After five years of quite fine service, my Logitech MX310 mouse broke down. Personally, it’s a big loss, as we have had many lan parties together. As ranting doesn’t help, I was forced to go out to the shopping center for getting a new one. But as the MX310 isn’t produced anymore, I had to look for a […]
Author: ToeiRei
Patch me gently
Have you ever asked yourself what a patch exactly is? Well – let’s take a closer look at the things your mother used to fix your trousers – a patch. That’s quite close as it fixes a hole. But patches in the it field can be even more than just a fix. If you want to see a […]
Login via Bluethooth
If you try to go over the top with some things, then you should really do it instead of just using some tiny hacks. What about logging into your computer using a mobile phone? Sounds cool, huh? So let’s use it and get to work. As the title already says, you will need a bluetooth enabled phone, a […]
Living without aRtsd isn’t bad at all
aRts is the old KDE Sound daemon which appeared around Version 2.0 of the KDE. Its purpose was mixing multiple music channels in real time – in other words playing a beep sound while playing music and so on as the common soundcard wasn’t able to do this. Later on hardware and drivers moved on and the main […]
Cracking passwords – status report
Fifty days have passed since John The Ripper started cracking on the password file. As you can see, not even one password was guessed by now: guesses: 0 time: 50:06:35:40 c/s: 972 trying: ns4k7y Regarding my password policy, which is changing my passwords every month, our attacker would have lost already. I’ll proceed with the cracking for a […]
Verify files using MD5
How can you verify the integrity of some files as simple as possible? How can you check for manipulations or transmission failures? The question is answered quite simple: Checksums. One of the most common checksum techniques out there is MD5 which stands for Message Digest Version 5. The fine thing about md5 is, that it’s just a checksum […]