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Wget Password: How to use passwords securely with wget

Written on October 20th, 2010 at 16:37 pm by shredder12

Before the Wget 1.12 version, in order to fetch the authenticated http/ftp pages, we had to provide the password in clear text which was quite insecure. Since that version, a new option, --ask-password, has been included which prompts the user to fill the password in a secure manner(hidden like unix passwd).

Its time for Multi-touch on Ubuntu - uTouch for Unity

Written on October 15th, 2010 at 00:41 am by shredder12

I guess most of us would have tried Ubuntu 10.10 aka Maverick Meerkat by now. This version was no doubt going to bring many new things but the one I was really looking forward to is the netbook edition. We have been looking at Shuttleworth's constant efforts to make the netbook edition more usable - Increasing vertical space by using a global menu, using a single panel instead of one, a whole new unity shell interface and a lot others.

Different ways of Running Fortune command on a Graphical Interface

Written on October 8th, 2010 at 19:26 pm by shredder12

While I was writing about fortune a few days ago, I kept thinking how could this software be useful to a regular user. Almost everyone works on the graphical environment and although fortune is fun, but using terminal for it might not be favoured by everyone. So, I found some cool ways to get the fortune cookies on your Desktop(through web or system apps) and on your mobile phones (through RSS feeds).

Maintain a history of your copy/paste entries using Glipper, a Clipboard Manager for Gnome

Written on September 19th, 2010 at 00:58 am by shredder12

There is always something useful available in the form of gnome-applets. Earlier, I wrote about  Deskbar, that lets you handle almost anything using a single text-box. Now, its this great clipboard manager, glipper, for all of those who(like me) have done the mistakes of overwriting something important they copied and wished for a way to switch to the previous copied text.

OpenArena - The OpenSource Quake III Arena

Written on September 3rd, 2010 at 01:41 am by shredder12

Guess where did I play Quake III Arena for the first time. Not place, I am talking about the platform/Operating System. Nope! its not windows, its Linux . Surprised, right? I was too when I found this brilliant opensource version of Quake III Arena aka OpenArena.

The exaile Mini mode

Written on October 18th, 2010 at 09:30 am by shredder12

Because of its being light on resources, I prefer to use Exaile over amarok. The tray icon(top-right corner) works great in making it easily accessible on all workspaces with no need to mark the window "always on visible workspace". Yet, I always wished for a smaller version of the player, as powerful as exaile, but smaller. This is what Exaile's mini-mode aims to do. It bundles the whole full screen music player into a 1-2cm display.

How to crack zip file passwords on linux using fcrackzip

Written on October 12th, 2010 at 15:04 pm by shredder12

Remember the lame file/folder password protection trick we discussed yesterday? As it seems, someone pointed that out pretty well ;). We will get into the better protection schemes sometime later, lets see how to break the mechanism we used previously.

Playing Music on CentOS using codec's installed on Ubuntu: My little experiment

Written on September 22nd, 2010 at 22:40 pm by shredder12

A personal computer doesn't look really personal until it is able to play multimedia content. I started using CentOS to deploy Xen server but still, I need my music. Just like Ubuntu, due to licensing issues, it doesn't come with pre-installed codecs to play proprietary formats. And before installing them on CentOS manually, I thought what if I could use the ones installed on Ubuntu(which is on the same disk) to make it work. And people, it did .

Unix Named Pipes - An example of Interprocess communication

Written on September 8th, 2010 at 02:14 am by shredder12

So, I have been selected as one of the teaching assistants for Operating systems course and this time we had to give some examples of Named Pipes, demonstrating one form of Inter Process Communication aka IPC to the students. I had never used them before, but its fun knowing and working with them.

How to Wget - The basics of this great Downloader

Written on August 24th, 2010 at 23:44 pm by shredder12

Wget is a a powerful, console based network downloader. We are all aware of some good GUI based downloaders, but they would be of no use if you are working on consoles. And once you become aware of what wget is capable of, I am pretty sure you might actually start using it for your day to day needs, even on Graphical Environments.

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