Monday, December 29, 2008

Backing up Hard Disk Partitions in Linux

To guard against disasterous hard disk failure or data loss, regular backup is very important. For Windows users, there's Norton Ghost which helps back up valuable data and settings in your hard disk. But for thrifty and savvy users, there's a nifty Linux tool called partimage. It's a simple console program but does its job great.

This tutorial guides you in backing up hard disk partitions in Linux. Let's assume you want to back up your Windows partition to a USB drive using partimage. If you are a Linux user, install partimage.

Otherwise, you can download and burn a System Rescue CD and boot with it. Connect your USB hard drive to your computer and mount it. If your USB drive has a FAT32 partition on /dev/sdb1, then the following command will mount it on /mnt:


mount -t vfat -o gid=100,dmask=2,fmask=113,shortname=winnt /dev/sdb1 /mnt

Make a folder called Backup and change to it:


cd /mnt

mkdir Backup

cd Backup

Save the partition table of your hard drive to a text file, assuming your hard drive is /dev/sda:


fdisk -l -u /dev/sda > hdptbl01.txt


Backing up with partclone


partclone is a new Linux tool for backing up and restoring hard disk partitions. The following command illustrates a situation where I back up the second partition, compress it on the fly and save the backup in 695M chunks.


partclone.ntfs -c -s /dev/sda2 | bzip2 -c | (cd /mnt/sdb1/Backup; split -d -b 695M - Backup-$(date +%F).partclone.bz2.)

Alternatively, you can use lzma to compress the backup.


partclone.ntfs -c -s /dev/sda2 | lzma -9c > Backup-$(date +%F).partclone.lzma

For quick backup, use lzop:


partclone.ntfs -c -s /dev/sda2 | lzop -c > backup-$(date +%F).partclone.lzo


Restoring Backups with Partclone


Here's a sample command:


cat Backup-2012-05-27.partclone.bz2.* | bzip2 -dc - | partclone.ntfs -r -o /dev/sda2


Backing up with Partimage


Assuming the partition to back up is /dev/sda1, the following command will back up /dev/sda1 in chunks of 695 MB so you can burn each piece on CD conveniently.


partimage -V 695 save /dev/sda1 backup01.pim

You'll be shown a number of options as seen below so you can tweak some settings. For example, if you want your computer to automatically power off after partimage finishes backup, check the Halt option. Press F5 to continue.


partimage save partition to image file options

Next, you will be given an option to enter description of the backup.


Partition Description

If the partition you're backing up is an NTFS partition (as most Windows partitions are), you'll be given the warning "The current NTFS support is experimental !". You can safely ignore it for now.


NTFS support is experimental

Next, you'll be shown NTFS information about the backup partition.


partimage NTFS information

After that, partimage will start backing up as per instruction. A handful progress window will appear with the time remaining and progress in percentage.


partimage save partition to image file backup progress

Restoring Partitions with Partimage


When something goes wrong with your computer, you can restore your hard disk partitions with the backup you've made with Partimage. First, make sure that you have a partition whose size is exactly the same as the partition the backup is made from. You can compare the current partition table with the contents of hdptbl01.txt file we've made earlier.

To restore the partition /dev/sda1 from a series of backup files starting with backup01.pim.000, open a console and type the following command:


partimage restore /dev/sda1 backup01.pim.000

Partimage restore partition from image file

Checking the Integrity of Partimage Backups


If you want to check partimage backups for integrity, specify the simulate option either on the command line or in the dialog, for example:


partimage --simulate restore /dev/sda1 backup01.pim.000


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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Hacking WPA/WPA2 with Backtrack 3

WPA is an encryption scheme designed to secure the wireless network of your home or office from intruders and eavesdroppers. It is reportedly safer than WEP. There have been numerous attempts to break WEP and WPA encryption with mixed results. This tutorial discusses currently available techniques for testing the wireless network security. Be aware that breaking into your neighbor's network without permission is wrong.



What You Need


To test security of wireless networks, you can use the live CD Linux distribution called Backtrack. You can download its latest ISO image from Remote-Exploit.org and burn it with any CD burner program like InfraRecorder or CDBurnerXP. Alternatively, you can try the SliTaz Aircrack-NG distribution which is lighter and simpler than Backtrack.


