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I’m a day to day OpenOffice user and I like OpenOffice, but over time I have stumbled over features, which was lacking – compared to Microsoft Office 2007. With the release of OpenOffice 3.0 in September a number of the features that I miss the most in my daily use of OpenOffice seems to get implemented and integrated. Here is my list features that OpenOffice lacks in comparison to Microsoft Office 2007.

1. Presenter Screen in Impress – Powerpoint has got a nifty and very user-friendly presenter view – as far as I can see, a presenter screen for Impress is in the works
2. Support for Office Open XML – seems to get integrated too
3. More polished UI – Calc seems to get a new theme for the 3.0 release
4. Performance – both in terms of speed and space – My experience: OpenOffice is slow, but it seems to get better and better
5. Native PDF-import – seems to be in the works

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fcrackzip is a zip-file encryption cracker, which can handle (recover / crack / hack) any password encrypted zipfile. Inside it uses a number of methods to accomplish the crack, but this happens nicely behind the scenes.

Install and fcrackzip on Ubuntu by typing:

cc@zeus:~$ sudo aptitude install fcrackzip


Use the fcrackzip for password cracking on Ubuntu by typing:

cc@zeus:~/Desktop$ fcrackzip -v -b -p aaaa -u cuda_dxtc.pdf.zip
found file 'cuda_dxtc.pdf', (size cp/uc 244965/294438, flags 9, chk a5d3)
checking pw rUt~

PASSWORD FOUND!!!!: pw == test
cc@zeus:~/Desktop$


Happy zip-file cracking

FCrackZip website

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I’d been looking for a top nut secure password storage, which featured an easy and user-friendly interface and incorporated support for many users without the users should be equipped with the same shared password – which in general is bad and hard to maintain in almost any organization.

I almost gave up searching and even considered writing something myself based on gnupg (wikipedia article on gnupg), but then I came across Console Password Manager (CPM). In my search I also came across KeePass Password Safe, KeePassX, and even Password Safe. The password managers I have been looking on are all characterized by using a single shared password for encryption and decryption of the password storage, except from Console Password Manager (CPM), which uses private public keys instead of shared symmetric keys.

Console Password Manger (CPM) is written by Harry Brueckner and incorporates a number of great features; it’s console-based – some will argue that console application aren’t userfriendly – but think again – it really is more friendly to access through a slow remote connection, security is well-considered in it’s design, and finally it relies on the GPG keys for encryption, which is wide-used and already incorporated in many other systems – mail clients, mailing in general and for signing software, just to mentioning a number of places, moreover it seems to be well-maintained.

Console Password Manger (CPM) website.

sourceforge.net project websites – Password Management System.

Blog posts and websites discussing Console Password Manger (CPM).

• debian-administration.org – Password Generation and management
• Kevin Rosenberg’s Blog

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Today I bought a new Nokia – a brand new Nokia E50, which is locked in a way such that it is only able to connect to a specific telephone operator company or service provider.

To unlock my pretty new Nokia I searched Google for free unlocking applications and websites and I managed to find a solution to my nokia unlocking problem and I have collected a number of applications and websites, which is able to help you getting a working unlock code for almost any phone model.

Many of the applications and websites listed here are based on software, which from the phones IMEI number calculates an unlock code, which could be used to unlock the phone and use it with any service provider around the world.

How to use the unlocks
In order to use the unlock applications and websites you only need to know our phones IMEI number. On most phone model you get the IMEI number by pressing *#06# at your mobile phones keyboard and enter. And to do the actual unlock you must know from which operator company the phone is bought or to which operator network the phone is locked to.

Here is the list:
NokiaFREE Unlock – NokiaFREE Unlock codes calculator for windows allow to use your mobile phone with any service provider around the world. It works with the following phones and models; Nokia, Samsung, Siemens, Maxon, NEC, Sony, Panasonic, Vitel, AEG / Telital, Alcatel cellphones. Moreover it is able to repair, remove SIM card restrictions and just do a traditional unlock.

