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. [...]

Most of us know Ubuntu by it’s default gnome desktop look, but very few have ever tried other forms of desktop environment that are available besides gnome for ubuntu. There are four other main desktop environments for Ubuntu:
kubuntu, based on K Desktop Environment.
Edubuntu, is based on both gnome and K desktop environment, but it’s designed [...]

Virtualbox 1.6, which was released in May 2, was the first major release since Sun took over virtualbox. All I can say is Wow!! This is perhaps the single biggest, most important open source release which will change the face of how computers are used for years to come. Hell this is even bigger than [...]

In all seriousness of being a linux user we sometimes forget the fun side of it all, here is an attempt to capture some of it.
A history lesson
Who would think that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, himself never thought much about linux being so famous and powerful and in its current form as it is [...]