Requirements:

• A USB drive of any size.  (I used 1 gig)
• A computer with a BIOS that allows booting from a USB port.
• A Bootable floppy disk or CD. (you can use an old Windows 98 bootable CD or floppy disk for this.
• Any Utility that allows you to create partitions, set active partitions, create a master boot record, and transfer the boot files to the active partition. (I used FORMAT and DOS FDISK that are on the Window 98 CD)

Directions:

Part I:

In your systems BIOS, make the USB drive the first in the drive sequence.

Why?  In this case, fdisk does not allow for a partition to be set as ACTIVE (bootable) unless it is the first drive.  In order for your computer to boot to your OS, your harddrive is set to be the first drive.  This needs to be temporarily changed.

How?  There are three ways to do this.  You only need to do one of the three ways, whichever one works for you.  All of them require that the USB drive be plugged into the PC before you turn the PC on. Also take note of the options you are going to be changing, so when you are done, you can set the system back to the way it was originally.

1. Bios** drive sequence: Depending on your BIOS, there may be a way to change which device the computer looks at first.  If there is, select the USB flash drive as the first in the list.
2. Disable the other drives: In the BIOS, turn your harddrive, to the off or none setting.  Your harddrive might be labeled “Primary Drive 0″  “Auto” or “On” Change it to “off” or “none”
3. Unplugg the hard drive(s): Use this option if your BIOS doesn’t have an option to change the drive sequence or to turn off the hard drive.  Please make sure you know what you are doing here.  If you are not sure exactly how to do this, look it up in google.  Be Aware: Opening your computer case may result in voiding your computer warranty or damaging your hardware.

**  Please note that many BIOSes are different and the wording will vary from one to another.

Part II:

1. Boot the PC from the boot floppy/CD (Windows 98 floppy/CD) into the command prompt with the USB drive plugged in.
2. Once in the command prompt, run fdisk
3. If a primary partition  already exists on the USB Drive, Goto step 4 below.  If it doesn’t or you don’t know, use fdisk to create one.  If for some reason you aren’t able to, make sure that the USB drive is set to be the first in the drive sequence in the BIOS.
4. Use fdisk’s “Set Active Partition” (option 2) to set the primary partition on the USB Drive to Active.
5. Exit fdisk
6. Reboot the PC from the boot floppy/CD (Windows 98 floppy/CD) into the command prompt with the USB flash drive plugged in.
7. At the command prompt enter the following command: dir c: This step is to verify that the C: drive is actually the primary partition on the USB Drive.  Regardless of the result that the command generates, the important thing to note is to make sure that the size of the primary partition on the USB drive is roughly equal to the sum of the empty space and the used space.  Refer to Part I
8. Format and copy the boot files to the primary partition.  At the command prompt, from the directory (on the Windows 98 CD/floppy) where FORMAT.COM is located, enter: format /s c:
9. Run fdisk /mbr This writes the master boot record to the USB drive without altering the partition table information.
10. Restart the PC and choose booting from the USB drive.  If all goes well, you should see a C:> command prompt.
11. Now your flash drive is bootable, however please remember to reset your PC settings back to their original settings.

Last night the folks at Boxee announced the release of a new Boxee alpha.  The top additions to this new alpha are the support for Pandora music streaming, PBS streams, RadioTime, a new API and the video playback is built on the XUL framework.  The XUL framework is the same that Firefox is built on.  Yes, HULU does work.  Good Luck blocking it now.  I just downloaded the alpha release from Boxee.tv and must say it delivers.  Go get it.

http://boxee.tv

Here is a short how to in order to use the new plugins:

Start Boxee and in the left navigation pane scroll down to “Apps Box”.  Along the top of your screen there are four selections, choose the repositories tab and add a new repository.  Type the following in the text field minus the quotes ” dir.boxeehq.com” and select done.  You will now be able to back out and select “New Applications”.  This is where you can add all sorts of new feeds to your Media Player.  Have Fun!

The remote application accesses your Boxee media center PC via Wifi and requires no server side application (other than Boxee obviously).  The iPhone/iPod  has two user interfaces for control.  The first is a gesture method that displays a Boxee logo in the middle of your device screen.  Place your finger on the icon and slide up down or side to side to simulate using the arrow keys on your keyboard.  Tap on the logo after you’ve highlighted your selection to accept, much like a mouse click.  The second user interface is called “Buttons” and its just what you think.  Select the buttons mode and a set of direction arrows, OK button and a back button appear on your device.  A volume slider bar across the bottom of the iPhone/iPod screen will adjust the audio of the computer being controlled.

