Ramblings of a Developer
Mohamed Sanaulla durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports. It can generate text output with bar graphs to allow easy comparisons of disk usage between directories. It can also generate web pages which can be navigated through the directory structure. This allows easy visual monitoring of disk usage. durep was designed for monitoring disk … Read more
Mozilla Firefox is a graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Corporation. Started as a fork of the browser component (Navigator) of the Mozilla Application Suite, Firefox has replaced the Mozilla Suite as the flagship product of the Mozilla project, stewarded by the Mozilla Foundation and a large community of external contributors. Mozilla Firefox is … Read more
fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results. It can also crack cpmask’ed images. Install fcrackzip in ubuntu sudo apt-get install fcrackzip This will complete the installation fcrackzip Syntax fcrackzip [-bDBchVvplum2] … Read more
Program: Engineers For Social Impact (Website) Engineers for Social Impact is a unique fellowship program to connect the best engineering talent to the most credible social enterprises that drive market-based solutions to development in India. In 2008, an eminent panel of judges will select 5 E4SI Fellows to gain from challenging immersion experiences in partner … Read more
Java Technology: Java technology is both a high-level, object-oriented programming language and a platform. Java technology is based on the concept of a single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) — a translator between the language and the underlying software and hardware. All implementations of the programming language must emulate the JVM, enabling Java programs to run … Read more
This is what the currently used search engine would look like in 2084 Source: The New York Times
Tomboy The Ubuntu desktop comes preloaded with a fantastic note-taking application called Tomboy. While the application can be easily accessed from the desktop Applications menu (under the Accessories sub-menu), it can me cumbersome to have to remember to launch this application each time a desktop session is started. Fortunately, the tomboy application can be added … Read more
addrepo is a simple command line interface for easily adding APT repositories to your sources.list Install addrepo in Ubuntu This is very simple process just use the following two commands sudo wget http://mac4deb.googlepages.com/addrepo -O /usr/bin/addrepo sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/addrepo Using addrepo addrepo [repository] Now you just replace ‘[repository]’ with a repository name addrepo example addrepo … Read more
Lanmap Listens to all available traffic on the interface of your choice, figures out who’s talking to who, how much, using which protocols.This information is then put into a nice human-readable 2d image (various formats are available) which can be used to understand a network’s topology. Install lanmap in Ubuntu sudo aptitude install lanmap This … Read more
Introduction The Java language gives you all the room you need to write code that would be very difficult for others to understand. Java also permits you to write code that is very easy to understand. Most development teams would prefer the latter. A style guide provides provides a map so that the code generated … Read more