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My Blog (I know, original...)Ramblings and links probably only important to myself. A scratch pad for ideas and projects that can be wherever I am (as long as I have net access). |
wget is old school unix and is quite handy. "Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can take care of all your downloading needs. Whether you want to mirror an entire web site, automatically download music or movies from a set of favorite weblogs, or transfer huge files painlessly" hellz yeah
This tells you how to kill the windows auto restart crap. Step by step
Here's a nice post that gives lots of little tidbits about Guitar Hero 2 (and some trivia about the original Guitar Hero). Worth the read if you're a fan!
Tired of your boring old gnome menu? One Ubuntu user inspired by SuSE's SLAB has created the Ubuntu System Panel. Check out the digg for a description and screenshots. Then head over to this thread and download the newest version.
The most fundamental security device in the world has been hacked in a way so simply and quickly, this could be considered the biggest hack in history.
Nate True has developed yet another impressive hack using UV strobe lights, luminescent-dyed water, and a timer to create the illusion of water stopping in the air, slowing down the splashes into the pool beneath, and even travelling upward. You have to see it to believe it.
It doesn't let you start anywhere you want, just one of several major cities, but the creator's still working on it. I actually managed to fly over my little farming town though, it was really neat.
Check out this article that tells you how to enable native running of Windows apps in Linux. Chances are your kernel already allows this. It avoids all the hassles of running WINE manually and just lets you execute "MyApp.exe".
Step-by-step instructions for getting automated backups running in Windows to a Linux box using free software.
This is a great article covering 10 common Windows password myths. There are some good suggestions for what to do (and not do) when picking and using passwords on your Windows system. Some are related to Windows specific vulnerabilities or capabilities, but some are just good general-purpose password tips.
Speed up your ubuntu boot time by turning off services that you don't need and optimizing for a clean system reboot or shutdown process.
This is a list of scripts provided by Microsoft that could be used on a daily basis. Love the sending email script.
To slipstream the hot-fixes, and burn the slip-streamed disk, I've created the makefile xpsp2.mak (updated 12-Jul-06). Details on usage below.
This tutorial shows you how to Get DVD Shrink and DVDdecrypter working perfectly in Ubuntu using Wine.
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