If your system partition or system drive is encrypted using TrueCrypt, you need to enter your pre-boot authentication password in the TrueCrypt Boot Loader screen after you turn on or restart your computer. It may happen that you are forced by somebody to decrypt the operating system or to reveal the pre-boot authentication password. There [...]

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I recently had the need to embed a file in an executable. Since I’m working at the command line with gcc, et al and not with a fancy RAD tool that makes it all happen magically it wasn’t immediately obvious to me how to make this happen. A bit of searching on the net found [...]

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From our friends at Lifehacker… “The computer ate my term paper!” We’ve all been there at some point. You delete an important file, somehow it skips your Recycle Bin altogether, and for all practical purposes, it’s disappeared into the ether. But before you hit the big red panic button, there’s a very good chance that [...]

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Alright, I’m sure you’re saying to yourself, ok I have all this data (e.g., web page, file data, it’s all the same to us) but I really want to extract some very specific data out of it. Does that sound like what you’re looking for? Well what we’ll do is a basic PHP web scrape, [...]

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Talk about a gas guzzler… Police seized a truck and trailer equipped with a trap door that was used at least three times to siphon thousands of gallons of BP diesel fuel from underground storage tanks at a Tic Toc Food Mart in Mercer County.
“You got to have a little respect for this,” Hermitage police [...]

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If you’ve got a spare printer ink cartridge and a document you only want one person to see—or just some free time and a cloak-and-dagger kick—one helpful Metacafe post has a project for you. The tutorial requires a utility knife, some invisible ink pens and a syringe, and an empty ink cartridge, with black seeming [...]

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After all this talk about CAPTCHAs, let’s take look at the “blackhat” side of things and create an “Army of Captcha Typers,” that don’t even know they’re doing it.
People are finally starting to catch on to this technique. However I’m finding a lack of tact in how to accomplish it successfully. The objective is [...]

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We’ve been showing people how to automate various tasks in Linux for quite a while now. Today, we would like to briefly show people how to automate tasks in Linux using Cron jobs.
You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if [...]

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(This is for Windows Mobile (WM) phones. I have tried it with WM6 and 6.1. I would assume that it runs for WM5 as well, though.)
Pocket Nester is an excellent NES emulator that runs nearly full speed with sound! You can map your phones keys to your preferred layout and even rotate the screen to [...]

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This “hack” has already been patched but the method is still useful to any good script kiddie. In fact, it’s barely a “hack.” You are only modifying the information being sent to a 3rd party that is used within a Facebook application. LOL.

Personally, I don’t want to be responsible for putting someone in a [...]

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Do you need to change your web host or switch your database server? This is probably the only time when you really think of backing up your MySQL data. If you’ve got a website with a database or your custom database running for your applications, it is imperative that you make regular backups of the [...]

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Yet another newbie question that suggests people love to kill and show their power to rest of the world…
There is a package called procps. It includes various useful (READ: nifty) utilities. One of such utility is skill which is responsible to send a signal to users and process such as:

Halt user terminal
Kill user and logout

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The Productivity Portfolio has a great walk-through on how to create a collection of personalized RSS feeds to show any new jobs that pop up on eight popular or specialized job search sites, including Craigslist, CareerBuilder.com, and Indeed. Even if RSS feeds are old news for you, you might not know just what each of [...]

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The printed March 2008 version of Wired issue has a handy hint for how to break up on Facebook without sending a news blast to your friends list about it.
To change your relationship status without the press release, go to Facebook’s privacy options, deselect “Remove My Relationship Status” then, in your profile settings, change “In [...]

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