SOFTAQ - My Techie Blog

The PC Tools Password Utilities includes useful features to make creating and managing passwords much simpler. Included are three main features:

• Password Generator - is an offline version of the web-based Password Generator which allows you to securely and easily create passwords locally on your own PC.
• Password Checker - a new feature that lets you check the quality and strength of a password. By entering your password in the checker it will run a series of tests on the password to indicate how strong it is, and therefore how easy it may be to guess or crack.
• Password Revealer - works with Internet Explorer to reveal saved password that you have entered in web-forms but may have subsequently forgotten or lost. Simply bring up the hidden password in Internet Explorer, highlight it, and Password Revealer will tell you the saved password.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/#mce_temp_url#

There are two ways! Both are done via the unix shell prompt, with one of these two commands:

1. mysqlimport -L -hHOSTNAME -uUSER -pPASSWORD DATABASE DUMPED_TEXTFILE

2. mysql -hHOSTNAME -uUSER -pPASSWORD DATABASE < DUMPED_TEXTFILE

Of course make sure to replace all the relevant info above with your correct info!

As for getting the DUMPED_TEXTFILE in the first place, you can get that from our php_myadmin installation, or using the mysql dump command (note, we don’t offer direct access to the MySQL datafiles in mysql/data because they reside on dedicated MySQL servers).

When you are replacing your old computer or replacing your old hard disk drive with a new [bigger] one, then always there is a need to copy or move your files and folders from your old computer or old drive to the new.

You can use the Windows cut and paste or copy command to do it, but it will be painfully slow and at times it will stuck and then you will have to start from the begnining.  So I always use  a cute small tool called Fastest Copy it is a free software you can download from  http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

After copying the files to a new drive, it is always advisable to compare that all the files are corrected copied and we did not miss anything, for that I use another free toll called download from here http://www.tgrmn.com/web/downloads/vicepl20.zip the Plus Version is free while Pro will cost you, but for our work Plus is more than enough.

ShowIP
IP address(es) of the current page in the status bar. It also allows querying custom information services by IP (right mouse button) and hostname (left mouse button), like whois, netcraft.

New Tab Button on Tab Right
Adds a new tab button like IE7.
You can now download from here http://www.quickfiles.net/981027

Google Bookmarks Button
This extension adds a new button in the Firefox toolbar to manage the Google Bookmarks…

Download Statusbar
View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

Some of the old add-ons or extentions don’t work with the new FireFox and also by detual teh Firefox is now allowing to install to your new version like 3.0.5 with the message “This add-on is for older versions of Firefox”

Well, MinimizeToTray Extension for Firefox is something that I can’t live without. If you too are same, here is the good news, do the following:

1) Download the file from http://www.quickfiles.net/691927
2) Unzip to your hard disk or desktop
3) Open your Firefox
4) Click File -> Open File and select the “minimizetotray-0.0.1.2006102615_-fx_zm_sb_tb.xpi” from the location you saved [hard disk or Desktop]
5) Now “click install now” button

Enjoy

To tar [zip] all the files and sub-folders - note the last dot is the one working similar to DOS *.*

tar -czvf filenamehere.tar .

To expand [untar or unzip] a tar file

tar -xzvf filenamehere.tgz

To see the netowrk card and drivers

ethtool eth0

To list each of the files in the current directory [dir in DOS]

ls -l