application on the go

my last post is about putting diagnostic software on pendrive. today i show another piece of work, but this time is for fun.

http://portableapps.com/apps

http://portableapps.com/suite

portable apps is a set of open source application modified to be installed on your pen drive. the application include, media player, web browser, antivirus, game, office suites. all this for free, which should be because it is open sourced. and when installed take about 260 Mb on the pendrive, and 105Mb if used lite edition.

windows utilities

when you use windows, there is time it is useful to have some system utility to use. i just found a 'few', that is quite useful:

http://www.dailycupoftech.com/usb-drive-systems/3/

this is a website where, the author have combine a set of windows utilities into a 14Mb file, zip file. so you can put it into your pendrive.

another useful one is sysinternal:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

that you have to download one by one.

not that i like windows, i'm not, in fact i'm an linux user(penguin rocks man), but sometime i have to face it. not to brag, but linux have this set of tools comes in by default. lsof, netstat, tcpdump, top, iftop, touch, i can even cat the /proc directory.
most unix have utilities build in too, just some of it different than those on linux.

command line......... thats cool

today i found this link:
http://tags.lifehacker.com/software/cygwin/

some of my actually think that i'm crazy when i say command line rocks. but seriously, i really mean it. if you happens to own a *nix box, (unix computer i mean) you will understand.

when a linux desktop is unresponsive, i can just open the terminal and type "ps -A" then type "kill -9 process-number". or worst i just press alt-f1, then login again, then type the command again. or reboot, or kill the desktop and restart the desktop, not the whole machine. try do that in windows, when it happen you have to reboot

the purpose of the link is to show that i'm not alone in this. which is cool. or it just mean that i am one of those unix user

passwords

been reading an article on password cracking. thats right, the one on your computer. how they can do it.

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72458-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2

it is written by Bruce Schneier, an expert on computer security. and in this article there is this advice which:

So if you want your password to be hard to guess, you should choose something not on any of the root or appendage lists. You should mix upper and lowercase in the middle of your root. You should add numbers and symbols in the middle of your root, not as common substitutions. Or drop your appendage in the middle of your root. Or use two roots with an appendage in the middle.

finally there is a funny page about choosing password:

http://www.brunching.com/passwordguide.html

the day where i distracted by classical games,

you know sometime, i can be easily distracted by games, anygame. as long my computer can play it. sometime, i just like older game, me as usual like to collect a part of computer history. and have to play on emulator. well DUH.

here is a list of emulator that i have:
-the one that work:
kxmame(kde fronted for xmame and xmess)


this is one of my favourite. because it got my favourite game, metal slug. i collected the rom for metal slug super vehicle-001,metal slug 2, metal slug 3 and metal slug x. maybe i should get megaman too. maybe later.

on the other hand you will need the bios if wanted to play the game, but the configuration is easy.

the pros: easy configuration,huge supported game, and games is fun
the cons: you will need to dig out for the bios.



dgen
dgen is a emulator for sega genesis. which i happen to own, and been playing 2 games on it. jungle strike, and rocket knight adventure. simply because i legally own it.

the pro: game is pretty much playable, no configuration
the cons: some game may not run well, no graphical frontend

what don't work, gngeo not sure how to configure it.


what is cool with all these emulator is that it is in the ubuntu repository. except the game which you can't get. and the emulator can be found by apt-get.