Author Archives: Dave

A Particle Physics Joke View Comments

This wouldn’t fit into the confines of twitter, but I had to share it: A Higgs-Boson walks into a church, the priest says “We don’t allow Higgs-Bosons in here.” The Higgs-Boson says “But without me how can you have mass?” from fora.tv via reddit Posted via web from Dave’s Desktop

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

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 View Comments

At some point in the past, Google removed the Oldest ยป 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 View Comments

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. [...]

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

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 [...]