If you are trying to crack a big rar file with rarcrack (Mine was 2.6G) and you’re receiving this error: $ ./rarcrack –type rar ./file.rar RarCrack! 0.2 by David Zoltan Kedves (kedazo@gmail.com) ERROR: The specified file (./file.rar) is not exists or you don’t have a right permissions! You need to add these lines below in [...]

We recently bought this Ultra mini usb wifi adapter for our laptop that had it’s internal wifi card fried. Since this laptop was acting really bad with Windows XP, we installed Ubuntu on it. At first Ubuntu couldn’t recognize the adapter. Then I wanted to try ndiswrapper. All I had to do was to install [...]

So you wrote a macro in vim and you want to repeat the last macro multiple times and you don’t know how. You type @@ Now you know how.

Here is a bash script to create 100 random files with random sizes smaller than 400KB. I needed this to quickly generate 100 files to use it on a stress test. for ((i=1;i<101;i++)); do size=`expr $RANDOM % 400` dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/testfile.$i bs=1024 count=$size done Explanation: The for loop is pretty straightforward, it counts from 1 [...]

If you need to run native Linux client for Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu 10.04: 1) After installing your ibm_lotus_notes*.deb files, drop the following files under /opt/ibm/lotus/notes libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 You can get the files here. 2) Install msttcorefonts package: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts 3) Go to File -> Preferences and choose Windows and [...]