Monthly Archives: October 2009

How To Reset Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 Passwords with Ubuntu 9.10 Live Image and a USB Drive 2

I put this together for a project in a class I am taking, and thought it would be handy for others as well. The goal is to access a Windows filesystem and reset the password for a user, for example if someone forgot the Administrator password or the account is locked out from too many [...]

Find Your Oldest Messages in Gmail 5

At some point in the past, Google removed the Oldest » link out of everything except for your inbox and labels. This makes it hard to find the “first” or an early email of any sort if you have a lot in your search result. I wanted to find an email of which I had [...]

Google Voice Voicemail with Any Existing Phone Number 1

Google Voice just announced that it will officially support any existing phone number on its platform. This means that the hack that I posted previously is depreciated and you no longer need to use the “Do Not Disturb” option – and this fixes the annoying extra rings that callers would hear upon entering your voicemail.
Steps [...]

A Poor Man’s VPN: Proxy Web Connection to Remote Server (via SSH and Tunnel) 5

Did you ever have a situation where you needed to access a website that had an IP restriction in place? I recently had a situation where I needed to access the web via my university connection (due to IP restrictions placed on accessing databases of research papers). They do not have a VPN setup so [...]