The iPod/iPhone will also display thumbnails of the current video playing on Boxee and a Now Playing button will display Artist and Title of any music playing.

Boxee Remote Control will work with Boxee Media Center running on PC, MAC and Linux.  Go get it today!

Apple Itunes Store – Boxee Remote

Boxee Media Center

Add the following code to the .htaccess file at the root of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?YourDomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|png|jpg)$ - [F]

Here’s the simple nuts and bolts to make this work with your system.  The Software is simply an application for your N800 or 810 and a server application to be installed on your mythfrontend. 

Mythetomer N800/810 app: 

To install the Internet tablet program, navigate to this page from your Tablet and click the download link below.  Follow the prompts.  Easy.

Download Mythetomer app

Server App:

On your frontend machine open a terminal window and type in

sudo wget http://netti.nic.fi/~icewood/mythetomer/file.php?file=mythetomer_0.2-1_i386.deb

After the file downloads to your machine type in a terminal window

sudo dpkg -i mythetomer_0.2-1_i386.deb

Done!

You will now need to shutdown your frontend if you haven’t already and start the mythetomer server.  To do this simply open a terminal window and type “mythetomer” and press enter.  Add a & sign at the end to run it in the background otherwise don’t close the terminal window or the server will stop.

I set mine up last night using the WLAN in my home and it works great.  The software gives you a remote control surface on you IT with number pad, direction arrows, menu and esc buttons, volume and channel up/down, and player controls such as play, pause, skip forward and back.  I have not tried the bluetooth connection as of yet cause I really have no need too but I might play with it a little later to see what happens.  The performance of the software is top notch, easy interface , no lag on button push and pretty steady connection.  I did have an issue once where the server croaked and the N800 lost its connection.  This required me to shutdown the frontend and restart the mythetomer server which to say the least very frustrating.  I am currently working on a Cron job to monitor the status of the mythetomer server. 

Overall its a good piece of tech gadgetry available for download.  I like it and it works much better than my Lirc based machine remote.  Give it a whirl.

Mythetomer Website

Since posting my article listing the open source alternatives to Symantec Ghost Enterprise, I have received a lot of questions related to installing and configuring Clonezilla, so I thought it would be a good idea to post a “quick start guide” for installing Clonezilla.

The following applies to setting up a network boot environtment using the PXE capabilities of your network card. If you simply want to image a single machine, then I suggest you use the Clonezilla Live CD. You simply boot your system from the CD, mount a network drive, and save your image to the network. It is the same as using a ghost boot disk in DOS but, without all the network card configuration.

If you are anything like me then you don’t like having to remember what you did with a boot disk and have to image a system a lot more often then a couple of times a year. In that case, follow along to setup a Clonezilla server your clients can use to boot from without the need for a boot disk.

Required:

First, you will need a fresh install of Ubuntu to follow this guide. I am using the latest server release candidate, Ubuntu 8.10 (Hardy), for this guide. If you are using the desktop version of Ubuntu or an early server version, you should be fine. Just make sure to change the required lines when adding the drbl (Diskless remote boot Linux) repositories to your source.list.

Second, you will need too configure two network cards. These can either be physical cards or one can be a virtual one. I am using a virtual interface for the second card.

Below is my /etc/network/interfaces file. You’ll need to edit your file to match. Make sure you change the IP addresses to something that will work on your network.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.2.201
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.2.1

auto eth0:0
iface eth0:0 inet static
address 192.168.3.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

Finally, you are going to need a list of the MAC address for each machine you wish to image. By default, Clonezilla installs a DHCP server. We want to lock down which machines can request an IP address from this server so we don’t cause any problems with other machines requesting a DHCP address from the Clonezilla server and receiving the wrong information. This is very important if you are setting up Clonezilla on a production network with an existing DHCP server.

Once you have your two network cards setup you are ready to start installing Clonezilla.

Installing Clonezilla.

