Happy 2025
Welcome back to another year of random tech stuff. Let’s see what’s new in the last crazy month
- Raspberry Pi 5
- WiFi 7 (coming tomorrow)
- Maltego (OSINT)
- More IoT stuff around the place
- Gaming (Smite 2?)
- Cryptocurrency news (waiting for next boom/mining)
- New monitors/setup
- Throwing out a lot of old boxes
- Howling at the moon, trying not to blind neighbours }:>
So going back to the basics, this will be a list of posts to highlight tips and traps of what I found, collating some info from across the net and personal experiences.
Raspberry Pi 5
I got mine working with the new Argon40’s SSD case (cost a mint). Took me a while to find out why it was ‘timing out’ on PCIe.
Note: Please push the SSD all the way in till it CLICKS (despite it being able to be screwed in without fully pushing in)
- Install
Maltego (Fedora Core 41)
First time installing it.
- Go to maltego.com
- Register/Verify
- Download RPM from console (left menu, bottom)
- Install ( ‘rpm -ivh …rpm’ )
- Run config (maltego_java_config) – this checks what java is running
- Run maltego
Troubleshooting
maltego_java_config : “No X11 DISPLAY variable was set”
FIX: This is a misleading error. It means you got openjdk-21-headless installed, and not the non-headless java. Just install the non-headless and fixes itdnf -y install openjdk-21-openjdk
maltego: loads, but nothing on screen
Last line on loadup is: WARNING: package com.apple.eawt not in java.desktop
FIX: This is a misleading error. It means you got openjdk-21-headless installed, and not the non-headless java. Just install the non-headless and fixes itdnf -y install openjdk-21-openjdk
maltego: loads, but all white screen
Last line on loadup is: WARNING: System::setSecurityManager will be removed in a future release
FIX: maltego_java_config : Choose “Software rendering” not “OpenGL” at the bottom
maltego: registration “login URL” not being able to be generated
FIX: Choose ‘offline’ activation and cut/paste into link it gives. That generates .lic file and you upload that instead. Note: it says “public hub list” of Data sources can’t be shown cos offline activation. Can be installed later as Data Hub
maltego: No Data Hub Partners
FIX: None yet.. still searching