Firefox Modifying

Christmas is over and I will start doing audio posts on the weekends because I got a cellphone with free long distance. Ok, we've talked a lot about firefox 1.0 and now I'm gonna tell you how to modify your firefox 1.0 to where it WILL be one of the most useful browsers you'll have.

First the non hands on stuff.

If you have firefox 1.0 clicking here will start the installation of an extention that is very useful in hands on privacy. It hooks a button onto your browser that when clicked clears your history, form info, saved passwords, download history, cookies, and the cache. This is useful if someone is gonna get ahold of it and you wanna hide everything. It's labled Paranoia.

This is a editing extention for Firefox, called Chromedit, which will be useful for future hacks and one of them I'm gonna talk about in this update.

Now the more hands on hacks.

type "about:config" into your address bar(without the quotes) and go there.
This is kind of a debug menu.

If you're on broadband
scroll down till you see "network.http.pipelining"
Once you find this you'll be in the right area. Change the following:
network.http.max-connections
to 64
network.http.max-connections-per-server
to 21
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
to 8
network.http.pipelining
to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
to 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining
to true

All of this will speed up your connection immensely. The pipelining will send several requests all at once. The rest increases the ammount of info that'll flow.

If you're on dialup......get a broadband...but if you can't do this

browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl
to true
browser.xul.error_pages.enabled
to true
content.interrupt.parsing
to true
content.max.tokenizing.time
to 3000000
content.maxtextrun
to 8191
content.notify.backoffcount
to 5
content.notify.interval
to 750000
content.notify.ontimer
to true
content.switch.threshold
to 750000
network.http.max-connections
to 32
network.http.max-connections-per-server
to 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
to 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
to 4
network.http.pipelining
to true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
to 8
network.http.proxy.pipelining
to true
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
to 750
plugin.expose_full_path
to true
signed.applets.codebase_principal_support
to true


I'm not getting into the specifics of what each of these do, it'll just speed you up.


NO MATTER WHAT CONNECTION YOU HAVE, do the following after you do the section for your connection.

You need to right click in the open area and go to new>integer
It'll ask for a name for it...input "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" (without the quotes) as the name. Then it will ask for a value, set this to zero. Thats how long it takes before your browser acts on the information it's recieving.


OK, not what?....For those of you who have GMail, I'm gonna help yo uremove the text ads from it. Remember the Chromedit you downloaded? Well, now we're gonna use it.

*note, you must close firefox completely and restart it to get newly installed extentions working.

Go to tools and click on "Edit User Files." A new window with 5 tabs is gonna show up and you're gonna want to click the tab labled "userContent.css" because this is where we're gonna add stuff. Copy the following code:

#rh table[class="metatable"]{display: none !important;}
#rh div[class="c"] {display: none !important;}

and paste it into the file then click "Save." Remember, just copy and paste it, otherwise you'll fuck something up. I can't promise this hack'll last very long because as Gmail changes so will the base code.


OK, now for the news, SUPRNOVA.ORG, previously a great bit-torrent site shut down, but fear not, they are sandy bastards (we like sandy bastards here) and put out the beta version of their site in an application. eXeem is currently avaliable to 5000 beta testers and will, hopefully, soon be out for us to play with. They are decentralizing the torrent locations while before there were trackers which became very potent targets for the RIAA/MPAA twats.

I talked about Gigabyte producing a dual processing graphics card, well here it is...Imagine 2 of those hooked up through SLI, HOLY SHIT!

Well, thats it, sorry for not posting recently, been busy with the holiday season. Sorry for such a long post, had a lot to tell, Take it easy all, Late
AK

WAL MART!

Ok, some amazing things...First WAL MART?!?!?! THE HELL THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING GOOD!!! [Link]

If you ever use Ebay I have a good site for you. It takes all the auctions that are left under $1.00 or something like that...that only have a few minutes left. Then puts em in categories. [Link]

And Legal Hacking? Of Course, There are several sites to help and teach you of these things, but the best i've found is this place.

another quick post, not much been happening...worm ravaging systems, security updates, etc.

Take it easy
AK

Where do you get your news from?

