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The Sabily-wmenu for UbuntuMe

July 14th, 2009 | Sohaib Afifi | Linux, Windows, development

This week i have subscribed to The Sabily project , a Linux distribution designed by and for Muslims. Like our distribution (EsiTux) it is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution , so i found that i can work on both projects at the same time.

I am helping in the development of the next version (gaza 9.10), and currently i am taking two tasks: the windows cd menu (Sabily-wmenu) and the Windows installer(Sabily-wininstaller).

I have finished the first task based on the ubuntu menu (umenu) source code .I have modified the strategies of this application to load external configurations and skins so any one can customize this tool without recompiling the source.

you can found the source code on this bazar branch :

https://code.launchpad.net/~sohaibafifi/esitux/Sabily-wmenu

using this command:

bzr branch https://code.launchpad.net/~sohaibafifi/esitux/Sabily-wmenu

or from the google code svn server using:

svn checkout http://esitux-wmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ esitux-wmenu-read-only

The program is developed using NSIS (A scriptable win32 installer/uninstaller system. from Nullsoft) to compile the tool just type these commands:

#make prerequisites
#make all
#make debug

Currently I am working on Sabily-wininstaller and I finished almost 80% of the source

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EsiTux une distribution linux pour les Esistes

January 15th, 2009 | Sohaib Afifi | Uncategorized

EsiTux est un projet créé par des étudiants de l’école supérieur d’informatique pour réaliser une distribution Linux spécial pour eux .

Cette distribution sera basée sur Ubuntu et son bureau est inspiré par Linuxmint.

Cette distribution va contenir beaucoup de modifications selon les besoins des étudiants ,par exemple comme :

Changer la langue du système par défaut.
Enlever des logiciels
Ajouter des logiciels
Mise à jourer les logiciels et le système.
Changer les préférences du système (thème, icônes, fond de bureau, panneaux, page d’accueil de navigateur, etc.).
. . .

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(Pro Decrypting VBScript Viruses) A new book by Martani

April 14th, 2008 | Sohaib Afifi | books

In this book, you will learn how to decrypt a VBScript and find the original source code; it will also teach you a number of techniques used by hackers to protect their source code. That may be so effective for use with your own code or your secret algorithms, which is very useful.
This book will not talk about the virus behavior or its VBScript specified functions right now (another book will discuss the VBScript viruses behavior wait for it?, you check for other related books), it is intended to discuss the methods hackers use to obfuscate their source code so others can’t understand it. And AVs cannot just detect the threats so early.
The author gave also some examples about some easy-to-understand viruses and other algorithms He found on the web, so they can make a good base you can start from, He also mention some ways of decrypting Encoded scripts by the WSD (Windows Script Decoder), but He don’t provide any tools or real codes (you know Microsoft and the Copyrights!!!!).
Also, this book supposes that you have a little knowledge about VBScript and scripting in general. It will not teach you VBScript, if you wish learn VBScript those books are so good to start: wrox vbscript programmer’s reference or Sams VBScript WMI and ADSI Unleashed.
Another more thing:He say that there is no Technical Reviewer or any help from others,and he wrote this book alone…

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comment utiliser le masm

April 11th, 2008 | Sohaib Afifi | development

voila le compilateur masm

comment utiliser le masm:

tu dois copier le 2 fichers (masm.exe link.exe) dans c:\ ou bien un repertoire PATH
tu saisir ton programme dans un editeur de text (bloc note) puis l’enregistrer sous forme (.asm)
lancer masm.exe et saisir le non de ton programme (masm.exe monprogramme.asm)
si le programme ne contient pas d’erreurs, le masm va générer un ficher (.obj)
lancer link.exe et tapez lz non de fichier (.obj) (link.exe monprogramme.obj)
le linker va générer un fichier executable (.exe)
et voila ton programme est prét

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