Author Archives: David

Hide Data in Invisible Partitions

Posted on April 20, 2009 by David

This is part 2 in a series on how to hide your data. First of all, the methods explained in this series are not secure. Anyone with some low-level knowledge of filesystems can tell there’s hidden data when looking at … Continue reading →

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Hide Data in Hidden Partitions

Posted on April 15, 2009 by David

This is part 1 in a series on how to hide your data. Introduction First of all, the methods explained in this series are not secure. Anyone with some low-level knowledge of filesystems can tell there’s hidden data when looking … Continue reading →

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IRC Quote (2)

Posted on March 6, 2009 by David

Zeus WPI has an IRC channel which at any one time contains two dozen geeks discussing a myriad of topics ranging from the latest XKCD to the physics behind not being able to reach absolute zero. Such a cornucopia of … Continue reading →

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Zenity and rsync

Posted on December 24, 2008 by David

Zenity is a neat little tool to create simple GUI’s for your shellscripts. One of its most useful features is the progress dialog, which allows one to show the progress of a command using the all-familiar GTK progress bar. Zenity … Continue reading →

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Autographed

Posted on December 22, 2008 by David

Last Thursday I went on my annual visit to the Bookfestival in Expo, Ghent. While my dad was disappointed by the lack of good comic books this year, I was delighted being able to pick up Stephenson’s Confusion, Morrow’s The … Continue reading →

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Bargain Hunting in the UK

Posted on December 20, 2008 by David

The pound sterling has taken a deep dive the last few months and continues to fall. Today it reached an amazing £1 = €1.07. For us euro-handlers this means we can pick up bargains on the other side of the … Continue reading →

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Samsung Loses, Ultimate Boot CD Wins

Posted on December 19, 2008 by David

To cut a long story short: I had 2 disks to test, one a Seagate and the other a Samsung. Using Seagate’s diagnostics utility SeaTools was a very smooth experience. After booting from the CD, a GUI application automatically started, … Continue reading →

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How-To: Wrap a romantic present using Schamper

Posted on December 17, 2008 by David

So you need to wrap a romantic present, but you’re all out of wrapping paper. Or you never had any. As a student, I face this situation constantly, and have become quite adapt at surviving it. Here are the victims. … Continue reading →

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Make Athena Go Local

Posted on December 15, 2008 by David

If you’re a student at UGent and living in a dorm, you need to access the Internet through a VPN, but Minerva and Athena, a Citrix system, can be accessed locally. Using a clever line of commands, one can route … Continue reading →

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Shell-fu

Posted on December 11, 2008 by David

alias webshare=’python -c “import SimpleHTTPServer;\ SimpleHTTPServer.test()”‘ Want to show something on your machine to someone over the web? Don’t copy it or upload it somewhere. Just run “webshare” and the current directory and everything beneath it will be served from … Continue reading →

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