Category Archives: xTreme G33k

Removing the junk from my new Dell PC

So after 6 years I finally got a new desktop PC. Techbargains had a great deal on a new XPS 300; I can post more on those deets later. Needless to say I was a little excited to pick up my new machine today at FedEx. I had a convo with @InstKamra at work today [...]

Late night software ramblings

Lifehacker clued me into creepy tonight. I’m running Ubuntu 10.4 and couldn’t compile, so I booted into Windows and installed the win32 version. I’m simultaneously impressed and ‘creeped’ out, it works amazingly well, and I only trolled my twitter account. I’m currently trying to creep famous world leaders. Oh, and today my doc nonchalantly checked [...]

An Encrypted PDF… on Crack

So, regarding this encrypted PDF… I researched multiple articles. I tried strong PDF editing tools… no dice due to the encryption. So I researched again. More articles. Downloaded one package- no dice. Downloaded another package and ran it from the command line: jktuxbox@tuxbox:~$ cd _Temp/ jktuxbox@tuxbox:~/_Temp$ cd da4651/ jktuxbox@tuxbox:~/_Temp/da4651$ ls da4651_r.pdf jktuxbox@tuxbox:~/_Temp/da4651$ pdfcrack da4651_r.pdf PDF [...]

The Archvillain is dead! Long live the Archvillain!

Today we’re playing the next session in our D&D campaign. We’ve always had a plan of rotating Dungeon Masters throughout, and @instKamra did a great job getting us started with Keep on the Shadowfell. He also talked me into D&D, for which I’m really grateful- I like to take the ole’ imagination out for a [...]