Sabayon rocks!!!

I wanted to get beryl up and running on my fedora core 6 box. But I couldn’t, now matter much I tried. Also, there were some GUI glitches in my copy of FC-6. In short, it was a good distro, but not good enough. 😀

Enter Sabayon, a Gentoo based distro. Its awesome. Hardware detection is top-notch. And guess what, beryl is preinstalled. 😀 😀
The visuals will put Vista fans to shame. I’m loving the eye-candy and performance. It also comes pre-installed with most of the softwares you’ll ever use, and the support is awesome, thanks to its Gentoo base. For the uninitiated, gentoo is an advanced linux, the distro of choice for tweaker and Unix geeks alike. Kernel recompilation in gentoo is the best so far. It really extracts the full juice of your system.
I’d recommend it to all linux enthusiasts – Sabayon is here to stay.

Tech bole to ??
Kaustav Acharya.

Hide Data by embedding them in files…

This technique is called steganography. Using it, you can hide your zip files inside .gif and .jpg images. Many readymade tools are available for it. But I’ll go the cooler (command line) way. It works because .gif files keep all of their information in the headers, while .zip files keep them in the footer. Since that’s the case, .gif viewers read from the front of the file, while .zip readers read from the end.
Hence, we append the .zip file to a .gif file.
For Windows/DOS Shell users, type the following in command prompt:
copy /B source.gif+source.zip target.gif
For Linux/Mac Users:
cat somefile.zip >> somefile.gif
Note: Windows users, use Winrar to retrieve the .zip file as other Zip programs fail at doing it.
There are quite many tools available to do so automatically without much hassle. One of them is Hide in Picture (Windows). As you can imagine, there are many uses for this technique:

• You can share private things on public forums.
• You can share sensitive information, passwords over email .
• You can digitally fingerprint your file and cross-check for illegal distribution of your content such as PDFs or images.
• You can have fun and play pranks 😉

Cheers.
Source:Life Hacker
For more info, click here.

Tech bole to ??
Kaustav Acharya.

Hide Data by embedding them in files…

This technique is called steganography. Using it, you can hide your zip files inside .gif and .jpg images. Many readymade tools are available for it. But I’ll go the cooler (command line) way. It works because .gif files keep all of their information in the headers, while .zip files keep them in the footer. Since that’s the case, .gif viewers read from the front of the file, while .zip readers read from the end.
Hence, we append the .zip file to a .gif file.
For Windows/DOS Shell users, type the following in command prompt:
copy /B source.gif+source.zip target.gif
For Linux/Mac Users:
cat somefile.zip >> somefile.gif
Note: Windows users, use Winrar to retrieve the .zip file as other Zip programs fail at doing it.
There are quite many tools available to do so automatically without much hassle. One of them is Hide in Picture (Windows). As you can imagine, there are many uses for this technique:

• You can share private things on public forums.
• You can share sensitive information, passwords over email .
• You can digitally fingerprint your file and cross-check for illegal distribution of your content such as PDFs or images.
• You can have fun and play pranks 😉

Cheers.
Source:Life Hacker
For more info, click here.

Tech bole to ??
Kaustav Acharya.

Running some Windows apps in Linux using WINE

Many people like me, who’ve recently switched over to Linux, must be thinking of using some of their favourite Windows apps in Linux. WINE, which claims not to be an emulator, does its job well and lets you run some windows apps in Linux.

It claims to be able to run most of the win32 apps out there. But from personal experience, I’ve noticed that it successfully runs all the portable apps. This essentially refers to those softwares, which don’t require installation prior to their use and can be run on any system without installation.However, most win32 apps can be run with WINE provided it has the required .dlls files available to it. Its updated frequently, and more and more apps are being supported each day.

Find features of WINE here.
Find the database of supported apps here.

Its available as a package for most Linux distros and can be installed using your distros package manager such as Synaptic in Ubuntu.

To download, click here.

-Tech bole to ??
Kaustav Acharya.