Monday, July 31, 2006

Programs Aren't Minimized in the Taskbar

I recently got a help call.The problem stated that running programs are not shown at the taskbar.I honestly don't have any clue about how this can happen.But this function commonly used by Cybercafe client that has it's own designed taskbar.

By the way,this problem can be solved by editing your registry.But for newbie,I recomended to use this code:

Download

Just run the script.Note that some Antivirus may recognize this as harmful script.Nothing to worry about.

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Introduction to PHP

PHP was known as "Personal Home Page" when it was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 to track his webpage's visitor.As PHP grew,it came to mean "PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor".PHP basically runs on the server side,taking PHP code as its input and creating Web pages as output.

PHP commonly bundled together with Linux[as the OS] and MySQl [as the database]
If you are interested in learning PHP,you can go here:

w3schools

I also have a simple tutorial and examples,that can be downloaded here.

Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system

Ever heard about tor? Well, some of you may use proxy as the anonymous toolset to surf the internet. Same goes to tor, but the method is different. For proxy, the only medium between user and the internet is the proxy itself. By using tor, the connection goes through a random path between any other tor users. For example, if A want to connect to D, the connection will pass through B & C. But B & C don’t know that A is connecting to D.This project originally sponsored by the US Naval Research Laboratory,and became an Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) project in late 2004.



Image from tor homepage

So,you can surf the internet safer.Although the connection speed depends on the online users, but maybe in the future the problem vanish as the tor user increases.

Get your tor here

Nasa Hacked

The war in Lebanon is now showing its consequences in the digital world and a huge number of websites has been attacked and defaced as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by Israel.

Two NASA websites were attacked as well. The intrusion was carried out by the Chilean group of crackers known as Byond Hackers Crew through a leak in the SQL Injection they entered the system and subtracted user names, passwords and e-mails from the NASA web server.

After that these information had been stolen, they managed in entering the administrative area by using an administrator user ID and password , and finally they made the defacement replacing the homepage with their message.

The defaced site contains an image of an injured child with a message no war.



This picture is a mirror from zone-h

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Bypass RapidShare Wait Limit

Are you a rapidshare regular user and stingy enough to sign up a premium account?And you keep complaining about the wait time?Here's an easy way to bypass it.
While waiting,simply paste this code to the adress bar.

javascript:alert(c=0)

You will get a msgbox after that.Just click ok.
How does it work?
Rapidshare uses simple javascript function to countdown the time.The code change the time variable to 0,completing the count down.

Set background to folder

Hello again guys,in this topic I want to teach on how to set a background to folder.Remember back in time,this function was easily done but for windows XP,the method is slightly different.

Ok,the 1st step is to open your notepad and write this code:
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=C:\My Pictures\picture.bmp
You have to change the path to the desired background picture.

Then save the file as desktop.ini.Make sure that it is not desktop.ini.txt

Place the file to any folder you want.For example C:\takatoo.
Open command prompt and type this code:

Attrib +s C:\takatoo

Change "C:\takatoo" to the folder path.

Now you should get the result like this:



Hide the desktop.ini file if you want to.Good luck.

Registry

In windows,the settings and options are saved in a database called registry.Playing with regedit [registry editor] in windows can be dangerous.Just like DNA,a tiny change will affect the whole system. Now I will give you a simple example to use registry.We want to change the Internet Explorer title to look like this




first,open Run>Regedit



You will get something look like this.Noticed that windows registry has 5 main branches.[KEY]
Then Browse to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main.
Create a new string value.



Change the value name as "window title" and value data as anything you want.[I used tk2 explorer]



Now open your Internet Explorer and see the different.To remove this,just delete the key that you has just created.

Have phun.
p/s sometimes you need to restart your pc too take the effect

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Removing Brontok

Automatic removal instruction:

1. Disable system restore (Windows XP/ Windows Me).
2. Update the antivirus signature file.
3. Run a full system scan and delete all the files detected as Brontok Worm.
4. Use the automatic removal tool to remove the worm.

Sophos:
Details on how to use the automatic tool can be refereed at:http://www.sophos.com/support/disinfection/brontok.html

The tool can be downloaded from: http://www.sophos.com/support/cleaners/brontgui.com

Trend Micro: http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/tsc/sysclean.com

5. Enable the System Restore (for Windows XP/Windows Me).

Lost Icon

ShenWoo:As you can see, it all happen about last weekend. I dont know what I did. Anyone when to similiar problems? Most of the icons, even some times my documents will be replaced with a "unknown apllication" icon.



Tk2:You may have deleted some important files in the temp folder.Sometimes temp folder used by Windows Installer to store details of program installations,icons for example.There’s no way to get the files you’ve deleted back, short of reinstalling the programs, which is the safest way of dealing with the problemIn worst case,you may need to reinstall your window.Zannen..

Screen Capture

Johnques:Anyone know how to capture the screenshot..for window XP sp2???

Tk2:On your keyboard,press the print screen button and open any photo editor [mspaint fox example] and paste.[ctrl+V]You may edit or save the picture if you want to do so.

Johnques:but where can i find the picture??Normaly it will save at where??

Tk2:it's stored in your pc's memory.You need to paste it in any photo editor to reveal it up.

Ok kana?