Archive for May, 2008

How Does your Conky setup Look Like?

This is how my conky setup looks like, nothing too fancy. But I have been thinking about dressing it up a little bit (make my windows-only friends jealous:). Would you guys share your conky setup with screenshots and configuration files? I would really appreciate.

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My conkyrc:
# Create own window
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# [...]

Downloading Torrent from the Terminal

1) There are quite a few applications in linux that has the ability to download torrent from the terminal. rtorrent is perhaps the easiest to use and widely configurable out of all of them. To kick off with downloading any torrent file, you simply have to provide the link location of the torrent file, ie. [...]

xkcd Style WEP Cracking in Real Life

My love for xkcd comics has influenced me to write this modified autoconfig “cracking” tool that cracks wifi WEP password from your neighbors, exactly the way shown in xkcd comic number 416:

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Here is the tool in action:

As you can see there are some state of the art features added to this version. [...]

Configuring Folding@home for Linux

From folding@home website:

Folding@home is a distributed computing project — people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times [...]

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