Tech & Stuff

I’ve been having some technical difficulties recently. But I was able to get my hard drive partitioned (30 GB NTFS, 30 GB ext3, 140 GB ext3). I resized my 200 GB hard drive with Windows XP Pro on it (which was only recognizing it as being a 60 GB hard drive) to a 60 GB partition and a 140 GB partition. After which, I formatted the new 140 GB partition to be ext3 and used free drivers for Windows to read the ext3 partition. This made it easy to store data off of the Windows partition. I then resized the 60 GB partition into two 30 GB partitions, one with Windows XP on it, the other unused, I then installed Ubuntu 8.04 on the unused area and am now dual-booting.

So far, my experience with Ubuntu as my main desktop instead of Windows has been very pleasant. It recognized my Linksys wireless card and could use it (before, when I used Ubuntu and Debian I had to do some stuff with getting the drivers from Linksys and using the ndiswrapper and some other stuff, which turned out to be a big hassle).

I updated my system to the latest software, installed the driver for my graphics card and then enabled compiz, which adds some really neat effects to the windows. I installed VLC Media Player very easily as well.

sudo apt-get install vlc

So far, the only trouble I’ve had was the mounted ext3 partition couldn’t be written to, which turned out that I just had to was a chmod to get it to work.

sudo chmod -R 777 /media/disk

I was also able to watch a high def Battlestar Galactica video with no lag, while having full Compiz effects, Firefox, Pidgin, and three OpenOffice.org Writer windows open, which is quite amazing to me because the exact same video would lag a lot if I even had just Firefox open while it was running!

I plan to post more info on my little experience into Linux (more for myself, as kind of a thing I can look back onto in the future), and I will be posting little things of how to do different things that I have ran into trouble with and figured out how to get around it.

I wanted to make a C++ library that can handle very large numbers, like the BigInteger library. I started working on this a little bit ago, but have recently had some computer trouble, so I am uploading this source code as kind of a backup of my current processs.

I was working on the Subtraction section. I was trying to make it able to be used just as a regular int (e.g. int a = 12; could be used for an int, or for my class Integer a = 12; could be used).

If you have any additions to it, or any way to make the subtraction, multiplication, or division work. (The addition mostly works, If there are negatives I will be referencing the subtract function, and since that doesent work yet, the addition doesent fully work).

I will post more information about this later, after I have resolved my computer problems and get back to developing this.
DMath v0.1

Another one of my favorite things to eat is home made ravioli. Heres the recipe that I have for it.

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If your browsing the web, pirating downloading programs, watching YouTube, or whatever else, the most feared thing by a Windows user is getting a virus. Since viruses are most common to Windows computers, it is a lot more likely that you will get one on Windows (they do exist for Linux and Mac, they are just much more rare).

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I originally got this recipe from the clone of P.F. Chang’s Mongolian Beef. But that one seemed to have a little too much soy sauce and brown sugar for me, so I changed it, this is my changed recipe. It feeds 2-3 people, I usually serve with steamed rice and some vegetable (like broccoli).

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Something about me that I have failed to mention thus far is that I cook. Yes, cook, as in oven, stove, …microwave…

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Sorry for the down time, I was in the process of moving to California, so my server was down. When I got out here I realized that I cannot host the server at my house. I have found a host that I can host it at.

On the hosting site, it now supports emailing, so user registrations (with email verification, and email recover passwords works).

I haven’t done much coding since I’ve moved out here, but I’ll get more content, and some other programs I have written, posted on here soon.

I havent posted an update to Enigma++ in a few days, that is because I have been a little bit busy, finals are coming up in school, and i am in the process of moving, so this will probably be my last post for a few weeks (until after finals and I am finished moving).

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What people seem to not realize is just how weak a password they use can be.

A general computer can do approximately 1 million (1,000,000) password attempts per second to break a password (for SHA256, MD5 can go at about 5.5 - 6 million per second). If you have a password that contains a-z, A-Z, and 0-9, there are 62 possible combinations for that password. If you have a password of the length 1 character, that means that there are a total of 62 possible passwords. If you have 2 characters, there are a possible number of combinations of 62 different characters for every one of the first 62 characters, or 62 * 62 possible combinations. So, for 3 characters there are 62 * 62 * 62, and so on, It can be represented that, for ‘n’ characters there are 62ⁿ possible combinations.

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This program (Enigma++) is written in C++ and successfully compiled with Code::Blocks v8.02 running with MinGW GCC compiler (the one that comes with Code::Blocks).

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