Life in Balance: Amit Chaudhary’s Blog
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TuxCards 2.1.1

A software for linux for taking notes, allowing organization in a tree format. Supports encryption for security. It is released under GPL.

This release fixes
A screenshot is below, you make click on it for a larger version.

Downloads:

Executable: tuxcards-2.1.1.tar.gz (Tested on Ubuntu Linux)

Source: tuxcards-2.1.1-src.tar.gz (Build with qt3)

bot-check 1.2: Wordpress anti-spam comment plugin

bot-check is a Wordpress anti-spam comment plugin originally developer by Brian at Blue Eye web development.

I have made changes to get it working with the latest Wordpress, version 2.0.5 which is used to host this blog. It requires GDlib and MCRYPT.
Download: bot-check-1.2.tar.gz

Changes:

-Make bot-check work for Wordpress 2.0.5 by correcting the add_filter call in bot-check.php

-Fixed the occassional corrupt image being displayed

-Fixed the comment being wiped out incase of incorrect or empty number (Captcha) field.

See install.txt in the file above for installation and license details (GPL, v2.)

PS: From what I know, bot-check works only with Wordpress 2.0.x. I do not have any plans right now for Wordpress 2.x or later.

PF_RING: Packet capture software for Linux

PF_RING is a packet capture software for Linux. It is written and maintained by Luca Deri, Brad Doctor and others. The official page contains details on how one can get the official from cvs. It is available as a kernel module and requires using libpcap to access the captured packets.
The version here is based on a older pf_ring (from cvs as of around Dec 30 2005) and is provided for the following reasons:

-There have been requests on the mailing list ntop-misc in the past of providing a tarball containing the source as an alternative to cvs access.

-Since this is maintained as part of my work for my employer, GraniteEdge Networks, we tend to upgrade slower and keep the version stable. You get older, but hopefully well tested version.

-GraniteEdge Networks as a company has strived to return our changes back to the Open Source community, earlier as patches to the ntop-misc mailing list and now this. Our changes are being released under the original license, GPLv2 which includes no warranty. Please see the link or code for details.

What it contains

pfring-gen/linux-2.6.16-1.2096-pfring.patch: A kernel patch with the PF_RING code, tested and applied against the Fedora Core 4 kernel, 2.6.16-1.2096
pfring-gen/libpcap-0.9.4.tar.gz and pfring-gen/pcap.spec: Updated libpcap required to work with the above pf_ring and the pcap.spec file contains changelog for libpcap changes.

Download:

pfring-3.1-gen1.tar.gz

Google Gadget for Zillow’s ZIndex Graph

Google Gadget for Zillow’s ZIndex Graph
This gadget allows adding a graph for ZIndex (which is derived from median prices of homes sold) for a specific location such as All of the USA, any state (WA, CA, etc), any city or zip code. I found this to be nifty way to track home prices in a location of interest. It can be added to the Personalized Google Homepage, Desktop, and Pages.
A screenshot is below, you make click on it for a larger version.

Try it out (shorter version):

Try it out (longer version):

To try it out on your Personalized Google Home, please follow the following steps:

-Go to the Google Personalized Home.

-Click on the link in the top left corner, “Add more to this page >>”.

-Click on the “Add by URL” link near the top next to the Search button

-Paste or type the following url, http://www.rajgad.com/files/zindexgraph_ggadget.xml

-Click on Ok to continue and add. You can press “Add” again to add multiple instances of the same gadget.
-Click on the link at the top of the page, “<< Back to homepage".

-The gadget will by default show the Zillow ZIndex 1 year graph for the zip code 98008 in percentage .

-Use the "edit" link at the top menu of the gadget to change parameters such as Location type (Zipcode, city, state, all of USA), the city, state or zip if applicable, type of graph(dollars or percentage) and duration of graph(1, 5 and 10 year(s)). Click the "Save" button when done.

Blowfish C++ code 1.1

Originally by Jim Conger and available through Bruce Schneier’s website. The source code for v1.1 is below. It includes fix for data corruption in encode when in and out buffer is same. If using for the first time, also note warning about lack of inter-operability with other blowfish algorithm
blowfish-cpp-v1.1.tar.gz

blowfish-cpp-v1.1.zip

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