Here's a list of what you need to crack WPA/WPA2:




Reboot your computer with a Backtrack CD and you'll be presented with the KDE environment.



Surveying Wireless Networks with Kismet


Launch Konsole which is located right next to the KDE Start menu. Open /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf in a text editor and edit the source= line to include your wireless device. For example, for Broadcom 43xx based card, put source=bcm43xx,eth1,bcm43xx. Refer to Kismet documentation section 12. Save kismet.conf and start kismet.


Once kismet starts detecting wireless networks around, press s and P to sort the network list by packet counts in descending order. Press Up or Down key to move to the target network and press i for network information or c for client list. Write down such information as:



  • ESSID (wireless network name)
  • BSSID (MAC address of access point)
  • channel of wireless network
  • MAC address of clients

Press x to close popup windows and Q to exit Kismet.

Brute-Force Dictionary Attack



This is the classic brute-force attack.


airmon-ng stop wlan0

airmon-ng start wlan0

The commands above put your wireless device in monitor mode. The monitor mode is the mode whereby your wireless card can listen to wireless traffic passively. Replace wlan0 with your wireless device name, such as eth1. Type iwconfig to make sure your card is in monitor mode.


airodump-ng -w test wlan0

Skip the step above if you used Kismet as in the previous section. Here airodump-ng is used to survey the wi-fi networks. Press Ctrl+C to stop airodump-ng. Copy BSSID (MAC address) of the target network.


airodump-ng -w logfile -c 3 --bssid A0:B1:C2:D3:E4:F5 wlan0

Sniff and log the target network (specified with --bssid option) on the specified channel (-c option) to the specified log file (-w option). Wait until WPA Handshake message appears on the screen. Then, stop airodump-ng by pressing Ctrl+C.


Optionally, if you see a client connected to the target network but no authentication handshake, then you can deauthenticate the client by running the following example command in a separate terminal:



aireplay-ng -0 5 -a 00:14:6C:7E:40:80 -c 00:0F:B5:FD:FB:C2 wlan0


where -a option specifies the access point and -c option specifies the client to deauthenticate. Hopefully, the command above will trick the client to renegotiate a 4-way authentication handshake with the access point. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until a handshake message shows up on airodump-ng outpout.

zcat /pentest/password/pico/cowpatty/final-wordlist.txt.gz > /tmp/wordlist.txt

aircrack-ng -a 2 -w /tmp/wordlist.txt logfile*.cap


Begin a brute-force dictionary attack using the saved log file(s) and the specified dictionary (-w option). Aircrack-ng will try every word in the dictionary until the correct passphrase is found. It may take hours or several days depending on the size of dictionary and the speed of your CPU to try every word in the dictionary. However, if the passphrase is not found in the dictionary or made up of random alphanumeric characters, then you are out of luck and just wasting your time. In this case, the dictionary attack won't be any good.



Finding a Good Dictionary


You need a good dictionary to crack WPA. Backtract 3 CD has wordlist files at the following locations:


/usr/local/john-1.7.2/password.lst

/pentest/fuzzers/spike/src/password.lst

/pentest/fuzzers/spike/src/wordlist

/pentest/password/pico/cowpatty/final-wordlist.txt.gz

/pentest/wireless/aircrack-ng/test/password.lst

/pentest/wireless/eapmd5pass/sample-wordlist.txt

/opt/windows-binaries/wordlist.txt.gz

Also, aircrack FAQ page has an extensive list of places where you can download good wordlists from. In addition, I found a good wordlist called 9-final-wordlist.zip here.



Further Readings


Friday, December 26, 2008

SMPlayer, the Ultimate Movie Player



There are a good number of programs that allow you to play DVD's and movie files. For me, SMPlayer is a powerful movie player. SMPlayer is in fact just a GUI frontend for MPlayer. I prefer compiling MPlayer by myself and use it with SMPlayer. However, compiling MPlayer may be a daunting task for most people, so I recommend a SMPlayer installer containing precompiled MPlayer binary. I'll write about how to compile MPlayer some day.



