Windows 10 is getting a bash shell in the summer release. This is a couple of months away. But here are a couple of screenshots from developers I have found on the web that show what this will look like. Here a person is installing the bash shell using CMD. Now this is the bash … Read more
Apparently, the Linux bash shell is coming to Windows 10. This will offer a fully functional Linux bash prompt in the Windows app store, a good alternative to Powershell. This is in partnership with Canonical who work on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. As long as this offers tools such as dig, wget, and whois, it … Read more
Break Windows 10 password hashes with Kali Linux and John the Ripper Cracking the SAM file in Windows 10 is easy with Kali Linux. Use a Live Kali Linux DVD and mount the Windows 10 partition. Firstly, get the SAM and SYSTEM files from the C:\Windows\System32\config folder. Copy these to your desktop directory. Then dump … Read more
A lot of users are jumping on the Windows 10 upgrade bandwagon too early. This operation system has been in development for a while, but upgrading straight after release is not the best option. Best to wait until after everyone else has been installing the operating system and has reported their problems to Microsoft to … Read more
The Windows 10 Powershell command prompt has a cmdlet named Invoke-WebRequest, this allows a user to download a link using Powershell. This will download a web link with a very fast transfer rate. Making this a very good way to retrieve a web link. Below is an example downloading a link from kernel.org. I am … Read more
The new Windows 10 preview has just been released, since I have an MSDN account I have just downloaded this and installed it in VMware. My initial impressions are very positive, the CMD window now can be resized at will just like a Linux xterm window. This is the version of Windows you will see … Read more
I recently installed FreeBSD 10 in VMware and I had problems getting the mouse and keyboard to work with Xorg. I solved this in the following manner. I added these four lines to my /etc/rc.conf file. moused_enable="NO" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES"moused_enable="NO" moused_nondefault_enable="NO" hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" The /etc/rc.conf file looks like this. hostname="deusexmachina" ifconfig_em0="DHCP" ifconfig_em0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" sshd_enable="YES" # … Read more
The new Windows operating system, Windows 10 will be a cloud based operating system. This means that a very basic installation of the OS will reside on the users computer and the cloud based office 365 will be used over the Internet to allow users to create documents and do their daily work. This is … Read more
I was trying to install the Handbrake application on Ubuntu to rip a couple of DVDs and I had no luck as the dependencies were broken. So I installed the Acid::Rip package instead and that gave me a nice front-end to the mencoder DVD ripping and transcoding application. All you need to do is set … Read more
I have just tried a Wacom Bamboo tablet on my Ubuntu 12.10 machine and it worked perfectly. Using the tablet as a large touch pad to navigate the Gnome Shell desktop is quite fun indeed. You may use the touch pad to navigate the desktop and double tap on the tablet to open a folder … Read more
Space colonization in the year 10 trillion I watched an interesting documentary about life in the future and they were talking about how humans would survive in the distant future trying to avoid entropy, or the heat death of the Universe. They ended up with space stations in very close orbit around a white dwarf … Read more