- Published:
- October 30, 2009 – 6:40 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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 bad password login attempts. This works on all modern Windows Operating Systems: Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Win7 etc. Make sure to create a backup if you want to make sure you don’t corrupt your Windows install, as it can happen. Tools used: Unetbootin Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop ISO One flash drive, 1 gig or larger chntpw Accessing the Filesystem First we use unetbootin to install Ubuntu 9.10 to a flash drive. The flash drive needs to be at least 1GB to install the image. Select “Diskimage” and then the .iso file we downloaded of the….
Categories: Other Technology,Software,System Administration,Ubuntu,Windows
Tagged: chntpw, livecd, password, Ubuntu, Windows
- Published:
- October 29, 2009 – 5:03 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
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 a lot of, to see what was the first one, of 10000s. Fortunately there is a workaround for this! Updated 4/11/2010! There is a simple URL you can visit to get to the last page of all of your messages. This will show you the first message you ever got in Gmail, and when you signed up for Gmail. Simply visit: https://mail.google.com/mail/#search//p99999 This will return an error, then send you to the last page of all of your messages, inbox and archived. Thanks to commenter Josh for this tip! 1. Perform your search. To search….
Categories: Google,Other Technology
Tagged: gmail, search, tips, tricks
- Published:
- October 27, 2009 – 9:50 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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 to enable Google Voicemail on any number: Step 1: Enable in Settings The text “Activate Google voicemail for this phone” will show up for any “Mobile” number. If your phone supports call forwarding, change it to “Mobile” in the type of phone number to get this option to show up. After clicking “Activate Google voicemail for this phone”, it will prompt you for your carrier and then give you directions for enabling answer call forwarding for your phone. For AT&T it will be *004*<GOOGLE VOICE NUMBER>#. Step 2: Go directly to Voicemail This step….
Categories: Other Technology,Site Updates
Tagged: Google, phones, Voicemail
- Published:
- October 16, 2009 – 9:12 am
- Author:
- By Dave
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 it is hard to do this off-campus. I do however have access to a linux machine on campus. I am familiar with port forwarding using SSH but I had never used it to actually tunnel web traffic using a web browser on Windows. Turns out it is surprisingly easy! The ssh command to use is: 1ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 username@remote_host This command sshes to the remote_host, and creates a tunnel on your localhost, port 8080. Note that you need to have private key authentication already set up for this host – it will not work….
Categories: CentOS,Linux,Security,Software,System Administration,Ubuntu
Tagged: Linux, proxy, Shell, VPN
