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Following are some bunch of commands that might be useful if you want to find files in unix/linux. Large Files Find files larger than 10MB in the current directory downwards... find . -size +10000000c -ls Find files larger than 100MB... find . -size +100000000c -ls Old Files Find files last modified over 30days ago... find . -type f -mtime 30 -ls Find files last ... Full story

Hi folks, its been a long time since I have posted some thing technical, so I will be writing about the challenge I got at NIT KU, where I cracked WinRAR 3.80 using a disassembler and will tell you the same here. You can crack any version of WinRAR using this method and need not to pay for ... Full story

Wifi or Wireless Fidelity is the name of a popular wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connections (as if you didnt know..),Wifi has become an integral part of our lives today. Wifi is secured using a WPA protocol which intends to secure Wireless LANs like Wired LAN’s by ... Full story

I started writing ViralPatel.net one year ago, on November 18, 2008. Looking back, it’s been the best year of my life. This has been a great journey in learning new things. I would like to thank my friends who inspire me to start this blog and also contributed some of the great articles. For people interested ... Full story

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it ... Full story

Recently we updated viralpatel.net and moved to Wordpress 2.8.4. The process of upgrading the wordpress went smooth. The wordpress installation you are running your website on must be updated regularly to avoid any kind of security threats in older versions of wordpress. But while you play with your stable website code, it is always advisable to take backup of your website. ... Full story

This is a Hype Cycle Chart, which Gartner is using for past many years now. As is known, it demystifies the Hype and helps find the Right Technology to invest in at the Right Time. Gartner's Hype Cycle characterizes the typical progression of an emerging technology, from over enthusiasm through a period of disillusionment to an eventual understanding of the technology's relevance and role in a ... Full story

The other day I was working on an App that required Google Map like functionality where Mouse Scroll event on an object triggered some action in JavaScript. Handling Mouse Wheel in JavaScript is quite simple. Most of the browsers support Mouse Scroll Event in one or other way. Mozilla provides window.addEventListener method that can be used ... Full story

Problem Statement: I have few files in source directory. I have to move them to another destination directory. The source directory have *.txt files that needs to be moved to destination directory. The destination filename should be *.txt.backup. So how to accomplish the above task in Unix Shell Script? Well the solution is simple: cd source/ for file in *.txt do mv "${file}" ../destination/"${file}.backup" Run a loop for each ... Full story

Architectural Patterns always been interesting from designer perspective. MVC, Pipe’n’filter, Layered,3-tier, n-tier, etc. But one very basic architectural concept coming from Civil engineers in practice. ‘’Have common building block with minimal facility as a base, with modular and customizable components to suit customers need will provide flexibility to whole town /architectural planning and also help to save cost for designer ’’ Same concept is ... Full story