- 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 [...]
Categories: Software, System Administration, Tech, Ubuntu, Windows
Tagged: chntpw, livecd, password, Ubuntu, Windows
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- 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 [...]
Categories: Google, Tech
Tagged: gmail, search, tips, tricks
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- August 12, 2009 – 6:50 am
- Author:
- By Dave
Update 10/27/2009: Google Voice now supports adding voicemail to any old cell phone number without the “Do not disturb” trick. Simply go into ‘Settings’, Enter the ‘Phones’ tab and then click ‘Activate Google voicemail on this phone’. It will give you directions on call forwarding, which are the same as below, customized for your provider. [...]
Categories: Cell Phones, Software, Tech
Tagged: Cell Phones, Google Voice, Hack, Voicemail
- Published:
- August 5, 2009 – 9:16 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
You’ve flashed your old WRT54G or other vanilla router with the Tomato firmware. This itself turns your router into a lean, mean routing machine with QOS, SSH and more, but let’s say we want to take it a bit further. What it we want to get some more stats out of it?
In order to do [...]
Categories: Code Samples, Configurations, Hardware, Linux, Other Code, Programs, Shell, Software, System Administration, Tech
Tagged: cacti, firmware, network, router, SNMP, sysadmin
- Published:
- August 4, 2009 – 4:04 pm
- Author:
- By Dave
There have been a number of high profile account compromises due to the insecurity of password reset questions. Examples of two big ones off the top of my head are Sarah Palin Yahoo account compromise and the Twitter “Hacker Croll” fiasco. There have been many more compromises on accounts due to weaknesses in password reset questions, even [...]
Categories: Email, Social Media, Software, System Administration, Tech
Tagged: accounts, password, Security