1427 Anno Hijra

Happy new Hijri Year, whish you all the best. Tags: Calendar, Islam, Gr33n Data

Google Zeitgeist

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google's human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google's hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report. Link: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist.html Tags: Google, DataMining, Gr33n Data

What is Cross Compiling?

Cross-Compiling is the procedure for building a program for a platform different from the one on which the cross Compiler runs. "Platform" does not only mean the hardware architecture but also software platforms, e.g. the process for building the GNU/Hurd operating system from sources on a running Linux for the same hardware architecture is also a cross compiling. Cross-compilation is typically more involved and prone to errors than with native compilation. Due to this, cross-compiling is normally only utilized if the target is not yet self-hosting (i.e. able to compile programs on its own), unstable, or the build system is simply much faster. For many embedded systems, cross-compilation is simply the only possible way to build programs, as the target hardware does not have the resources or capabilities. Resources: Scratchbox, Introduction to Cross-development for Embedded Linux Wikipedia, Cross-compilation GCC, Specifying Target Machine and Compiler Version Tags: Computers, Development, Gr33n Data

DLink ADSL Modem - Telnet

You can telnet the D-Link ADSL modem using "root" as username, and your WebUI password. The system is using an Embedded linux by the way. Tags: Linux, DLink, Gr33n Data

Dream TV Horror

On Dream TV - an Egyptian stellite channel - you can see one of the funniest Ads at all. The Ad is about a Cinema complex they own, but the funny part there is that they call Harry Potter ... "The best HORROR movie for the year 2005" !! Tags: TV, Fun, Gr33n Data

Cairo Stadium Chicks

Egypt is hosting the African Cup of Nations footall competition nowadays. But what I've noticed lately that there are many chicks who go to the Stadium and others painting their faces with the Egyptian flag colours everywhere. I've never seen girls fond of football before, and those few ones who wer into football were used to be ... ehm ... a little bit different from those *nice* ones we see now. So, are we going see more females into football in the near future, or is it just an Egypt-2006 ACN hype. Anyways it is really nice to see the female-effect on the football fans were people stop swearing, cursing, snoring, etc. Girls at The Cairo National Stadium, by Nimrod Kamer Tags: Football, Social, Gr33n Data

Rewriting History Under The Dome

WASHINGTON, The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia," The Sun has learned. The Meehan alterations on Wikipedia.com represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six month. Wikipedia is a global reference that relies on its Internet users to add credible information to entries on millions of topics. Source: Lowellsun.com Tags: Wikipedia, USA, Gr33n Data

Levi Introduces iPod Jeans

Levi is set to release its iPod-compatible RedWire DLX jeans. The jean, which is said to come out in autumn 2006, will house a separate pocket for the iPod. It will also contain a built-in retractable headphone unit that would eliminate tangled wires. A red conductive ribbon will keep the Ipod connected while allowing users to remove the iPod from their pockets to view the screen. Source: http://www.onimoto.com/index.php?post=49 Tags: iPod, Jeans, Gr33n Data

Tracing An Email

The purpose of this guide is to show the process involved in tracing an email. The first step required to tracing an email is finding out the headers of the email. What are headers? Email headers are lines added at the top of an email message that are used by servers as the email goes on route to get delivered. Generally email clients only show the standard To, From, and Subject headers, but there are more. http://www.onimoto.com/cache/50.html Tags: Email, SMTP, Gr33n Data

Egyptian Hackers

The following post has been published on Eglug (Egyptian Linux Users Group) by printf@drupal.org,

I was just wondering if anybody would be interested in such an event? Basically, it should be something like DEF CON, but with more focus on introducing the concepts of and raising the public awareness about the digital world's (in)security as well as providing some means of legal entertainment for the ones with advanced skills. My initial plan was to organize a 2-3 days event with talk sessions/discussion forums about different topics in computer security and on the side a series of challenging games to test the players skills and knowledge.

It is really nice idea to have such kind of events here in Egypt, but the problem is that it is only few people who know what hacking really is. Most of the people here in Egypt and the Middle East think of hacking as the art of using some software tools to get some credit cards numbers or send zillions of packets to a web server to take it out of service. For me, hacking is the art of pushing a system beyond its limits, or forcing it to do things beyond the normal usage of it. I think we may encourage people to participate in some projects like porting linux to new hardwares (smart phones, play station, DSL modems, etc), writing some kernel modules, finding back-doors in some protocols or standards and create tools to use such vulnerabilities, etc.

However we may arrange for such meetings in parallel. A good starting point is a Call for Papers where people shall send some articles or ideas for topics they may talk about. One more thing is having a wiki, which is already there, but more people are encouraged to participate and share their ideas there.

Tags: Hacking, Linux, Gr33n Data