The first step is to install the key for the Clonezilla repository. Enter the following in the terminal to download the key:

wget http://drbl.nchc.org.tw/GPG-KEY-DRBL

Second, add the key:

sudo apt-key add GPG-KEY-DRBL

Third, we need to add the Clonezilla repository to the apt source.list file. Enter the following to open /etc/apt/source.list in the nano text editor:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following two lines to the bottom of the file. Make sure to replace “hardy” with the name of the Ubuntu distribution you are using. I.E. gutsy, feisty, edgy….:

deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core drbl stable

Once you have added the Clonezilla repository to your source list, you can run the following two commands to update your list and install drbl:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install drbl

Once drbl is installed we can go ahead and install all the dependencies for Clonezilla. NIS will fail to launch at this point. Just ignore it. We will configure it later.

sudo apt-get install util-linux tar gzip bzip2 procps dialog rsync parted pciutils tcpdump bc grub gawk hdparm sdparm netcat file ethtool etherwake ssh syslinux mtools mkisofs reiserfsprogs e2fsprogs psmisc locales wget disktype zip unzip initscripts dhcp3-server tftpd-hpa nfs-kernel-server nis ntp curl lftp iptables sysutils libdigest-sha1-perl

sudo apt-get install partclone mkpxeinitrd-net clonezilla mkswap-uuid drbl-partimage drbl-ntfsprogs drbl-chntpw drbl-lzop udpcast drbl-etherboot freedos

sudo apt-get install lvm2 ntfs-3g lshw

Once drbl is installed we need to create a file with the MAC address of each system we wish to image. The addresses should be in the following format with one address per line.

sudo nano /etc/drbl/macadr-eth0:0.txt

00:00:00:00:00:00

Next we need to configure the boot image that each PXE client will use:

sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/drblsrv-offline -s `uname -r`

Finally, we need to launch drblpush to configure the environment.

sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/drblpush -i

The drblpush script will ask you a series of questions and then setup your environment for you.

Please enter DNS domain (such as drbl.sf.net):

Enter your domain.

Please enter NIS/YP domain name:

Enter you NIS domain name. If you don’t have a NIS domain you can call it whatever you want.

Please enter the client hostname prefix:
This prefix is used to automatically create hostname for clients. If you want to overwrite some or all automatically created hostnames, press Ctrl-C to quit this program now, edit /opt/drbl/conf/client-ip-hostname, then run this program again.

Enter a hostname prefix.

The public IP address of this server is NOT found.
Which ethernet port in this server is for public Internet accsess, not for DRBL connection ?

eth0

Now we can collect the MAC address of clients!
If you want to let the DHCP service in DRBL server offer same IP address to client every time when client boot, and you never did this procedure, you should do it now!
If you already have those MAC addresses of clients, you can put them into different group files (These files number is the same number of networks cards for DRBL service). In this case, you can skip this step.
This step helps you to record the MAC addresses of clients, then divide them into different groups. It will save your time and reduce the typos.
The MAC addresses will be recorded turn by turn according to the boot of clients,
and they will be put into different files according to the network card in server, file name will be like macadr-eth1.txt, macadr-eth2.txt… You can find them in directory /etc/drbl.
Please boot the clients by order, make sure they boot from etherboot or PXE!
Do you want to collect them ?

n. We already listed them in the /etc/drbl/macadr-eth0:0.txt file.

Do you want to let the DHCP service in DRBL server offer same IP address to the client every time when client boots (If you want this function, you have to collect the MAC addresses of clients, and save them in file(s) (as in the previous procedure)). This is for the clients connected to DRBL server’s ethernet network interface eth0:0 ?

y

OK! Please tell me the file name which contains the MAC address of clients line by line for eth0:0.

macadr-eth0:0.txt

What is the initial number do you want to use in the last set of digits in the IP (i.e. the initial value of d in the IP address a.b.c.d) for DRBL clients connected to this ethernet port eth0:0.

10. This will be the starting IP address of your DHCP range.

The file name you set is “macadr-eth0:0.txt”.
The clients number in this file is 1.
We will set the IP address for the clients connected to DRBL server’s ethernet network interface eth0:0 By the MAC address file you set, the IP addresses for the clients connected to DRBL server’s ethernet network interface eth0:0 as: 192.168.3.10 – 192.168.3.10
Accept?

y

The Layout for your DRBL environment:
******************************************************
NIC NIC IP Clients
+—————————–+
| DRBL SERVER |
| |
| +– [eth0] 192.168.2.201 +- to WAN
| |
| +– [eth0:0] 192.168.3.1 +- to clients group 0:0 [ 1 clients, their IP
| | from 192.168.3.10 - 192.168.3.10]
+—————————–+
******************************************************
Total clients: 1
******************************************************
Press Enter to continue…

