Rarcrack cracks compressed file’s passwords

Well, obviously . It is a very useful application for those of you who want to feel more elite than you already are (and this is for Linux only, so you have to be at least minimally elite already) or have a file you received/ torrent you downloaded but can’t get the password anywhere, you may want to check this out.

It can crack up to 12 combos of either letters, numbers or both. It starts off by trying all the two letter combinations and then moves it’s way up until the final 12. It can take a while to move up from three to four to five etcetera combinations, but you can specify a starting number of characters to try which can save considerable amounts of time.

My friend David sent me a file with special characters which couldn’t be deciphered by Rarcrack thus rendering it useless for files as such. It at the moment (or from what I’ve noticed from it’s probing feedback) doesn’t try things such as the underscore which could also render it pointless with certain files.

It is run from the command line and I like the output it relays to you so you can see it’s progress and will give you the final correct password after it finds it under the words “GOOD” . It creates an .xml file with a little bit of info on Rarcrack and the encrypted file that it broke through.

To install Rarcrack, you’ll need to head on over to it’s page at Sourceforge which I’ll add at the end of this paragraph. You just need to grab the g-zipped file right here and extract it to wherever (I’d suggest putting it in the home folder as you need to keep the folder) and then run the following instructions:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rarcrack/

Once done, open up a terminal window and change your directory to it’s containment then run make. It will compile and possibly output a “warning”, but you can ignore that. After that just install it with sudo make install.

To get a feel of what it feels like to watch a file get decrypted, just test out one of the three file types it can decrypt (.rar, .zip, .7z) by running something like the example I’ll provide below in the directory the file is in:
rarcrack something.rar

You can add certain subcommands which can be found by typing rarcack –help, my favorite being threads which specifies the starting number of characters to work up on greatly saving time.

Well, I do hope you enjoy this and play around although a few features limit how well and much you’ll be using it and for what. The current release is 0.2 so expect a lot more coming up soon as the developer upgrades this.

Enjoy!
nikoPSK

APTonCD, install packages anywhere

For those of you who have Debian based system not connected to the internet somewhere and would like to grab packages easily, for others who do multiple reinstalls occasionally and are tired of always downloading files over and over or those who have their system tailored with packages here and there but need to (for some reason) wipe and start over, APTonCD is for you.

It will find all the packages you’ve install with apt-get and list them for you to choose all or most of the ones you want. Then will burn your custom repository to a DVD or CD which you can bring anywhere you want so that you can install to any machine without downloading. It can also just create CD images.

Although, I wish I could just enter the .deb name and APTonCD would grab it for me rather then myself having a locally stored package… but oh well. It does everything nicely and I didn’t encounter any errors during the burning process which is great too.

I must say, it’s a great application; but there are a few things I would enjoy to be added. I enjoy having an easy repository and it will make my life easier especially with the script I’ve been working on to bring Ubuntu up to my standards on a fresh install.

To grab APTonCD, you can just do a simple install with the command I provide and then you can get started with the application by heading over to System -> Administration -> APTonCD. You should be able to find your way around from there.

sudo apt-get install aptoncd

Well, I honestly hope you enjoy this and that it aids you or a buddy in some sort of way. I was looking for a nice piece of voice recognition software, but I couldn’t find any good ones . I should have quick Gimp tutorial in the near future and if you haven’t noticed already, I added some “badges” to my sidebar for applications I widely endorse.

Best to you all,
nikoPSK

Flock, the social web-browser

I decided to give the hyped up web browser Flock a try today. I have seen it promoted at many tech-conferences/ expositions that I have been to and a majority of the developers are based here in Victoria, British Columbia where I am now.

When I fired it up, I was asked if I wanted to import my preferences from Firefox (Bookmarks, History, Add-ons and more) which I kindly accepted and waited about a minute for all to come into flock. I then was greeted with a nice getting started window which taught me a few things on configuring my various cloud accounts. There was also a “My World” page which you can configure with feeds, friend activity, media and various other addable widgets.

I instantly set up my WordPress account like this: I was told to go to WordPress.com and login. Once that finished it told me that my account had been stored in it’s database and now I can click on the feather icon from the Flock tool-bar and post from an innovative dialog.

This dialog relieves me from the new WordPress update and lets me do everything I could normally do from the “write post” tab in WordPress (in HTML and WYSIWYG). It also adds some of the icons from WordPress to make it more friendly to common users.

Enough with that; I’ll now tell you about Flock’s main tool-bars. I guess I’ll talk about the navigational tool-bar. You’ll firstly notice the big star for bookmarking sites, it reminds me of Firefox three’s new way of bookmarking things. Next the joined back and forward buttons and the home button.

