Silencer

To get the windows admin password, boot up a live linux cd. Mount your floppy drive and the NTFS partition. Copy over the windows password file (look up where it is, I forget and don't use XP). Take the floppy to a windows machine you have access to and run a password cracker on it. Tada. More info all over the internet on the various programs to use and such. I think The Screen Savers did a dark tip on it. If the hard drive is ATAPI protected, then you can still access it. That's how people soft hack the xbox. When the machine is booting and unlocking the hd you just hot swap the IDE cables with another machine.

I don't see how you can get much more graphical than the Slackware installer, 1veedo. I mean, you have to read what it says, but you still select stuff with your arrow keys and stuff. It looks like a BIOS configuration. It's actualy very simple compared to a distro like gentoo where you have to manually do all the commands to set up your environment, chroot, and copy all the files.

I've never used the Mandrake graphical installer, but that black screen that "sputters" could very well have been the normal boot procedure. However, after that you should have seen some sort of prompt that takes input. Were you able to type anything, or did ctrl+alt+del at least reboot? If you didn't retry, then go ahead and do that. If it still doesn't work then you probably have bad source media. In that case you might as well download the latest version, since we all know newer is better! Personally, I think Mandrake is a waste. If you want to jump right in, go with Gentoo, Slackware, or Debian. I can help you with any learning curve there might be, and in the long run you will be more l337 than using watered-down Mandrake.

A level can suck but still look good. The game play can also suck whilst still looking good. You don't even need to be able to move.

^To answer that question, just look at the success of the N-Gage.

Is there a different version of windows for the tablet? Also, linux support for tablet PC's has increased tremendously, but I doubt your grandfather would be interested in that.

You're going to need to write a program that can be run on a windows machine, since taking advantage of other OS's is pointless. C would probably be the mots common language choic. Now, depending on how fancy you want to be will affect how difficult it is. You could write a program to connect to an IRC server, through which you can pass commands to all your zombies. Like I said though, that's more difficult. If you want to be very blunt you could just make a simple program that will automatically target the system of choice, then manually install it on all of the systems you want to infect. Or you can be a bit more advanced and make the program send itself to any email addresses it finds on the host system. You can also make the program a service that will open up some port and be ready to take commands as to where it should target. In any case, you will need to ensure that it runs at start up and is not easily deleted (like it makes copies of itself on the host). You're attempt at making a DDoS program will probably fail, or you will decide to go back to playing counterstrike. Don't give up on linux though. We need all the users we can get! You can find lots of help on the subject on the red hat main page and http://www.linuxquestions.org Also, I suggest learning some more basic C/C++ programming, then moving on to bigger and hopefully more worthwhile things. Now, to those of you outraged that I just told him all that, I am counting on the fact that he really doesn't know how to do it, because if he did then he wouldn't need to be asking here. Also, I believe in making information freely accessible, so if he wants to know something, then I will by all means tell him (within reason; I can see why we don't tell people how to make bombs on the chem forum). I mean, I didn't even give him details, just an outline and some suggestions.

Any "kiddy" on these forums is capable of getting into the admin account. And if he found this by searching... wel he wouldn't be here because it would have been answered by the first result. As for BIOS system passwords, you don't even need to set CMOS clear to get rid of them. Every BIOS manufacturer has a backdoor password that you can look up on their website. The reason for this is to prevent workers and other mortals from pissing off sys admins in companies and schools and such.

Please don't make retarded comments like that when you have no clue what you are talking about. Cookies are completely unrelated. LucidDreamer, just reformat the thing. You don't want to go around using a system that someone has already set up anyway... who knows what you'd find.

You always do (final - initial). So in your example, 20 - 10 = 10 C change. I'm lazy and don't know the latex and such that the forum uses, so you can deal with the un-pretty math.

One of my other cousins (not a sibling to the one who had a child) had two fused toes. There are lots of other problems in my family, but none similar to this. Also, they didn't give her any medicine while pregnant.

H is enthalpy, not temperature. That's very important to know.

Isn't it strange that the fused digits all correspond? If it was just like two fingers then I wouldn't be too worried, but this seems more indicative of a deeper genetic problem. Meh, maybe I am just worrying.

