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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:

(click for larger view)
Here is the tool in action:

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

Installing Four Other Desktop Edition on Ubuntu

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 [...]

Creating Seamless Virtual Machine with Virtualbox 1.6

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 [...]

Seam Carving with Gimp plugin “Liquid Rescale”

Seam Carving is perhaps the the most interesting image resizing technology out there. It works by changing the height and width ratio of the image without distorting the image itself by croping the image. You can learn more about Seam Carving by Ariel Shamir on his website:
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/
Now Seam Carving it possible with Free, Opensource, Multiplatform [...]

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