Stellen Sie sich vor, die Festplatte ihres ehemaligen Computers (was auch immer darauf war) taucht bei einem Fachhändler als Gebrauchtware zum Verkauf wieder auf. Ja, das gibt es in Lienz ! Man sollte vom Experten dann zumindest verlangen können dass keine Ihrer Daten darauf vorzufinden sind. Die Betonung liegt auf „sollte“…
Archiv der Kategorie: Sonstiges
Porn….in ASCII Art
Powerusers do everything through the commandline: Editing text documents, managing files, even viewing web pages with lynx & co. But for watching porn one needs to exit the beloved terminal.
Not anymore! There is now a Shell script for watching ASCIIfied porn! And it even uses the official PornHub (and YouPorn and RedTube and Tube8) json-API!
DDG – DuckDuckGo cheats
DuckDuckGo(DDG) is a search-engine like Google – but it respects privacy of its users. I really enjoy using DDG, last but not least because of the „bang-commands“.
Install Android 5 (alias L(ollipop) on Nexus 5 with OTA-Image
Recently Google started to deploy Android 5 for Nexus-Devices – also as an OTA-Image (Over the Air). This method of updating does NOT delete your data on the phone. But it may take some time until you get the official OTA-Update. You can get it earlier ! The following How-to describes how to install it manually 🙂
Netflix ohne Silverlight unter Fedora Linux 19 (&20) – HTML5-Player
Netflix funktioniert unter Linux (Fedora 19 & 20) im HTML5-Modus tadellos – das Prinzip lässt sich auch unter Windows anwenden und schont den Akku gegenüber dem Silverlight-Player ! 5 Minuten Arbeit, die sich lohnen !
Das Prinzip:
- Google Chrome Browser 37+ (aktuelle stable oder Beta/Developer-Release)
- libnss3 installieren
- User-Agent-Switcher Add-on für Chrome
- Netflix-Settings ändern
Remove WordPress slotmachines.us.org Hack
Some days ago we had a problem with an unwanted „Banner“ on our WordPress-Blog – promoting slotmachines.us.org. It’s quite easy to find and get rid of the problem. But we did not find a lot of solutions online (mostly related to the Lightbox-PlugIn).
No, I don’t want to obey DRM restrictions in PDFs
Did you ever face this problem: You want to print a PDF, but the author restricted printing it (Document properties – Print: not allowed).
Some free PDF-Viewers like Okular don’t really obey DRM-restrictions and… you are able to print the PDF 🙂
Kindle: View notes/clippings on your PC
View your notes/clippings on your computer
- Visit http://kindle.amazon.com and LogIn
- Select the book
- on the right side of screen you will see something like:
You have 0 highlighted passages
You have 1 note
The manual way…
- connect your Kindle to your computer via USB (mass storage)
- in /documents on your Kindle you will find a file named My_clippings.txt
Amazon Kindle & Linux… and how to remove DRM
Kindle and Linux
There are useful tools around to handle your Amazon Kindle:
- calibre – a nice piece of software to manage your books (library) on your kindle. This tool also converts and sends books to your device. The all in one solution. It is extremely expendable with Plug-Ins (also for removing DRM)
- ebook-convert and other commandline-tools (gets installed with calibre)
example: ebook-convert filename.cbz filename.epub
Removing DRM with Python tool
- What you need: Python on your system – just try „python“ in CLI. If Python is missing in your distro install it – e.g. in Ubuntu by „sudo apt-get install python“
- The MobiDeDRM Scripts – http://nyquil.org/uploads/MobiDeDRM.zip
- If you buy a book from Amazon you normally get a „Book.azw“-File…
- … the next steps:
- „python kindlepid.py XXXXXXXXXXX“ where XXXXXXXXXXXX is your 16-character Serial (get your serial from your Kindle Systeminformation – Settings/Device information). The Terminal window will return something like Mobipocked PID for Kindle serial# XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is Z1QFCDQ*74. That “Z1QFCDQ*74” string is what you need.
- Now all you have to do to remove the DRM from the .AZW file is:
„python mobidedrm.py Book-Title.azw Book-Title.mobi YourMobiPocketKEY“
In a minute or so you should have a DRM-free MobiPocket book you can later convert in any other format you like. If that doesn’t work, try
„python mobidedrm2.py Book-Title.azw Book-Title.mobi YourMobiPocketKEY„
Sources and more information:
- https://www.facebook.com/notes/unix/remove-drm-from-amazon-kindles-ebooks-using-linux/293892687293406
- http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/drm-removal-tools-for-ebooks/
- http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Toolbox-E-Book-Verwaltung-mit-Calibre-2038084.html
Sources for free eBooks
- http://www.gutenberg.org/
- Torrent
Thinkpad x121 disable touchpad ((K)Ubuntu 13.04)
For Trackpoint-Users sometimes the touchpad can be quite annoying. So it can be useful to disable it (an just the trackpoint works). Solution for Linux (Kubuntu 13.04):
- Get id of device with „xinput -list“
- Diable it: „xinput set-prop ID ‚Device Enabled‘ 0“
