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It always has been a time consuming task to copy data from one system to other or to some portable device. Follow the steps to increase the performance of your usb flash drives.

• Set your pendrive filesystem to NTFS (well FAT32 cannot handle large data). This can be done by formatting the drive and settting the filesystem to NTFS.
• Right Click the drive and click properties
• Select the hardware tab and select your drive from the list and click properties.
• Select the policies tab and change the radio button to Optimize for performance.

There you are done. Now enjoy higher data rates.

Note: Formatting will delete all your data. NTFS cannot be read by WIndows 2000 or before. Original data rates may depend on your pendrive and Operating System.

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It’s a dream of every noob that even before coding the first “Hello World” program, student want to know how to code an OS. Dreams are good but this is harder than one can image. If you are so strong with your dream, rather than thinking of coding your OS from scratch better you try building your own Arch. Arch Linux is a fully customizable, light weight operating system. The CD image can be downloaded. But this is actually a very slim installation and it’s not at all usable. You will have to install the window manager, desktop environment and everything else you see on a full fledged operating system.

One of the main disadvantage of Arch Linux is it’s cryptic text based installer. So better you watch some video and get familiarised with the instalation procedure.

Here are a few video tutorials for the installation and customization of Arch Linux.

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Firefox is undoubtedly the best browser around. The Firefox team releases fixes as soon as a bug is reported. But there is a one security loophole that they have not fixed yet (probably because they dont consider it as a loophole).

There are many occassions when you choose to save the username and password in the browser itself. These passwords can easily be viewed by anyone whose use your browser by Tools > Options > Security Tab > Saved Passwords Button > Show Passwords… Voliaaa….There you see your precious passwords, that too in plain text (with no encryption whatsoever).

You can use a simple hack and get the ever-dangerous Show Passowords button removed from Firefox.

Open a text editor and paste the following text into a new file:

button#togglePasswords { display: none !important }

Save this text file as userChrome.css in the folder called chrome in your Firefox profile folder.

The Chrome folder is located:

* Linux users:

~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/chrome

*Windows XP / Vista users:

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\chrome\

where xxxxxxxx is a random string in both cases.

Restart your browser and you will find that it the Show Passwords button has disappeared.

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Many times we have tried searching for pdf/chm books online and using our ordinary search queries, rarely give any results fast. But with a simple geeky search you can find what you want in first page of Google Search Result.

I am just giving the method and you can try and verify it yourself.

In the first case I am using just the Book Name as the search query in google.

In the second method instead of using just the Book Name, use the following query for searching in Google.

intitle:index.of chm|pdf <book name>
Results are incredibly different. Instead of being taken to their Website you can access their website just as you access various directories in your computer and download it at ease.

NB: Never use this method for downloading WAREZ from illegal websites. Hope you would use it right way.

In one of the following posts I will explain about the various Advanced Search Operators which can be used while searching on internet with Google.

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Here you have a very simple javascript code that enables you to reveal typed-in or saved passwords in a webpage that are hidden under asterix.

This a cool code which unlike other password revealing softwares require no installation and can be typed in directly into the address bar of your web browser.

Copy the entire code as it is

javascript:(
function()
{
var F,f,i;
F = document.forms;
f = F[0];
for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i)
{
if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == "password")
alert(f[i].value);
}
}
)
();


Checkout the following Screenshot

PS :

1.In line 7, it is F[0] (zero)

2.This will only work if you have not disabled javascript in your browser.

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