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Reset Password on Windows 7 System

born technology 2013-09-17

Boot with a System Repair disc, select the correct installation, start a command prompt and replace the utilman.exe executable with cmd.exe in system32 (maybe you should create a backup first):

copy d:\windows\system32\cmd.exe d:\windows\system32\utilman.exe

The drive letter shifts up by one because C: is occupied by a system reserved partition that is normally hidden. Then boot the computer with your Windows 7 installation and click on the small pie-like icon in the lower left corner of the screen. This now starts a command prompt instead of utilman.exe. With net user, you can list all users and with net user MYUSERNAME MYNEWPASSWORT you can set the password of any user.

Install TaskWarrior under Windows for dummies

born technology 2013-09-13

The short version of this post is: Install cygwin together with the package "task". Here is a slightly longer version, if you want to know more!

Reverse md5 hash

born technology 2013-09-04

We all know, that md5 has its weaknesses. But, as always, exploiting such weaknesses in practice is not a piece of cake. Do you want to know more?

HowTo build TaskWarrior from source without root privileges

born productivity, technology 2013-08-27

The new version of TaskWarrior (2.2.0) supports the new field scheduled which is/maybe pretty handy. The short version of how to install it on a linux machine (without asking root): Follow the instructions in the file INSTALL from the source tarball and set the flag DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX of cmake to your home directory. Do you want to know more?

Latex unter Windows mit Vorschau und deinem Lieblingseditor

born latex, technology 2013-07-12

Mein Eindruck ist, dass viele vernünftige Leute das Problem haben, unter Windows texen zu wollen und bei schrecklichen Programmen wie LaTeX Editor oder TeXnicCenter hängen bleiben. Prinzipiell funktionieren die ja auch. Vielleicht nicht perfekt und manchmal sind sie hier oder da etwas unpraktisch, oder stürzen ab (beim Editiern von Text) - aber sie tun ihre Arbeit und, hey, es gibt ja auch nichts besseres. Do you want to know more?

ssh / cygwin / windows quick & dirty

born technology 2013-07-01

This guide is for the people who only want to get this thing done where you only type

ssh remotehost

to ssh to your server at crazylongdomainname.com with the user u3321445longandunhandy on a windows pc with cygwin. Do you want to know more?

TaskWarrior: Tag Tasks as “maybe” and adjust the urgency accordingly

born productivity 2013-05-22

Today I stumbled across another useful feature of my beloved TaskWarrior: One can assign an urgency-coefficient to tags (and this coefficient can also be negative):

urgency.user.tag.maybe.coefficient=-100.0

I use the maybe-Tag to store ideas that I may or may not approach one day. Once a month and whenever I feel like doing something "useless", I can review the list and have every idea at one place (and I am always able to store such an idea). But of course I want to prevent +maybe tasks from showing up in reports like "next". This feature with a negative urgency-coefficient achieves exactly this. You can find more Options at the TaskWarrior documentation.

Groupon sold my e-Mail address

born remark 2013-04-05

The idea behind groupon is to make it easy (and cheaper) for new customers to try out a service or product. The whole site really looks like racket but I used it some time ago. I have the common practice that I create an e-mail address for every single service I register to. So I used an e-mail address of the style "mymail-groupon@mydomain.tld" for it. Today I got an e-mail with the subject "Abmahnung Ihrer aussehender Rechnung über 262,00 Euro" (impolite german for "Reminder for a payment about 262 euros") from an debt collecting agency. Do you want to know more?

Thunderbird: Mark all drafts as read

born technology 2013-03-04

I wasted like 60 seconds a day marking drafts in Thunderbird as read after using the SendLater-Plugin. The following AutoIt-Scripts that runs in background now saves this precious amount of time!

$x_offset = 80
$y_offset = 140

TraySetIcon('C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe', 1)

While 1
    WinWait('[TITLE:Send this email later; CLASS:MozillaDialogClass]')
    WinWaitActive('[REGEXPTITLE:Mozilla Thunderbird]')
    Sleep(1000)
    $tb_pos = WinGetPos('[REGEXPTITLE:Mozilla Thunderbird]')
    $mouse_pos = MouseGetPos()
    MouseClick('right', $tb_pos[0]+$x_offset, $tb_pos[1]+$y_offset, 1, 0)
    Send('{UP 4}{ENTER}')
    MouseMove($mouse_pos[0], $mouse_pos[1], 0)
WEnd

Windows Shortcuts

born technology 2013-02-23

I learned three new Windows shortcuts today: * Win + Pause: System Properties * Alt + Space, n: Minimize window * Alt + Space, x: Maximize window Especially the latter two are very useful for me.

TaskWarrior – Stop worrying and start warrioring!

born productivity, technology 2012-12-31

# Why TaskWarrior? After I've heard of the software TaskWarrior in summer of 2012, I started using it instantly. My main reasons are: * Since I'm a big fan of self quantification, I wanted the data to be accessible and independent of the existence of any software company. The TaskWarrior stores its data in text, which is imho the most future proof format. * Everything from the system described in David Alan's book "Getting things done" (short GTD) can be implemented with TaskWarrior. * It is cool and geeky to use (via command line!). This has a real advantage too: you have the full power of your shell at hand and the programm itself also has powerfull batch processing capabilities. --- Do you want to know more?

How to use MetroApps in Windows 8 with a resolution that is too low

born technology 2012-12-26

It seems that you can't ((Force Windows 8 Metro Apps to run lower resolutions below 1024x768)) ((Windows 8 Metro style apps running on low screen resolution netbooks)) ((How to enable Windows 8 Metro style apps on an older netbook)) ((Google-Suche)). If you are ok with a squeezed look, set all registry values of Display1_DownScalingSupported to 1 and change the screen resolution to at least 1024x768.

Werde ADAC-Mitglied!

born remark 2012-08-05

Ich möchte an dieser Stelle einfach mal los werden, dass es sich wirklich lohnt, ADAC-Mitglied zu werden! Die holen einem aus jeder erdenklichen misslichen bis unlösbaren Lage raus (alles von, Tank auf der Autobahn leer bis man bleibt in Spanien liegen). Die 80€ im Jahr sind es wert!