surprise, apt-get couldn’t find any sun-java package, only open-java is

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