Binary Tides

MDB Viewer is a tool which can be used to open and view mdb files on Linux.
On Ubuntu it can be installed from synaptic via the command :
sudo apt-get install mdbtools-gmdb

To create a .deb package file on Ubuntu you need a utility called checkinstall.sudo apt-get install checkinstall
1. Extract the source of the application in a folder.2. Run : ./configure3. Run : make4. Now run : sudo checkinstall

Ubuntu 9.04 did not detect the native resolution of my new LCD monitor which was 1440 x 900.
Fix :
1. Get the modeline for the required resolution + refresh rate using the gtf command.
desktop:~$ gtf 1440 900 75

So here is a list of games which can be played on Ubuntu.
On Ubuntu 8.10
1. TORCS – The Open Racing Car Simulator – Racing game

TCP Connect Port Scanner works by trying to establish a connection with every port that is being scanned. If a connectio is established then the port is open otherwise closed.
The steps are simple :

Libpcap is a packe capture library which can be used to sniff packets or network traffic over a network interface. Pcap Documentation gives a description of the methods and data structures available in the libpcap library.

To code a sniffer in C (Linux) the steps would be :
1. Create a Raw Socket.
2. Put it in a recvfrom loop.
A raw socket when put in recvfrom receives all incoming packets. The following code shows an example of such a sniffer. Note that it sniffs only incoming packets. For sniffing all traffic on a [...]

Hmmm, so it looks like that konqueror or dolphin wont access a windows ftp server properly whereas its absolutely fine and fast with linux ftp servers. One reason for this could be the NTLM authentication that windows ftp servers use.

Automation may be needed in to order to run certain scripts at regular intervals for tasks like scraping , extracting or crawling data from web or do some regular tasks like sending emails or whatever.

If Konqueror is not showing the image thumbnails in the icons or previews then check :
1. Control Center > KDE Components > File Manager > Previews & Meta-Data for the Maximum File Size in the slider. If it is too low then increase it to say 5 MB.