Serval Mesh is an Android app that provides voice calls, text messaging and file sharing between mobile phones using WiFi, without the need for a SIM or any other infrastructure like mobile cell towers, WiFi hotspots or Internet access.
Serval Mesh – download and install, user documentation, versions, reporting bugs
Instructions for developing Serval Mesh – information for developers
Supported Devices – supported Android phones and devices
The goal of the contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil. Every year, we will propose a challenge to coders to solve a simple data processing problem, but with covert malicious behavior. Examples include miscounting votes, shaving money from financial transactions, or leaking information to an eavesdropper. The main goal, however, is to write source code that easily passes visual inspection by other programmers.
nodewatcher is one of the projects of wlan slovenija open wireless network. Its main goal is the development of an open source network planning, deployment, monitoring and maintenance platform.
via Nodewatcher – wlan slovenija development.
I have not dug into this project yet but it looks interesting.
UMLet is a free, open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, produce sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements. UMLet runs stand-alone or as Eclipse plug-in on Windows, OS X and Linux. (Also, check out its sister tool PLOTlet to create chart grids and our other tools.)
There is a continuing need to show the power of CSS. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The HTML remains the same, the only thing that has changed is the external CSS file. Yes, really.
via CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design.
From: 10 Years
Wow. It’s finally happened. The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old today.
Rather than staying limited to a small team perhaps even a single developer, fostering an open source community will open the doors to potentially unlimited contributions from other developers, especially ones who happen to use your software; this type of feedback is thus a great indicator of major pain points your users have with your product. Even among your users who aren’t programmers, the GitHub issues system is an incredibly useful tool for tracking bug reports and feature requests.
via Why Your Startup Should Be Open Source – by Peer.fm formerly Napster.fm | citizentekk.
Memfetch
It is a simple utility to dump all memory of a running process, either immediately or when a fault condition is discovered. It is an attractive alternative to the vastly inferior search capabilities of many debuggers and tracers – and a convenient way to grab “screenshots” from many types of text-based interactive utilities. To install memfetch:
## FreeBSD ## pkg_add -r -v memfetch ## other *nix user download it from the following url ## wget http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/soft/memfetch.tgz tar xvf memfetch.tgz cd memfetch && make
via Top 8 Tools For Linux / Unix Memory Forensics Analysis.
This looks like a useful tool. From the README file:
Debuggers like gdb are pretty good for examining small sections
of code or memory, but are pretty much useless for massive comparison, sophisticated searches and such. It’s good to be able to retrieve full memory image to run it thru grep, strings, your favorite viewer or any other tool. Quite obviously, I developed this code not because it’s extremely difficult to do it on your own, but because it is a valuable shell utility for all kinds of deep hacking activities that simply saves you time.Memfetch is a convenient screenshot grabber for ssh or screen sessions, by the way 😉
I chose memfetch from the eight since it seemed the most intuitive and simple. The downloadable tarball contains a single .c file and a make file. Unfortunately the installation isn’t as easy as portrayed in the above blurb. On Fedora 14 I needed to futz with the C_INCLUDE_PATH and add the kernel…/asm-generic into the path. I also had to symbolic link an asm to asm-generic in the kernel source include directory because the program wanted a asm/path.h file. Things have changed since 2007 when this program was last updated. But it works and it may prove useful. I’m sure Backtrack 5 must have this tool, or tool like this, pre installed.
Redirections such as
>or|are performed by the running shell, before it invokessudo.You have to either use
sudo sh -c "echo blah > /proc/blah", or run a root shell withsudo -s.
via linux – Bash: permission denied for file write – Super User.
This had me stumped until the greatness of google divined the answer and why my user script couldn’t write to a root owned file using plain old sudo. After figuring this out I also realized I don’t need to write to a root owned file after all but I found this solution interesting.
Outwardly, Kali looks the same as the previous version of BackTrack. But dig a little deeper, according to founder Mati Aharoni, and that’s where the similarities end.
“It boots like BackTrack, but when you look deeper into Kali, you see all these amazing new features that just weren’t available in BackTrack,” Aharoni told SC speaking ahead of the launch in Amsterdam.
From Kali’s site comes this:
From an end user perspective, the most obvious change would be the switch to Debian and an FHS-compliant system. What this means is that instead of having to navigate through the /pentest tree, you will be able to call any tool from anywhere on the system as every application is included in the system path. However, there’s much hidden magic in that last sentence. I’ll quickly list some of the new benefits of this move.
Backtrack has been a very useful resource for me and prominently listed in the Tools section on this site. One of the main features that I gleaned from this release is support for ARM. I haven’t poked around the site or created a Kali VM to play with yet. Will report whatever I observe later.
Cross-document coreference resolution is the task of grouping the entity mentions in a collection of documents into sets that each represent a distinct entity. It is central to knowledge base construction and also useful for joint inference with other NLP components. Obtaining large, organic labeled datasets for training and testing cross-document coreference has previously been difficult. We use a method for automatically gathering massive amounts of naturally-occurring cross-document reference data to create the Wikilinks dataset comprising of 40 million mentions over 3 million entities. Our method is based on finding hyperlinks to Wikipedia from a web crawl and using anchor text as mentions. In addition to providing large-scale labeled data without human effort, we are able to include many styles of text beyond newswire and many entity types beyond people.
via Wikilinks – Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory.