Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Boost:Spirit EBNF parser framework

Came cross this library when searching for ideas to parse ABNF-based protocols (such as SIP and SDP). Spirit is an object oriented recursive descent parser framework implemented using template meta-programming techniques. Expression templates [2] allow us to approximate the syntax of Extended Backus Normal Form (EBNF) completely in C. Parser objects are composed through operator [...]

Amazing story: Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference

Read a post on Slashdot that tells the somewhat old but amazing story and directs me to SCIGen: SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our [...]

Disable IPv6 in Fedora Core 8

Almost no pre-existing instructions on this issue works on Fedora Core 8. Now here is how you can do this with FC8 to disable IPv6: Append the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf: install ipv6 /bin/true Append the following line to /etc/sysconfig/network: NETWORKING_IPV6=no Ensure your network adapter is configured not to use IPv6. This is an easy [...]

How to capture raw 802.11 frames with Kismet

Introduction Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11n, and 802.11g traffic (devices and drivers permitting). Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given [...]

Where can I find sha1sum program for Windows? – FedoraNEWS.ORG

Where can I find sha1sum program for Windows? – FedoraNEWS.ORG