100% Internet Explorer 6 Clone In HTML5

Well I came across this website via some referral online and thought of sharing with you guys. A funny 100% IE6 clone done in HTML5 that MAKES sense :D.

IE6 Clone in HTML5


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Setting Up Ncell Connect In Linux

Today I got a NCELL Connect device from my junior friend and did a quick PPP setup on linux. Later thought that this would be useful for other guys who use ubuntu(thats what I'm using) and other distros and hence am posting the steps on setting up Ncell connect in linux.

1. Install wvdial. Wvdial is a dialer that lets you to make a PPP connection in order to connect to the internet. Fire up the terminal and run the following command:

samar@Techgaun:~$ sudo apt-get install wvdial

Optionally you could also install gnome-ppp(sudo apt-get install gnome-ppp) for GUI but wvdial does all the job.

2. Edit the /etc/wvdial.conf, the configuration file for wvdial which requires appropriate setting for NCell connect and replace all the text with following data.

[Dialer Defaults]
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = web
Dial Command = ATDT
Password = web
Baud = 460800
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0

In the above process, you can run the wvdialconf command to see if your Huawei card is being detected. The Modem = line may require appropriate value.




3. While your device is plugged in, type the following command and note the line containing huawei.

samar@Techgaun:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 12d1:1446 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1552 (HSPA modem)
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0408:03f1 Quanta Computer, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 138a:0005 DigitalPersona, Inc
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 025: ID 04f3:0210 Elan Microelectronics Corp. AM-400 Hama Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

We are concerned with the vendor and product id. In the above information, 12d1 is the vendor ID and 1446 is the product id. Now perform the following in the terminal:

samar@Techgaun:~$ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1446

4. Now we must be all good. All we have to do is dial the connection. Type the following in the terminal:

samar@Techgaun:~$ sudo wvdial

If everything is fine, your connection will be successful showing the information such as IP address and primary and secondary DNS information. I hope this helps. Enjoy the NCELL connect in linux :)


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Extracting All Hyperlinks From Webpages - Python

In this example, I am going to show how easily you can extract all the links in a webpage using python. If you are learning to write some small scale crawler, this can be a quick startup on how you can extract the links in any webpage.

Basically, we will send the http request to any webpage and we will read the HTML response except in the case when the connection can not be established. In such case, we will simply inform the user that we could not connect to the website.

For all these stuffs, we will import few modules and most important ones are re and urllib2 for regular expression stuff and HTTP request/response stuffs respectively.

We then write the regex for the hyperlinks for which we will make a search in the HTML data we get back after sending the request from the server. Note the <a href=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+). The small brackets are there to let us capture our necessary information i.e. the actual links.

Now you understood what we'll be doing, below is the python script to extract the hyperlinks from any webpage.

#!/usr/bin/python

import re, urllib2
from sys import argv

if (len(argv) != 2):
    print "No URL specified. Taking default URL for link extraction"
    url = "http://www.techgaun.com"
else:
    url = str(argv[1])
    
links_regex = re.compile('<a href=[\'"]?([^\'" >]+)', re.IGNORECASE)
url_request = urllib2.Request(url)
try:
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url_request)
    html = response.read()
    links = links_regex.findall(html)
    print '\n'.join(links)
except urllib2.URLError:
    print "Can't Connect to the website"

Now run the script as python extracter.py http://www.techgaun.com or any URL you wish to.

So isn't it a good start for writing your own simple web crawler? :P


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Determine All Internet Connections And Corresponding Running Processes In Linux [How To]

Sometimes you might want to see all the internet connections being made by the running processes in the linux system. I am writing this small commandline trick to view all the internet connections using the lsof command.

lsof command is used to all the open files and the processes opening those files. All kind of resources such as disk, network connections, pipes, etc. are actually implemented as files in linux and the lsof command allows you to get the report regarding the opened files.

To view all the internet connections and the corresponding processes, we can simply use the -i switch as below:

samar@Techgaun:~$ lsof -i

The above command runs fine but is a little bit slow since it tries to resolve the network addresses to host names and port numbers to port names. So you might wish to use the command below for faster response from the lsof command.

samar@Techgaun:~$ lsof -i -Pn

Also, running the lsof command as the root(i.e. sudo lsof | grep -i listen or sudo lsof -i | grep -i listen) will give more extra outputs esp. the "LISTEN" ones i.e. the processes that are listening for incoming connections. This piece of information might be useful in determining the backdoors and rootkits but I've not yet explored into that.

I hope this little trick comes useful sometimes.


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Watch ASCII Star Wars Through Telnet

Just thought to share this cool link that features a star wars in the telnet. Telnet to the remote server and you'll be shown the star wars story.

Open your terminal and type the following:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

And, the online web version is available at HERE


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How to get things for free in internet [Google dorks]

Well its been a few days I haven't posted. Today I have come with an interesting post that will help you get things for free in internet. Of course, it is not legal but it works in many cases but not always. And many of the results might be some craps.

Following are the list of the google dorks that will help you get some of the commercial softwares for free. Google dorks are the keyword phrases that can be searched with the google search engine.

intitle:"Thank You For Your Order" intext:Click Here to Download
intitle:"Thank You For Your Purchase" intext:Click Here to Download
inurl:/thankyou*.html intitle:Thank you for your order! intext:Click Here to Download
intitle:"Thank You For Your Order!" intext:download
inurl:thanks intext:"Thank You For Your Order!" "Click Here" filetype:html

The above dorks are just the examples. You can modify them and do some experiments on your own to search for specific domains, etc. I hope this is useful. Thanks :)

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Download.com.np : A nepali download portal

I came across this nepali download portal Download.com.np which seems to be powered by MOS.

Mercantile communications, a leading Kathmandu based IT Company, developed a useful website download.com.np for most of the download users who frequently requires different kinds of freeware/shareware programs in their day to day professional life. Download.com.np aims to be a window for collection of the different Freeware and shareware programs with easier and faster downloading from the local network.


Visit the site

Happy downloadings, Nepali users :)

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ieHTTPHeaders : An IE alternative for livehttpheaders add-on

Well IE sucks but still if you need to use it and require some http header viewing addon like livehttpheaders for mozilla firefox, then there exists a tool called ieHTTPHeaders serving the same purpose.

I won't write much about it, just visit the official webpage for more information and download links:
Official webpage of ieHTTPheaders
Thanks.

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