A news site has become quite possibly the greatest thing since sliced bread. Digg is a new spin on things as sites like slashdot and fark allow users to submit news, the users don't pick what goes on the front page. Not the case with Digg. Users and "dig" news stories and after so many digs it is put on the front page. Since the last post was so big, I thought I'd post just something small this time...and there it is

AK

Easy as pie

Sorry mates, the hacking of the start button is gonna have to wait till the next post, we had a question posted.

Ok, first, to uninstall IE(internet explorer) you go to your control pannel which is usually located in the start button. once in there you will look for add/remove programs. Upon opening this up you see a few links on the left and a whole bunch of programs you can uninstall. One of the links on the left says add/remove windows components. In here you'll see the faithless IE symbol with a checkmark next to it. Of course you'll need the install disk while doing this... Anyway, you uncheck the checkmark and continue on with the uninstall. then installing it should be much easier. Put the disk in, go into the add remove section...re-check the place next to it, and install your IE again. There you go, you're done. If the problem persists then I'd check your setting and options...if it continues after that, do a virus and trojan scan. I know, a trojan is a virus but most virus scanners don't pick up all trojans, or even most trojans. So get a good trojan scanner.

hmmm, still a lot of room left for a update...I guess the hacking of the start button is on!

First, you'll need a resource hacker, I have several and they all come in useful. Just go to google and search for a resource hacker.

Next you'll need to fine your windows directory in your C drive or whatever your main drive is. Once in that directory look for explorer.exe and make a copy of it naming the copy (something you'll remember).bak
Now use the resource hacker to open the copy and it should show a few folders. Open the folder named "String Table" and find both folder number 37 and 38. This will take care of both classic and the new mode. Click on 1033 inside each folder, which is basically a little document in the folder, and look for the thing that says "Start." Once you find it you can change it to whatever you want, theres no limit on the number of characters you can use, but remember this is gonna be taking up the taskbar. After you change each one click compile script or whatever there is that similar to it. Now this will change your start button's text AT THE END OF THIS ALL, NOT YET!

While we're still in the string folder we're gonna change the text that pops up when you put your cursor over top of it. Normally it says "click here to begin" well, mine says "click here to start hacking." Click on folder 34 to open it and click on that resource 1033. While in there look for the "Click here to begin" and change that to whatever the hell yo ufeel like. Once again click the compile script thing.

To change the icon so you won't have the crappy windows logo there you're gonna have to leave the "string table" folder and go to the "bitmap" folder. I suggest have a little ass icon premade before you start trying to change the one thats there. It has to be 25 pixels by 20 pixels. Now thats small. but if you have it go to folder 143 in the bitmap folder and click on resource 1033 inside it. Once there you'll see the crappy logo you want to change. Go to the actions menu or if you don't have you look around for a "replace bitmap" button. Select the bitmap you've chosen through "open file with new bitmap."

Ok, now that you've changed everything you want to save it as something like Bob.exe, ot (whatever the hell you want except explorer).exe
YES!! I SAID DON"T SAVE IT AS EXPLORER.EXE

ok, once you have that done you should have explorer.exe, (whatever the hell you want).bak, and (whatever the hell you want).exe

If you don't have those 3, something is wrong.

If you do, then remember the name of your .exe and reboot.
While your pc is booting up you'll be wanting to hit f8 to get the boot prompt up. This will ask you how you want to boot, Choose Save mode with Command Prompt. Log in as the admin of the pc and when the command prompt comes up you will type the fillowing:

cd c:\windows (press enter)
copy c:\windows\(whatever the hell you want).exe c:\windows\explorer.exe (press enter)
yes (press enter)
shutdown -r (press enter and don't be afraid, though that looks like a virus from the past, it's not, thats just the admin restart prompt)
(congratulations, upon restarting your start button should be changed completely. If you fucked up your pc somehow, it's not my problem, your fuckup...haha, and thats what the .bak is for, rename it to .exe and do the same command prompting over with that file instead, it's a default of your old explorer. Thank you, have a nice day)

AK

Akiratima's Personal Touch

Ok, the setup I have going on my computer is decent, but nothing special. I'm gonna tell you a few programs I use on a daily basis on here.

