Recently I came across nice article published at Microsoft’s site Port 25 about how to recover crashed Windows using Linux. It’s rather helpful staff written by Chris Travers (who own Metatron Technology Consulting by the way). Here is an introduction quote from the document:
We have all run into cases where Windows refuses to load for one reason or another. The problem may be a hardware or a software failure, and the problem may seem to be irrecoverable. Yet often Linux can be used to help recover data that otherwise might be lost.
In writing this paper, we generally assume that either a Linux workstation is available to accept recovery information or that a USB drive of sufficient size is available to hold the data. Generally in either case, enough free space should be available to store the entire hard drive as a bit-for-bit file and still have at least 2GB of space free. However, if more space is available, the process of organizing the recovered data is a bit easier. If neither of these is available, the utility of Linux in data recovery will be limited.
Download this document in as pdf format here. You can read interesting comments on their site by clicking at this link.
By the way, Port 25 site is copyrighted by Microsoft under the Microsoft Permissive License that is available here.
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To generate random and secure passwords offline I recommend oldie mkpasswd. It was written by Don Libes from National Institute of Standards and Technology very long time ago but works perfectly.
Install mkpasswd in Debian or any other distro containing APT by command:
sudo apt-get install -y mkpasswd
For some reason Ubuntu’s repository contains makepasswd that was written by Marco d’Itri and has similar functionality. To install it run sudo apt-get install makepasswd.
Generate strong password by executing mkpasswd or makepasswd in command line.
Examples:
makepasswd --char=10
mkpasswd -s "salt"
Another way is to get strong password online with www.goodpassword.com that provides you with service free of charge.
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Date: November 13, 2007. Categories:
sites and linux.
Few days ago I came across nice site named Free Linux eBooks containing tons of Linux related electronic books for offline reading (mostly in PDF). Here is the list of available ones (please note that site allows to download 10 books per day)…
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Ubuntu Document Storage Facility (UDSF) is fully indexed archive of some of the best howtos, tricks and tips that were generated by Ubuntu Forum Community.
It’s contributed by UDSF Team who describe it as:
A centralized repository for information that is produced on the forums: a public forum library, a knowledgebase. An effort to record and maintain the forum community-based documents that have a tendency to get lost in the lightning-fast pace of the vibrant participation, the UDSF seeks to replicate the organization of the most frequently accessed areas of the forums, and optimize the already-familiar information architecture with a well-developed dynamic hierarchy and content chunks.
The UDSF strives to be a dynamic, well-organized knowledgebase, decreasing the amount of time a user spends trying to find information that was previously posted/discussed on the forum. The UDSF also serves as a self-service forum library; as a rule, this capacity should make the interaction simpler for both, the forum users and the forum staff.
I found UDSF very useful for me. Respect!
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Date: October 13, 2007. Categories:
sites.
Recently I came across a nice site named as Linux Operating System (go2linux.org). As it comes from it’s name it is devoted to our favorite Open Source operating system and contains lots of useful information.
Linux newbies would find there all they need, I'm sure. For example here is great tip about how to add Google repository to your favorite Linux distribution package manager (like apt or yum). Actually I didn't know that Google has it’s own repository for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Mandriva :).
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As it comes from name of the post, here is interactive Linux kernel map I recently came across. It’s available as web application as well as html version. I think you understand who it may be useful for… 
Good luck in programming!
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Here is the list of sexy wallpapers for Ubuntu and actually for any other Linux distribution. Every wallpaper can be downloaded from gnome-look.org.
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