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Have always wondered how those people commenting in various WordPress blogs get to have their own custom avatar. Now I do know how…

Somehow chanced upon this site (http://en.gravatar.com/) which allows you to set a custom avatar, so that when you comment on supported platforms like WordPress, it appears along with your comment. Neat huh?

How you use it is like this:
1. You register for a Gravatar account.

2. You tie one (or more) email address(es) to that Gravatar account.

3. You upload avatar(s) into your Gravatar account.

4. You tie the avatar(s) to the email address(es) in Gravatar.

5. Go to the (WordPress) blog post and add a comment. You need to fill in the email address to be the same as one of those you registered into Gravatar.

6. The corresponding Gravatar appears along with your comment!

Friend of mine showed me a link to this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-OhjAD937s) showing some easter eggs that can be done within Ubuntu’s terminal.

Apparently it can be done on any linux terminal, as long as you have the correct version of apt or aptitude installed, so give it a try and enjoy!

The commands that can be run are:

• apt-get moo
• aptitude moo
• aptitude moo -v
• aptitude moo -vv
• aptitude moo -vvv
• aptitude moo -vvvv
• aptitude moo -vvvvv
• aptitude moo -vvvvvv

As part of the fiddling around with Metasploit, there came the need to install a victim box to test things on (we don’t want to be attacking a live site don’t we?  Especially one that we don’t own…), so here’s a modification of the instructions found at Offensive Security’s walkthrough for our needs.

I wanted to run the victim machines in VirtualBox instead of VMware Player, and after some experimentation and Googling around with the crashing issue, here’re the instructions on how to get things up and running.

Host OS: Ubuntu 9.10
VirtualBox 3.1.2
Guest OS: Ubuntu 7.04 Server

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