Archive for March, 2008
Let the Blog wars begin! 1 comment
For days I was at a loss thinking about what topic to discuss. I had a list of around 10 topics, ranging from “local xampp wordpress/drupal XP install” to generating secure passwords. But as luck would have it I decided to write about this, Matt Mulenweg’s reaction to SixApart’s Anil Dash’s WP2.5 upgrade guide.
Personally I’m with Matt. If Anil wants to sell MT, then he shouldn’t do so by saying bad things about a competing product. To me Anil/MT sounded desperate over WP’s share of the blogging world. WP is 100% opensource as Matt said. You can’t get any better than that. And I understand Matt’s reaction to it too. WP is his baby. You don’t just stand there while somebody throws stones at your kid.
Converting PDF to JPG via ImageMagick no comments
Ever recieved a comic book or magazine pdf file and wondered if you can extract the JPG images off it? Well there are a number of commercial and free/shareware tools for windows if you are good at googling. But what if you’re using Linux? Or you have a bunch of PDF files and you want to convert all of them in one go?
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Hiding Files with Truecrypt no comments
Eversince I started computing (back when I was using C64), I was always into cryptography, due largely to my dad’s Cold War spy novels scattered throughout our house. I always wanted to play with codes and ciphers. This journey took me to play with other crypto-software like PCTools7’s PCSecure, my own scripts and codes using substitution cipher and PGP.
After PGP things got really serious for me crypto-wise. The words from Phil Zimmerman’s PGP help file and Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography book constantly echoed in my mind was this:
“There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
This book is about the latter.”
– Bruce Schneier