*UPDATE* I finally wrote tutorials on compiling MPlayer for Windows. If you're not afraid of compiling programs from sources, read the following posts:




  1. Installing MinGW and Code::Blocks on Windows
  2. Preparing for MPlayer Compilation
  3. To Compile MPlayer for Windows


Setting up SMPlayer


Assuming that you've compiled MPlayer by youself, download the SMPlayer package without MPlayer. The filename is something like smplayer-0.6.6_without_mplayer.7z. Unpack it using 7zip, Tugzip or Peazip, for example, at "C:\Program Files\smplayer-0.6.6". Create a shortcut to smplayer.exe on your desktop and double-click it. When SMPlayer shows up, select Preferences from the Options menu. In the Paths area of the General section, specify the location of your MPlayer executable. Quit and restart SMPlayer. Open Preferences again and choose the Video tab. Select directx (fast) as the video driver. Click the Audio tab and select dsound as the output driver. Click OK. Test SMPlayer by playing a movie.

Box Office Results of Movies 2008

The numbers are final for the 2008 Yearly Box Office Results. Here are the final rankings:



  1. The Dark Knight
  2. Iron Man
  3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  4. Hancock
  5. WALL-E
  6. Kung Fu Panda
  7. Twilight
  8. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
  9. Quantum of Solace
  10. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
  11. Sex and the City
  12. Mamma Mia!
  13. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
  14. The Incredible Hulk
  15. Wanted
  16. Get Smart
  17. Four Chrismases
  18. Marley and Me
  19. Tropic Thunder
  20. Bolt
  21. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
  22. Journey to the Center of the Earth
  23. Eagle Eye
  24. Step Brothers
  25. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
  26. 10,000 B.C.
  27. Beverly Hills Chihuahua
  28. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  29. Bedtime Stories
  30. Pineapple Express
  31. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  32. Yes Man
  33. 21
  34. What Happens in Vegas
  35. Jumper
  36. Cloverfield
  37. 27 Dresses
  38. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  39. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
  40. Vantage Point
  41. The Spiderwick Chronicles
  42. Fool's Gold
  43. Role Models
  44. Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
  45. Valkyrie
  46. The Happening
  47. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
  48. Seven Pounds
  49. Baby Mama
  50. Burn After Reading
  51. Step Up 2 the Streets
  52. Saw V
  53. The Strangers
  54. The Forbidden Kingdom
  55. The House Bunny
  56. Nim's Island
  57. Australia
  58. Made of Honor
  59. College Road Trip
  60. The Tale of Despereaux
  61. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
  62. Speed Racer
  63. Prom Night (2008)
  64. Rambo
  65. Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
  66. Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
  67. Nights in Rodanthe
  68. Max Payne
  69. Righteous Kill
  70. Body of Lies
  71. Lakeview Terrace
  72. Meet the Spartans
  73. Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
  74. First Sunday
  75. The Secret Life of Bees
  76. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
  77. Death Race
  78. Changeling
  79. Star Wars: The Clone Wars
  80. Semi-Pro
  81. Fireproof
  82. Drillbit Taylor
  83. Definitely, Maybe
  84. The Love Guru
  85. Transporter 3
  86. Quarantine
  87. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
  88. The Eye
  89. Leatherheads
  90. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
  91. Mirrors
  92. Slumdog Millionaire
  93. Space Chimps
  94. The Bank Job
  95. Untraceable
  96. The Women (2008)
  97. One Missed Call
  98. The Other Boleyn Girl
  99. Street Kings
  100. Shutter

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Time for New Year's Resolution

The year 2008 is winding up. It's time to reflect on the last year and make a new year's resolution. The year 2008 has been a very tumultuous one both in the societal aspect and the personal aspect. However, it is said that a crisis can become an opportunity. Indeed, it is when we feel the most urgency that we embark on the most critical mission of our life.

I have about a week to think about the next year's plan. I have just a few thoughts:



  1. Get fit. A man's true strength lies in the brawn.
  2. Make money. Money is a measure of power in the modern.
  3. Master a foreign language, preferably Russian. Among my favorite languages, I believe Russian will be the next tongue of influences.

