Hugh's Worthless Blog

Well, we inherited an old XP box we needed to administer so I thought I would fire up INSERT and use captive NTFS and chntpw to blow away the old Administrator password. But it wouldn't work! I soon found out that worthless XP SP2 was patched so that captive-ntfs no longer works, so I instead I see I must use ntfs-3g instead! The winning LiveCD this time was Helix whose latest release (v1.8) includes both ntfs-3g and chntpw. So I just booted it up, mounted the system drive as ntfs-3g and blanked out the Administrator password so I could logon and change it. My, oh my, that was easy!

Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted anything since last year! I have to keep adding more content and more links. Today I gave a mesmerizing talk on "Quick and Dirty Web Sites" in our department's Brown Bag Seminar Series . I tried to keep it lively by insulting random grad students in the crowd and throwing up old pictures of folks (okay, maybe just one person!). I also spoke highly of Google's own Google Pages which is just as easy to use as blogger for making simple websites. You can even see my lovely Google Pages example site and gaze upon our expensive, but still unnamed building on campus. If anyone out there has several million dollars they would like to donate to our fine university , you can get your name on this gorgeous building!