I wanted to extract Marillion’s cover of Toxic today, which lives on the DVD release of Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys. I found a useful page over at Ubuntu Geek which covered the topic nicely using a tool called transcode, which I’ve used a little of in the past. I was having some [...]

I’ve become a huge fan of a program called Meld in Linux. It allows me to compare files, folders and even update CVS repositories (in a basic way). It’s cool Thankfully, there is a very similar program available for Windows and also Open Source called

John begins a quest for an automatic web-based documentation program that will allow him to make some poorly formatted work look consistent on the web.

Hashing passwords is a common way to secure them in a database and make sure that they cannot be read easily. But did you know there’s a website that reverse engineers the hashes and stores them in a searchable database? The folks over at RedNoize have created such a site. Obviously, there’s no better protection [...]

As I’m using network manager to control wireless access on my laptop and a desktop computer in my home, I’ve decided that the keyring manager is a nuisance. I couldn’t bear for it to constantly ask for a password every time that I needed to log on to a wireless network to retrieve the stored [...]

So, maybe in part 1 the data recovery didn’t work for you? Well, that’s OK because Linux is robust against bad discs in one form or another. The trick is to work out what that might be. A good method is to use dd or dd_rescue. These tools create a forensic copy of your hard [...]