In the address entry area on the left you’ll see three buttons, the first to view media streams (if any) on the current page. The second is for obtaining a feed to the current site and the third is to add a search engine to your list on an applicable site.

At the right side of the address entry enclosure, you’ll see an option to send a link of the current site via e-mail to a friend or contact if you like it. Moving down is the Flock tool-bar with links to the various areas in the sidebar (must have added an account to flock to use most of them) and then the bookmarks to the left of that.

The whole thing reminds me of OSX very much with the blue and silver shine; but in another way, is completely different than anything else I’ve seen. The colours are well chosen (the sidebar looks great) and everything is well wrapped over a normal installation of Firefox (so all Firefox’s features too; like spell checking).

I believe this is a great browser and I enjoy the little additions to everything. I have added a link in my sidebar if you haven’t already seen and am making this my default web browsing application (although sometimes the text rendering is iffy, and the buttons (or widgets) are ugly in Linux (I’m sure the fix I used for Firefox will work here)). I hope you have fun with this, and spread it around.

Download Flock:
http://www.flock.com/

Best,
nikoPSK

View your terminal history

I’ve seen a whole bunch of people’s terminal history at various different areas which is neat to keep a tab on all your activities and find out what other people use alot. I guess I’ll pitch in with mine:

niko@home:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
244 sudo
78 cd
56 bzr
35 apt-cache
12 cowsay
8 ./teeworlds_srv
6 niko@home:~/Desktop/
5 ./teewars_srv
4 firefox
3 man
niko@home:~$

It shows I use sudo quite a bit and am very addicted to the terminal in general. Anyways, the person who started all of this is here and I think it’s neat to keep a tab on all that I do. I’m sorry for the absence of posts, but I’ve been having lots of company over lately and it’s been hard to fit it in.

I’ll have a real post tomorrow I hope, and I can only hope that I’m not as busy as I have been lately quite occupied with other things. If you want to find out your own usage of different please add it in the comments after running this command:
history | sed -e 's/ / /g' | cut -d " " -f3 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail | sort -nr

Have fun,
nikoPSK

FrostWire

The peer-to-peer application FrostWire has been in my mind for testing and reviewing for some time. I haven’t been using the kind of “full-fledged” clients for awhile like LimeWire or Azureus, but only the smaller one for Linux which is mainly to me Deluge. I would be using uTorrent, but it looks ugly under wine.

Back on task, FrostWire was written in java and is a fork off the LimeWire project, that’s why you may notice many resemblances to LimeWire when you first use it. The project was started in 2005 to counter the blocking code considered to be placed in LimeWire because of RIAA pressure.

Where Limewire has a free and a pay version, FrostWire is only released as free (which is good, right ). FrostWire can make use of the all the different LimeWire servers (six in total) so you get optimum download speeds. Six servers is also the number used by LimeWire Pro, whereas the normal version of LimeWire only connects to four.

As this is based upon the Pro version of LimeWire, it also has much of it’s functionality. FrostWire includes a Chatroom tab (based on IRC to some extent) which is missing from LimeWire. As I mentioned before, it can do everything LimeWire can do and more; only in a different shell.

By shell I mean theme and icons. So, let’s get started with the installation. You’ll want to head over to this nicely crafted downloads page and grab whatever package corresponds to your current operating system.
http://www.frostwire.com/?id=downloads

Once done, you can launch it up in Linux from: Applications -> Internet -> FrostWire. You’ll be greeted with a splash screen and asked to configure everything. It all should be pretty straightforward and I did notice that the “I agree I will not use FrostWire for breaking the law” like in LimeWire was absent.

Anyways, may you enjoy this. This was a shorty and I can’t really judge my posts now because of that word count feature being removed; but I still love writing for you guys. I hope you enjoyed this post, have fun downloading things (at turbo speed!).

Farewell,
nikoPSK

A clean desktop reflects who you are.

I generally keep my desktop clean from all obscurities such as items downloaded from Firefox. I also try to keep minimal icons, but enjoy a few to my most used locations. I tend to place my icons around the corners of the screen.

Generally I have my drives at top left and important folders at bottom left. That’s about it. It results around three icons if I don’t have any form of media plugged in (SD card, USB etcetera) and leaves me happy when I boot up due to the simpleness.

I also generally stay with clean wallpapers, ones that aren’t too bright nor disrupt the other edges of my screen used by icons. I usually have a wallpaper that represents one of my beloved games as it means something to me (I currently have a half-life one).

