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String Generation for Brute-force Attacks
Everyone knows what a brute-force attack is. One of the most trivial (and yet pretty useful) methods of cracking passwords and breaking access keys. The idea is simply trying all possible sequences of...
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Building Ogre3D from Sources on Fedora 15
This is a little walk-through the whole build process of Ogre 3D rendering engine. It’s primarily for users of Fedora GNU/Linux distribution or any similar distro that uses rpms and yum. I chose the...
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Learning Ruby
I always wanted to learn Ruby. It became so popular over the last couple of years and I hear people praise the language everywhere I go. Well, time has come and I cannot postpone this anymore (not with...
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Multiple Versions of gcc on Fedora 15
This post describes a way of building and installing additional versions of GNU gcc compiler on Fedora 15. The version shipped with Lovelock is gcc 4.6.1 which can sometimes be too new. Some apps such...
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nVidia CUDA on Linux (Fedora 15)
I recently updated my desktop with a new graphic card from nVidia — a pretty low-end GT440. It’s actually my first nVidia card. I owned three ATI Radeon cards (Sapphire 9550, 9600Pro and HD2600XT)...
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Fun with netcat
Ever heard of nc? It’s a simple utility that is able to connect to a remote host via TCP or UDP socket and send data. Basically it’s a command line interface to the BSD socket API. The manual page says...
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Custom Kernel on Fedora
Why would someone want to have a custom kernel? Well, maybe you like the cutting-edge features or maybe you want to hack on it! Anyway, this post explains step-by-step, how to download, build and...
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Fedora 17 Tweaks
I finally had a moment to perform the annual desktop re-install to upgrade the OS on my primary computer. It’s always a little bit of pain, because I pretty much rely on that machine and I want to have...
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Brief GDB Basics
In this post I would like to go through some of the very basic cases in which gdb can come in handy. I’ve seen people avoid using gdb, saying it is a CLI tool and therefore it would be hard to use....
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Raspberry Pi
It’s Christmas time, which means that there is a pause from school and a pause from work as well (the office is closed). So I finally had enough time to set up the Raspberry Pi board I ordered few...
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