Links to file UNC paths are disabled by default in just about every browser except Internet Explorer because it is an easily exploitable security vulnerability. Malicious sites could detect your operating system or installed applications by checking default installation paths, or worse, browse your cookies, sifting for sensitive data. As system vulnerabilities are discovered, files related to exploits could also be detected.

Csync is a bidirectional file synchronization tool. The developer’s main purpose for csync is to implement roaming home directories for Linux clients using a central file server using PAM to synchronize when the user logs in and out. Instead of being it’s own protocol, by default using port 873 or whatever, it can use other protocols such as http, smb, or sftp so there is no need for a server component. Though I wonder how it compares in the nitty-gritty performance aspects which really matter when synchronizing lots of data over the Internet.

I’ll start with a small DSL linux image. It’s only 50 meg, but it’s a pretty useful little distribution.
ls -lh dsl-4.4.10.iso

-rw-r–r– 1 ninja ninja 50M 2009-08-28 13:11 dsl-4.4.10.iso

Mount the original iso image you want to modify
mount -t iso9660 dsl-4.4.10.iso /mnt/original -o loop
Copy the everything that you just mounted to another …

I hate PDFs! I hate opening the viewer and sitting there, waiting for it to load, then dealing with the pop up asking me to update my software. I wish they were like regular text files or images, and not some twisted mutant hybrid of both with all the shortcomings from each side! So… now I just convert PDF’s to JPEG images!!! I love ImageMagick. It’s just so freaking useful… and free.

Here’s a very simple script to convert PDF’s to JPG’s: