Wednesday 8 May 2013

Check CRC /Hash calculation for files

We can send files to any other person or organization as attachment. Only if one download and opens it, will know if the file is correct or not, that too if it is in human readable format, like pdf, doc, excel etc. What if it is binary file or image, which is to be given to the other person? The other person cannot identify it until it uses it in the application for which it is intended.

One easy way is to do CRC32 check at both the ends. There is one free tool available hashtab which does hash calculation and generates the unique values.

Once this tool is downloaded and installed, for any file, if you right click -> properties -> you can see one extra tab "File hashes" -> It will display the Name and the Hash value unique to the file.

You can copy this information and send to the other party as well. The other person once download the file, he/she can check the properties-> and the hash value, if both sides it matches, means the file is fine,otherwise resend the file.

You can download the hashtab from below link and try it.

http://www.implbits.com/HashTab/HashTabWindows.aspx

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Thursday 2 May 2013

Window disappears when minimized in Linux (Fedora) once Panel is deleted

In fedora PC, someone accidentally deleted the bottom Panel. Now we could add the new panel, but all the opened windows just disappears when we minimized them. How ever using ALT+Tab we can access them.

I could find the solution with the help of friend Google.

1)       Once bottom panel is deleted

2)       Right click on Top panel -> New Panel

3)       The bottom panel will get created

4)       Right click on bottom panel -> Add to panel

5)       In Find an item-> type Window-> select Windows List-> ADD

6)       Now all the opened windows can be seen in this panel.

I think it can be done using Panel Preferences also, but I am not sure it is supported or not in Fedora.

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