First is a program called Winplosion which is a pretty decent program that is good to use if you have a lot of windows open because a feature on it takes every window thats open and shrinks it to fit on the screen. Then you pick which screen you want and it maximises back up to the normal size thus transfering you to this document. Granted yo ucan do the same with alt+tab but if you don't wanna use the energy to touch the keyboard, this is a good tool. I rate it a 5/10

Another program I use is Netlimiter which is really good for controlling your bandwidth. I just wish that there was a way to cut the transfer speed completely rather than just lower it to 1k/sec. Still good, I'd say a 7/10.

I use 2 browsers, Firefox and Deepnet, we've talked about both.

Resource Hacker programs....yea, I know...but hey, somethings just require it. Such as my start button no longer saying start. Nor having the windows logo on it anymore. I'll post a progress that you use to change the start button in the next post I do.

I'm running Windows XP, but I'm thinking of putting together a pc just so I can put Linux on it and piss around.

Never underestimate the power of your Windows Explorer. Theres a reason it's there, it's good stuff, easy to get around, easily browsed.

Now for the News
Microsoft released patches for major security holes in their firewall.[Link]

Several network intrusion detectors are now avaliable for Linux [Link1] [Link2] [Link3] [Link4]

I think thats about it, remember, check back for my next post...hacking the windows start button for dummies.

Ak

SONOFABITCH!!!

Ok, The mpaa are doing all sorts of crap to our p2p systems. This place has a list of all the p2p sites that have gone offline both by force or by volunteer. We must ban together as people to prevent this.

Yahoo has created a new search engine to attempt to combat Google's massive power. They are going another route though. The search engine created by them is to search for video files.

Gigabyte has produced a dual processing video card which they will price lower than Nvidia and ATI's graphics cards.

Plus Sometime soon my partner in crime and I are gonna be starting production of our video zine. Anything you'd like us to talk about just drop a line.

Thanks all, AK

Games, To hack, to cheat, to beat.

Many people play video games today and video game selling today being a multi billion dollar a year business, it's no wonder. Well, for those of you who can't capitalize on the selling of games, you work on the buying of games. Today's games are much more challanging than games of the past and sometimes, you have to cheat to win, and sometimes you just wanna cheat to piss around in a game. That is the topic of this post, Cheating in games. There are several places that are stupendous for game cheats. Here and Here, if you have a code breaker for the ps2, are some good ones. If you're looking for just cheats for games both pc and console, I'd go with the first one. If you want to make your own cheats I suggest which you can download here. Tsearch is an amazing program in which you simply open the program, search for attributes, and modify them to your choosing. If you have 200 gold, search for 200. Theres probably more than 1 value of 200, so change the gold you have and do the inside search of that quantity which searches for the 200s that changed to the value you searched for. If you still can't find what you're looking for you can drop me a line or google it. www.google.com Ok, google = greatest search engine so far. You can find just about anything on it.

Well, thats it, late
AK

Linux..........Freedom

Hello all, I believe it's time I posted something about Linux on here since I decided to get myself a copy of FreeBSD today. If you go to Here then you will be able to download just about every version of linux thats out and avaliable. Everything from Redhat to Yellow Dog. Lots of great versions, but not all of them. The one that I noticed missing is Knoppix-STD. This is a wonderful version of Linux which you have to go here to get. You can download it or buy a cd with it on it. Now it's true that Knoppix is on Linuxiso.org, but not the std version. The std version is wonderful because if you burn it to a cd, just toss it into your pc and reboot. Linux will run strait from the cd so theres no installing needed. Another amazing distro of Linux is Ubuntu and what this group has done is you can go to their site and and request cds of their versions. Free of charge, this group will mail them to you. Now, I will hopefully be donating some money to this group because I believe they are worth it, willing to do all this for free. Another bonus of this group is that they didn't put a limit on the number of cds you can request. I requested 40 since there are 3 different versions.

If you've never used linux then you should fret not. A site has come to the rescue with massive help for you. Yes Linux is different than windows, but that doesn't mean worse. In fact Linux is rated to have less security holes than Windows.

In the grand Scheme of things, Linux has come a long way. I have love in my heart for it, do you? Plus by using linux you can rob Bill Gates of just a bit more money :)

This was AK, later

Dual Post

HOLY BAJEBUS!!! Thanks to a german news site I have been informed that Knoppix 3.7 has been completed. News

Theres the news article. For those of you who don't know, Knoppix is linux. There are several different versions avaliable for download. One version you can install on your pc while another boots from a cd. For those of you who know much about Linux, Knoppix is a very good tool as Linux allows you to do things Windows doesn't as well as open sever security bypasses.