Monday, December 22, 2008

Fix Fonts in Vista Lite

Arial, Tahoma and Times New Roman are not displayed correctly when a CD edition of Windows Vista Home Premium is installed on your computer. To fix this problem, follow the following steps:



  1. Click the Start button to open the Start menu.
  2. Type regedit and press Enter. Registry Editor will appear on your screen.
  3. In the left pane, expand the registry tree to navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes.
  4. In the right pane, remove Arial, Microsoft Sans Serif, MS Sans Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24, MS Serif 8,10,12,14,18,24, Small Fonts, Tahoma and Times New Roman by selecting each one and pressing the Delete key. A dialog will pop up and ask you "Deleting certain registry values could cause system instability. Are you sure you want to permanently delete this value?" Answer Yes.
  5. Double-click Helv and replace its value with Arial.
  6. Double-click MS Sans Serif and replace its value with Microsoft Sans Serif.
  7. Replace the value of MS Serif, Times and Tms Rmn with Times New Roman.


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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Applying an Fade-Out Effect to MP3 Using Audacity

When you download MP3's from the Internet, you occasionally get music files that have abrupt ending. These files occur because of incomplete downloads or CD's that have a track fading into another. In this case, you can use Audacity to fix the problematic music file. The following steps show how to apply an fade-out effect to such MP3 files that have abrupt ending.

Open the File menu and select Open... to open the audio file you want to work on. Audacity will display a popup window showing the progress of converting an MP3 to a wave file.

Once the conversion is done, click Zoom In multiple times until the units are in seconds. Select about 3 seconds at the end of the file.

Open the Effect menu and select Fade Out. Test the modified sound by clicking the Play button.

Save it back to an MP3 file. Open the File menu and select Export as MP3.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Audacity Installation

Audacity is a multi-platform audio editor. You can use Audacity to edit MP3's and add sound effects such as fade-out to your music files. To install Audacity on Windows, download Audacity installer. You also need lame_enc.dll to edit and save MP3 files. If you have installed Winamp, lame_enc.dll is located in Winamp Plugins (C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins) folder.

Friday, December 19, 2008

iAUDIO U5: My Next MP3 Player to Buy

MP3 players are getting ubiquitous these days. One of the best MP3 player brands is COWON. Its products simply reflect the best in design and craftsmanship. The sound quality and sound effects featured in its products are far superior to other competitor's. I already own iAUDIO U3 2GB and know how good it is by experience.

I am in search of the next MP3 player to buy. Certainly, it's not going to be an iPod. iPod can't play MP3's, AFAIK. I chose to buy a product by COWON because COWON's products are full of functions not found in others. Of COWON's portable media player, I found iAUDIO U5 to be most attractive.



Monday, December 15, 2008

How to install ndiswrapper on Linux

Question


Can someone break it down step by step and tell me how to install ndiswrapper on Linux?

I just can't focus enough to understand what they're telling me to do. Can someone tell me how to do it step by step?



My Answer


1. The Linux kernel must have ndiswrapper support.
You can type "/sbin/modinfo ndiswrapper" to check whether kernel has
ndiswrapper module. If not, install a new kernel with ndiswrapper
support. Most decent Linux distros come with ndiswrapper support.
Otherwise, you have to compile a kernel yourself.

If you're going to compile ndiswrapper yourself, download the latest 2.6 kernel from http://www.kernel.org and ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper sourceforge site. Instruction for compiling and installing kernel and ndiswrapper is included in the tarballs.

2. If you have the ndiswrapper module, chances are you also have the
ndiswrapper tools. If running "ndiswrapper -l" displays "command not
found", install ndiswrapper-utils package in Debian or something
similar in other distros. If you compiled ndiswrapper yourself,
ndiswrapper support binaries are built at the same time.

3. Check if your wireless card or USB dongle is supported by ndiswrapper at http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/jooml...
It's helpful to know your wireless device ID. If it's PCI, type "lspci
-nn" and look for numbers like 14E4:4312. If it's USB, lsusb will show
your device ID. Look for your device matching your device ID in the
Wiki. The wiki may also have helpful hints and links to download driver
files. Searching for "14E4:4312 ndiswrapper" at Yahoo! Search for example may give you helpful results.

4. Download and extract Windows driver for your Wireless gadget. If
you're lucky, ndiswrapper Wiki above has links to download Windows
driver. If not, get your driver CD that came with your gadget. If not,
mount your Windows partition and copy the files from
/Windows/System32/Drivers, /Windows/Inf, or
/Windows/System32/DriverStore/FileReposi... You typically need one .INF
file, one or more .SYS files for your device. You can use unzip,
cabextract or unshield to extract drivers from .EXE or .CAB files.

