FLX http://flx.me rambles, code and science! Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:47:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 MiniPedia Released http://flx.me/minipedia-released/ http://flx.me/minipedia-released/#comments Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:29:46 +0000 FLX http://flx.me/?p=632 The first public version of MiniPedia has been released! It’s something I’ve been working on for a long while. I wanted something portable and small like TiddlyWiki, but more of the behavior and looks of MediaWiki (the software that runs Wikipedia).

Anyway, I finally had the time to release the first version after lots of private beta testing. Be sure to give it a spin: MiniPedia

Postscriptum: I’ve started working on a new project, a sneak preview here

]]> http://flx.me/minipedia-released/feed/ 0 Happy Palindrome Day! http://flx.me/happy-palindrome-day/ http://flx.me/happy-palindrome-day/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:01:30 +0000 FLX http://flx.me/?p=588 01-02-2010
Since our country use the dd/mm/yyyy date format today is a palindrome!
I hope you all enjoy your stressed desserts today ;)

]]> http://flx.me/happy-palindrome-day/feed/ 0 Command line snippet of the week: 3 http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-3/ http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-3/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:59:35 +0000 FLX http://flx.me/?p=597 Wouldn’t it be nice to check if a program is running? You can do that and make it start conditionally if it isn’t running. Very handy for service daemons that always need to be running. Can be used with cron as well:

ps -C servicedaemon || { servicedaemon & }

Replace servicedaemon with your own process that needs to be checked. The second servicedaemon value describes what program it needs to start if it’s not running.

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$ cd /home/user/flx
cd: /home/user/flx: No such file or directory
$ mkdir !*
mkdir /home/user/flx

By using !* it repeats all arguments previously used. If you only want to use the second argument for example, you use !:2.

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BackTrack 4 (codenamed “pwnsauce”) is based on Debian includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository, custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack, and more importantly, fixes to most major bugs that we knew of.

Direct Link
Torrent

]]> http://flx.me/backtrack-4-final-release/feed/ 0 Command line snippet of the week: 1 http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-1/ http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-1/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:32:15 +0000 FLX http://flx.me/?p=590 New year, new snippets! Belated good wishes from me as well :-)

Anyway, this week’s snippet is on basic steganography. In this case we would like to hide a rar file in a image, we can do that by doing the following:

cat picture.png archive.rar > hidden_archive_in_pic.png

This will create a valid png image for viewing with a secret rar file inside!
When you want to retrieve the hidden files, download the image, rename to .rar and extract.

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Need to mass extract several RAR archives from different folders? Create a file called “massunrar” in /usr/bin and paste the following content:

find . -type f -name *.r01 -exec unrar e {} \;
find . -type f -name *.part01.rar -exec unrar e {} \;
echo "Found files:"
find . -type f -name *.r01
find . -type f -name *.part01.rar

Be sure to chmod “massunrar” to make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/bin/massunrar

Run “massunrar” in the parent folder to let it search for rar files in all subdirectories and extract them.
More to follow next year!

]]> http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-53/feed/ 0 Command line snippet of the week: 52 http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-52/ http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-52/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:00:19 +0000 FLX http://flx.me/?p=301 Need to have IP location information? Use:

curl -s "http://www.geody.com/geoip.php?ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)" | sed '/^IP:/!d;s/<[^>][^>]*>//g'

It returns with your IP information such as:

IP: 13.13.133.713 Location: Amsterdam, NOORD-HOLLAND, Netherlands   (N.V. XS4ALL)

Replace (curl -s icanhazip.com) to show a different IP than your own.

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> file.txt

Shortest emptier in town!

]]> http://flx.me/command-line-snippet-of-the-week-51/feed/ 0 HardeMaandelijkseMegaMix December http://flx.me/hardemaandelijksemegamix-december/ http://flx.me/hardemaandelijksemegamix-december/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:18:34 +0000 FLX http://flx.me/?p=543 In my spare time I like to mix music, I do this using my Vestax VCI-100 in combination with Traktor. Due to my laziness I normally don’t save any of the work I make, but it might be a nice idea to have a mix with the hottest electro/progressive house/minimal each month.

Therefore I present the HardeMaandelijkeMegaMix or: Hard Monthly Mega Mix (Hmmm for short, best name I could think of)

You can find my first monthly mix (01:08:14) beyond the jump, let me know if you like it!

Download HardeMaandelijkseMegaMix December by FLX Get Adobe Flash player


Tracklist:

  1. Starkillers – Bitch Ass Trick (Original Vocal Mix)
  2. Neuroxyde – Doomwork – Jazzy Stuff
  3. Pryda – Alfon
  4. Hatiras – Granny Grams (Original Vocal Mix)
  5. David Guetta – Sexy Bitch (Featuring Akon)
  6. Wolfgang Gartner – Latin Fever (Original Mix)
  7. Tiger Stripes – Alma (Original Mix)
  8. Mini Mode-Process (Manuel De La Mare Luigi Rocca Marshall Remix)
  9. Sawgood – Ctrl Ur Brain Calvertrons (Jedi Mind Trick Mix)
  10. Doomwork – Isla
  11. Alex Kenji – Tropical Chicks (Original Mix)
  12. Santiago Bushido Colette – Make Me Feel
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