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non-root packet capture in wireshark

December 3, 2014 , posted under linux network

There are lots of blogs about this already - but I didn’t quite understand at first so here’s my take …

Wireshark is a large and somewhat vulnerable program - best not to run it as root (especially as you may be looking a suspicious traffic)

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Debugging with Maven and Eclipse

November 19, 2014 , posted under eclipse maven debugging java

To use eclipse with Maven you need to add the maven plugin to eclipse, it seems to be part of the Indigo update site so this should be straightforward.

It’s also at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases

More instructions at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ide-eclipse.html

To run the debugger you need to do two things: you need to tell maven to run surefire, and run a remote java debug listening to that surefire

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Grafana

November 19, 2014 , posted under grafana graphite graphing devops metrics

I’ve been playing with some new toys.

What motivated me was a desire to be better able to interpret load test data and performance metrics.

I love graphs, for me the visualisation they provide allows me to recognise patterns and figure out cause/effects massively faster than any other way.

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