One of the worst things you can do on the internet is use the same password for different websites. When one of the webites is hacked or there is an bad sysadmin they can use your password to login your email or other sites to steal all your private information and worst case scenario your bank account. Every self respected browser has an built-in password safer but when your computer/laptop is stolen or hacked by a mad person (in dutch we call them klootzakken ;) ) they can easily steal all your passwords. So don’t use the built-in password safer (or configure a strong master password). ...

There is a very nice opensource / freeware tool you can use to control multiple PC’s like KVM. It’s compatible with Linux, OSX and Windows. Quote: What is Synergy? Do you have two computers at your desk, with two screens and two sets of keyboard and mouse? Here’s where Synergy comes in… … Synergy is Free and Open Source Software that lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has its own display. No special hardware is required, just a network connection. Synergy is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Usage is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen. You can even share your clipboard. ...

The solutions is block the rt2800usb echo ‘blacklist rt2800usb’ | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf restart, and try this echo ‘install rt2870sta modprobe –ignore-install rt2870sta ; /bin/echo “0df6 0040” > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rt2870/new_id’ | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rt2870sta.conf sudo modprobe rt2870sta dmesg | egrep ‘rt28|usb|Phy’ iwconfig sudo iwlist scan (the first Line allocate the Chipset-ID to the driver rt2870sta) If the solution works, activiate it automatically by a new udev-Rule sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/10-wlan.rules Insert the following code and save the file ...

A very great freeware tool to real-time monitor your server or workstation is eventsentry @ http://www.eventsentry.com/ This tool wil sent all windows event viewer errors and warnings to your desktop and/or email. You can simply add filters when you don’t want to see everything.

How to Disable TrustedInstaller.exe TrustedInstaller.exe is the Windows Module Installer program used in the Windows Vista operating system. The process works in conjunction with Windows Integrated Update in Windows Vista. The program is known to run randomly and consume up to 100% of CPU causing dramatic slowdown in the performance of a Windows Vista computer. Trustedinstaller.exe holds the rights to some essential Windows Vista programs and applications, which means that trustedinstaller.exe gets blanket authority to do whatever is necessary and use as much of the system resources, CPU and RAM as needed. ...

All the credits go to Arjen Visser @ http://www.dbvisit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=343. I add his article and I edited a little because of some error I get and I a’m able to find it quickly the next time :) Here is the current file system. It needs another 3Gb on the LogVol00 filesystem. The Linux system is a VMware virtual system with Virtual disks. [root@dbvrac1 ~]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 9127580 6692828 1971088 78% / /dev/sda1 101086 12651 83216 14% /boot none 596544 0 596544 0% /dev/shm The partitions are as follows ...

If you want to use regular expressions to know if some numerical value is higher then 199 use the following code: ^\d{1,2}$|^[1]\d\d$ Explanation: ^ = String begins with \d = numerical string (character 0-9) {1,2} = minimal 1 maximum 2 numerical characters $ = end script | = OR (to bind 2 regular expressions) ^ = begins with [1] = first character = 1 (if you want to go till 299 it may be [1-2]) ...

Sometimes you want to show a video that interesting from xx seconds. If you put #t=40s after the youtube video url you forward the video with 40 seconds.

For specific files FORFILES /P "C:\MyPath\" /S /M log*.xml /D -30 /C "cmd /c del @file" For files and subfolders: FORFILES /P "C:\MyPath\" /S /D -30 /C "cmd /c IF @isdir == TRUE rd /S /Q @path"

Because the HTC Desire has a very small NAND I decide to buy a fast Transcend 16GB Class 10 SDHC to run APPS2SD or DATA2SD hacks. Test tool: SD Card Tester Old speed (Samsung Micro SDHC Class2 4GB) Write: 300MB at 2.26MB/s Read: 301MB at 7.53MB/s New speed (Transcend Micro SDHC Class10 16GB) Write: 300MB at 7.46MB/s Read: 301MB at 9.8MB/s Nice :)