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Changing NT passwords with Linux and CHNTPW

finux — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:29:38 -0500

Finux's Student Hackers Guide To Linux

How to reset a NT passwords, using Linux

You may need to reset an admin password in windows for many reasons, such as you've forgotten it or you have been given a Windows system that you need to repair and don't have access to the admin password. Thankfully it couldn't be easier with a Linux system, and a package called chntpw.

A Quick Review of Arch Linux

yoyoned — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:41:55 -0500

I switched to Ubuntu after hearing a recording of a local Lug meeting. There were 5-6 people there, and during the introductions, they all said they were using Ubuntu. That got me interested, and after trying it, I swithced from Fedora to Ubuntu. That was just before Dapper was released. Even though I experiment with other distributions, I have used Ubuntu almost exclusively since.

Finux's student hackers guide to WEP hacking

finux — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:14:21 -0500

Finux's student hackers guide to WEP hacking

Installing Gwibber in Ubuntu Hardy

threethirty — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:57:52 -0500

Hello Ladies and Gents and everyone else. This is threethirty from the LinuxCranks Podcast (http://linuxcranks.info) and I'd like to tell you all how to install Gwibber in Ubuntu Hardy:

Step 0:

Install simplejson

the easy way is to go here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/python-simplejson/download choose a mirror and let it open in Gdebi

Step 1:
Install baazaar

$ sudo apt-get (or aptitude) bzr

Step 2:
Checkout the baazaar repo

$ bzr checkout https://code.launchpad.net/~segphault/gwibber/main

Step 3:
Change to the gwibber directory

$ cd gwibber/

Installing Ubuntu (or other distributuin) without burning a cd.

yoyoned — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:37:24 -0500

Not that a cd is that expensive, I just don't like the idea of burning a cd I know I'll only use once. Several years ago I learned how to install linux without having to burn a cd. This is useful if you like to distro hop like I do, and also appreciate that testing on real hardware is far better than using a virtual machine. I have used this method for Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, but I bet it would work with other distributions as well.

The basics are as follows:

Install Banshee-1 on Hardy

chad — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:15:40 -0500

Want to install Banshee 1.0 on Hardy?

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

add this

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu hardy main

Then do

Sudo apt-get update
Sudo apt-get install bashee-1

Have fun!

Google Gadgets on Hardy

chad — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:27:45 -0500

These are the steps I followed. I got all this information off the project pages here.
I decided to check out the latest code using subversion. You could conversly just download the lattest package and use that.
cd ~/programs/google
svn checkout http://google-gadgets-for-linux.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ google-gadgets-for-linux-read-only

bash Cookbook

chad — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:03:56 -0500

Anyone who has used a derivative of Unix over the past 20 years has used Bash, which stands for Borne Again Shell. The geek in all of us makes us want to extend our ability to rule the command line. To truly master a Unix environment, you need to know a shell, and Bash is easily the most popular of them. Any Unix/Linux/BSD administrator knows the power at your fingertips is fully extended by what you can do within the Bash environment, and all of us need the best recipes to get the job done.

Syncing laptop with desktop very easily

phrantik — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:19:42 -0500

This is what I did and why I did it. I have a desktop computer and a laptop. I prefer to use my desktop while I am at home, and my laptop while away. While sitting in a coffee shop I would download email to thunderbird and I would be browsing the internet and bookmarking sites, and I may even download music files or jpgs. When I got home I would want to access those emails, bookmarks, and files on my desktop. Or sometimes it would be the other way around.

Backups using Rsync, Bash & Cron

Daniel — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:00:36 -0500

I wanted to backup my home directory using rsync to a separate drive, and to make it happen automatically.

I spent ages doing research into the various commands, and found everything I needed to know, but not all in the same place. While it was fun for me, others may just want to know how to do it immediately. So here goes!

Hardy broke my VMWare Player

mercurialgeek — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:55:45 -0500

irssi aspell Deian Gentoo Ubuntu oh boy!

sam — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:07:25 -0500

Being a bad speller but wanting to use irssi was a conundrum I had to deal with.
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HTTPS and Apache with SSL

Kirok — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:06:24 -0500

Okay, I don't like writing guides and I'm sure there are better ways to accomplish this and I'm sure the content could be better but as they say patches are welcome.

First Impression of the Heron 8.04

finux — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:18:19 -0500

First Impression of the Heron 8.04

Well i took the dive yesterday and installed Hardy Heron. As usual come Ubuntu release day the servers where tanked and it was going to take for ever to download so i read that a beta with a quick dist-upgrade will do the job, and off i went.

Perl script to rename web files and links

Kirok — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:17:28 -0500

I posted this here http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/content/perl-script-to-rename-web-files-an... a while back but I thought I'd copy it here.

