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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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

After some days of talk, I finally could convince a childhood friend, Kaizuko, to set up a blog. Kaizuko was discouraged at first, as had no ideas to talk about, but wrote 5 posts today, all treating interesting topics!!
Feel free to find out about the new blog called “My thoughts are my company“.
Welcome Kaizuko […]

Looking for more Google ranking, I updated my permalink structure and set it to the following for posts:
http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org/archive/999
The feature is included within wordpress, but you can handle it manually using mod_rewrite.
Note that old URL structure (/?p=999) still works.

With Bash, you can simply remove duplications by typing:
sort file | uniq
With Perl, it’s more funny. I found those pieces of code in Code Snippets.
Simple ‘Uniq’ code

my @uniq = keys %{{ map { $_ => 1 } @list }};

 
Another one, more efficient

my %u = ();
@uniqed = grep {defined} map {
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This is probably the best SVG gallery! Not about the number of graphics, but the quality.
3D objects made with simplicity and elegance. If you try to make them with a 3D software, there would be too much needless nodes which makes their size very huge; it’s not the case here.
The only problem is the […]

Those who like cows can’t ignore the political cows, cows with guns, The American Spy Cow Information. Now not less funny, Cow say and Cow think.
Cowsay is a Perl program that draws an ASCII cow with a speech balloon saying whatever pithy comment you give it on the command line. (Guess we’re talking about […]

During 20 miutes of boredom, I added a more or less complicated captcha to my contact form. It’s based on a 256 bit encryption, session handling and Gd image generation.
Spammers made me sick, they send any carp, link to anywhere, I don’t know what exactly is their objective, to encourage me to buy? I […]

Mark Shuttleworth, the South African Linux hacker and millionaire, owner of the company Canonical which sponsors Ubuntu, told in an interview with ChannelRegister that Ubuntu is going commercial.
Thus, Ubuntu will no longer be a community based Operating System.

Mr Shuttleworth also has a distant intention, somewhere in the future, of recouping some of the $10m […]