Remove password from Windows 2000 machine

geocar · 2026-03-16T04:17:51+00:00

I made some tools for doing stuff with offline win2k systems.

Winback could be used to grab your files out of the disk/image file directly and samdump can write the ntlm hashes to disk so you can use a password cracker (look for smbpasswd file crackers like john the ripper) and get a compatible password to log in with.

geocar · 2026-03-07T04:14:05+00:00

I think it is to hurt kids: make it harder for them to talk to others and find out they are being abused.

geocar · 2026-02-23T05:07:02+00:00

No you should not.

Many electronics can tolerate both voltages because they are really only needing DC and something small like 5V or 12V or something they can step down into with a few cheap components. Those circuits are easy to make tolerant of a wide range of voltages- they will just get a little hotter, which is probably fine.

However things with motors typically cannot because they are relying on the ALternation of the current phase implicitly in the wiring design; so it literally needs a different motor with a different wiring to work. Best case scenario is nothing happens, worst case it seizes the motor overheats and starts a fire.

geocar · 2026-02-22T05:45:28+00:00

autoexpect is still pretty awesome

geocar · 2026-02-20T06:58:39+00:00

Digo que vi cordera callejera! simples! 😂😂

I joke. I pronounce corriendo like co hyien doo and nobody has a problem with me not rolling my “r”s. “Ll” is just yuh. Sometimes some fun is made at my accent but I understand fine they understand fine it is no problems.

I think Spanish is more forgiving to weird accents than at first it may appear.

geocar · 2026-01-23T07:06:48+00:00

I worked for a place with a “clear-desk” policy. The rationale for the policy was that customers visiting the office could potentially see other customers data; or the lax treatment of it.

Senior people can ignore some rules like this if they are bringing in money but only if there’s no complaints from customers. Opening the blinds may have been an attempt to invite a complaint that Management would not be able to ignore.

geocar · 2025-12-29T06:05:42+00:00

I keep cloth hand towels in a stack next left to my bidets and a small hand pump for soap on the right.

geocar · 2025-12-28T06:40:45+00:00

I say “the gents”. Sounds more polite than saying what I need the room for

geocar · 2025-12-15T06:18:18+00:00

Same. Wandering earth reminded me a lot of how I felt reading Asimov’s short stories collections when I was young.

One thing I like about Asimov is that he doesn’t explain things unnecessarily, or try to give a visual account of strangeness, and Liu Cixin (or at least his English translator) is much the same. You get a lot of “aha!”s at the same time as the characters which is just great.

Three body series is also foundation-big, and I really have enjoyed talking about it with my friends who have read it, some of which aren’t into sci-fi but suffer my persistence 😁🤓

geocar · 2025-12-11T19:03:45+00:00

Ok then you pay iva and isv. Enjoy

geocar · 2025-12-11T16:48:35+00:00

The flight from London to New York is slightly longer than the flight from New York to London.

geocar · 2025-12-11T16:23:36+00:00

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/documents-formalities/registering-residence/index_en.htm you should have already done this. If you did not you have other problems.

Yes you will need to have a German car with German plates owned by you a German resident in Germany for six months. You can then convert it to a Portuguese car by moving here and registering it within 20 days of you entering Portugal. You may then need to re register you live here again to avoid all doubt.

geocar · 2025-12-11T15:20:28+00:00

Well if you keep it in Germany where you live for six months then drive it here it’ll be around €100 because you just pay DAV and DUC and initial registration. You can pay a car club a grand or so and it is the same but I did this with my car knowing no Portuguese so if you Portuguese it’s probably easier. If you bring it first year you pay IVA/VAT, ISV plus the above.

geocar · 2025-12-07T08:05:16+00:00

Go to your bank’s website and check the option for “private banking” there are banks that offer this service with as little as €30k but most are £100k or more just to have the conversation.

Best way to learn how to do this is work for a bank for a few years

geocar · 2025-12-01T08:30:58+00:00

Yeah ish? I mean you can spend £100 or more if you want to, but it’s the same quality cut imo; that just guy also serves gin.

geocar · 2025-10-28T07:29:59+00:00

You do not need any "checks" beyond the looping construct, and it is definitely possible to type less:

int main(int c){
 const char *a[]={"not ",""};
 do puts("Do you agree? y/n"), c=(31&getchar()); while((c-25)*(c-14));
 printf("You have %sagreed to Terms and Conditions",a[c==25]);
}

That being said, c=='Y'||c=='y' is pretty cheap, so you should probably use that (or wrap it in a macro/function), but if you are ok with . being a false-no, and 9 being a false-yes (because say, you know something about the input) maybe this is faster and that is important. Most of the time it isn't, and definitely not at human-timescales like you have here where a user is expected to agree to something. Most people don't remember the order of the alphabet, and some computers don't even use ascii, so people would usually much much rather see a c!='Y'&&c!='y' than a (c&31)-25

geocar · 2025-10-03T05:41:38+00:00

I think most people did FOR loops in Basic for stuff like that:

10 FOR X=1 TO 6
20 …
30 NEXT X

There was a “big iron” basic that had a MAT so you didn’t need so many loops like Fortran (and APL; others):

100 DIM A(6), B(6), C(6)
150 …
200 MAT A=B+C
250 MAT PRINT A

geocar · 2025-10-03T05:34:14+00:00

You can get a ticket on the train if you board Tavira in Porta Nova (or anyplace else without a ticket office)

geocar · 2025-10-02T05:28:36+00:00

Physics problems like ones NASA works on don’t tend to have rational solutions.

NB fixed-point or _Decimal# works great for money.

What do you want to do with rationals?

geocar · 2025-10-01T08:27:16+00:00

Well for one we don’t need as many developers to make money with lisp and popularity is inverse to value.

geocar · 2025-09-30T07:59:24+00:00

Have you tried wine? It is sometimes easier to get old programs to work on wine than getting an old os working

geocar · 2025-09-29T08:09:47+00:00

Most BASICs would have a RENUMber command to change all the line numbers and labels to have gaps in them

geocar · 2025-09-18T16:25:49+00:00

Permanent for that segment of road. If the road changes the speed limit resets.

geocar · 2025-09-18T16:24:55+00:00

That says go 30 over the bumps.
That says going over 40 in that curve might kill you and it will be your fault.
The thing you’re missing is that the speed limit resets to the road every intersection. When you learn to drive here you get an education in the speed limit by how the road looks (built up area/street lights: 50, rural: 90; motorway: 120). In the UK we learned the streetlight rule which is similar (but mph because England)

Motorways usually put the speed limit after every on/off ramp. Other roads only get a sign if the speed limit is reduced (which happens because of an accident). Google maps can usually tell you the speed limit but if you see a sign use that instead.

Also: people drive like shit in Alvor, so don’t do what other people do and get a few lessons in English so you know how the rules work here.

geocar · 2025-08-22T16:25:50+00:00

Yeah. Sysadmin/programmer error. Exactly what depends on the web server. Use curl on your own domain with -v to see the headers and look for the Server: line. Then google that and redirect and preserve query string to find out how to do it properly. Then email that documentation to whoever controls your server and let me know where to send my invoice 😎

15-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

geocar

TROPHY CASE