packETH 1.8.1 SlackBuild and packages

Hi folks, I’ve found this interesting software which can be very useful for testing purposes. Its name is packETH. packETH is a GUI and CLI packet generator tool for ethernet. It allows you to create and send any possible packet or sequence of packets on the ethernet link. It is very simple to use, powerful ...

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libcpuid 0.2.1 SlackBuild and packages

In the last week I’ve tried to make my first SlackBuild script. I’ve decided to start with libcpuid. libcpuid is a small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction. Using it, you can: get the processor vendor, model, brand string, code name get information about CPU features such as: number of cores or ...

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A way to extract the playback time from mpg123

In the last period I was working on a project concerning UPnP. In particular I was developing a “smart speaker”, a wireless speaker which plays mp3 files by streaming them from a NAS (UPnP media server). The code is written in Java and leans to mpg123, a real time CLI MPEG audio player/decoder. The hardware ...

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Upgrade to PHP 5.6.2

In the last days I was trying to create some packages for Slackware 14.1. I’ve created two virtual machines with VirtualBox, one for the 32 bit version and the other for the 64 bit version. These VMs have a clean Slackware installation and are intended to be used only for building packages. I’ve configured slackpkg ...

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