The Knoppix homepage is where you can go to check out info on Knoppix or download a copy. I currently have 2 different versions of the bootable burned to cd.

Now, the reason this is called a dual post is I am bringing you some more news about a different topic. Nvidia has been working with the technology to put 2 video cards on one motherboard to boost performance, or SLI technology. If you would like to see it in action go to here but the short and skimpy of that article says that in most cases it boosts your quality and performance roughly 50%. If thats worth an extra video card's cost, go for it, but I'd simply upgrade what hardware you already have, especially if you don't have the processing power to use the dual video cards. Yes this gives way to amazing new gaming posibilities, but personally I can't afford 2 video cards.

CD Shell

Seeing as how Nada has been reluctant to post anything since his audio post I am forced to post again. It's not that I don't like to post, I love it, I just want some diversity and not just one person's point of view.

This edition is to talk about a newish tool thats out. Go to http://www.cdshell.org/ to find a cd scripting multi boot interactive interface tool. Now what this is, is you will be able to burn several programs onto a cd, just as you always have been able to, but this will allow it to bring up a menu to which you can choose what to do from there. As in, install this program or that program...it will of course be a bootable disc so you don't have to go into the actual explorer and find the install folder and all that, you simply set it once and it'll do it automatically every time you put the cd in. the website has a very useful guide for people to use if they're completely lost and it's very user friendly.

If you burn a lot of cds I suggest this and I rate this program a 7/10 overall since it can be used for just about every one of your cd burning needs and I know I go through a whole lot of cds. Check it out, and drop me a line if you all feel froggy.

Messed up hard drive?

Well, someone posted about their hard drive being messed up and a "specialist" said the hard drive would have to be replaced. This was not so. Another thing that was stated is that it kept going through the boot cycle...if your pc can get to this place, hardware can be salvaged. You got ripped off. Theres a program that I would have used called DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) which there are two different copies avaliable, one for a floppy disc and one for a cd.

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

This program is a brute force formatter that would have wiped your hard drive clean, but it would have saved it. Any viruses or worms could not have survived this program's wrath. Even though this is a wonderful program it's so powerful it can corrupt your hard drive, but it's not likely unless your hard drive is formatted in a FAT format.

So to answer you, I could have saved the hard drive, but all your information would be gone. It wouldn't have cost you anything except a little extra time reinstalling everything.

DBAN is a wonderful program but is only useful in situations of formatting. For it's task I give it a 9/10, but with everything considered this program is probably gonna be sitting around for a long time so I give this program a 6/10 overall. Check it out, I reccomend burning a copy to cd like I did.

New Internet Browser

Ok all, This is the first real post that I believe may spark a good time for the future.

Deepnet Explorer
http://www.deepnetexplorer.com

This is a great new web browser that is said to be more secure than Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. It also has a entire news section built into it as well as a p2p device that runs off the gnutella engine. It has a source viewing function as well as proxy settings built in. It was put out by a UK group. I particularly like the p2p device in this as it shows you through blue and grey circles, that represent info, about how much and what parts of your file is downloaded. It has a phishing alarm and blocker, a popup killer and blocker, a content filter, a cookie manager and it blocks browser hijacks. I have a feeling that this is going to be the next major browser out there because of it's sheer number of built in features. Best of all, It's free. I rate this a 10/10, so go get it.

Welcome to DossHell

Hello all, this is the first post of many to come, this is going to be a joint blog that is strictly for computer based info. My friend Nada and I believe we could give you all some good info about anything computer based. This means all of the following: security, mod tips, building pcs, programming, etc. we will also be making videos and posting those every once in a while. Feel free to post questions as we're always willing to test our knowledge, and if we don't know the answer we'll find it and get back to you. This blog is as much for us as it is for you. We plan to learn from this experience. Well, besides that, just have some fun with it. Take it easy you all.

And if anyone wishes to be able to post in this blog simply drop me an email and We'll review your qualifications to see if we'll let ya.

Akiratima, signing off

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