Another desktop; is your actual one. I generally keep mine clean, but things do build up as they generally would, but I leave them there so next week I get to go through everything… sigh. It doesn’t help having family regularly use for word processing/ e-mail as well.

At the current time, my actual desk is an utter disaster and I must clean it soon. It has my technology magazines and pieces of paper strewn atop my neatness.. ah well. I am very neat when I do have time though.

Anyways, head off to clean up your desktop as you can most likely live with finding things in the start menu. This was just a coax for you messy people (and trust me, I’ve seen people with row upon row of icons ) to get out of your nasty habits.

Best,
nikoPSK

Application/ Software management in Ubuntu Gutsy

Introduction:
If you are very new to Ubuntu and have come from Windows where you got most updates by visiting the various vendors of each application and doing so separately; you are in for a shock! Updating your complete Ubuntu system including all the software is as simple as running the update manager. In this simple how-to you will learn how easy it is to install in various different ways and remove software as well.

Keeping your Ubuntu System up to Date:
Although you can use synaptic to install your updates, there is a dedicated tool provided by Ubuntu in the name and form of the “Update Manager” (located in System -> Administration -> Update Manager). It is very simple to use; once you start it, it will automatically download the list of updates available for your software. and shows them all neatly checked in a list. If your list is a bit old (it’s verified each day) you can make Ubuntu check for new updates by hitting “Check” and your list will be brought up to date. If you are curious and want to know a little bit more about the update(s) click “Show Details”.

Ubuntu checks for updates daily as mentioned above and notifies you when updates that are important come up. Run update manager by yourself once in a while to keep yourself covered.

Using Add/ Remove to manage software:
This is basically a graphical software manager tool. It is in the applications menu under the name of “Add/ Remove” even though it is actually an application itself name “gnome-app-install”. It allows you to select (or de-select) various packages all neatly arranged for you under different categories. When you launch Add/ Remove you are not prompted for a password; this is only needed when you have chosen your packages and have hit “Apply Changes”.

Along the left side you should see the list of categories in which the different applications will fall into. At the top, the “All” category will be selected by default. It lists every package that can be installed. The right side of the window is split in two with the upper section providing the application list and the lower one providing the selected application’s details. Just above the application list are the search and filter tools. The default filter will be set to “Supported Ubuntu Applications”; change that if you would like, I would recommend it; especially if you want to try a lot more than what supported applications have to offer.

Installing new software in Add/ Remove is very simple. You find the package and checking it’s box. Once you are happy with what you want to install hit apply and you will be asked by a dialog to enter your password so the changes can actually be made. All software currently installed will already be checked, and you can remove whatever you want by un-checking them, then clicking apply.

To find a specific application in the list, type something into the search bar at the top. I’ll remind you that the searches only look in the category you are currently in, so if you are in the “system Tools” category and search “Gimp” nothing will show up. The best place to do your searches is in the “All” category, that way Add/ Remove will scan through every category making sure you (hopefully) get what you want.

Using Synaptic Package Manager to manage software:
The Add/ Remove dialog works just fine for installing most applications, but if you want it more hardcore (library installations, reconfiguring things…) you will have to use Synaptic. You can run Synaptic by choosing it from: System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package manager.

On your first encounter or glance at Synaptic you might think it resembles Add/ Remove a tiny bit; in fact you are right. The left side has all the categories (but many more!), along the top right are the selection of all the packages for whatever category you are in and on the bottom right is the selected package’s info. In synaptic, to install or remove software, click on one of the boxes (to the left of the actual package’s name) and you’ll be presented with a menu with a variety of options:

• Unmark - If you’ve marked this package for installation, upgrade or one of it’s many options, this will remove that mark.

• Mark for Installation - Will add the package to the list of ones that will be installed

• Mark for Re-Installation - If you have some software that is currently installed, but it’s not working for some reason or another, this will remove it and start from scratch

• Mark for Upgrade - If your software has updates, this will download and install them

• Mark for Removal - This deletes the selected package from your system, but leaves it configuration file so if you ever decide to re-install the package, you will not have to reconfigure it

• Mark for Complete Removal - This deletes the selected package from your system and also removes the configuration files

After you have made your decisions, you can then hit “Apply” which will then have synaptic download, install, upgrade and remove as you have told it.

Located right under the Categories on the left side, you’ll see five buttons: “Sections, Status, Origin, Search Results and Custom Filters”. These modify the list to the left. Sections is the list view, Status shows you packages that are installed or have upgrades waiting for a package, Origin shows all your sources of packages, Search results stores your search results and custom has some grouping that’s only for really advanced users.

