KDevelop

KDevelop, an Integrated Development Enviornment for KDE, has improved a lot over the years. I am an old-school Linux programmer who prefers to use Vim for writing code (and, in fact, doing just about anything to do with files), but I am rediscovering KDevelop of late. I am not going to go into the details [...]

Perl’s “Search, replace, and commit back”

I showed the sed way to search for a pattern in a file, replace every occurrence of the pattern with something, and write all the changes back to the same file. I am, now, going to show you the Perl one-liner way of doing it.

$ perl -p -i -e ’s/pattern/replace/g’ file

Or, if you wish to [...]

Side-effects of plagiarism

I finished writing a 5-page course report in LyX on Logical Volume Management. It is available here for anyone interested (I’ll make it available in a few days). Reading through the report and talking to a colleague over the same topic later the day, I could not help but thinking over the dilemma some students [...]

Height of Desperation? Nah. ;-P

ayaz says:
What? :–O
Did I give you the wrong link? Oops
Cash only….. pervert says:
MAN I JUST SAVED IT
DIDNT CHECK IT
SO WHAT EVER DIRTY TRICK IT WAS
….FAILED
ayaz says:
It was porno link to download free movies
Sad you missed it
Cash only….. pervert says:
what!!!
send it again you sonofabitch
!!!
ayaz says:
Haha

Random Musings #19

With a little more focus, I can achieve a lot more.
People wish they had one thing or another in their lives all the time. Often, I wish I had better eyes. I would be learning twice as many new things as I am right now.
But that is being ungrateful for what I have and what [...]

Converting Perl scripts into Perl executable files.

There comes a time when, as a Perl programmer, you want to compile your Perl scripts into executables and distribute them. Although I am an advocate of Open Source Software, at work, I am often *required* to eventually convert the Perl scripts I have written into binaries.
For those Perl programmers who are looking for ways [...]

Flaws in and Attacks against WEP

For my Wireless Mobile Communications course’s semester presentation, I presented today on WEP, its flaws, attacks that exploit those flaws, and its more secure replacements. The stuff is pretty technical, and I can bet hardly a couple of people actually understood what I was talking about. I’ve made the presentation available online here.

SlackBuilds.org: SlackBuild scripts

I mentioned checkinstall last year as a handy little tool to create Slackware packages out of source. If you want precompiled Slackware packages, you can always rush over to linuxpackages.net and find a good deal of packages precompiled for various Slackware releases.
Official Slackware packages are compiled against Slackware releases using automated bash scripts called SlackBuilds. [...]