In the system, there are 3 modes for diskless linux services:
[0] Full DRBL mode, every client has its own NFS based /etc and /var.
[1] DRBL SSI (Single system image) mode, every client uses tmpfs based /etc and /var. In this mode, the loading and necessary disk space of server will be lighter. NOTE! (a) The client machine memory is recommended at least 256 MB. (b) The setting and config files of client will not be saved to the DRBL server! They are just used once and will vanish after the machine shutdowns! Besides, if you modify any file in the template client (located in /tftpboot/nodes), you have to run /opt/drbl/sbin/gen_ssi_files to create the template tarball in /tftpboot/node_root/drbl_ssi/. (c) If you want to provide some file to overwrite the setting in the template tarball when client boots, check /tftpboot/node_root/drbl_ssi/clients/00_README for more details.
[2] I do NOT want to provide diskless Linux service to client.
Which mode do you prefer ?

2. We didn’t configure any other option above.

In the system, there are 3 modes available for clonezilla:
[0] Full Clonezilla mode, every client has its own NFS based /etc and /var.
[1] Clonezilla box mode, every client uses tmpfs based /etc and /var. In this mode, the loading and necessary disk space of server will be lighter than that in Full Clonezilla mode. Note! In Clonezilla box mode, the setting and config files of client will not be saved to the DRBL server! They just use once and will vanish after the machine shutdowns!
[2] I do NOT want clonezilla.
Which mode do you prefer ?

1

When using clonezilla, which directory in this server you want to store the saved image (Please use absolute path, and do NOT assign it under /mnt/, /media/ or /tmp/) ?
[/home/partimag]

/home/partimag. You should change this to the location wish to store your images.

Do you want to set the pxelinux password for clients so that when client boots, a password must be entered to startup (For better security)

n

Do you want to set the boot prompt for clients ?

n

Do you want to use graphic background for PXE menu when client boots ?
Note! If you use graphical PXELinux menu, however client fails to boot, you can switch to text mode by running “/opt/drbl/sbin/switch-pxe-bg-mode -m text”.

y

Do you want to let DRBL server as a NAT server ? If not, your DRBL client will NOT be able to access Internet.

n

We are now ready to deploy the files to system!
Do you want to continue ?
Warning! If you go on, your firewall rules will be overwritten during the setup!
The original rules will be backuped as iptables.drblsave in system config directory (/etc/sysconfig or /etc/default).

y

After a minute or so you PXE boot environment should be set up automatically.

The last thing you need to do is start the Clonezilla server.

sudo /opt/drbl/sbin/dcs

On the first screen select All.

On the second screen select clonezilla-start

On the third screen select “select-in-client” so you can choose to backup or restore an image on a client by client basis.

On the last two screens you should select the default values provided.

That’s it. Clonezilla is ready to go.

Now we can move over to the client and see if you can boot it using your newly created DRBL environment.

Go into your BIOS settings and set the first boot device to your network card and reboot.
That’s it. Let the client boot and enjoy.

Over the the last few months I have been able to integrate sirius with MythTV, my Linux and Mac laptops, and now my Nokia N800 internet tablet.

Radio? We don’t need no stinking radio!

I would like to give credit for most of the grunt work to jtyrrell and m00s3computer of the internettablettalk.com forums. All I did was clean up their instructions and verify the procedure.

If you have an older N800 that’s still running OS2007, upgrade to OS2008. The instructions for upgrading your OS can be found here.

The first step to installing sipie on your N800/N810 is getting root access on your internet tablet. You have two choices. You can either enable R&D mode or use the SSH method to gain root privileges. This is required to install the necessary packages.

You can find the instructions for enabling R&D mode here.

To use the SSH method you have to enable the maemo Extras repository in your application manager.

You have to do this either way seeing we are going to install the dependencies for sipie from this repository.

ApplicationManager->Tools->Application catalogue…
Edit maemo Extras
Uncheck disabled box
Click OK and wait for the refresh

Once that is done, you can go back to the application manager and install openssh. You could also goto the maemo site and use the one click installer from your Nokia internet tablet.

During the install it will ask you to set a password. Once the install is complete you can open xterm (Utilities > Xterm) and type the following at the command line:

ssh root@localhost

Enter your password. You should now have root privileges.

If you chose to enable R&D mode you can open xterm (Utilities > Xterm) and enter the following at the command prompt:

sudo gainroot

Now that you have root privileges on our Nokia internet tablet, we can begin to install the dependencies for sipie.

