CUDA-Multiforcer is a really great tool, we can use to try to crack MD4, MD5 or NTLM with Brute Force by using our Graphics processing unit (GPU). We can use this tool in Linux such as in Windows or MacOS, we just need to fullfill some requirements, as for example we need to have an Nvidia video card of the G8X series or more, with all its drivers installed and working correctly. For mor specific information you can visit the creaters Website.

Using CUDA-Multiforcer…

First we’ll need to download the software and unpack it into a directory… then, in a command shell above the directory we execute the following command:

./CUDA-Multiforcer -h {hash type} -f {hash file} -c {caracters} –min {min length} –max {max length}

Beeing:

{hash type} -> MD4, MD5 or NTLM.

{hash file} -> Text file with one hash per line.

{caracters} -> Text file with all caracters used in the test

{min length} -> minimal length of the value we are loooking for (Option).

{max length} -> maximum length of the value we are loooking for (Option).

One example of use could be (The MD5 of the word “ubuntu”):

echo "1d41c853af58d3a7ae54990ce29417d8" > hashf

echo "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" > charset

./CUDA-Multiforcer -h MD5 -f hashf -c charset --min 5 --max 7

When I started using the latest Ubuntu Release, Karmic Koala, I noticed that the autocomplete (or autofill) function in the command shell wasn’t working, like it used to… and later on I noticed that it was only the sudo command that didn’t work with “autocomplete”. And even later on I found the blog of a french guy, where he explains how to enable the autocomplete function on Karmic Koala.
For those, who can’t live without autocomplete, neither, here are the steps you need to follow, to enable autofill again:

Execute the following command in a command shell:

gedit ~/.bashrc

And copy the following lines:

if [ "$PS1" ]; then
complete -cf sudo
fi

Now you’ll only need to save changes, and next time you iniciate the command shell, everythings gonna work as it did last summer…

If you are looking for a download manager for Ubuntu, we recommend Plowshare, one of the best download managers for Ubuntu.
Plowshare is a Software that makes it possible to download and upload files by using the command shell. The most popular servers are supported, as there are Megaupload, Rapidshare, 2Shared, Badongo, Mediafire, 4Shared, ZShare and DepostFiles.
To install the download manager, first we’ll need to install teh right codecs by executing the following command:

sudo apt-get install curl librecode0 recode tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-deu tesseract-ocr-eng imagemagick

Now, we could visit the authors homepage, to see which is the lastest version available (today it’s 0.8.1). Than we execute the following command (if we are installing a later version, we’d need to replace it):

wget http://plowshare.googlecode.com/files/plowshare-0.8.1.tgz

tar xvzf plowshare-0.8.1.tgz

cd plowshare-0.8.1

sudo bash setup.sh install

Once Plowshare is installed, we can download files by using the command shell using the command plowdown and upload using the command plowup.
Here some examples:

plowdown http://rapidshare.com/files/289304031/ubuntu-blog.tar

plowdown listaDeLinks.txt

plowup nombreDelArchivoASubir megaupload

While trying to execute the Wiki-Lyrics script, you probably stumbled on the following error message:

We are sorry…
You need QtRuby, RubyGTK or TkRuby to execute this program.

To solve this problem, we’ll need to install the libgtk2-ruby package, executing the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install libgtk2-ruby

In this new Ubuntu Release Karmic Koala the “System” menu icons are not shown by default… if we want to be able to see them as we were used to, we’ll need to install Jaunty Jackalope again… (I’m kidding! Its not that complicated…) or execute the following command in our command shell:

gconftool-2 --type Boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons True

Well, now you’ll see something similar to…:

According to the author, Dalle is a set of utilities to work with splitted files in various formats. But, not only we can put splitted files together, Dalle also allows us to split files in several parts.

The supported formats are:

• Astrotite
• Axman 3
• Easy File Splitter
• File Splitter
• Genérico
• Hacha (1, 2 y Pro)
• KamaleoN (1 y 2)
• MaxSplitter
• SplitFile
• Zip

We can download the software as a deb package from the download section of the Sourceforge Website.

Once installed, we can start the programm by executing the following command:

dalle-gtk

Because of a comment we received from Silverwolf, in which he asked us, how to show what you are listening on Spotify, we started a research… and we found a plugin to get it done in Pidgin… (we are still looking for a solution to show what you’re listening to on emesene)

To get the plugin installed, we’ll need to open a command shell and execute the following commands:

First, we download the plugin…

wget http://github.com/pilt/spotify/tarball/master

Than, we install the dependecies…

sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libglib2.0-dev libpurple-dev build-essential

We decompress…

tar zxf pilt-spotify-b3069c7cfa4002990da623135d5ff4b454d67e00.tar.gz

We compile…

cd pilt-spotify-b3069c7cfa4002990da623135d5ff4b454d67e00

make

Than we move everything to the Pidgin plugin directory …

mkdir ~/.purple/plugins

cp spotify_playing.so ~/.purple/plugins/

Now we only need to restart Pidgin and activate the Plugin.

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There you are… now you can show in Pidgin what you are listening on spotify…

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As you surely know, or you’ll get to know now… Frets on Fire is a free multiplatform game, which we can use to turn our keyboard into an electric guitar and feel like Jimi Hendrix, playing it… the original version of the game is really well done, but after playing for a while we felt like tuning or pimping it a little…  so we started a desperate search in the world wide web, to find a way to upgrade the game… and we found it…

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re proud to introduce “mod MFH”! …

NOTICE: When you finish reading this post, you may want to try the mod MFH, but… Ubuntu-blog will not be responsible for any neigbors knocking on your door, asking you to turn down the volume… ; – )

First, we would like to show you some before and after screenshots.

