How to recover your accounts and password on Windows using a Linux Live CD: Ophcrack July 12, 2009
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Live CD, Linux OS, Live CD, Mac OS X, OS News, OS X, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, windows.Tags: windows, Linux, Live CD, OS X, password, crack, rainbow table, password recovery
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Today, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we posted a post about Ophcrack: a Linux Live CD which allows you to recover your Windows password when you forgot them. Sincerely, the described above situation is not common but it could really happen especially when you do not use a PC for some time or if you want to help a friend who is not so skilled with its own computer. Ophcrack is easy to use, sufficiently fast and effective. I tested it to recover some passwords on an old laptop and the results were very interesting; in fact I was able to recover password from accounts I totally forgot to own. Useful! This post has been written just for informative purpose! Please, remind that you are directly responsible for any law violation you commit in case of misuse of the information contained above.
MobaLiveCD: how to test Linux distros directly from Windows October 26, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computers & Internet, GNU/Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Live CD, Linux Live DVD, Linux Tips, Linux iso, Live CD, Live DVD, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, windows.Tags: CD bootable, emulation, emulator, GNU/Linux, Knoppix, Linux, Linux Distros, Live CD, LiveCD, MobaLiveCD, qemu, Ubuntu, virtualizer, vmware
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Today, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we posted a brief review about MobaLiveCD: a freeware which allows you to freely test new Linux Distro using Windows. MobaLiveCd uses Qemu to work; personally, I think that Qemu is one of the best and lightest open source processor emulator and virtualizer you can find today. Qemu is easy to use and, also more important, it “achieves near native performances by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU” so the results you can obtain using MobaLiveCD are very impressive and I believe that the performances are really comparable to a complete installation. MobaLiveCd allows you to spare your time because all the new Linux distros can be tested with just few clicks running the .iso through it. I personally recommend this freeware also because it light and it can be directly used from a USB key. Something really interesting!
Damn Small Linux 4.2.5: the new updated version! February 3, 2008
Posted by galigio in Computadoras, Computers & Internet, Damn Small Linux, Linux, Linux & OpenSource, Linux Distros, Linux Live CD, Linux OS, Linux distribution, Linux live USB, Linux on a USB, Tech, Technology, Technology News, Technology and Software, Tecnologia, dsl, linux boot.Tags: business card, cd, damn, damn small, dsl, fluxbox, Linux, Linux distribution, Live CD, live USB, mini distribution, x windows
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Today, in our Linux Page (in Spanish) we have posted a review about the new version (4.2.5) of Damn Small Linux. Damn Small Linux is one of our favourite distribution due to its capability to run on very old PC as 386/486/Pentium with very few hardware resources. This version has updated some features as Monkey Webserver 0.9.2 and is incredibly stable (as the previous ones, I must say). According to distrowatch.com, in the last 12 months Damn Small Linux has been the 10th most downloaded (and consequently used) Linux version also because, with no costs, many people are converting old Windows based machines to new up-to-date computers. Anyway, Damn Small Linux is based on Knoppix but is smaller and contains many improvements. Last but not least, I would like to focus your attention on the five different subversions available:
- dsl.iso is the standard isolinux version
- slinux.iso uses syslinux instead of isolinux (for very old PC’s)
- vmx.zip can be run in VMware Player
- embedded.zip contains QUEMU for running inside Windows
- frugal_lite.sh is the network install script and requires tomsrtbt linux: http://www.toms.net/rb/.
