Recently a bunch of hose bags have been upping files on Torrents sites that require a “special player” to see the video. This player is full of spyware, Trojans, viruses and crap! Often the video is still the original, or decent quality. Here is how to decrypt these videos and watch them without this crap special player. [...]
I’ve been running Ubuntu on my Laptop since the day I got it (back inJuly). I recently upgraded to Gutsy and noticed that my brightness adjustment doesn’t work the way it used to. In fact, not at all. Here is how to adjust the brightness from the command line until this is repaired. [...]
A lot of open source applications out there run on php, apache and mysql. This in combination gives you a LAMP installation. There is an unbelievably easy way of setting up a fully functioning, full featured PHP, Apache and MySQL on Windows XP,2K,2K3 complete with PEAR, CURL and SOAP and here are the instructions. [...]
Setting up a LAMP system can at times be tricky. What if I told you that you can have a full setup ready to go in 4 easy steps? Crazy….maybe…..but nonetheless, here they are. [...]
QEMU is well-known as a free replacement for VMware, allowing users to run a PC within a PC. What isn't so well known about QEMU is that, in addition to emulating x86 architectures, it can emulate AMD64, Sparc, MIPS, PPC and ARM CPUs. [...]
Often when you are writing a document in Word you want to label your images. If you don’t want to mar the actual image, the easy way to do it is to use a Caption. Here is how to attach a caption to an image in Word. [...]
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backend web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server. [...]
These days security is on everyone’s mind. What if I told you there is a disgustingly simple way of spoofing real web-sites in order to steal your information? This technique has gotten little attention compared to OS exploits in the media, but is far more powerful of a technique than OS holes. [...]
Openads 2.4 is the new stable version of the hugely popular Openads adserver. This new version gives you more control over your adspace, has a simple upgrade process and can serve billions of ads each month. OpenAds is 100% compatible with Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher, Advertising.com and many more! [...]
Sometimes you need to have the BIOS password for a computer to do various things. Even to boot it in certain scenarios. There is a brief guide showing you the easiest and most basic techniques. [...]
