gnulinuxclub

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 …

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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).

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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.
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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.

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