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It is however with deep regret that I inform you that we can’t give you that… because you see, after 7 days of non-stop development we have reached the conclusion… that we can do better. Therefore, it is with great pleasure (and pride) that I present to you Rocket Launcher, v0.2 (codename: Project 2027).

In IT, data has, is and always will be the only tool that’s of value. This is why we have computers, to help us with our storing, indexing and manipulation of data. From family photo albums and mp3 collections to the multinational companies sales database, it’s all about the data.

Since information is of so much value in our lives, it is of the upmost importance to keep it safe, so that it’s not destroyed, lost or stolen and that is exactly what RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) not only aims, but succeeds in helping us with.

A friend of mine dared me to hack his Administrator account, so I did, in 30 seconds, and this is how I did it:

You need a Live Linux (CD, DVD, USB, Diskette, who cares) and the application chntpw

A bit of theory: Windows stores its local user accounts in the C:\windows\system32\config\SAM file. If you want to change ANYTHING that is related to the user accounts you do it from this file, but it is of course encrypted. Not a problem! While we can’t read the file and see what password is already assigned to a user, we can sure as h#ll overwrite it.

While the dream-cat is still in Alpha I figured it would be nice to test it out and see how it behaves. I haven’t used an Ubuntu distro since 8.04 and there’s a good reason for that… it was a tad slow. But a friend said to try it out now, arguing that it has come a long way, therefore I am!

Here’s yet another little gem brought to us by the Free and Open Source world.

Twidge is a neat little shell application that lets you read and write twitter status updates, messages and also lets you do a few extra tricks.

I got a comment from a fellow redditor the other day that got me thinking: Awesome. This was my dream for quite a while. I thought every company should release PC games using a LiveCD, so Linux and Windows users would get equal opportunity to play them. (n2dasun) If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense!

live.linuX-gamers.net is a Linux live distribution: “boot ‘n play”. The idea is for you to be able to carry a decent amount of high-quality Linux games with you where ever you go for purposes of demonstration, gaming or parties. Your computer will remain completely unchanged, as everything will run live.

In any case, StarCraft 2 came out and it’s an OK game, but doesn’t have the same atmosphere as the old one in my opinion. One thing I do love about it though is the interface and I figured, how could I make my Linux system into something similar.

My goal was to modify an Xfce interface to resemble the SC2 command one. This is what I came up with:

I have done a lot of silly stuff in the past. For those of you who have read my articles, you are up to date with what I’m doing. For the rest of you: I’m trying to find the perfect distro for my level of knowledge. Ubuntu is too easy, Linux Mint Ubuntu waaay to easy, Arch is just a bit over my head, Gentoo is waaaay over my head. I’ve tried quite a few others as well: Slackware, CurnchBang, ArchBang, SliTaz, Bodhi but so far nothing has actually caught my interest enough.

I just had to go there. I had to go there and do something stupid… Let me tell you what happened. The tendency to learn something new is very high and very powerful, but as we all know you cannot learn without making mistakes. If somebody ever claims that he did something perfectly on the first try, you should instantly know that the person you are talking to did not learn a thing.

Here’s a little trivia for everyone out there: Did you know that Pidgin also makes a text-based version of their popular instant messaging client?

The application is called Finch, and it feels exactly the same as its GUI based brother Pidgin but… you know… in a shell.

One of the challenges I ran into while installing Arch was configuring the Wi-Fi network. In Arch is not that much of a problem, because their documentation is very well laid out, but what if you are using something else?

We will talk about how to connect to Non-Secured Networks, as well as WEP and WPA protected networks.

In my last article, ArchBang: A small review I was a bit unfair to the distro. I did not want to see these distros (ArchBang and Arch Linux) for what they really are and I consider that to be very wrong. Therefore, I bring you a few thoughts on Arch Linux after playing around with it for about 2-3 days.

ArchBang is a simple GNU/Linux distribution, which provides you with a lightweight Arch Linux system combined with the Openbox Window Manager. Suitable for both desktop and portable systems – It is fast, stable, and always up to date. (Source: ArchBang front page)

You have been playing around with Ubuntu, Fedora or Open SuSE for some time now and think to yourself “why do people all over the web say Linux is so different, it looks and feels just like Windows or Mac OS X for the most part”.

Review of the popular CERN-made distribution

If you are a small or even medium-sized business on the market, you know that every dollar, pound, euro or yen saved could help you grow as an enterprise. Young companies struggle to survive in this highly competitive market as much as possible and we all know that in this day and age a solid IT infrastructure is a prime factor in holding a business together, no matter the size or the profits.