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Now we can get started with the installation… first you’ll need to download the latest version, at this moment it’s 3.005.1 with patch 3.017, which you can get here. Now we’ll need to place the two files  MFH_Full_3.005.1.32bit.7z and MFH_Patch_3.017_32bit.tar.bz2 on our desktop.

Installation

Once we moved the files to our desktop, we’ll start the installation process by executing the following commands in a command shell:

cd ~/Desktop

7z x MFH_Full_3.005.1.32bit.7z

tar -xjvf MFH_Patch_3.017_32bit.tar.bz2

mkdir FretsOnFire

mv MFH_Full_3.005.1.32bit/ FretsOnFire/

mv MFH_Patch_3.017_32bit/* FretsOnFire/

sudo mv FretsOnFire/ /usr/local/games/

echo -e '#!/bin/sh\ncd /usr/local/games/FretsOnFire/ && ./FretsOnFire "$@"' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/fretsonfire

OK,… now we’ll be able to start the game by executing the command FretsOnFire in a terminal. But to leave everything in perfect conditions, we’ll create a launcher… so we’ll enter System > Preferences > Principal Menu and in “Games” we’ll click on “new element”, and then we’ll have to fill out the following form:

Tipe: Aplication

Name: Frets On Fire

Command: fretsonfire

Coment: what ever you want…

If you are interested in using an icon… here you got the original…

Some of the upgrade included in the mod are:

* Different themes including the ones of Rock Band and Guitar Hero 1, 2 and 3 (the one you can see on the screenshots).

* Different designs of guitars (more than 100).

* New effects.

* The famous might of Guitar Hero.

For more information check this out…  http://www.fretsonfire.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25027…

Now,..rock it! …

Surfing around in the  www we found a little program called Skype Call Recorder that makes it possible to record the conversations we are having with Skype… a really helpful and easygoing software.

We can choose the file type the conversations are saved in (OGG, MP3, WAV), the quality of the recording and the folder the files are saved in. We also can configure the software to start recording automatically our calls.

To download the deb package for either 32 or 64 bits, we can enter the author’s web .

By default the recorded conversations will be saved in ~/Skype Calls

Is there a better way waking up, than listening to your favourite music? If you’re one of those guys, that leave their computer running even if they go to bed, this post may be useful for you… We’ll use a script and cron to create a “really geek” alarm clock…
We’ll start creating the script, that’ll be responsible for playing the music files and turning up the volume gradually…

So, we’ll need to open a terminal and write:

gedit alarm

Where we paste the following script

#!/bin/bash
 
xmms2 clear
xmms2 radd /home/ubuntublog/MusicAlarm/
xmms2 play
 
for ((i = 1; i <= 100; i++)) do
amixer sset Master playback $i%
sleep 5s
done

It’s important to replace the folder we specified before (/home/ubuntublog/MusicAlarm/), by a folder that contains music files or other folders with music files in it. xmms2 will look for music files recursively. Analizing the script, you’ll notice that we’ll need the xmms2 package to be installed, if it’s not installed yet:

sudo apt-get install xmms2

Now we’ll create a file to stop the alarm, we’ll need to open a terminal and write:

gedit stopalarm

And paste into the file the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
 
kill `ps -A | grep "xmms2" | cut -c1-5`
kill `ps -A | grep "alarm" | cut -c1-5`
amixer sset Master playback 60%

To execute them…

We’ll need to give both files the permission to be executed:

chmod +x alarm stopalarm

Now we’ll only need to configure crontab to execute the alarm script, at the time we want to get up…
Because of the “mighty” of crontab we’ll be able to configure more than only one alarm, on different days of the week, and at different times.
So we’ll write in a command shell:

crontab -e

If this is the first time we are executing this file, there’ll apear a line, which we’ll delete, to add the ones we’ll really need…

¿How to configure the alarms?

The lines we add, must respect the following format:

Mi Hr Dm My Dw Cm

Where:

Mi: Minutes -> 0…59

Hr: Hour -> 0…23

Dm: Day of the month -> 1…31

My: Month of the year -> 1…12

Dw: Day of the week -> 0…6 | 0 = Sunday, 1= Monday, etc

Cm: Command to execute

We can also use the asterisk “*” as our wildcard.

Here are some examples of configured alarms:

30 17 * * * /home/ubuntublog/alarm
0 8 * * 1 /home/ubuntublog/alarm
0 9 * * 3 /home/ubuntublog/alarm

In this case the alarm is going to start every day at 17:30, every monday at 8:00 o’clock and wednesdays at 9:00 o’clock.

Tipp: In NANO editor we can save the current file pressing F3 and exit the editor pressing F2.

Finally we’ll create a direct access on our desktop to be able to stop the alarm. Click on the desktop with right mouse button and choose “create a launcher…”

Than we’ll complete the following form:

Tipe: Aplication

Name: Stop alarm

Command: /home/user/stopalarm (Path where stopalarm is located, replace user by your username).

The comment is optional as it is the icon, which we steal from http://concepcion.flisol.cl

Once we accept, the icon should appear on our desktop. Shoul look like this one:

The script stopalarm “kills” the processes “xmms2″ and alarms. It also sets volume on 60%

It’s not permitted to get bad at ubuntu-blog, if you have to get up early and your computer got shutted down at night… because of an outage or any other reason…