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Mailsend is a multi platform command line tool to send mails.

It has two modes : commandline and interactive

I have used this mailsend binary to send mails as a background process by using a wrapper shell script to read the necessary inputs required by mailsend from XML files. This script would be called by cron periodically. The XML files have the email data contained in it.

You can download the Opensource software from the below link

http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mailsend/mailsend.html

From my blog statistics i find that there is a good hit for bluespam.So i decided to write an article on bluespam.

I have not used the exact bluespam software, but i trimmed version of the program.I use the modified version to send a file to all the bluetooth devices that have been discovered.The bluetooth devices receive a prompt saying do you want to receive a file from my device.Once accepted the file is sent to the device.Some devices require authentication, so a pairing has to happen before sending the file.The passkey can be made fixed or dynamic.Suppose my device is running without the user, then i have to hard code the passkey into my hcid.conf file.Since its hard coded this particular key has to be publicly distributed.

Further documentation can be found here http://www.mulliner.org/palm/bluespam.php

Refernce Manual

Refernce Manual 2

Today evening was a cool ubuntu evening.my friend srini was suffering a lot with windows.The remedy was “ubuntu” lol.He complained to me lot about viruses, spyware etc.His internet explorer itself has been corrupted by …i am not able to say what has happened because the system is black box.

Taught him and another friend on installation procedure.And i did the install because srini was too much pissed off with the operating system going mad and unmanageable ! It was he who urged me to install linux as soon as possible.He was amazed to see so many free softwares !

I wish he acknowledges this by writing a comment lol

My uncle’s computer was dual booting Windows and Linux.He did a format on one of the hard disk.This has disturbed the grub settings in the other hard drive.Right now i dont know anything more about MBR.

How we solved it was through grub install !

I booted the computer using the ubuntu live cd.We mounted the appropriate partition, and gave a grub install by the following command sudo grub-install.I have not mastered grub yet, but solved it for the yesterday’s purpose alone.Will update you more later !

My father and me used to do this conversion work, since 2 years.We converted many cassettes into few CD.Recently, i was surprised to know that this was an article in LFY !All you need for doing this is just a cassetter player, it could be a walkman too, then a chord to connect your pc’s audio in and the player’s audio out & audacity

Configure audacity so that it listens & records the audio in or line in port of the pc.Now start playing the cassette.Once recorded you can export the captured signal to any audio format.

we can save audio content in cassettes from corruption !

Today Ashok, a friend who caught me online through this blog of mine, experimented with a encrypted mail conversation.

I have been signing mails.But honestly the first time i tried encryption today.I abandoned evolution, so i had to depend on FireGPG plugin for my IceWeasel to do the encryption for me.

Backed up my keys and the revocation certificates.

Today kaushik and me planned to write a shell script to accumulate the Net usage

People can help us

Hello World !

Any one can join me in writing a device driver !

But it will kick off slowly, as i got my deadline for final year project soon !During which you could prepare by reading some literature & plan which simple device we could take up first.

Lets learn in the process

Even otherwise i could help beginners with the following to my best possible extent.

Linux, C \ C++ \Java

Communication

Learnt a bit of hands on, though not tough but made a lot of careless mistakes lol

I configured SSH on my laptop !

What i had to do was allow TCP packets for the port 22 and port forward them to my internal ip address of the laptop.Of course the SSH daemon should be running.

Thanx to the well wishers from ILUGC

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc/43753

Engineering students miss a lot of hands on, because we live a lot in the theoretical world.

I want to be different thats why Linux is my choice

References:

http://portforward.com/default.htm

google & wikipedia

Repository server is a best solution when you have a LAN of linux machines and when you dont want to carry your CD/DVD to each machine to install new packages.

So you can assign a repository server containing all the packages to a folder and use FTP to download the packages to your lcoal machine

the following steps are done on the repository server

You need to install FTP server like ProFTP

Create a FTP user account say a user ftpuser

Extract the contents of the CD/DVD to a directory, for Debian Etch they are dists(directory), debian(link pointing to .), pool(directory)

Add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list on other machines

deb ftp://ftpuser:password@domain/home/ftpuser/debian etch main  and then

sudo apt-get update

The package will be downloaded on demand from the repo server and installed