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Jannich Brendle on November 10th, 2009

NOTICE: This is not the most updated version of the guide. Please see the blog post called “Compiling conky from git on ubuntu 9.10” for the actual details!

From the conky website:
Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and runs on [...]

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Jannich Brendle on November 9th, 2009

As I were compiling wireshark, I thought about how much you could speed up a compile, by using multiple cores, which most computers have nowadays.
Now, to use multiple cores/cpus to compile something, simply use the -j flag with make, like this make -j 4 which would cause the make program to use 4 cores, [...]

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Jannich Brendle on November 8th, 2009

For some time I’ve wanted to write a wireshark protocol dissector, and today I finally got started. Of course, first I just wanted to compile wireshark from source, but the howto on wiresharks wiki page was pretty incomplete, so I decided to write down the necessary steps for building wireshark.
First of, you have to [...]

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