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Info: Spicebird 0.7 Pre with Awesome Features

November 11, 2008

Spicebird is your one platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility. Spicebird beta 0.7 pre release is out now and can be downloaded in 10 languages from the i10n nightly build archive. For the latest nightly build of English version, check this English nightly [...]

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Hack: A Fast Network Scanning Program

November 8, 2008

I was searching for a simple tool which can do a port scanning in a huge network quickly without making me wait for ages. I first thought of using nmap, but it was a bit too complex and it takes a lot of time to discover the machines even after optimizing the parameters. After searching [...]

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Humour: Ubuntu is Costlier than Microsoft Windows XP

September 5, 2008

Dell started selling their new Dell Inspiron Mini 9 series yesterday as informed by slashdot article. Lately I have been looking for a mobile solution which should be easy to carry and have enough computing power to meet my expectation. I liked the SSD concept replacing the mechanical hard disk. I just moved over to [...]

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Info: Eclipse DemoCamps 2008 – Ganymede Edition Hyderabad

June 26, 2008

About the event from Eclipsepedia, Eclipse is releasing version 3.4 (Ganymede) on 25th June 2008. To mark the occasion, the Eclipse foundation is organizing a series of Democamps around the world. The Hyderabad edition is organized by hyd-eclipse.org (a Hysea initiative). We will discuss the new features and projects in the Ganymede release, and also [...]

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Review: Spicebird – A Collaboration Platform

May 25, 2008

Well, I happened to attend this workshop on “How to build business around open source tools” organized by Twincling Society and IIIT Hyderabad. There I came to know about Spicebird. Spicebird is a single platform for many collaboration needs. It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility. Spicebird is being [...]

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How To: Write Custom Redirector or Rewritor Plugin For Squid in Python

April 30, 2008

Mission To write a custom Python program which can act as a plugin for Squid to redirect a given URL to another URL. This is useful when already existing redirector plugins for Squid doesn’t suit your needs or you want everything of your own. Use Cases When you want to redirect URLs using a database [...]

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How To: Write Custom Basic Authentication Plugin for Squid in Python

April 24, 2008

Mission To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don’t want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc. Use Cases When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database. When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or [...]

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How To: Install FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP

December 11, 2007

I was randomly browsing the internet and reading about making a website look better and I encountered ffmpeg-php. ffmpeg is a very powerful tool to record, convert and stream audio and video. Its a very rich tool almost supporting every format out there in the world. It can convert any format to any other format [...]

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How To: Configure VNC Server

December 1, 2007

Vncserver is just another application available in almost all the available Linux based distros. Configuring vncserver is very easy. But the default desktop view in vncviewer is gray scale desktop with very pathetic GUI. To view normal Gnome or KDE desktop in vncviewer, assigning a custom port for usage, user configuration and to adjust the [...]

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Review: Firefox 3 Beta 1

November 23, 2007

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available now. I downloaded the package yesterday morning and started using it right away. While using, I figured out some of the good things and at the same time there are some bad things about this test release. Here is what I feel about Firefox 3 Beta 1. BTW, you [...]

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