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It was an unpleasant surprise to me to find out for the first time that passwords on my favorite instant messaging client, Gaim, were stored in a plain text file, and the only “security” the software offers is the native Unix privilege rights, thus very invulnerable, was hoping things would change with Pidgin, but […]

Before logging to my gmail account, I surprisingly read that Gmail created a new feature, called Gmail Paper.
According to Google team, you can select all the documents you want to print including pictures, and Gmail will print them in high quality and deliver them in a pack to your home for free, regardless of […]

There are actually electronic dictionaries and translators from almost all the languages to English and vice versa, but have you ever thought about a Danish/Tagalog, Norwegian/Zulu, Japanese/Serbian, Arabic/Swahili, … dictionary?
The Open Source made it possible! Thanks to a standard XML format of dictionaries, All Free Dictionaries Project can make combinations between available 80 languages.
As […]

Fedora 7 will be the next release of Fedora. It is highlighted by the elimination of the distinction between Fedora Core and Fedora Extras entirely; there is only Fedora.

My suggestion is, how about a light version of Fedora, that we would call it Fidorka?
Nothing serious, but I just liked the pack, plus […]

It happened right now, and I could not miss this opportunity

grep -i juice fridge
Returned one result

Here’s a quick and dirty shell script to convert some data from SQLite to HTML format.

sqlite3 -html contacts.sqlite “SELECT name, number FROM contacts” | tidy -asxhtml > contacts.html

Tidy will fix errors and convert the table into XHTML format.

I have seen an accoona ad on Euronews, with the slogan “Reinventing Internet search”.
I have submitted my blog there 2 weeks ago, the search engine has been crawling and spidering the whole blog, increasing the bandwidth usage, but my blog still does not appear on the search page!
I still prefer Google, although nobody knows […]

Google bought the dot com dot tn domain, and a new address is now available:
http://www.google.com.tn
Not too early, but it’s a good step.

SPECIES:
Cranial Males
SUBSPECIES:
The Hacker (homo computatis)
Description:
Gangly and frail, the hacker has a high forehead and thinning hair.
Head disproportionately large and crooked forward, complexion wan and sightly gray from CRT illumination. He has heavy black-rimmed glasses and a look of intense concentration, which may be due to a software problem or to a pork-and-bean breakfast.
Feathering:
HOMO […]

Adobe has released ActionScript Virtual Machine (Flash) to the Mozilla Foundation. Code name: The Tamarin Project.

The Tamarin virtual machine will be used by Mozilla within SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox® and other products based on Mozilla technology. The code will continue to be used by Adobe as part of the ActionScript™ […]

May be the W3C hasn’t paid attention to this bug which is considered as a feature.
When you write in Arabic letters and you include numbers, the numbers turn into Hindi, instead of Arabic ones! I do never use Hindi numbers, that’s why I’m obliged everytime I write in Arabic, to use Gimp in order […]

I found out a good tool to make slide shows without having to use a program such as PowerPoint or OpenOffice presentation, called Slidy.
You only have to include a JavaScript file, and optionally, a CSS in order to define different classes. All what you need is a basic [X]HTML/CSS knowledge, and go ahead! It […]

Another interesting Google request due to Google bombing!
Type in the search field the following query:

arabian gulf

Click if you wish on “I’m feeling lucky”; you will be redirected to a page that contains a fake IE 404 Error
http://arabian-gulf.info/
Have fun!

Please note, this post is only for informational purpose and therefore doesn’t aim to encourage you to use illegal ways in order to increase your rating in “Top Tunisie Blogs“, but to inform the administrator about vulnerabilities and how to fix them. I have never used any of the methods below, and if you […]