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How to avoid having to reactivate Windows XP after fresh install

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:08:52 GMT

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How to avoid having to reactivate Windows XP after fresh install

You can avoid having to reactivate XP by simply copying a file from your Windows directory and saving it on a USB stick, floppy drive, or CD. When you first activated Windows, XP creates a file called “WPA.DBL” and stores it in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 directory.

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Perspectives: Firefox security extension

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:24:14 GMT

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Perspectives extension for Firefox gives second opinion on security

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That’s the principle behind a new Firefox 3.0 extension called Perspectives, developed by some smart people at Carnegie Mellon University. This extension verifies that the public key for a site matches the key obtained for that same site by “notaries” — external servers that monitor key values. If the key you obtained doesn’t match the known value for that site, then you get a stern warning that you might be under attack.

You can tune the sensitivity of the extension quite a bit, as seen in this dialog:

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HDR photography

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:03:36 GMT

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Outback Photo Handbook: HDR and Tonemapping

Capture More Light: High Speed Bracketing Report

Tags: hdr, photo, photography, ps, ps3, ps2, tonemapping

Convert your videos quickly, easily, and all at once with WinFF and FFmpeg

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:12:04 GMT

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Convert your videos quickly, easily, and all at once with WinFF and FFmpeg

Available for Windows 98,ME,NT,XP,Vista,
and Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat Based GNU/Linux Distributions

About WinFF

WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert most any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg's, flv's, and mov's, all into avi's all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 , ME, NT, XP, VISTA, and Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat based GNU/Linux distributions.


Windows XP	Ubuntu 7.04

Tags: video, convert, linux, winxp, winff, ffmpeg

Hacking a commercial airport WLAN

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:32:18 GMT

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Hacking a commercial airport WLAN

Without any hope of success I typed http://www.google.com/.jpg into my browser's adress bar, and to my big surprise I saw the page you see when you follow the link right now. The next thing I typed in was: http://www.google.com/?.jpg but that didn't work. But I went on, and found that url's like http://www.google.com/search?.jpg worked like a charm. I found that I could easily visit sites like slashdot, google, or even this weblog, when adding a ?.jpg at the end of the url. The next logical step was to automate that. I downloaded greasemonkey.xpi?.jpg (*g*) and wrote a 4 line js script that would add ?.jpg to every link in a document. That way I was able to browse most sites without a hassle.

Tags: hacking, wifi, wireless, wlan, free, internet, airport

Ubuntu: enable USB device in Virtualbox

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:48:15 GMT

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Show USB pen drive in Virtual Box

sudo nano -w /etc/fstab

Enter this in your fstab under all of the rest of the lines, make sure you do not edit anything BESIDES adding this new line.

Reboot and see how well it works.

#usbfs
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0

Tags: usb, virtualbox, ubuntu, linux, windows, xp

Free Audio Editing: WavePad

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:48:47 GMT

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WavePad Offers Full-Featured Audio Editing

All platforms: Free audio editing application WavePad Sound Editor can help you cut down an MP3 to ringtone size or remix that cute voicemail. It has basic editing features such as cut, copy, paste, insert and auto-trim and effects such as amplify, normalize, envelope, sample conversion and more. WavePad has support for many audio formats including WAV, MP3, VOX, GSM, Real Audio, AU, AIF, FLAC, and OGG. WavePad also comes with voice-activated recording and a built-in CD ripper with CDDB music database lookup. For another robust sound editor, check out Audacity. WavePad is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Tags: audio, edit, wavepad, mp3, wav, free

linux/unix: Modify User Permissions

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:51:17 GMT

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Modify User Permissions

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How to read a directory listing

When you run "ls -l" from the Unix command line, the resulting file listing shows data about each file:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  31660 Jan 30 13:51 touch

The subsequent nine characters show the permissions; they're divided into three hunks of three, representing the owner, the group, and everyone else. Every file and directory has an owner, who is a user on the computer where the file exists. It also has a primary group, which is granted its own set of permissions. For instance, on a Debian system, only members of the cdrom group (as well as root, of course), have access to the CD drive.

Modifying permissions and ownership

chmod a+x filename - adds execute permission for all users

Chown

The chown command can be used to change the ownership of a file.

Chgrp

chgrp changes just the group ownership of a file:

Tags: linux, unix, file, permision, permisions, read, write, execute

Minimem Reduces the Memory Footprint of Unwieldy Applications

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:46:15 GMT

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Minimem Reduces the Memory Footprint of Unwieldy Applications

Windows only: Free application Minimem reduces the memory usage of individual running applications on demand. Similar pplications promising to make your computer run faster by freeing up RAM are a dime a dozen, and many of them aren't all they're promised to be. After giving Minimen a try on my PC and reading FreewareGenius's detailed review (along with the author's comments on that post), Minimem appears to be the real deal under the right circumstances. Minimem removes unnecessary memory pages from running processes you tell it to optimize. The program isn't the most useful for applications that already have great memory management of their own, but it seems to work well on many applications—both small and large—that have a larger footprint than they should.

Tags: win, xp, memory, manager, resources

EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:27:41 GMT

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EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free

Windows only: EASEUS Partition Manager is a hard drive partition utility that bills itself as a free alternative to the popular commercial product, PartitionMagic. EASEUS can resize and move partitions without losing data already on them (unlike many other partitioning tools which erase the data on the drive in order to work). EASEUS can also change partition labels, format easily, hide and un-hide partitions, preview the effect of your changes before you make them, and change cluster size. EASEUS only supports hard disks from 20-800GB (with apologizes to those in the terabyte club). For more on partitioning with GParted (also free, but not as user-friendly), see our previous post on drive partitioning and imaging. EASEUS Home Edition is a free download for personal use on Windows XP and 2000 SP4 only.

