SONY VAIO

In the newer SONY VAIO Notebooks, the BIOS password is no longer stored in the volatile CMOS-area but on an EEPROM. Jean Delvare has published his results of an analysis of various Sony Vaio EEPROM dumps on his homepage. There you can see that the BIOS password is stored encrypted in the first 7 Bytes… Read More »

BIOS Passwörter 🇩🇪

This page in English. Da Notebook-Hersteller die Vergesslichkeit von Passwörtern als Problem erkannt haben, ist es oft recht einfach, einvergessenes BIOS-Passwort zu entfernen. Entfernen der Batterie Man trennt das Notebook vom Netz und nimmt den Akku heraus. Danach findet und entfernt man die BIOS-Batterie für ca. eine Minute und setzt sie danach wieder ein. Falls… Read More »

BIOS Passwords

Diese Seite auf Deutsch. Since Notebook-manufacturers know of the problem of forgotten passwords, they often implement easy ways to remove BIOS passwords into their notebooks. Removing the battery Remove AC power and remove the battery. Now find and remove the BIOS battery for about a minute and then reinsert it. If this doesn’t work, try… Read More »

Getting Email Under Control

Managing the flood of email messages that most of us need to interact with on a daily basis is a growing challenge. No one’s volume is diminishing. That “beast is out of the barn,” and we’re not going to be able to shove it back in! So, getting a grip on it with a good… Read More »

event.d/init.d script

event.d script This is an event.d-script for the new Ubuntu Upstart. The event gets started/respawned on runlevels 2-5. If you change to level 0, 1 or 6, the process gets stopped/killed.Manual start/stop works through the same commands start and stop. With status you can check the status. init.d script This does the same using the… Read More »

eZPublish templates in Eclipse

Syntax-highlighting and Code-completion With the Smile eZ Publish-plugin for Eclipse, there is syntax highlighting and code-completion for eZ Publish-templates. But this only works if you open the .tpl-files out of a project. If not already set, at the configuration page Window → Preferences… → General → Editors → File Associations → *.tpl select Open With…… Read More »