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Passware Password Kit Forensic 11.5 – Software Review

Passware Password Kit Forensic 11.5
Publisher: Passware, Inc.
Price: $995
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This month, I obtained a review copy of Passware’s “Passware Password Kit Forensic 11.5″. For brevity’s sake, I’ll refer to it as “Passware” for the rest of this review. Passware is a password recovery/cracking system which has the ability to work on multiple file types. The Forensic Kit version adds more features, such as cracking of filesystem passwords and resetting Windows user account passwords. Continue reading Passware Password Kit Forensic 11.5 – Software Review…

Funny Coffee Posters

I was recently approached by the publisher of this “history of coffee” poster created by: OnlineMBAPrograms.org.

I found it rather reminiscent of this one created by TheOatmeal.com.

apt-get install coffee

peter@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install coffee
[sudo] password for peter:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  coffee caffeine caffeine-bin-common caffeine-common
  coffee-common libgcoffee2-4
Suggested packages:
  aspartame cinnamon-powder cocoa-powder espresso
  half-and-half milk nutmeg-powder saccharine skim-milk
  stevia sucralose sugar vanilla-powder
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  coffee caffeine caffeine-bin-common caffeine-common
  coffee-common libgcoffee2-4
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 30.7 MB/31.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 107 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y


Hmm… That’s Interesting

I get frustrated… a lot. Not genuinely angry, mind you, but suffice to say people often do things that tick me off. For the next 30 days, I will take a different approach. Instead of getting angry or frustrated immediately, I will make my best effort to say “hmm, that’s interesting,” and understand what led to my frustration, as well as the other person’s actions.

As I write this, I see that this is a version of Stephen Covey’s “seek first to understand” habit.

And, I am now typing this on my iPhone 4S, rather than dictating to Siri, who has very interestingly stopped processing my input.

Hmm… That’s interesting. Off to a good start!

An Eagle Died A Chicken

A man found an eagle’s egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.

All his life the eagle did what the barnyard chicks did, thinking he was a barnyard chicken. He scratched the earth for worms and insects. He clucked and cackled. And he would thrash his wings and fly a few feet into the air.

Years passed and the eagle grew very old. One day he saw a magnificent bird above him in the cloudless sky. It glided in graceful majesty among the powerful wind currents, with scarcely a beat of its strong golden wings.

The old eagle looked up in awe. “Who’s that?” he asked. “That’s the eagle, the king of the birds,” said his neighbor. “He belongs to the sky. We belong to the earth—we’re chickens.”
So the eagle lived and died a chicken, for that’s what he thought he was.