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 +====== 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.