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Now whenever I spring out the DOS prompt in Windows and someone sees it they are like ZOMG that's cool - cos my font is green like the h4x0r style.

I use the command prompt quite often still for pinging, ipconfig stuff, the odd traceroute and the lousy Win32 version of Nmap, if you don't know what it is you can get it by going to Start - Run - 'cmd'

Now this is not particularly hard to do, but it looks really cool - when you open the command prompt, you'll see the standard size and standard grey font which looks pretty boring.

Ok so now we change the font colour, click at the top left and select 'Properties' - then select the 'Colors' tab. In the 'Colors' tab choose 'Screen Text' and choose the bright green colour.

After that stretch the window out so it's a bit bigger, then test it out with 'ping google.com -t'.

Now the important part is when you close the DOS prompt..apply the changes to all windows. On Vista it's saved automatically so I can't prntscrn the dialogue.

There you go you have a l33t h4x0r style DOS prompt.

As a tip for Vista users, make a shortcut on your desktop to the DOS prompt and use the Run As command to run it as Administrator, this will give you full access to all commands..if you don't do that you'll find yourself very limited.

Man Ronald Jenkees totally rocks the keyboard and as a matter of fact he totally rocks the Internets too. If you don't know who is he, you need to find out.

ALL YOUR MUSICS ARE BELONG TO RONALD!

"Hello Youtubes! I got a beat right now, and I feel like it's on FIRE"

He's a Youtube musical phenomena, you can check out his Youtube channel here:

http://www.youtube.com/ronaldjenkees (Over 7000 YouTube subscribers)

He's basically taken Youtube and some parts of the Internet by storm with his funky keyboard based solos, totally produced form his own home with just a Korg Triton and a PC loaded with FL Studio.

Ronald IS a musical genius.

He's been putting his stuff out Youtube for quite a while and more recently in MP3 format, you can buy his MP3's at his site here:

Ronald Jenkees Music Store

But he recently released his real self-titled physical album, so I bought one of those! $17 USD payable via Paypal including P+P.

You can buy one here:

Ronald Jenkees CD Store

I support this guy fully as he's no scam artist, no one is taking a big cut of his pie, he's writing, producing, playing, marketing and distributing his own music. That gets my utmost respect.

I don't even know what his style is, something like electro funk rap with some remixed like Rocky and Canon in D.

The CD just came in the post yesterday and I've been listening to it all day, Track #1, #10 and the 56k Rap totally rock my socks.

And yes this is the first physical music CD I've bought for about 5-6 years, respect to Ronald! It took about 12 days to come and was well packaged!

This is not an advertorial, paid for or sponsored in any way, I didn't get his CD for free, I paid for it with my own money..

Guitar Hero II ROCKS!

I was skeptical this game would be any good, but it's actually fantastic! It's really really addictive too, I'm actually tempted to buy the guitar controller to play it as it's impossible to do hard and extreme well with the control pad.

And yes I am God! This is on Medium.

302 note streak! Out of 512 notes I only missed 6, not bad eh.

It's about I got myself a new cert, it's almost a year since I got myself OPST Certified..

OPST stands for OSSTMM Professional Security Tester, recursive eh? OSSTMM stands for Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual.

If you've never heard of the OSSTMM, you don't really need this cert

The OPST is a certification of applied knowledge designed to improve the work done as a professional security tester. This is an important certification for those who want or need to prove they can walk the walk in security testing, the discipline which covers network auditing, ethical hacking, web application testing, intranet application testing, and penetration testing. And it is a critical, eye-opening class for security auditors, network engineers, system and network administrators, developers, network architects, security analysts, and truly anyone who works in IT from systems to networks.

Cool eh? Kinda nerve wracking after submitting the results directly the servers in Spain and waiting 3 weeks for the pass/fail..

Yes that's X-windows on a *nix station, the exam was done purely on Linux, Windows was used for some surfing, the exam is 90% practical a tunelled connection to spain, kinda slow..the other 10% is about some ethics and parts of the OSSTMM.

Yes of course I passed, top grade in the class I think..

Ah well, wonder which certificate to do next, kind of hard to find decent computer security courses in Asia, I think SANS is in Singapore soon though..

Don't even mention MSCE, I'll spit on you I wouldn't mind RHCE or LPI next though, or perhaps go the Cisco route or something else proprietary..

I had a problem with wordpress when I first started using it, being based in Asia most of my commenters are from this region, mainly Malaysia.

So when I tried to look up the commenters IP addresses in Wordpress, I didn't get any information because it defaults to ARIN (The American Registry) to lookup the IP addresses.

Like for example this:

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=60.48.199.141

It just says registered to APNIC (Asia Pacific Registry).

Where as if you use another service like Whois.sc, it will show you proper location like so:

http://www.whois.sc/60.48.199.141

To fix this, you need to edit the /wp-admin/edit-comments.php file.

The lines you need to edit are 92 and 145.

You need to change:

http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=

to

http://www.whois.sc/

Then re-upload the edit-comments.php file to your active install, and refresh the comments page, you can now click the IP address of the commentors and get the correct information!

Digg this article

So I woke up this morning bleary eyed to check my sites/stats/etc as I normally do and I noticed quite a lot of users online..

This is normal though, sometimes I get hit by trackback spambots and have 50-60 users online, but this time, they were legitimate, and all looking at the same story - How to use RSS feeds on your Wordpress site.

Then I thought hmm...so I checked my sitemeter, and low and behold I had a whole load of referrals from digg!

Hmm so I checked the traffic for today, yup a massive spike!

And there I was, my face on the front page of digg and my story on my little blog

I've seen other people get 35,000 hits in a day from the digg effect, so hopefully the traffic a) will keep coming and b) won't crash the server Seems pretty steady so far.

Something like the Slashdot effect but I think not so extreme

Anyway here's the digg URL:

http://digg.com/programming/How_to_use_RSS_Feeds_on_your_Wordpress_Site

Man my poor old trust Logitech MX700 is finally starting to give up the ghost, I've had this mouse for AGES, it replaced my first optical mouse the MS Intellimouse (Yeah I think MS Software sucks, but they make REALLY nice peripherals).

After that gave up and bit the bullet, I treated myself to a mad wireless optical mouse, the Logitech MX700, the dream of geeks and gamers alike.

At that time it was pretty rare.

At that time I was indeed l33t!

But now, the old fella is looking a bit worn and tired.

The looks don't bother me..the problem really is that the pads used to connect to the base station and charge...HAVE GONE RUSTY!

It's very hard to get it to charge now..then I think because of this the old batteries gave up, and wouldn't hold the charge any more. So I bought some new ones, and it still won't charge, I have to charge them in a standalone charger..

Bah! Standby batteries always at hand just in case my MOUSE goes flat..not good!

I've tried smoothing out the rusty points with a nail file, it didn't work, next I'm gonna try and rubthem with pen eraser (If I can find one).

I was thinking of buying the new fancy MX1000 laser mouse, but it's pretty freaking expensive..

My poor old mouse, is indeed looking sad.

Man this is really awesome, like TOTALLY OMGBBQWTF AWESOME.

Seriously, every geeks dream, the LED powered keyboard.

It's SO slim aswell.

Basically the keys are powered by LED so they can display anything, they will display whatever that key is currently set to do, for example the Enter key:

Customised Number Pad?

Or even a special key layout for Quake!

Or PhotoShop:

It's penned for launch February 1st, will have to see how much it costs.

Probably a small fortune.

Source: Optimus Keyboard