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Get Ubuntu On Windows XP/Vista/7 Using Wubi

By Shivam Vaid On January 28, 2011 Leave a Comment 96 views

If you want to change your current windows desktop/laptop to dual boot with an option of Ubuntu, Wubi is the recommended way to go. Wubi stands for Windows Ubuntu Installer which helps to install Ubuntu just like you would have installed any other application on your Windows machine. The best part is that it is officially supported for windows and can also be uninstalled just like any other application. I had a VAIO lapotp with Windows Vista running on it. I somehow did not have a good experience with Vaio.….. Read More

Compile And Run Your Code Online Using CodePad

By Shivam Vaid On May 14, 2010 2 Comments 1,427 views

Have you ever been in a situation where you want to desperately try out a piece of code to see what will be the output of it; but are running here and there just to get a machine which has an installed compiler/environment for the same. This could happen when eg you are not in office and just have a eureka about your code OR suddenly want to try out some small change. How about a web service where you could type, compile and run your code and see what….. Read More

Ostinato – Free Ethernet Packet Generator For Windows And Linux

By Shivam Vaid On April 22, 2010 5 Comments 6,390 views

Hey I need to send a IP packet with destination address 172.26.57.86 and mac address 00:11:22:33:44:55 for doing some protocol testing. What should I do? Hmmm may be capture a similar packet in ethereal, modify the contents and send it out using some tool. OK – but what about checksums and all – how to make sure they are re-computed. Hmmm In that case – use Ixia/Smartbits – they will do the job for you OK – but the ports are limited and I wont get one just for sending….. Read More

Decode Packet Hexdumps using Packet Dump Decode(PDD)

By Shivam Vaid On February 18, 2010 Leave a Comment 2,112 views

00 13 72 8c be e1 00 90 1a 42 85 10 81 00 00 02 08 00 45 00 00 28 83 e5 40 00 7e 06 37 b7 7a a0 0b 2f 7a a0 40 c4 0e 99 01 bd ef cf 3c 3e bd 6a eb 69 50 10 fb 09 8e 5e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 “Hmph. Another packet dump…” “Ok, what kind of packet is it? Let me see – offset 12, 2 bytes is 8100 ok it is a VLAN….. Read More

Organize your web content using WebList

By Shivam Vaid On February 17, 2010 3 Comments 46 views

There are numerous websites today on internet that offer content related to a given topic/area. For example, there are multiple technology sites that give you insight in to personal technology/web2.0 etc. The content on each of these websites would be different from the other in various ways. As an information geek, you would always like to be able to browse each of your favorite websites and assimilate the required information. One option is to subscribe to RSS feeds of these websites and enjoy the content in eg Google Reader. Other….. Read More

Find an available short domain name for your blog using NXdom

By Shivam Vaid On February 12, 2010 Leave a Comment 86 views

Whenever you plan to setup a blog/website, the domain name that you choose also becomes extremely important. Your domain name could possibly be The purpose/philosophy of the blog. Related to your own name. Could be a unique keyword for ego surfing. A wacky name to catch attention of the visitors. One of the other important criteria in choosing a domain name is that it should be short and sweet. The visitors who are directly landing on your blog/website ( not via search engines ) would be typing out the URL….. Read More

Find unique packet lengths from a Wireshark dump using Tshark

By Shivam Vaid On February 8, 2010 Leave a Comment 550 views

Some days back, I had a requirement to identify the unique packet lengths present in a Wireshark dump. As an example, lets say the dump contains 5000 packets captured in all. Out of these lets say 4000 packets are of size 64 bytes and 1000 packets are of size 100 bytes. I am not interested in the number 4000/1000 – I only want the information that the total number of unique packet lengths present in the dump are 2 which are 64 and 100 bytes respectively. Normally, I would manually….. Read More

Make Word Clouds using WordItOut

By Shivam Vaid On February 8, 2010 Leave a Comment 97 views

WordItOut helps to create word clouds of any text that you desire. You can enter the desired text OR supply a URL and WordItOut will generate a nice tag cloud out of it. You can customize the generated word cloud wrt color, font, font size , layout etc. You can also save your generated word cloud and either keep it for yourself ( private ) or make it public. Once you make it public, you will get a WordItOut URL for the same and can share it with others. There….. Read More

OSAlt – Your Open Source Alternative

By Shivam Vaid On December 29, 2009 Leave a Comment 90 views

I mentioned in my last post about how useful a tool Araxis is. Most of the good tools available today typically have a trial version which can be used for eg 30 days or so. In most cases, the trial version doesnt have all the features and also doesnt have the full capabilities. To have all the features and capabilities available – one requires to shell out some money to buy the full version. Depending upon the requirement – this money might be well spent on that tool. However, today….. Read More

Araxis – Best tool for file diff and merging

By Shivam Vaid On December 25, 2009 Leave a Comment 37 views

Once you are dealing with a plethora of files on your disk, with each file replicated across various snapshots of the data; sooner or later you need to be able to take diffs and merge various version of the files. This just not only applies to files in source code if you are a programmer but is also applicable for different text files in general. Sometimes a small problem in a file (which can be easily identified by taking the right diff) can prevent you from making progress on a….. Read More