5. Once you extracted and have .INF, .SYS files ready, run "ndiswrapper
-i *.inf" against the INF file. This will copy the driver under
/etc/ndiswrapper folder.

6. Type "ndiswrapper -l" to make sure the driver is correctly installed.

zd1211u : driver installed

device (0ACE:1211) present (alternate driver: zd1211rw)


7. Now it's almost done. Run "modprobe ndiswrapper". iwconfig will
hopefully show your device as wlan0 or similar. Use iwconfig and
ifconfig to manually set up your device for wireless connection. There
may be GUI tools to automatically set up wireless networking for you.
For example:



iwconfig wlan0 key c9f8747de2f73d16816b3f828b restricted

iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys

ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.253 up

route add default gw 192.168.1.1



8. This is optional. In Debian, you can add ndiswrapper into
/etc/modules file to have ndiswrapper automatically loaded at boot time.


Source(s):


http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/jooml...

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Installing Hangul 2007

Hangul 2007 is a fine word processor developed by the Korean software company, Haansoft. It still claims a large user base in the Korean market.


If your Windows is in English locale, don't install the Hangul 2007 companion templates CD because the additional Korean fonts and Chinese/Japanese dictionaries won't be working correctly on English versions of Windows.

This key is known to work with Hangul 2007 installation.



Hangul 2007 installs the following fonts:



  • ahn_b.ttf
  • ahn_l.ttf
  • ahn_m.ttf
  • FZSong_Super.TTF
  • HBATANG.TTF
  • HDOTUM.TTF
  • HYBDAL.TTF
  • HYBDAM.TTF
  • HYBSRB.TTF
  • HYCYSM.TTF
  • HYDNKB.TTF
  • HYDNKM.TTF
  • HYGPRM.TTF
  • HYGSRB.TTF
  • HYGTRE.TTF
  • HYHWPEQ.TTF
  • HYKANB.TTF
  • HYKANM.TTF
  • HYMJRE.TTF
  • HYMPRL.TTF
  • HYNAMB.TTF
  • HYNAML.TTF
  • HYNAMM.TTF
  • HYPORM.TTF
  • HYSANB.TTF
  • HYSNRL.TTF
  • HYSUPB.TTF
  • HYSUPM.TTF
  • HYTBRB.TTF
  • HYWULB.TTF
  • HYWULM.TTF
  • UNI_HSR.TTF


Hangul companion CD installs the following fonts:



  • Along.ttf
  • Art.ttf
  • Easop.ttf
  • Gaesung.ttf
  • Sol.ttf


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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Additional Fonts For Windows

After installing a CD edition of Windows Vista, some fonts necessary for displaying international scripts are missing from the default installation. In order to correctly display foreign characters, the following fonts need to be installed.



  • Aegean.otf

    Covers Basic Latin, Greek and Coptic, Greek Extended, some Punctuation and other Symbols, Linear B Syllabary, Linear B Ideograms, Aegean Numbers, Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols, Phaistos Disc, Lycian, Carian, Old Italic, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Cypriot Syllabary, Phoenician, Lydian, Archaic Greek Musical Notation.
  • TagDoc93.ttf for the Tagalog script which had been used in the ancient Philippines
  • cerg_chi.ttf

    Contains both traditional and simplified Chinese ideographs
  • damase_v.2.ttf

    Covers Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese.
  • dilyan.ttf for Glagolitic and Cyrillic (Old Church Slavonic) alphabets.
  • hapaxber.ttf for the Tifinagh script which is used to write Berber languages in North Africa.
  • ipagp.ttf to display the Japanese language.
  • malgun.ttf and malgunbd.ttf to display the Korean language.
  • mm3.ttf for the Burmese/Myanmar script.
  • newathu.ttf

    Covers English and Western European languages, polytonic Greek, Coptic, Old Italic, and Demotic Egyptian transliteration, as well as metrical symbols and other characters used by classical scholars.
  • tagbanwa.ttf for the Tagbanwa script which had been used in the ancient Philippines.
  • taileval.ttf for the Tai Le script.


OpenOffice.org 3.0 installs the DejaVu and Open Symbols fonts.

To see a list of fonts installed by Microsoft Office 2007, go here.

