Bourne Again Shell. bash magic Some handy bash magic. sudo last command If you forgot sudo after executing your 3-lines-command, sudo bang! bang! will repeat the last entered command with sudo prefixed. More parameter magic bang Expands to !$ last argument of previous command !$:p just show last argument of previous command, don’t add to… Read More »
Bazaar is a distributed versioning system. Homepage: http://bazaar-vcs.org/Tutorial: Bazaar in five minutes, Bazaar User Guide Most used commands Create local branch Create local repo Copy remote repo This copies the branch to your local directory. The two repos are still independent. Convert to checkout Connects to that repository so commits are always made on both… Read More »
Savegames, as well as almost all other files, are encrypted using some crypto magic. The keys were found and now there are some tools to decrypt and recrypt the savegames called Segher’s Wii.git. To compile them, you need to also compile OpenSSL, add the include-directory of OpenSSL to the search path for gcc and also… Read More »
I found three different ways for bypassing the password-check on a Toshiba-notebook. I had no chance to test them, so I can’t promise they will work. Holding SHIFT Hold down the left SHIFT-key upon bootup – this should skip the password-check on most notebooks and on some desktop-systems. KeyDisk For this one, you will need… Read More »
Please also see this homepage for more information regarding removing passwords from IBM ThinkPads. 240 [2609] Short the jumper JP1. 310/310D/310E/310ED [2600] Use switch SW2 near CPU socket (second bit switch counting from the lowest side). ??? [2610], 365C/365CD/365CS/365CSD/365E/365ED [2625] The following procedure disables user and supervisor passwords: 355x [2619], 360x [2620], 370C/750x/755C/755CS [9545] How… Read More »
This is a short one: For skipping the password check, you have to hold down both mousebuttons after power-on until the first beep. If this doesn’t work, try to press both mousebuttons repeatedly.
Thanks to Heiko Kehr. (Everything was done according to this manual.)
These ones are something different. DELL notebooks save their BIOS password in an EEPROM-chip so it isn’t deleted when you short-circuit the BIOS battery or something like that. Also there’s no jumper/DIP-switch which disables the password. Nevertheless, there are three different ways to get such things fixed: I will describe the second one here. Service… Read More »
This is a short one: