How to write a Linux virus – well or a trojan.

<a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229" target="_blank">How to write a Linux virus

and the folloup thereof

<a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6236" target="_blank">Follow up: How to write a Linux virus

Thats quite a lot of discussion and an interesting one too. I too liked the point that the authour is trying to make, that is Linux too is not completely safe. I would rather like to put it as not &#8221;Fool Proof&#8221;.

But no one is fool. Its just the matter of time when you do something foolish. People do keep thinking about various things and keep working. That being the case, it is not too difficult that someone would actually run the program. But the caveat is that the program/virus/trojan would still show up at some places. So you need to do few more things for this to work. If you are keen on doing this, then you need to atleast add these:

Linux EBook

My own book.. Though not too good but might be useful.

<a class="aligncenter" title="Ebook" href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/mystuff/LinuxBook.pdf.bz2">Free Ebook

Leave a comment or send a mail to wordpress@amit-agarwal.co.in to get the password

command line cheat sheet for begineers.

A list of commands with some examples posted by Ian <a href="http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/08/command-line-cheatsheet.html" target="_blank">here. Looks good for new comers to Linux OS 🙂

Contd:: Evaluation of Distro\’s

<a href="www.foresightlinux.org/" target="_blank">Foresight

Foresight is a desktop operating system featuring an intuitive user interface and a showcase of the latest desktop software, giving users convenient and enjoyable access to their music, photos, videos, documents, and Internet resources.

<a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-270" title="Foresight" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1-300x225.jpg" alt="Foresight" width="300" height="225" />

I liked their logo. Quite simple and intutive.

<a href="http://amit-agarwal.co.in/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-271" title="Foresight Foreground" src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2-300x225.jpg" alt="Foresight Foreground" width="300" height="225" />

Logo goes quite well with the Foreground image. Both are same in color and hence it gives you a feeling of theme and not just ramdomly selected foreground.

SendEmail using perl script in Windows or Linux using any SMTP account.

Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/email" rel="tag">email, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/sendEmail" rel="tag">sendEmail, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Perl" rel="tag">Perl

There is a very nice little utility or rather SMTP client program called sendmail (<a href="http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/">Link — http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/).

This can be used in Windows or Linux or any other OS with perl installed and few other perl modules installed. Its quite easy to use and comes in quite handy to send emails.

In later posts we will see how we can use this in various ways : sending mail from your browser, from your editor or even from the command line or shell script.

Downloading all related videos from youtube with youtube-dl

How many time did you want to see all the videos (related) to the one you were watching on youtube but decided otherwise as the downloaded was not fast enough. Or has it happened to you that you wanted to <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uploading_and_downloading" title="Uploading and downloading" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uploading_and_downloading">download all the related videos, in either case you can use the youtube-dl utility I blogged about some times back. First you need to get all the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/uniform_resource_locator" title="Uniform Resource Locator" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator">URL&#8217;s in a <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/text_file" title="Text file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file">text file, and the simplest way to do this is :

6000+ truetype fonts for Linux

Found a huge collection of fonts for linux. These are true type fonts and really a huge collection.

<a href="http://thelinuxbox.org/downloads/fonts/fonts.tar.gz">get here

updated: Forgot to mention that you can update the font cache without restarting the font server by executing the below command:

fc-cache -fv