Monthly Archives: October 2011
Android App Development: Hardware and Sensors
I’m back with another article on Android application development. This time, we will discuss how to access some of the phone’s hardware components like...
FOSS is __FUN__: Free Your Mind
Golf, par, handicaps -- and sub-classing, abstraction and lines of code. Sounds interesting?
Last month, I have had the privilege of listening to two presentations...
Storage Management using Openfiler, Part 3
The first article of this series discussed basic installation and configuration; the second described some advanced Openfiler features including bonded interfaces and RAID 1...
SYN Flooding using SCAPY and Prevention using iptables
DoS (Denial of Service) attacks against Web services make them unavailable for legitimate users, affecting the website owner's potential business. These involve intentional consumption...
Backups and More with rsync
Learn how to use this powerful utility that almost all experts use in their day-to-day work, to perform tasks like back-ups, and much more.
The...
The Socket API, Part 3: Concurrent Servers
In this part of the series, we will learn how to deal with multiple clients connected to the server.
Welcome to another dose of socket...
Chkrootkit — Eliminate the Enemy Within
Last month, we learnt about the technical components that form rootkits. We also discussed why and how rootkits are dangerous, and briefly explored a...
Joy of Programming: Scope, Lifetime and Visibility in C
Often, programmers confuse the scope, lifetime and visibility of variables. So I'll cover these three important concepts in this month's column.
Whenever you declare a...
Exploring Software: GNOME and the Semantic Desktop
Currently, this is a work in progress. So will it mature fast enough
and meet user expectations?
The state of the semantic desktop in the GNOME...
CodeSport
In this month's column, let us focus our attention on some of the common compiler optimisations, and on how to write code that can...
