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Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? Some, like Norton Ghost, are superb tools for anyone to use. But, the fact that these tools are proprietary can drive open source fanatics up a wall. It’s not the price of the software that makes the real difference (although it’s a reason to migrate from one software to another for many people); it’s the idea that proprietary software comes with boundaries that keeps the user experience confined to…well, being the user. That’s enough to drive any developer crazy.

The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, in other cases still, you’ll learn that some proprietary programs are real gems, but that the open source advocate can replace those gems with equally shiny objects from the open source repertoire.
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Backup a folder to another local folder using the rsync tool.

rsync -av ~/Scripts/ /var/Backup/Rsync/Scripts/

a = Archive Mode
v = Verbose

Replaces all instance of ‘ ’ with ‘’ in all the files of the current directory.

perl -pi -e “s/ //g;” *

Save the list of all files in a folder - recursively.

find .|sed ’s/\.\///;’

Another option is

ls -R -1

Rename all *.info files in one folder

rename .info .txt *.info

That should read as..

rename
Do the same operation recursively in a directory tree

find . -name “*.info” -exec rename .info .txt {} \;

Those double quotes around *.info are important - don’t remove them

wget -m http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/

-m, –mirror
shortcut for -N -r -l inf –no-remove-listing.

wget -H -r –level=1 -k -p http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/

-r, –recursive
Specify recursive download.
-l, –level=NUMBER
Maximum recursion depth (inf or 0 for infinite).
-k, –convert-links
Make links in downloaded HTML point to local files.
-p, –page-requisites
Get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.

PandaLabs, Panda Security’s laboratory for detecting and analysing malware, has detected two new worms, Nuwar.OL and Valentin.E, which uses the topic of St Valentine’s Day to spread.

“Year after year we see the appearance of several malware strains that use St Valentine’s Day as bait to attract users”, explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs. “This indicates that cyber crooks are still reaping the benefits of this technique and many people still fall into the trap.”

The first one of these worms, Nuwar.OL, reaches computers by email with subjects like “I Love You Soo Much”, “Inside My Heart” or “You… In My Dreams.”

The text of the email includes a link to a website that downloads the malicious code. The page is very simple and looks like a romantic greeting card with a large pink heart.

Once it has infected a computer, the worm sends out a large amount of emails to the infected user’s contacts in order to spread. This also creates a heavy load on networks and slows down the computer.

Valentin.E is very similar to this. Like the Nuwar worm, it spreads by email in messages with subjects like “Searching for true Love” or “True Love” and an attached file called “friends4u”. If the targeted user opens the file, a copy of the worm will be downloaded.

The malicious code installs on the computer as a file with the .scr extension. If the user runs it, Valentin.E shows a new desktop background to trick them, while it makes several copies of itself on the computer.

Then, the worm sends out emails with copies of itself from the infected computer to spread and infect more users.

“Both cases are clear examples of social engineering techniques used to spread malware. They use attractive subjects — Valentine’s Day greeting cards, romantic desktop themes, etc — to entice users to run attachments or click links that ultimately download malware onto their computers”, says Corrons.

source : indiatimes.com

One of the most common problem is that, the device is freezed on second splash screen .

The solution is there and no need of reflashing it .

1- A a SD backup was needed, and yes it is. But you can use your own phone and your own SD to do it.

2- Get a clean SD card ( Htc Wizard case is MiniSD) with 128MB

3- Kill (task manager) wescomm.exe (this is related with activesync installed on your PC). Insert the blank SD card on the phone.

4- Get your phone in bootloader mode. Like this : Phone powered off, press Camera button + Power On, will enter in bootloader mode (RGB screen).

5- Now connect your USB cable to your phone. And start MTTY_updateROM.exe (http://wiki.xda-developers.com/uploads/romupdate.rar). After open, on Port selection, choose \\.\WCEUSBSH001 and press OK. A window will open with a blank sheet.

6- Type “r2sd all” and hit enter… wait to the end (at end shows “cmd>”). On your phone screen u can follow backup progress… small bar will appear down the RGB screen.

7- Power off the phone (or remove battery), enter bootloader mode (camera button + power on) and this time RGB won´t appear right away. Will ask if u want to “download SD image”, press voice dial button to agree, and writting will begin. Wait to the end. Power off and power on normally. Now your phone should be working ok. Not even needed to reflash the phone after this.

golbari, originally uploaded by aloke majumder.

The news first I noticed on Anandabazar Patrika, that the famous Golbari is open again . And woow, that reminds me the time when we were in university . So a couple of days later, Aushtomi afternoon, with my friend and foodie partner Krishnendu, I landed up at New Punjabi Hotel, at the Shyambazar five-point crossing, popularly known as Golbari, because it is housed in semicircular a building.

Once we were there, we noticed the a long queue of people wating for their turn to get inside . We waited for few minutes and then decoded to have parcels instead of having it there . Golbari belongs to a specific category of old Calcutta eateries, famous for special Kosha mangsho with a distinctive taste with a blackish appearance and soft, pliable, thin chapatis, slightly ghee-smeared, the like of which you will get nowhere else.

The food was still hot when I got back and I dug in hungrily, the good old Golbari kosha mangsho at its prime-rich, a bit hot on the palate, and delicious, with a hint of caramelised sugar. The chapatis suffer a little if not eaten immediately, but there was no choice. Remember we drive and back to shyambazar from Howrah, dodging the crowd of Aushtomi .

Its a must try for all you foodies .

this is another tutorial/trick/hack among others to cheat MegaUpload.

For Firefox:

First go to http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
Click Install Now to install addon.
Restart FF. Tool–>User Agent Switcher–>Options–>Options
Click User Agents–>Add

Type this:

+ Description: MEGAUPLOAD
+ User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar)

Click OK twice to finish adding User Agent.
From now, before downloading any file from MegaUpload, just go Tools–>User Agent Switcher–>MEGAUPLOAD.

For Internet Explorer, Maxthon, Anvant Browser:

Start–>Run–>Regedit–>OK

In Registry Editor window:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform]

Right click Post Platform–>New–>String Value–> Type “Alexa Toolbar”
Restart PC. Done!

Note: For IE 7.0 the “Post Platform” will located at:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mcft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform]