Windows Local Administrator Password Reset Petter Nordahl-Hagen’s offline password reset tool. http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ I have used this tool kit for over a decade and it is reliable, as long as you understand the one big caveat: Encrypted XP, Vista, or Windows 7 files will stay encrypted. That is, if you don’t know the original Administrator password […]
GRUB: The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is the thing that breaks most often in a dual-booted Linux system, but it is also the easiest to repair if you have a boot CD-ROM or Flash drive handy. There are a number of useful commands in grub.conf or menu.lst (usually a link pointed to grub.conf) On […]
How Big Is It? I’m pretty sure the group can feel their brains starting to explode. The world of Linux is huge and for the most part invisible to most people. It is very much like finding out you have been breathing about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in every breath you take after asking “What’s an atom?” […]
Tom asks a very good question in his comment to my first post: What about Live CD distributions of Linux? There are about sixty “significant” Live CD versions of Linux and there are utilities that will easily let you create your own custom version that will boot and run from CD. DVD, or USB if […]
