I did something hilarious with my notebook. Not did something, but rather almost did something.

You see, I’ve mentioned several times that I seldom use Vista Partition on my notebook. Then last night, out of whim, I wanted to use it.

I already had a plan of doing system upgrade on it and a stupid thing occurred: I forgot my administrator password and it was the only account I was using on Vista!!!

Right there and then I searched for probable solutions. And with an internet connection that is a slow poke for downloading MBs of iso image, I decided to take my leave of the matter and clear my head so that I could recover the password deep in my neurons.

Deep inside I felt depressed and I regretted why I didn’t install what K Jeff gave me: biometrics log in via webcam. That’s why I said to myself, “I’d install it right away, just let me log in.”

With all the time spent on searching for answers, I actually found a hash table password recovery tool, which is coincidentally a freeware. I was delighted and excited to try it out. But like I said, I had to go to bed and give it a rest.

Anyway, this password recovery tool is called: Ophcrack. It’s a live cd wherein it’ll search for partition hash table and will return list of accounts with their corresponding passwords.

I still downloaded the free Vista Live CD although I already had a thought of formatting the partition. Never say die!

When I got home earlier, I immediately booted in the live cd. Voila! Nothing happened. I tried several times but it only said that there’s no partition found. You bet I was overly depressed. With that feeling, I tried recalling the password cause I still don’t want to go through the process of formatting it. Guess what, I succeeded!! haha!

*woot woot!!*

Now, I can only say, “Aaah, life!!”

I am quite enjoying this. It somehow relieves me off of some negative vibes therefore I won’t stop with this enjoyable GIMP experiments unless I’d grow tired of it.

I was supposed to include here my very own lomofied photo, but then again, it’s embarrassing. he he.

This was taken last year at La Mesa Eco Park in Quezon City.

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I’ve been searching for other things to work on aside from uber geeky and nerdy things. And whilst yearning for new experiments, the pop art I created with GIMP months ago was unearthed.

I did two pop arts of yours truly, which I won’t be posting here cause it’s quite embarrassing on my part. hehe.

Anyhoo, here’ another attempt I did and the product is a vintage photo. This photo was taken last May 1, in Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

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I was able to find an rpm for HandBrake with GTK GUI, which is a lot better than what can be downloaded from www.handbrake.fr. hehehe

You can get it here.

Thanks to AnimeFreak of fedoraforum.org.

1. Download source file from HandBrake.

2. Extract

3. Install jam and yasm via yum

4. Go to folder of Handbrake

5. Run in commandline: make

6. You’re good to go!