This is a little Perl script I had to write for a piece of coursework I've posted the code below and attached the file with an extra .txt extension(http://thelinuxsociety.org.uk/files/script.pl.txt), its far from the best coding but it should:

Using VPN to network Virtual Machines to each other and to the Guest OS

finux — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:10:06 -0500

Using VPN to network Virtual Machines to each other and to the Guest OS

I find this to be one of the easiest and securest ways of networking virtual machines (VM) to each other, and to the host OS (operating system). It uses Virtual Private Network software (VPN) called hamachi, which is free to download, however it is freeware not free software (for more information about free software visit this web site http://www.fsf.org)

A Twitter Command for Your Terminal

finux — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:58:17 -0500

A Twitter Command for Your Terminal

Well Twitter seems to be getting popular now, and it's pretty we documented that it can be used via the command line terminal if CURL is installed. The below is how to make a twitter command for your terminal. You will obviously need to have a Twitter account registered, and you can do that by going to this web address https://twitter.com/signup

The first thing to do is to install curl if it isn't already installed

sudo aptitude install curl

Installing Safari with Flash and Shockwave under Ubuntu with Wine

finux — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:51:57 -0500

Well guys i thought that i would post this for any of you that maybe developing web sites or heaven forbid your thinking firefox is too slow for you.

This is somewhat borrowed from this web site http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-install-safari-on-ubuntu-w...

Who am i kidding it's all borrowed from this how to guide.

From what i can gather is basically your not making a Mac program work on Linux your making a Windows Program work under Linux, which in fairness is nothing new and exciting.

Post about Zim Wiki desktop for web site

finux — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:48:09 -0500

Well i have been working for the past couple of days with Zim Desktop Wiki. I have been needing to work on a number of documents for a number of projects, ranging from coursework, to Linux society promotional material. It dawned on me that i maybe better suited to using a Wiki to work on a majority of the stuff.

So i thought, right open source geezer shouldn't be a problem. I certainly had heard about Zim but i hadn't given it much thought. I loaded up synaptic package manager for a quick search about and came across Zim.

Spice up your Bash!

chad — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:28:56 -0500

Special thanks to Boondox for this article!
I like my console. I like my console so much I got tired at looking at the default bash prompt that is supplied with most distros out of the box. Its a boring grey prompt that gives you the basics. Thats fine and it works. If you use the console enough then you might want to spruce it up a bit. Here is how.

1) Backup your current prompt.

Twitter one liner

chrisindallas — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:31:53 -0500

With all this talk of Twitter from the command line, I thought I'd throw out a one liner to see the last 20 Tweets that my friends have posted.
curl --basic --silent --user user:password --get http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml | sed --quiet --expression='s/<name>$.*$<\/name>/\1/p' --expression='s/<text>$.*$<\/text>/\1/p'
Notice, that's all on one line, but was broken in two to fit on the screen.

Twitter Perl Script - by IamVarr

chad — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:17:10 -0500

This was posted on the forums by IamVarr and I wanted to make sure its archived as a tutorial. Thanks again Iamvarr!

Open Source the elegant design, the ugly burden of free

finux — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:15:16 -0600

Open Source the elegant design, the ugly burden of free

Linux and I: My first experiences

Kirok — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:34:34 -0600

In elegance comes restraint,

finux — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:01:44 -0600

In elegance comes restraint,

Define:Community

a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community".

Well for most parts I would agree with the above statement, but I suppose the bigger question is; What does community mean to you?

A quiet revolution? From freedom comes elegance - My intake on the whole Linux thing

finux — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:58:14 -0600

A Dip Into the Waters of Geek-dom

Jack_Johnson — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:05:00 -0600

My first Linux experience was with setting up a Redhat 5.0 webserver somewhere around 1998. While I have never worked as part of any IT team, I felt compelled to experiment with this strange new software without the blessing of the Novell and Windows IT department. I honestly think they were a little more than surprised when I got it to work! Since then I have had minor contact with Linux.until about a year an a half ago when I helped set up an Edubuntu terminal/DHCP server with thin clients, an asterisk PBS box, and a firewall/VPN/proxy server at my clinic,&nb

Cool Gmail Trick Pt. 1

tristan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:19:58 -0600

Ok, this isn't really a Linux tip, but it is cool. Since it seemed to get too long, I have decided to break this down into two tutorials. In the first part I will show how to set up Gmail to retrieve message from your POP mail accounts. In part 2, I will show you how to coufigure an email client such as Thunderbird for an IMAP server.

To let Gmail get mail off your POP server do the following:
1. Log onto your Gmail account. If you don't have one you will need to sign up.
2. Click on "Settings" in the upper right hand corner.

Screen II, The Sequel

Hal9000v8 — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:39:16 -0600

Last time I covered enough about Screen to get you started, but really, you could do almost the same things on a single, unnetworked machine just using the virtual consoles ALT+F1 to F6. The only real benefits in that instance would be the ability to run a program in the background you want to check on once in a while (not just add "&" to the command line), and to give you more virtual consoles, should 6 not be enough. You expected more from this utility than that, right?

Two of my favorite Linux accesories

chrisindallas — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:49:14 -0600

Here is a keyboard and mouse recommendation for Linux power users: The Sun Type 6 USB keyboard and the Logitech MX Revolution laser mouse.