With the ending of Google Reader, this past few weeks has seen many users fleeing to other sources to provide them with their aggregated news content. Here are a couple great alternatives:
The Old Reader
TinyTinyRSS
While reading about Google Reader, I came upon a few pages that were quite interesting:
What is Google doing? (an opinion piece from Reuters)
The Google Graveyard (leave flowers on the grave of your favorite deceased Google services)
Since I’m super hyped for the March 31st return of Game of Thrones: Season 3, I’ve been digging for some super awesome art to commemorate the occasion.
One of the cool things is that there are different versions of House/Sigil art out there and they all look extremely classy. Here are a few links to keep handy!!
Official HBO GoT Downloads
Custom from Thomas Gateley in the UK
TheTVDB Posters, Fanart, and Banners
I assume you are reading this because you have a legitimate reason to be cracking passwords (to ensure your infrastructure is as secure as possible, of course!). Over the years, I haven’t really had to use online password cracking but I did do some Windows NTLM hash recovery in the past and had a great experience without paying (albeit I had to wait a few days). Here are a few sites offering this service.
Since I’m stuck at home with my crappy lappy which Ubuntu likes to run horribly on, I decided to do a fresh (it feels so good) install of win7 and get comfortable. One key thing I wanted to do differently this time around was the way I emulate my terminals. I’m tired of the normal “install putty and make some basic profiles” setup. So I did some research to make everything all better!
So I have a friend that I needed some data from and lets just say the data was “fragile” so we obviously wanted to transfer it in a secure anonymous way (didn’t feel like making an account just for a few things). On my own server, all I had to do was mount his FTPes share using curlftpfs.
Normal Usage (normal ftp server):
curlftpfs ftp://ftp.lolcakes.com /mnt/ftp
FTPes Server:
curlftpfs -o tlsv1 -o ssl_control -o no_verify_hostname -o no_verify_peer -o allow_other ftp.
So I needed to find all my movie directories that didn’t contain fanart so I could fill the void and find some for em’!
Here’s how:
find . -type d | while read line; do if [ ! -f “$line/fanart.jpg” ]; then echo “$line”; fi; done;
Thanks unix.com
So for someone who has no clue how this goes, on the android platform, you can do something called rooting your phone. This enables you to have pretty much full control over what you do with it at a software level. For most people, this means putting on a custom rom (think operating system) built off of the stock/base android releases (currently Jelly Bean) with more or less features and flexibility depending on what your looking for.
This example shows an FTP server but the same works for HTTP server
/usr/bin/wget \ –verbose \ –mirror \ –wait=2 \ –random-wait \ –no-host-directories \ –cut-dirs=3 \ –directory-prefix=/home/ftp/doom/idgames_mirror \ –dot-style=binary \ ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/games/idgames/
So ^that is how you can efficiently download all the things from a HTTP/FTP mirror (only if you have permission now!!). This is what I used to copy the idgames archive to my mirror at Michigan Tech, PSGNet.
So Backblaze is a company that prides themselves on crap tons of cheap storage to fuel their business of providing customers unlimited storage for $5 a month!!
What I like about them is that they post their approaches to certain challenges they run into on their blog. For the past few years, they have posted about their amazingly popular and awesome “storage pods” which make up the majority of their infrastructure.
NOTE: I do not recommend this but it may be necessary for some sort of backup or pull system. Please only do this if you absolutely have to. It’s kind of like taking down your fire alarm in the kitchen!!
Option 1: On the CLI
$ ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no [email protected]
Option 2: In your config file (the .ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config ):
StrictHostKeyChecking no UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
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