Windows Tips, Tricks and Secrets that Nobody will ever Tell you

Important Note: Before you read on, you need to keep one thing in mind. Whenever you make changes to the Windows Registry you need to Refresh it before the changes take place. Simply press F5 to refresh the registry and enable the changes. If this does not work Restart your system Exiting Windows the Cool […]

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How to Boot Block Recovery For Free?

You don’t need to pay a measly sum of dollars just to recover from a boot block mode. Here it is folks: AWARD Bootblock recovery: That shorting trick should work if the boot block code is not corrupted, and it should not be if /sb switch is used when flashing the bios (instead of /wb […]

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How to Make a Proxy Anonymous

Anonymity of Proxy The exchange of information in Internet is made by the “client – server” model. A client sends a request (what files he needs) and a server sends a reply (required files). For close cooperation (full understanding) between a client and a server the client sends additional information about itself: a version and […]

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How To Change “Start” Button Text to Something Else

Step 1 – Modify Explorer.exe File In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete […]

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A Brief History of DOS

Contents: Disclaimer Introduction History The Memory Map Timeline and History Chart Future of DOS Postscript Bibliography Disclaimer: Although this document is purely informative, the author claims no responsibility for any misguided souls who find a way to twist its contents into anything harmful or overly offensive. Introduction: When a computer is turned on an Operating […]

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UNIX Hacking Tutorial

———————- o Intent: ———————- This phile is geared as an UNIX tutorial at first, to let you get more familiar with the operating system. UNIX is just an operating system, as is MS-DOS, AppleDOS, AmigaDOS, and others. UNIX happens to be a multi-user- multi-tasking system, thus bringing a need for security not found on MSDOS, […]

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How to setup an IRC Eggdrop?

–[ What is EggDrop? ]– Note: This is taken from the readme file of EggDrop 1.3.28 Eggdrop is an IRC bot, written in C. If you don’t know what IRC is, this is probably not whatever you’re looking for! Eggdrop, being a bot, sits on a channel and takes protective measures: to keep the channel […]

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What are Flames?

At 123Linux – Digital Academy, we believe in fostering healthy and respectful online interactions. In today’s digital age, where communication is predominantly facilitated through email messages, newsgroup discussions, and IRC channels, it is important to be aware of the concept of “flames.” Flames refer to aggressive and often violent responses exchanged over the internet or […]

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How to Set up a Secure Anonymous FTP Site

1. General Description of Setting up an “anonymous” ftp server. Create the user ftp in /etc/passwd. Use a misc group. The user’s home directory will be ~ftp where ~ftp is the root you wish anonymous users to see. Creating this user turns on anonymous ftp.Use an invalid password and user shell for better security. The […]

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How to Change Start Button Text in Windows XP

Step 1 – Modify Explorer.exe File In order to make the changes, the file explorer.exe located at C:\Windows needs to be edited. Since explorer.exe is a binary file it requires a special editor. For purposes of this article I have used Resource Hacker. Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete […]

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