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The Big Byte

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A source of interesting "bytes" of information about the computer world.

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  • Facebook Integrated Email Client - a "killer feature"?

    Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 01:04 in web, idea, facebook

    The other day I realised something. I spend the vast majority of my day in the browser, with two tabs always open: Facebook, and Gmail. I use Facebook for the rich social features, photos and up-to-date contact information. Gmail I use for business...

  • How to Convert MIDI to Mp3 using Timitidy and FFMPEG

    Posted on Friday November 27th, 2009 at 22:23 in Linux, ubuntu

    Command line switch for outputting WAV file from timidity is -Ow. So: timidity -Ow ./file-to-play.midi will generate a WAV file named ./file-to-play.wav To convert this to mp3, use FFMPEG: ffmpeg -i ./file-to-play.wav ./file-to-play.mp3 That's it! ...

  • FULL CODE - Windows 7 Zero Day Exploit Proof of Concept Python Code

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 21:31 in windows, hack, Security

    Here is the full code for the Windows 7 Zero Day Exploit involving SMB that was first posted here. Exploitation of this vulnerability occurs when a user attempts to browse to Windows Share hosted on the malicious server. On Windows 7, the DoS (denial...

  • How to Setup Android SDK / ADB / Fastboot Under Ubuntu 9.10

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 22:26 in programming, android

    These instructions work for Ubuntu 9.10, which I am running, as well as most other linux distributions. Basically how to setup Android for debugging. I have found this works with my HTC Magic 32A. ...

  • How to Install Android Donut 1.6 on HTC Magic 32A (Cyanogen Mod)

    Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 01:48 in hack, android

    I installed the lastest Cyanogen Mod firmware (v4.2.4) -  Android version 1.6 "Donut" release on my HTC Magic 32A type phone. This is the standard HTC branded phone with 292MB of RAM. NOTE: This process will erase all DATA and APPLICATIONS on y...

  • How to ignore hidden folders with rsync

    Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 03:55 in Linux, script, bash

    When using rsync to copy directories, I will use the following command: rsync -av /home/david/directory-to-copy/ /tmp/new-directory/ But to ignore hidden files (and folders) I would use the following command: rsync -av --exclude '.*' /home/david/d...

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