Tags: easeus, partition, magic, hard, drive, partitions, windows, xp

Top 10 Command Line Tools

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:54:32 GMT

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Top 10 Command Line Tools

10. Customize your prompt

9. Force an action with `sudo !!` ("bang bang")

you can sudo !! to repeat the last command with superuser privileges.

8. Create whole directory trees with `mkdir`

mkdir The Beatles\White Album\Disc 1

7. Filter huge lists with `grep`

Programmer Eric Wendelin explains grep more in-depth.

6. RTFM with `man` (and more)

5. Manage processes with `top`

track and kill runaway processes

4. Master `wget` for powerful file-grabbing

3. Get way beyond system searching with `find`

check out this tutorial at Debian/Ubuntu Tips & Tricks.

2. Set up powerful backups with `rsync`

shown us how to do that.

1. See your most-used commands with `history`, make aliases for them

history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -r

Tags: linux, command, line, promp, ubuntu

Linux: Manage Your Photos with Kflickr

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:01:21 GMT

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Manage Your Photos with Kflickr

Installing KFlickr is simple. You may already have it on your hard drive as part of your distro install (a quick look-see should tell you that) but if you don’t, not to worry. Debian-based distros can just run sudo apt-get install kflickr, while those relying on Yum and RPMs can use the repository of their choice to grab the necessary package and install it.

Tags: linux, flickr, photo, backup, kflickr

AccelMan File Manager Replaces Explorer with Robust Features

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:31:30 GMT

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AccelMan File Manager Replaces Explorer with Robust Features

Windows only: Free application AccelMan is a dual-pane Windows Explorer replacement with a powerful feature set. Previously a shareware application, AccelMan boasts a built-in image viewer, tabbed views, command line integration, a media player, text editor, and even file compression and extraction with support for 15 popular formats (including ZIP and RAR). It also does as-you-type search, reads PDF and Microsoft Office documents, and tons more. We've shown you how to replace Explorer with Xplorer2, but if you're looking for an Explorer alternative and Xplorer2 wasn't you're thing, AccelMan is worth a look. AccelMan is freeware, Windows only.

Tags: accelman, file, manager, explorer, windows, win, xp

Sync and Back Up Your Data with Conduit for Linux

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:19:08 GMT

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Sync and Back Up Your Data with Conduit for Linux

Admit it—even if your desk could be the cover shot for Organized Worker Monthly, your data is all over the place. Between desktop apps, online networks, and webapp tools, it's easy to lose track of data and duplicate tasks, simply because it's not all accessible, or it takes too much of your time to keep it all synced up and together. Conduit, an in-development program for the Linux desktop, makes it simple to link your web data, desktop files, and other information all together, then synchronize them all with a single click. Follow along as we check out how Conduit works, peek at its potential, and try out a few examples (and solicit your own clever ideas).

Great uses for Conduit

LSync Calendars, Contacts, and Notes with iPod/PDA

Share once, publish across sites

YouTube/Podcast subscriptions made easy

Simple folder sync/backup

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Compile Software From Source Code

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:43:54 GMT

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Compile Software From Source Code

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Increasingly, though, with the popularity of open-source software, where the source code is available for one and all to read and enjoy, the final step of compiling the code into a runnable program is left up to the user. It needs to be compiled specifically for the type of system it'll run on, and maintaining separate binaries for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X Tiger, Panther, Linux x86, and all the rest is a bother. Also, publishing just the code leaves users free to modify it, often with publicly available patches, before compiling, to customize it to their needs.

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1 Compilers
2 Downloading and Unpacking
3 Reading the Documentation
4 Building
5 Troubleshooting

Tags: compile, software, source, code, open, linux

Clipmarks | jarek69's clips

How to avoid having to reactivate Windows XP after fresh install

Perspectives: Firefox security extension

HDR photography

Convert your videos quickly, easily, and all at once with WinFF and FFmpeg

Convert your videos quickly, easily, and all at once with WinFF and FFmpeg

Windows XP

Ubuntu 7.04

Hacking a commercial airport WLAN

Ubuntu: enable USB device in Virtualbox

Free Audio Editing: WavePad

linux/unix: Modify User Permissions

Modify User Permissions

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Modifying permissions and ownership

Chown

Chgrp

Minimem Reduces the Memory Footprint of Unwieldy Applications

EASEUS Creates and Manages Hard Drive Partitions for Free

Top 10 Command Line Tools

10. Customize your prompt

9. Force an action with sudo !! ("bang bang")

8. Create whole directory trees with mkdir

7. Filter huge lists with grep

6. RTFM with man (and more)

5. Manage processes with top

4. Master wget for powerful file-grabbing

3. Get way beyond system searching with find

2. Set up powerful backups with rsync

1. See your most-used commands with history, make aliases for them

Linux: Manage Your Photos with Kflickr

Manage Your Photos with Kflickr

AccelMan File Manager Replaces Explorer with Robust Features

Sync and Back Up Your Data with Conduit for Linux

Great uses for Conduit

Compile Software From Source Code

Compile Software From Source Code

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Contents

9. Force an action with `sudo !!` ("bang bang")

8. Create whole directory trees with `mkdir`

7. Filter huge lists with `grep`

6. RTFM with `man` (and more)

5. Manage processes with `top`

4. Master `wget` for powerful file-grabbing

3. Get way beyond system searching with `find`

2. Set up powerful backups with `rsync`

1. See your most-used commands with `history`, make aliases for them