Well the other day I downloaded the latest version of Fedora Linux (Core 4) (.torrent) (mirror), and was surprised to see that instead of having MD5SUM check files there were SHA1SUM files. Since I am using Mac OS-X (10.4) and have Fink installed (which provides many ports of popular linux apps, such as md5sum), I was surprised to find that I did not have sha1sum installed. To fix the situation I just went over to the coreutils website downloaded and compiled the source, and moved the sha1sum file into my path (I put it in /sw/bin/ since that’s where fink installed my md5sum). Knowing that others would probably run into this same problem and might be too lazy to do the same, I figured I’d provide the binary for this file here. Enjoy!

I’ve recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4 – Tiger. So far I like it, it works great on my Mac Mini. One of the cool new features in it is the Dashboard. Coming from Linux before making this switch, these remind me of GnomeDesklet. The main differance between GnomeDesklets and Dashboard Widgets is that they act more like application windows than embedded into the desktop. DashBlog in particular allows you to make posts to your Blogger.com blog with out using their webpage. So far all of the posts in the blog have been made using it. My only complaint about it is that I just don’t like the colors of the UI, but really not that bad. You can download the latest version from here where they also have a screen shot.