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My Next Project: Assembling a USB Hard Drive

I need a huge storage device to store all my software and digital media. I shopped around for a USB hard drive. At CostCo, I found Maxtor OneTouch 750GB external hard drive for $99.99 which I think is a great deal. However, I found a bunch of bad reviews for this product. It seems that a lot of buyers found this product broken after using it for some time. Sorry, but it happens.

So I decided it's a better idea to assemble a USB Hard Drive for myself. The first thing I need to buy is an hard drive enclosure. I found a few:



The next thing to buy is a SATA hard drive, hopefully 1 or 1.5 TB one. The question is the price. Hopefully, I'll find a deal when there's a holiday sale.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Business Law Contents


Business Law



  1. Part One: Introduction to the Law and the Legal Environment of Business

    1. Critical Thinking and Legal Reasoning
    2. Introduction to Law and the Legal Environment of Business
    3. The American Legal System
    4. Alternative Tools of Dispute Resolution
    5. Constitutional Principals
    6. Cyberlaw and Business
    7. White-Collar Crime and the Business Community
    8. Ethics, Social Responsibility, and the Business Manager
    9. The International Legal Environment of Business

  2. Part Two: Private Law and the Legal Environment of Business

    1. The Law of Contracts and Sales I
    2. The Law of Contracts and Sales II
    3. The Law of Torts
    4. Product and Service Liability Law
    5. Law of Property: Real, Personal, and Intellectual
    6. Agency Law
    7. Law and Business Associations

  3. Part Three: Public Law and the Legal Environment of Business

    1. The Law of Administrative Agencies
    2. The Employment Relationship
    3. Laws Governing Labor; Management Relations
    4. Employment Discrimination
    5. Environmental Law
    6. Rules Governing the Issuance and Trading of Securities
    7. Antitrust Laws
    8. Laws of Debtor-Creditor Relations and Consumer Protection




  • Appendix A: The Constitution of the United States
  • Appendix B: Uniform Commercial Code (2000 Official Text), Article 2

Over-Blog

I signed up with Over-Blog. So far, I like the service. Its interface is clean and user-friendly. Its composition page features user-friendly WYSIWYG interface. Over-Blog allows you to write non-chronological pages and newsletters as well as blog posts. And, it allows you to save pictures and documents right on your blog. Well, it'll take some time for me to get used to Over-Blog. I'll post more as I learn more about Over-Blog.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Windows Vista Home Premium Lite CD

You want to try Windows Vista but you can't try it because your computer doesn't have a DVD drive. In this case, you can download a CD edition of Windows Vista with eMule or aMule. Burn the ISO file with InfraRecorder, CDBurnerXP or any other cd-burning tool. It takes less space to install and runs slightly quicker than a DVD version.

Compared to the full DVD edition, the CD edition lacks some major features. For example, it doesn't have many drivers so you'll hassle with driver installation from the start. It also lack international language support, Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery Viewer among other things. Yet, all this lack of functions makes Vista leaner and faster.

There's one critical flaw with this edition whereby you can't rename a folder. No fix or workaround has been found yet.

Once you've installed Vista, you can activate Windows Vista with Vista Loader

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Free Blog Services

There are many services on the Web that offer free blogs. Blogger is the most popular blogging service in the world. According to Alexa, popular blog services among the top 500 global sites include:



  1. Blogger
  2. WordPress
  3. LiveJournal
  4. Xanga
  5. OverBlog

Some social networks also provide blogging service, but they are not included here.

The Art of Internet Search

The Internet has brought us vast amount of information at our fingertips. However, finding information on the Internet can be tricky sometimes. Luckily, various search engines help us find what we want. The most popular search engine is Google. Yahoo! Search is equally capable as Google. The following is a list of search engines in the order of popularity in U.S.




  1. Google
  2. Yahoo! Search
  3. Microsoft Live Search
  4. Ask
  5. AOL Search


There are also social bookmarking sites that allow you to share and search bookmarks. The following is a list of popular social bookmarking sites.



  1. Del.icio.us
  2. StumbleUpon
  3. Furl
  4. Ma.gnolia
  5. Yahoo! MyWeb


Social news sites allow you to share news stories and interesting articles. They allow you to see which news and blogs are popular everyday.



  1. Yahoo! Buzz
  2. Digg
  3. reddit.com
  4. FARK
  5. Newsvine
  6. Current
  7. Mixx

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