====== Other Snippets ======

===== Fix darcs.cgi with non-Unicode chars in patch names =====

Darcs itself doesn't care about Encodings. This means it may happen you get non-UTF-8 characters in patch or author names. Unfortunately the darcs.cgi Perl script simply pipes darcs XML output through xsltproc, which doesn't like non UTF-8 input at all. Here is a quick'n'dirty fix:

Find the ''sub transform'' in ''/usr/lib/cgi-bin/darcs.cgi'' and change the following line:

<code perl>
open $pipe, "|$xslt_program $args $xslt -";
</code>

To this:

<code perl>
open $pipe, "|/usr/bin/iconv -c -f utf-8 -t utf-8|$xslt_program $args $xslt -";
</code>

It pipes the input through [[man>iconv]] at let it strip all illegal characters.

===== Enable plain text messages per default in Thunderbird =====

This is hidden in ''Tools -> Account settings -> Composition and addressing''

===== C-Scripting =====

Have you ever thought of using C as a script language? Well it's possible with [[http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/|TCC]] (Tiny C Compiler) - a small and very fast C compiler. On Debian just run ''apt-get install tcc'' to install it.

Here is an example how it works:

<code c>
#!/usr/bin/tcc -run

#include <stdio.h>
main (){
  printf("hello world\n");
}
</code>

Just make it executable and run it like a shell script. It's compiled and run on the fly.

//Hmmm now when I thinking about this... well of course you could use csh... hmm... no... this is definatly cooler! ;-)//

===== LM-Hash decoding =====

From [[http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/02/1523212]]:

> Disk storage has increased tremendously in the past 5 years and the blatant insecurities in the antiquated LM hashing technique have not gone away; though functionality has been added to disable LM hashes, this is not set by default. With some help from Elcomsoft, simple flat files have been created that hold [[http://www.beginningtoseethelight.org/ntsecurity/index.php#0FEB224E21024B8C|every combination of LM hash for letters only passwords]]. Jesko has coded a server application which allows you to access this database. Simply **telnet to: beginningtoseethelight.no-ip.org on port 2501** and paste in a LM hash. So how does this differ from Rainbow tables? Well this will return a password 100% of the time, using minimal processor power, in approximately less than 0.2 seconds.

See also: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q299656

===== Fix Windows XP boot stuff =====

The tools you're looking for are available in the Recovery-Console on the Windows CD (Press R on first install screen) and are called fixboot and fixmbr.