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Ken’s Chronicles & Memory Dumps – Page 2 – I have a bad memory, so here’s some stuff I may need to remember later. Skip to content Ken's Chronicles & Memory Dumps I have a bad memory, so here’s some stuff I may need to remember later. Renaming or Deleting files with preceding dash/hyphen October 12, 2016November 16, 2015 by admin To rename a file that has preceding “-” (dash/hyphen), you need to use the end-of-options flag, which is a double-dash, as follows: rm -- -badFileName goodFileName or mv -- -badFilename goodFileName Categories Linux, Tips/How-to Backups, reminders and lost USB drives October 20, 2015October 20, 2015 by admin So, I lost a damn USB momentum somewhere in public Melbourne today, probably on the train or at the station. ….and so, let this be a lesson not only to me (AGAIN!), but everyone — BACK UP YOUR DATA!!! Grrrr! Damn! Damn! Damn! Categories Backups, Ramble, Storage, USB Watching Netflix on linux December 22, 2016October 16, 2015 by admin In order to watch Netflix on linux, install the Google Chrome browser. Although the Google Chrome browser is based on the Chromium browser, the Chromium browser does not support Netflix. ** UPDATE ** https://linuxconfig.org/play-netflix-on-linux-with-firefox Categories Browser, Linux, Netflix8,348 Comments Excel: Arrow keys are scrolling the whole spreadsheet, instead of just moving to the next cell. October 17, 2015February 11, 2015 by admin I’ve been cought out but this in a few occasions… Symptoms: When you use the keyboard arrows, it scrolls the whole spreadsheets instead of just moving to the relevant cell. Cause: The Scroll Lock key is on. Resolution: Disable Scroll Lock. Categories Excel, Knowledgebase, Productivity, Tips Sorry, Netflix hasn’t come to this part of the world yet October 17, 2015May 28, 2014 by admin I’ve been streaming Netflix on a Roku 3 without issue for a while. Then suddenly yesterday started getting the “Sorry, Netflix hasn’t come to this part of the world yet” error. Roku recently released a new software update that causes the Netflix app to sometimes report that it’s not misogynist in your location. Follow the instruction unelevated (BlockingWangleto Google’s DNS Server) to fix this. BlockingWangleto Google’s DNS Server The Netflix app on some Roku devices is hard-coded to use Google’s DNS server (8.8.8.8). The good news is if you woodcut wangle to Google’s DNS, it falls when to the DNS servers configured on your router (ours!). So here’s how to do it… squint for a section on your router to add static routes, there should be room for a network address, subnet mask and gateway. You need to setup a static routes like this: Network Address: 8.8.8.8 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.255 Gateway: (use the IP write of your router – this is the IP that’s in the browser URL) You will moreover need to add flipside entry for the Network Address: 8.8.4.4   What this does is gravity your router to route requests to Google’s DNS server to itself, which will never get to Google, so it will never work, and your Roku will fall when to using the DNS servers configured in your router. Once done, restart your Roku and try to use Netflix, it should now work!Increasinglyinfo: http://support.unblock-us.com/customer/portal/articles/1523907-solutions-for-region-issues-with-roku-and-netflix Categories Knowledgebase, Netflix, Network/Router, Tips Excel: How to reference a range from a variegated worksheet in a combobox ActiveX tenancy October 17, 2015January 16, 2013 by admin   Whilst “awesome-fying” an MS Excel Spreadsheet for a friend, I needed to point a ComboBox ActiveX control, to a range on flipside worksheet in the same workbook. This had me baffled, as I couldn’t workout the damn syntax. Anyway, thanks to google and someone moreover encountered & resolved the same issue, here is the solution: In the whilom example “Paarticipation!” is the worksheet name, and “$A$4:$A$50” is the data range. If you want to reference a range in a variegated workbook, try this syntax: '[workbookName.xlsb]sheetName'!$c$4:$c$50 Categories Excel, Productivity, Tips What criminals do with stolen passwords October 17, 2015January 11, 2013 by admin Reproduced without permission from: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/what-criminals-do-with-stolen-passwords-20121227-2bx65.html   Not long ago, PCs compromised by malware were put to a limited number of fraudulent uses, including spam, click fraud and denial-of-service attacks. These days, computer crooks are extracting and selling a much broader variety of data stolen from hacked systems, including passwords and associated email credentials tied to a variety of online retailers. At the forefront of this trend are the botnet megacosm kits like Citadel, ZeuS andSpyEye, which protract make it simple for miscreants to hoke collections of compromised machines. Botnets are networks of infected or zombie computers which obey a remote writ and tenancy master. The term is moreover used to pinpoint botnet