Best Free Anti Virus and Firewall

I have come across a wonderful free antivirus, it has got a high detection rate. Also it's resident guard is very effective. It has a rootkit scanner also. You will find it in this link.

The firewall I will recommend is Sunbelt Personal Firewall. Even the free edition provides good security. Follow this link for download

UNIX was a Hoax

Here are a couple of funny links on UNIX. Thanks to my brother Sayantan Mukherjee for digging these links:-

• http://www.math.psu.edu/tseng/unix-hoax.txt
• http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html
  

Platform Independent File Search

I have been working on a platform independent hard disk search software for the past two days. Finally it has taken shape. Also it passed the initial testing successfully. Let me share my journey till now and also how Netbeans saved my day.

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Motivation:

The motivation of this project was to tap the potential of Java's platform independence. Also I wanted to create a fast search program, which would be light weight and with a simple interface. I think I have achieved my goals relatively well.

Logic:

The logic behind the search engine is a combination of DFS(Depth First Search) and BFS(Breadth First Search). To penetrate each path DFS is used and inside each path BFS is used to locate the file. A new thread has been used for the search process, which runs parallel to the user interface thread.

Versions:

Initially I had created the project as a command line one. Then I thought of implementing it as a GUI. The final version is a GUI, with command line logging taking place simultaneously. With the implementation of the GUI I faced a huge hindrance of managing the interface layout. It is very cumbersome to manage the layout by simple coding.

NetBeans to the rescue:

After wasting more than an hour putting the layout in place. I decided to download NetBeans. My computer is quite an old machine (PIII 750Mhz, 256MB RAM), so didn't install NetBeans before. After installing NetBeans the speed was good considering my machine configuration. I started the NetBeans GUI Builder(formerly Matisse) and my layout was up and running in 8mins sharp. Wow! Kudos to NetBeans for saving my day. I won't say it was a breeze working with NetBeans, rather it was tornado.

NetBeans GUI Builder at work

Download:

Coming soon! Keep watching this space.

Undroid and Android SDK m5

With the release of Android SDK m5-rc15, NetBeans' unofficial plugin Undroid is not working. Google has made some changes in its design which has brought up this bug. I am providing a manual workaround for it:-

Go to Netbeans_ project_folder\your_android_application\ and open the file AndroidManifest.xml

Now make the following changes:-

• The class= parameter throughout the AndroidManifest.xml file has been renamed, replace all instances of class= with android:name=.
• The android:value= parameters used throughout the AndroidManifest.xml file have been renamed, replace all android:value= occurrences with android:name=.
• The android:id= parameters used throughout the AndroidManifest.xml file have been renamed, replace all android:id= occurrences with android:name=.
• In intent-filter, the previous type, scheme, authority and path tags are now replaced with a single data tag and uses attributes android:mimeType, android:scheme, android:host and android:path to replace those tags respectively. A new attribute: android:port has been added as well. Without these changes, intent-filters will not work correctly.

For more changes refer to android upgrading page.

After all the changes has been made, re- build your application in NetBeans. Now, it should work.