Nokia Dct4 Code generator – The Nokia Dct4 code generator is another unlock code generator and it is known to work with the folllowing Nokia models: Nokia 1100, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2100, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2650, Nokia 2652, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3108, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 3128, Nokia 3200, Nokia 3205, Nokia 3210, Nokia 3220, Nokia 3230, Nokia 3250, Nokia 3300, Nokia 3410, Nokia 3510, Nokia 3510i, Nokia 3530, Nokia 3560, Nokia 3586i, Nokia 3587i, Nokia 3588i, Nokia 3589i, Nokia 3595, Nokia 3600, Nokia 3620, Nokia 3650, Nokia 3660, Nokia 5100, Nokia 5140, Nokia 5140i, Nokia 5210, Nokia 6010, Nokia 6012, Nokia 6015i, Nokia 6016i, Nokia 6019i, Nokia 6020, Nokia 6021, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6060, Nokia 6100, Nokia 6101, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6111, Nokia 6170, Nokia 6200, Nokia 6220, Nokia 6225, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6233, Nokia 6234,
Nokia 6255, Nokia 6260, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6280, Nokia 6282, Nokia 6510, Nokia 6560, Nokia 6585, Nokia 6600,
Nokia 6610, Nokia 6610i, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6650, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6800, Nokia 6810, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7200, Nokia 7210, Nokia 7250, Nokia 7250i, Nokia 7260, Nokia 7270, Nokia 7280, Nokia 7360, Nokia 7370, Nokia 7380, Nokia 7600, Nokia 7610, Nokia 7650, Nokia 7700, Nokia 7710,
Nokia 8310, Nokia 8800, Nokia 8910i, Nokia 9300, Nokia 9300i, Nokia 9500, Nokia E50, Nokia E51, Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E70, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N80, Nokia N90, Nokia N91, Nokia N92, Nokia N-Gage, Nokia N-Gage QD.

Moreover it should work with a large number of phone models from the following phone manufacturers; Alcatel
Amoi, BenQ, Bird, Blackberry, Chea, Ericson, Haier, i-mate, Innostream, Kyocera, LG, Maxon, Mitac, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC, Neonode, O2, palmOne, Panasonic, Pantech, Philips, Qtek, Sagem, Samsung, Sanyo, Sendo, Sewon, Sharp, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Tel.Me., Telital, VK Mobile.

Free Nokia Unlock Code Generator by GSM Liberty – yet another free Nokia unlock code generator. Should work with all wide-used Nokia models.

UnlockMe – A free small application, which is able to generate an unlock code for all DCT3 and DCT4-based handsets – DCT3 and DCT4 means almost all relatively new phone models.

For more details on phone unlocking – read O’Reilly ONLamp Blog on Unlocking Your Nokia Phone.

For details on how to unlock an iPhone I found these wonderful guides and tutorials:

• Unlock the iPhone – the simple tutorial! – – nice and simple tutorial.
• How to Unlock your iPhone v2 (Very Simple Tutorial) Part 1 – YouTube video on the topic.
• The Unlock iPhone Blog – blog on the topic.

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From time to time I work on remote servers and some times it would be very useful to be able to mount the remote file system on my local machine. Recently I found sshfs, which is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol and since most *nix like servers; Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD servers with OpenSSH installed already support this protocol it is very easy to set up – Read: on the server side there’s nothing to do, setup or configure. On the client side mounting the filesystem is as easy as logging into the server with SSH.

Technically (more) the sshfs is based on FUSE, which is the best userspace filesystem framework for linux

Here is how I connect to my remote SSH-based servers and hosts:


$ sshfs -o uid=1000,gid=1000 cc@remote.host.com:/home/cc /media/mountpoint


I use the uid and gid arguments to give my own normal user with those uid and gid to have write access to the mounted filesystem.

This post describes the sshfs in more details and moreover howto use it on Ubuntu and Debian.

The sshfs website.

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