At the command line enter the following:

apt-get install mplayer python2.5 python2.5-dev python2.5-setuptools wget

Next install the BeautifulSoup python extension by entering the following at the command line:

easy_install BeautifulSoup

Change to you home directory.

cd /home/user/MyDocs

Download sipie from this site. I made one change to the scripts from the default. I increased the mplayer buffer from 32 to 1024 in the cliPlayer.py script to avoid skipping. Other then that, there are no changes. I just created a tar archive so you could easily install sipie using wget.

wget http://packratstudios.com/download/sipie.tar.gz

Untar the archive by entering the following:

tar -xvzf sipie.tar.gz

Change to the sipie directory:

cd sipie

Launch sipie:

python sipie.py

At this point you will be prompted for a username and password for sirius, whether you are a subscriber or guest, your location, the stream you want to listen too, and the text of a captcha file used to verify you’re human . If you are not a subscriber then you can sign up for a free three day trial at sirius.com.

The stream is usually the name of the station you want to listen to. For example, thevault, atlnation, or octane. It is always lower case and if it is composed of two words there is normally, but not always, and underscore between the words. You’ll have to play around with name. You could get this from the windows player. The stream name is part of the URL, I believe.

By default the captcha file is saved to the root of your home directory. Unfortunately you can’t see this directory in the file manager. In order to view the image file, enter the following in a new xterm session. Don’t close the original xterm session.

Of course you’ll have to repeat the method you used to gain root access in this new xterm session but, once that is complete, enter the following to move the image file.

mv /home/user/img*.* /home/user/MyDocs

Once this is done you can goto the file manager and open the image file in the preview application. Once you have the text (yes it is case sensitive) you can return to your original xterm session and enter it. Thankfully, you only have to go through this process once.

If everything went right you should start hearing your stream after a few seconds.

To end the stream and change stations you have to enter Ctrl+C. You also have to do this to exit the application.

Someone let me know if there is a better way to do this. I haven’t tried entering exit or quit yet.

Enjoy…

I am going to list some of the most useful cmd scripts that I can think of and then I will give you a list of your options and examples for you to spank at your leisure.

So let’s say you want to get to the properties of a local printer named bigmac 22 on a PC named mcds200, this is the script that will get you there…

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /p /n\\machine\”printer”

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /p /n\\mcds200\”bigmac 22″

tip 4 n00bs:

• make sure to change local/network printer with the actual name of the printer and change the machine/server to the exact name of the PC you want to change the printer on.

• make sure to include quotes for the name of something that has a space, because cmd treats a space as a new option/task to process. Example, if your printer name is green eggs and ham, your cmd line printer name should look like this “green eggs and ham”

Now you can change the printer name, driver, whatever on that PC and yes I have tried it, and it works.

Deleting a local printer or network printer on another PC

Local: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dl /n “Local Printer” /c\\machine

Network: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /n “Network Printer” /c\\machine

How to install a local or network printer on another PC with the print wizard setup

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il /c\\machine

Set the default printer on another PC

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n “Local Printer” /c\\machine

See the queue on a specific printer

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /o /n\\machine\”printer”

Printer cmd options:

/a[file] binary file name
/b[name] base printer name
/c[name] unc machine name if the action is on a remote machine
/dl delete local printer
/dn delete network printer connection
/dd delete printer driver
/e display printing preferences
/f[file] either inf file or output file
/ga add per machine printer connections
/ge enum per machine printer connections
/gd delete per machine printer connections
/h[arch] driver architecture one of the following, Alpha | Intel | IA64 | x64
/ia install printer driver using inf file
/id install printer driver using add printer driver wizard
/if install printer using inf file
/ii install printer using add printer wizard with an inf file
/il install printer using add printer wizard
/in add network printer connection
/j[provider] print provider name
/k print test page to specified printer, cannot be combined with command when installing a printer
/l[path] printer driver source path
/m[model] printer driver model name
/n[name] printer name
/o display printer queue view
/p display printer properties
/q quiet mode, do not display error messages
/r[port] port name
/s display server properties
/Ss Store printer settings into a file
/Sr Restore printer settings from a file
Store or restore printer settings option flags that must be placed at the end of command:
2 PRINTER_INFO_2
7 PRINTER_INFO_7
c Color Profile
d PrinterData
s Security descriptor
g Global DevMode
m Minimal settings
u User DevMode
r Resolve name conflicts
f Force name
p Resolve port
/u use the existing printer driver if it’s already installed
/t[#] zero based index page to start on
/v[version] driver version one of the following, Windows 95, 98 and Me | Windows NT 4.0 | Windows NT 4.0 or 2000 | Windows 2000 or XP | Windows XP
/w prompt the user for a driver if specified driver is not found in the inf
/y set printer as the default
/Xg get printer settings
/Xs set printer settings
/z do not auto share this printer
/Y do not auto generate a printer name
/K changes the meaning of /v and /h to accept 0,1,2,3, respectively for Windows x64 and Windows IA64 | Windows NT x86 | Windows NT Alpha_AXP | Windows 4.0
/Z share this printer, can only be used with the /if option
/? help this message
@[file] command line argument file
/Mw[message] show a warning message before committing the command
/Mq[message] show a confirmation message before committing the command
/W[flags] specifies flags and switches for the wizards (for APW & APDW)
r make the wizards to be restart-able from the last page
/G[flags] specifies global flags and switches
w suppress setup driver warnings UI (super quiet mode)