You can press Control+F or the Search icon at any time to locate a certain package by name. As mentioned already you can return to a search by going to the “Search Results” view then just click on the specific search to find it again.

While also giving you the method of installing and removing your applications/ software, synaptic can also let you configure servers that provide packages and let you find an install them. Synaptic lets you open up Debian universe and multi-verse.

Ubuntu is based on Debian Distribution which has around 25, 000 packages today (and growing!). Ubuntu only uses a few of those many packages, but makes it easy for you to unlock the many different packages awaiting your discovery. When using synaptic you should see small Ubuntu logos next to all the packages which certifies them as being officially supported. All other “non”-Ubuntu packages you will enable will not have this seal of approval but still be supported by Debian developers.

To enable this world of magic, open synaptic, then goto Settings -> Repositories. The list will show you all the servers you have configured (or they were default, either way…). All you need to do is check the Universe and Multi-Verse repositories in there and off you go.

Synaptic shows you an annoying message every time telling you the repository lists have changed and you have to reload the list. Click on the reload button on the top to do so. You should now see a whole lot of new packages at your disposal. However, now; only few have the official Ubuntu logo.

Command Line:
With so many things to install and so many ways to install them, it’s very easy to adapt to the the many ways. At the soul of every installation method they use the world renowned “Advanced Package Tool”. The power of APT is overwhelming. Join us apt users, nothing comes close!

Why is apt so cool? (It has Super Cow Powers!) It was the first to actually handle dependencies in applications/ software. Other distributions of Linux like Red-Hat used RPM files with dependencies. Example: An RPM for say the gimp will require the graphical tool kit (Gtk) which the gimp is based on. So If you tried installing the gimp RPM without the Gtk RPM it would fail miserably. So you take the Gtk RPM and try installing it…. Gtk has dependencies on three other things and so on and so on until you can’t find a certain RPM for one of the dependencies and you say that’s enough and leave in cursing frustration.

APT on the other hand is superior to RPM in every way, mainly because it is designed to retrieve your dependencies. So if you want Inkscape, it will retrieve all the dependencies as well as the package itself ensuring total simplicity. APT also includes installation resuming, which means if for some reason the install doesn’t complete, it will start where it left off next time.

Using APT:
To make sure APT will find packages quickly it uses local cache. Run this:

sudo apt-get update

The apt-get update command tells APT to find updates and download the latest files from it’s list of servers it’s configured to use. If your lists are old it takes around a minute to do, if not it finishes in a few seconds.

After you’ve run that command the latest package info will have been downloaded. Now you can instruct APT to auto download any software that’s been updated using this command:

sudo apt-get upgrade

If you have more software on your PC, there is a higher chance that something will be updated. Each run will tell important info on what is about to happen, example: 2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

That is all you need to know about what’s going to happen right there. Remember, updates will overwrite the existing files replacing them with new ones so there is no real need to worry about how big the update(s) is/ are.

Remember that a simple apt-get upgrade will never remove or add new software, just update files or existing applications. It is safe and will never break things. Sometimes though you will see a variable in the “0 not upgraded” this is because some software must be installed or removed in order for the upgrade to succeed.

In an event as so you will need to use

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

It allows you to upgrade from an older version of Ubuntu to a newer one (Such as Feisty to Gutsy). This will change things and remove obsolete items from the system whilst installing the latest features. This is one of my favorite commands as a new version of Ubuntu is released every 6 months, it allows you to upgrade without discs.

Apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade are for bringing packages up to date,

sudo apt-get install

Will add new software. Example: say I want to install Wine; I would run:

sudo apt-get install wine

APT will find the dependencies I need for wine, list the dependencies you don’t already have and then ask for confirmation of installation.

There are sometimes suggested packages. Suggested packages don’t add any crucial features to an application, but you might need them for various things.

If you run an APT install on an existing installed package, APT will intercept your command as an apt-get update to see whether newer versions are available for you.

The next package operation is of course removing using APT. It will remove things you do not want. This is done by the apt-get remove command. Example as follows:

sudo apt-get remove audacity

Removing packages can sometimes have effects you won’t want. APT will also remove any software that depends on it. An example right here, (you would never do this since libgtk is the graphical toolkit for Ubuntu) if you did this APT would insist dragging another 100 or so packages along with it. Always read the APT report before pressing “y”.

A normal apt-get remove will leave behind the config files so that if you want it again you will not have to reconfigure it to your liking. If you want the config files deleted as well you would do as the following example: (same as the “mark for complete removal” in synaptic)

sudo apt-get remove --purge audacity

That will completely remove audacity (or whatever you want).

