Thoroughly erase your data from hard disk

If you want to sell your used HD, you’d be wise to make sure nothing is retrievable from it.

Here’s a useful Lifehacker article on this topic which is definitely worth a read.

Online music search

This little web app allows you to quickly search for whatever you want and, if available, either download or just listen. Don’t know how successful your searches are likely be but all of the three songs I searched for (Beatles, Neil Young and Djavan) all were found almost immediately. So looks good.

Recover password in Ubuntu

Actually, it’s not a password recovery but the option to set a new password without having to type your old (or forgotten) one although you will be asked for the root password before the root shell becomes available to use.

Very convenient indeed if you have memory problems. Problem is, though, that it might also be convenient for anyone who want to get into your Ubuntu partition as long as they know the root password of your machine. Not good!

Here’s the article and it’s very simple. Just boot into recovery mode, type the root password, then type “passwd <yourusername>” and then add whatever you want your new password to be (twice). And, that’s it.