More examples

Run server properties:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /s /t1 /n\\machine
Run add printer wizard localy:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il
Run inf install:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b “Test Printer” /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r “lpt1:” /m “AGFA-AccuSet v52.3″
Run add printer wizard using inf:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ii /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf
Add per machine printer connection:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /c\\machine /n\\machine\printer /j”LanMan Print Services”
Delete per machine printer connection:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /gd /c\\machine /n\\machine\printer
Enumerate per machine printer connections:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ge /c\\machine
Add printer driver using inf:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /c\\machine /m “AGFA-AccuSet v52.3″ /h “Intel” /v “Windows 2000 or XP” /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf
Add printer driver using inf:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ia /K /c\\machine /m “AGFA-AccuSet v52.3″ /h “Windows NT x86″ /v 3
Remove printer driver:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dd /c\\machine /m “AGFA-AccuSet v52.3″ /h “Intel” /v “Windows 2000 or XP”
Remove printer driver:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dd /K /c\\machine /m “AGFA-AccuSet v52.3″ /h “Windows NT x86″ /v 3
Set printer as default:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n “printer”
Set printer comment:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xs /n “printer” comment “My Cool Printer”
Get printer settings:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xg /n “printer”
Get printer settings saving results in a file:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /f “results.txt” /Xg /n “printer”
Set printer settings command usage:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xs /n “printer” ?
Store all printer settings into a file:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Ss /n “printer” /a “file.dat”
Restore all printer settings from a file:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n “printer” /a “file.dat”
Store printer information on level 2 into a file :
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Ss /n “printer” /a “file.dat” 2
Restore from a file printer security descriptor:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n “printer” /a “file.dat” s
Restore from a file printer global devmode and printer data:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n “printer” /a “file.dat” g d
Restore from a file minimum settings and resolve port name:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Sr /n “printer” /a “file.dat” m p

Of course, I haven’t tested all these out so you will have to play a little. GL

PDFCrack is a GNU/Linux application (or any other POSIX-compatible system) tool for recovering passwords and content from PDF-files. It is small, command line driven, and without external dependencies. PDFCrack is released under GPL.

Install pdfcrack on Ubuntu by typing:
sudo aptitude install pdfcrack

Run a quick benchmark by entering the following at the command line:
pdfcrack -b

Results:

Benchmark: Average Speed (calls / second):
MD5: 2616026.7
MD5_50 (fast): 146928.3
MD5_50 (slow): 107780.3

RC4 (40, static): 863985.7
RC4 (40, no check): 864661.2
RC4 (128, no check): 802203.0

Benchmark: Average Speed (passwords / second):
PDF (40, user): 653588.2
PDF (40, owner): 322317.1
PDF (40, owner, fast): 714278.6

PDF (128, user): 30861.1
PDF (128, owner): 14687.8
PDF (128, owner, fast): 30861.1

Use pdfcrack to crack an encrypted pdf-file by typing:

pdfcrack test.pdf

The program is called JR Directory Printer and let’s you choose the directory and then sends the map of the folder/drive you specify to a notepad file from which you can then print. I believe it only works in Windows XP, but if it works else where, let me know. Now that I have appeased him, I can get back to my nap time for the next 8 hours. Work is for suckers. Check out the examples and the link for the download on the next page.

Download JR Directory Printer here