I was thinking of making a FF theme for long time and even started couple of times but never finished one. This time i am going to stick to my goal and finish one, no matter how does it look. I decided to make one for Mizzou Tigers and done some photoshop PNGs yesterday, now i need to make some icons and change/add some CSS codes. I think i can submit the theme to Mozilla site by next week, until....

Ifyou are using computer for long times and aware of the term hacking/hacking then i am sure inside in your mind in the nook, you wanted to hack someone's password ; whether it's a email password or windows login. Obviously i don't support hacking/ stealing pasword though i have done some occasional snoofing and cracking wireless password, just to try some softwares, using my own wireless connection and other (oops!). if you are interested in wireless staff, grab Kismet, Aircrack-ng or even Wireshark, that works ok in windows. Today i am going to focus on John the ripper - a software that mainly used of OS password cracking by system admin and both white & black hats. I have done the cracking as a part of a project in my cyber security class and the password file was provided to us. i will recommend to download the linux version of this software cause you will get slighly higher speed in linux, if you don't have linux installed in your pc, download vmware and network security toolkit (NST), which includes john the ripper. Anyway there is a windows version too and i will going to show how to use the windows version here. One more thing, you have a virus scanner installed and active it will recognize JTR as a virus and most the anti-virus software will delete the exe files, so stop the scanner for a moment and exclude JTR from the scanning areas.

Assuming you downloaded and extract the folder on your root drive and folder name is jtr - open the commnad prompt by going to run and type cmd and then follow the steps demonstrate in the image below (click for enlarged view).

Inside the run folder there are 2 exe file that you can use to run JTR, john-mmx/john-386, you can also rename the file to john. here i am going to use john-386.exe.

Steam - valve's online game distribution service, still painfully slow but you have to agree it's growing very rapidly. Some people doesn't like that at all. Anyways i just notice that steam official site giving away some free games, there is no catch; the only thing you need a steam account, that's all. And one more thing you have to use ATI or NVIDIA card and i think most of you using either one of the cards.

Here is the link: http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/

Steam offering total 4 games - Half Life 2: Deathmatch, Half Life 2: Coast to Coast, Peggle Extreme and Portal: first slice which has 11 levels from full game. ATI card owner can download first 2 games - HL2 Deathmatch and HL2: Coast to Coast.

Here is the link: http://www.steampowered.com/nvidia/

On the other hand NVIDIA card owner can download 2 additional games beside those 2 offered for ATI users - Peggle Exteme and Portal. If you haven't played Peggle - just try it, awesome puzzle game and i don't think i need to say anything about Portal. I already have Orange Box, so only game i downloaded is HL2: Deathmatch, FYI other games are included in the Orange Box. And one more thing you can't download NVIDIA games if you have an ATI card.

 

Anyone here interested about Warhammer games? I am not a huge Warhammer fan more like Warcraft, Age of empire enthusiast when it comes to RTS games. But i have to agree i enjoyed Warhammer 40k games. The online reason now i am downloading the beta cause i read GameInformer(June 08) article on this game and several gameplay features made me a future fan. I want to add some quote from GI - "...the focus has shifted toward encouraging players to taka part in large public PvP areas that can be found in nearly every zone." Check the IGNs beta preview if you want to learn more about the almost finished game. http://pc.ign.com/articles/906/906266p2.html

From the sceenshots and gameplay video game is looking exceptionally polished and ready to go. I am hoping to post another blog after playing the game for several hours. i never played World of warcraft and only MMORPG i played for over 100 hours is Dungeon Runners. i never like the monthly subscription fee that is $15, warhammer will have same kinda fee, so i am sure i am not going to play the full game even if i like the game, in my opinion online game should follow the fps game rule like Team Fortress, Call of Duty, where you buy a game and play as long as you wish without paying extra money.

if you are wondering from where i am downloading the beta, the answer is on the image above - Fileplanet. From their site beta will be playable from September 7th so i am going to play that game 12 days before most the gamers and also i don't have to pay a dime. It will take some time to finish the downloading - it's almost 10 GB (9.38 exactly). According to the official site so far almost 900K people applied for beta participation, not bad for game that is not related with WOW.