I am reading the book Quicksilver which has the running theme of alchemy and natural philosphy. Well, at one point someone discovers that you can get this cool stuff that glows by boiling some urine, so it gets demonstrated in the courts. Anyway, can you realy extract phosphorus from urine? If so, how? Has anyone here done it?

My cousin had a child today. The same two fingers are fused together on both hands and the corresponding toes of both feet. He also has a very high fever and is not considered in stable condition. I don't have any more info since they live far away and my uncle was frantic when we talked to him. Last I heard they were running some tests on the chromosomes. Is this a known disorder or some kind of strange mutation? Do you have any idea what it could mean for the child's health in the future, or other problems that may exist that we don't know about yet?

you didn't put it in quotes, did you? also, that error isn't really related at all... could have just been a fluke caused by the site you were going to.

^Should be the same. Sayanora, as I said, I'm just reposting them from another forum.

Just out of curiosity, what do you want to do with it? Or is it just one of those cool things to have? Maybe you can make it?

^I know, isn't it brutal? My sister wants to do a semester abroad in england, but the exchange rate might make it impossible (she is poor as it is).

These came from another forum, where they were probably just stolen from somewhere else... In firefox, type "about:config" in the address bar to bring up the configuration editor. Adjust these values accordingly. For boolean types just doubling clicking will switch them. For integers, you will be prompted to enter a value. Note that these are meant for broadband users. browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true network.http.max-connections – 48 network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8 network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4 network.http.pipelining – true network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100 network.http.proxy.pipelining – true network.http.request.timeout – 300 Now the one most helpful, IMO, you add yourself. Right click somewhere and go to New -> Integer. Name it 'nglayout.initialpaint.delay' (no quotes). Give it the value '0', This tells firefox how long to wait before it draws a page. For broadband users, 0 will make it go much faster because you get the information much quicker and don't need to redraw. Dial-up users should NOT set it to 0 because they will have to redraw a billion times before the page loads. In fact, they might prefer to set it to a high amount so that they get most of the page before the browser draws, requiring it to redraw less. Lot's more interesting settings to check out in there, too. Mess around and let us know what you come up with.

Yeah, getting the look of games like halo and far cry requires talented texture artists, time, money, and rows upon rows of computers to do the rendering and compiling.

Libraries provide little bits of code to any program that wants to take advantage of them. This saves them work, the user space, and generally makes life easier. I believe that .h headers are similar to, if not are, libraries. Take the string.h header for example. This saves you the work of making a string class in every program by taking the necessary code and making it available to any program that wants it. An API is like the instructions for how something is used. For instance, google just announced that they will be releasing an adwords API, and they've already released the API for the actual engine. This API provides programmers with the documentation necessary to utilize their services. It probably contains a number of shared libraries as well. One might provide a function to do a google search on a specific term, returning the desired number of results, or another might take a bit of text and translate it to the desired language. I really can't explain it any better than giving examples, so here is another. Programs like Firefox, GAIM, and Winamp allow users to make plugins. This plugin capability is basically just providing programmers with an API so that they can utilize features of the original program. I'm sure you can do a google search or something and find out lots more information, explained better than I could.

There are a lot of things you can do. For example, running a firewall, router intrusion detection system, web server, or anything of that ilk won't require a GUI. In fact, running X would just waste CPU cycles that should be going to the main operation. An extremely hardcore person could use just the command line as their desktop system, but with much effort and sacrifice. You can browse the web (text only!) using 'links.' You can edit text with pico/nano, vi, or a bunch of others. You can chat on IRC with BitchX. I didn't think that there were any music players, but evidently dave knows one. I haven't seen an AIM client that will run in the terminal. That would be pretty difficult and tedious.

Common doping elements are arsenic, phosphorus, boron, and gallium, depending on whether it is a positive or negative diode.

and it's called X, or maybe Xorg or XFree, but not "X windows." "X windows" is a horrible bastardization that people stuck in the Microsoft world can't get over. And as dave said, good luck using it as a desktop system without X.