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Binary Codes: Debian Lenny frozen!
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The beautiful language of computers . Thursday, August 7, 2008. Debian Lenny (Debian 5.0) has been frozen, meaning automatic transition of new version of packages from the unstable branch (Debian Sid) has been stopped. So a stable release is near. The Debian mailing list puts is this way, "Lenny is still scheduled to be released in September 2008.". As for people using Debian Etch, there has been another upgrade, called "etch and a half", once again from the mailing list,. Personally, I am of the opinion...
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Binary Codes: Iptables and TruStealth
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The beautiful language of computers . Monday, August 11, 2008. I saw a thread. In ubuntuforums.org yesterday, its been there since a week now, but somehow I missed it earlier. Anyways, its about the Shields UP. Test in Gibson Research Corporation's website. Testing for all service ports, got me nowhere near true stealth. This is what I got after the first test,. It was only after that, did I realise that I had no active firewall running! Iptables was not running at all. So I scoured the internet for ...
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Binary Codes: Diving into python and projecteuler
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The beautiful language of computers . Friday, August 15, 2008. Diving into python and projecteuler. While solving a trivial problem presented at ProjectEuler. I went for python instead of C, which is my usual language of preference. I am quite new in python programming though, hence the interest in applying my newly accuired skills. The problem was pretty straightforward,. What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143? If not (NUMBER%i): # so i is a factor of NUMBER. Checking if i is prime.
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Binary Codes: Zenwalk 5.0 .. yes a bit old but..
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The beautiful language of computers . Sunday, August 3, 2008. Zenwalk 5.0 . yes a bit old but. I just found that old (well not that old) Zenwalk. 50 CD lying around and hence took it for a spin. Some 20 minutes or so later I am starring at a XFCE desktop. Not bad, but its the same old blue color everywhere. Now while I have been using Linux for a while now, it was mostly awesome, xmonad or openbox, with Gnome in the earlier days. The first time I used XFCE, and I was impressed. Stability is something I c...
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Binary Codes: January 2008
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The beautiful language of computers . Wednesday, January 23, 2008. LAN between UBUNTU and XP. Here is an excellent video tutorial I found on youtube that demonstrates how to set up LAN between Ubuntu and XP. I used this myself and works perfectly, and this also works for any other Linux, the steps are the same. Posted by Sujoy Kumar Das. Daryna KDE CE Beta 044 is out now and ready for download. MintUpload (new, done via konqueror— right click file- Actions- Upload file ). Known issues in Daryna KDE.
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Binary Codes: June 2008
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The beautiful language of computers . Monday, June 23, 2008. The Arch way . I took a liking to command line applications when I switched to ArchLinux from Ubuntu during the start of the year. Seeing that Arch by default didn't have Xorg or Xfree86 I thought I might as well try and stick with the console. I have tried and kept my system as bloat free as possible by only installing things when I need them. The startup memory usage is around 110MB with Slim as the login manager, I could do with startx p...
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Binary Codes: Display your Arch Linux theme information automatically
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The beautiful language of computers . Tuesday, August 26, 2008. Display your Arch Linux theme information automatically. Often when you come across a desktop screenshot in the forums/websites a myriad of question flows through your mind. "What theme is that? Lovely icon, if only I knew its name. Wow, but is it openbox or fluxbox or something else? Now while its possible to mention all the details while posting the picture, its a hassle everytime you post a screenie in the monthly screenshot thread. Hey t...
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Binary Codes: Moving on with python... get rid of any file
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The beautiful language of computers . Monday, August 18, 2008. Moving on with python. get rid of any file. Ok this might look pretty silly,but I feel compelled to delete every Thumbs.db file that I tend to recieve from my friends. The file is generated in windows systems when one views the contents of a directory in "Thumbnail" or "Filmstrip" mode. The idea is to store the settings with regard to thumbnail and filmstrip view, as well as to keep a cache of the thumbnail of image and video files. Path = os...
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Binary Codes: Reasons not to use Linux
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The beautiful language of computers . Tuesday, August 5, 2008. Reasons not to use Linux. Now while scouring the internet you will find billions of posts as why to use linux and finally make the shift from your closed source OS, two of which I have written myself. However, this time around let me tell you or rather convince you "why NOT to install linux in your PC". 2 Are you afraid of text files? No matter its opened in vim or gedit? If this is what you believe, then kindly do some web-research on GNU, F...