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md5sum — Compute and Check MD5 Check sums.
Summary:
`md5sum’ computes a 128-bit checksum/fingerprint/message-digest for
each specified file. `md5sum’ can also determine whether a file &
checksum are consistent.
Mr Amit Kale has developed kgdb, a source level debugger for Linux
Kernel. It is used along with gdb to debug Linux Kernel.
URL http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/
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sum — Compute and Check .
Summary:
`sum’ computes a 16-Bit checksum for each given file(s)/stdin. By
default, it computes checksums using an algorithm compatible with
BSD `sum’ and prints file sizes in units of 1024-byte blocks.
Linux is included in 11th std Computer Science syllabus in Tamil Nadu.
Linux Users should help the Teachers and Students to understand the
GNU/Linux and FOSS concepts.
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locale — Get and show the locale-specific information.
Summary:
The locale program writes information about the current locale
environment, or all locales, to screen. Locale is a set of local
environment settings, which is used to describe the Language
Encoding Standard, Date/Time format, Number format, Telephone
Number format, Paper format, etc …
Mr Joe Steeve (ILUGC-Member) & Team has developed the IJammer, an
Instant Messenger Jammer. IJammer is a Daemon that runs on one
workstation of a LAN and prevents any IM traffic on that LAN.
URL: http://sarovar.org/projects/ijammer/
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sha1sum – Compute & Check Secure Hash Algorithm Std 1 message digest.
Summary:
`sha1sum’ computes a 160-bit checksum/fingerprint/message-digest for
each specified file. `sha1sum’ can also determine whether a file &
checksum are consistent. The sums are computed as described in
FIPS-180-1 (www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm).
Mr Ajay, Mr Binand and Mr RajaSubramanian(ILUGC-Member) jointly
developed the TransConnect. It allows one to connect to remote
machines on any port, using HTTP Tunneling.
URL: http://transconnect.sourceforge.net/ (Thanks FSUG-Bglr)
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cksum — Computes a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) checksum.
Summary:
`cksum’ prints the CRC checksum for each file along with the number of
bytes in the file. The CRC algorithm is specified by the POSIX Std. It
is not compatible with the BSD or System V `sum’ algorithms.
Read more
Mr Gauravp Sharmad has developed GLibMS (GNU Library Management
System), a Library management software developed using PHP and
PostgreSQL to automate the library activities.
URL http://sourceforge.net/projects/glibs (Thanks FSUG-Bglr)
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factor — Print prime factors
Summary:
Print the prime factors of each number.The algorithm it uses is not
very sophisticated, so for some inputs `factor’ runs for a long time.
Mr Shakthi (ILUGC-Member) rewritten the Linux Device Driver example
programs, from Rubini’s Book, in a very simple manner. So that a
beginner can understand the code very easily.
URL: http://www.shakthimaan.com -> Downloads
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lsb_release — Show Linux Standard Base and Distribution info.
Summary:
If the installation is LSB compliant, the “/etc/lsb-release” file
should contain the LSB_VERSION field and other optional fields like
DISTRIB_ID, DISTRIB_RELEASE, DISTRIB_CODENAME, DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION.
lsb_release will read the above config file and show the details in
different format. It is useful command to find your distribution
informations.
Read more
Mr Vijay Kumar (Ex GLUG-Trichy Co-Ordinator) has written a tutorial
about GtkTextView Widget and CVSCheat Sheet.
URL: http://www.bravegnu.org/
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logger — Makes entries in the system log file.
Summary:
Logger is a shell command interface to the syslog system log module.
It can be used to makes entries in the system log from the shell
scripts. By default, messages will be logged in /var/log/messages.
Linux is included in 11th std Computer Science syllabus in Tamil Nadu.
Linux Users Groups should help the Teachers and Students to understand
the Linux and FOSS concepts.
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eject — Eject the removable media
Summary:
Eject allows removable media (like CD-ROM, Floppy, Tape, JAZ, ZIP) to
be ejected under software control. The command can also control some
multi-disc CD-ROM changers, the auto-eject feature supported by some
devices, and close the disc tray of some CD-ROM drives.
The Indian Patent Office has published a draft patent practice manual.
Read the draft and Email your suggestions to Mr Ramanraj K (ramanraj.k
at gmail dot com), before 15th of August 2005.
URL: http://gnowledge.org/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-June/003381.html
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su — Run a shell with Substitute User
Summary:
`su’ allows one user to temporarily become another user. ?It runs a
command with the Real & Effective user id, group id and supplemental
groups of a given user. If user not given, it will login as root.