Category: Technical
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A Linux bash script to download all pdf files from a page
Are you trying to download multiple files from a webpage and bored from clicking and clicking ?? I needed to download like a 100 PDF from a single web page , so I started to look for a bash script that automates the process and found this interesting article by Guillermo Garron that combines several useful programs into […]
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Quick notes about SRTP (Secure Real-time protocol)
Here are some quick notes that I took while studying the SRTP from the standard document , they are not meant to be complete but rather a quick overview of the protocol. SRTP: Secure Real-time Transport Protocol is a profile of Real-time Transport protocol, a stream-cipher provides confidentiality, message authentication, message integrity, and replay attack protection. other goals […]
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OpenTLD Object tracking on Raspberry PI
OpenTLD (Tracking-Learning-Detection ) is an object tracking algorithm originally developed in MATLAB by Zdenek Kalal, the novel feature of the algorithm is the decoupling between the tracking and the detection algorithms unlike many algorithms where the tracking depends on the detected features of the object. This decoupling allowed the OpenTLD to outperform many algorithms. You can find […]
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Rooting and installing CWM on Samsung Galaxy S3 without Odin/Computer/USB connection
Are you totally new to rooting Android phones ? Can’t fully understand the whole new terminology ? Finding Odin Confusing ?…… Then this thread is for you ! I am assuming you already did you research about rooting and you know all the risks involved . I am also assuming that you got stuck with […]
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How to install Ubuntu 12.04 over Fedora 17 keeping Windows 7 dual boot
I have spent a few days playing around with different boot scenarios to remove Fedora and install Ubuntu but keeping dual boot with Windows 7 intact and here is the juice of my experience 🙂 * If you are booting from USB live disk make sure to disable UEFI from BIOS options and run in […]
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اخيرا …البشر ينتقلون للعيش على المريخ
منذ القدم راود البشرية حلم التحليق إلى اﻷعلى لينتقل خارج حدود اﻷرض و يقوم بسبر أغوار الكون, قمنا باتخاذ أول خطوة على سطح القمر فى عام 1969 . و الان نحلم باتخاذ نفس الخطوة و لكن ………… على المريخ ! خلفية تاريخية محاولات البشر لاستكشاف المريخ قديمة , كانت أول محاولة قام بها السوفيت فى […]
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Have You Heard about the Li-Fi ?
Many of us know the Wi-Fi, it’s the way that our laptops, tablets and smartphones communicate with each other and connect to the internet at our home. But have you heard about the Li-Fi ? In this interesting TED talk , Harald Haas raises an interesting question : What if every light bulb in the world could […]
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Building android-4.0.4 IceCreamSandwich on Pandaboard/Pandaboard ES
This is the 2nd post about building Android for pandaboard. I quote from the previous post Google maintainers advise to always repo sync the master branch for panda claiming it’s the most stable , but in my opinion they should focus on stabilizing tags. Tags should represent a stable snapshot of he source tree to […]
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Building android-4.2.2 JellyBean on Pandaboard/Pandaboard ES
Google maintainers advise to always repo sync the master branch for panda claiming it’s the most stable , but in my opinion they should focus on stabilizing tags. Tags should represent a stable snapshot of he source tree to build and run . That’s what a tag means in Software Engineering anyway ! This post […]
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Android Build System Ultimate Guide
Lately, Android Open Source Project has gone through various changes. For instance, Since JB Google decided to replace bluez bluetooth stack with an open source stack implemented by Broadcom claiming that the later is more optimized for Android devices causing a headache and new bugs for many users and developers, also there are frequent architectural […]
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