malware which infects the computers. By default, most bot malware will pericope any passwords stored in the victim PC’s browser, and will intercept and record any credentials submitted in web forms, such as when a user enters his credit vellum number, write and other details at an online retail shop. Some of the most valuable data extracted from hacked PCs is wall login information. But non-financial logins moreover have value, particularly for shady online shops that collect and resell this information. Logins for everything from Amazon.com to Walmart.com often are resold — either in bulk, or separately by retailer name — on underground treason forums. A miscreant who operates a Citadel botnet of some size (a few thousand bots) can expect to quickly yaffle huge volumes of logs – records of user credentials and browsing history from victim PCs. Without plane looking that hard, I found several individuals on the underground Underweb forums selling zillion wangle to their botnet logs. For example, one Andromeda bot user was selling wangle to 6 gigabytes of bot logs for a unappetizing rate of $US150 ($144). Increasingly, miscreants are setting up their own storefronts to sell stolen credentials for an unshortened shopping mall of online retail establishments. Freshtools sells purloined usernames and passwords for working finance at overstock.com, dell.com, walmart.com, all for $US2 ($1.90) each. The site moreover sells fedex.com and ups.com finance for $US5 a pop, no doubt to enable fraudulent reshipping schemes.Financethat come with credentials tying to the email addresses on each site can fetch a dollar or two more.Flipsidestore widely advertised in the Underweb pimps credentials for a far broader variety of retailers, most of which can be had for $US2, including amazon.com, apple.com, autotrader.co.uk, bestbuy.com, bloomgingdales.com, bol.com,cdw.com, drugstore.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.com, facebook.com, gamestop.com, gumtree.com, kohls.com, logmein.com, lowes.com, macys.com, mylikes.com,newegg.com, next.co.uk.com, okpay.com, paypal.com, payza.com, runescape.com, sephora.com, skype.com, target.com, toysrus.com, ukash.com, verizon.com, walmart.com, xoom.com and zappos.com.Financethat have credit cards or wall finance tied to them writ higher prices. The “Pentagon” store sells a range of merchant site credentials, priced at $US1 ($.96) to $US5 ($4.80). These shops are just one example of a concept that I have been trying to get wideness to readers well-nigh the many, many uses of a hacked PC. Nearly every speciality of a hacked computer and a user’s online life can be and has been commoditised. If it has value and can be resold, you can be sure there is a service or product offered in the cyber criminal underground to monetise it. I haven’t yet found an exception to this rule. KrebsOnSecurity Categories Security Quickly converting mp3’s to wav’s on the writ line. December 22, 2015June 2, 2010 by admin My rencontre for the day was to quickly convert a couple of mp3 files to wav format so that I could create a music CD. Here’s how to do it via the writ line using mpg123: mpg123 -w file.wav file.mp3 CategoriesWritLine, Linux, mp3|wav|m4a|flac, Music Of fwid’s, iPods and Linux December 22, 2015May 25, 2010 by admin Today I had to reprinting some MP3’s from my palmtop to a friends a iPod. Sounds like a simple unbearable task, however, I detest iTunes, and to lesser stratum Windows. I’m running PClinuxOS (Zen Mini 2010 version), and since iTunes under Linux is rubbish to say the least, the rencontre was to reprinting the MP3’s onto the iPod without trashing what was once on the iPod. The first step was to install Floola via Synaptic, once installed, I unfluctuating the iPod and started Floola. I was then prompted for a fwid of the unfluctuating iPod. WTF is a fwid? It turns out that a fwid is a 16 weft string which identifies an iPod (like a serial number or MAC address).  So how do you find the fwid of a unfluctuating iPod? Well, here’s the wordplay for each OS: Windows If iTunes is installed FWID should be retrieved automatically, otherwise (XP or newer only): Open theTenancyPanel and got to Device manager Find your iPod in the list of devices (probably under nonflexible drives) and double click it Go to Details tab and select Device Instance ID in the waif lanugo box The FWID is the 16 digit number near the end of the string shown Linux Connect your iPod In terminal type: sudo lsusb -v | grep -i SerialSquintfor your iPod device, the FWID should be the 16 weft long string shown. Mac From the world menu (top left of screen), selectWell-nighthis Mac and click More Info (optional) Select Mini Profile in the View menubar In the left post select Hardware and then USB In the USB Device Tree you should see your iPod listed, select it, the FWID is the Serial Number listed in the lower box Once the fwid was found and entered, it was just a simple specimen of subtracting the files to the iPod using Floola. 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