Finding Things in APT:
Packages and packages and packages oh my! With the huge number of software available to you, (even more after enabling the universe and multi-verse repositories) it might be a bit hard finding a certain package. The tool to find packages is called apt-cache and is used as so:

apt-cache search cd

Sometimes a search will have hundreds; even thousands of entries. (such as the one above) Apt-cache will also look in the description if you do not tell it otherwise. To make APT search in just the title of the package you would do:

apt-cache -n search cd

The instruct being -n. This has shortened my search a bit. Another way to shorten searches and get what you are looking for easier are expressions. Here are two basic ones: ^ means start and $ means end. Say I wanted to find packages that start with cd (like cdextractor, cdtool or cdcover), I would do this:

apt-cache -n search ^cd

Wow! Alot smaller now that I have told it I wanted the name to start with cd and I want it only to look in the name of the package. Another way to search (and probably the most popular) is to combine apt-cache with grep like so:

apt-cache search burn | grep cd

Now I’ve found all cd burning apps. Once you have found what you are looking for just run an apt-get install or if you want some more info on the package you can use apt-cache showpkg like:

apt-cache showpkg cdcover

This will show all the info of the package such as dependencies etc… Quite useful.

Compiling:
Compiling is fun and easy, (for me) most source code is in the tarball format; tar files if you will. Those files have been compressed using either bzip or gzip. They normally de-compress into a directory holding several files. I think it’s best to compile code as a normal user as not to harm your system if there is malicious code (and there is sometimes unfortunately), so create a directory in your home folder or some other place to which you will uncompress files. (Mine’s named just simply “code”)

Uncompress your tarballs into the folder using the -c option as follows (and replacing “code” with the name of your directory):

tar zxvf nameoffile.tgz -C ~/code

tar zxvf nameoffile.tar.gz -C ~/code

tar jxvf nameoffile.bz -C ~/code

tar jxvf nameoffile.tar.b2z -C ~/code

If you don’t know the compression method that has been used you can use the file command:

file nameoffile

Now change directories to ~/code/nameoffile (with cd). It is also recommended you go to the directory in Nautilus and look for a “README” or “INSTALL” file, because the software might require you to do things in a specific manner. Normally you would compile the source code like this:

./configure

This will run a script to see whether or not all the dependencies are correct and your build environment are right. If you are missing dependencies the script should tell you the ones you are missing and what it needs.

When the configure script is finished (has completed correctly), run this:

make

Make will do the initial compiling of your software. To finish it of and install your software run:

sudo make install

If the compilation doesn’t succeed check the errors and run:

make clean

before you restart. To remove the software if you don’t need/ want/ like it simply run:

sudo make uninstall

That’s about it. This guide was written by me a while ago and was originally written for Ubuntuforums. I hope you enjoy and learn more if you are already an experienced Linux user. If you have questions or have spotted an error, please tell me in the comments.

nikoPSK

New (clunky) dashboard

I generally love updates to things, this is really not one of them and I don’t have a choice on whether to use it or not. Well, I was already being depressed on how geeks don’t get girlfriends, but now I need to worry about new navigation on WordPress .

Let me first discuss the write tab. Although I have to say, the new writing frame is better than the previous although the “Visual” and “HTML” should be moved to the top left again. For unknown reasons, some of the previously convenient things like the categories and the other advanced options are now on the bottom.

The tags are in a big enclosure which I regard as rather clunky. I would have stuck with the the dark blue as a colour choice too, but the developers get all the decision. The publish and save options are on the left and I would enjoy an option to revert back to the older interface.

The main Dashboard is unconventionally located at the top where I couldn’t find it for awhile. I don’t really like how stats are shoved in the main dashboard along with a few other things, it makes it seem unprofessional also it was mentioned that it is less cluttered, but sadly I must oppose that.

A few new features I do like though, they make things easier like the Multi-file upload with progress bar which I already tested and tag management. Although I don’t want to put down all of the effort put into this new interface, I am pretty sure it was meant to attract more people in the visual aspect of it and lost a bit of functionality and convenience.

I also noticed my word count feature that I so heavily rely on is missing or has been moved which is sad. I guess I’ll wrap this up saying please; just give me a choice for the original dashboard. Sometimes newer and better looking isn’t best for everyone.

nikoPSK

My work here is done

You may have no real clue as to what I’m talking about right now; but you’ll shortly find out. Truthfully, I am really sad to be leaving Ubuntuforums as it was my first (real) forum I was ever at.

I learned much at my stay there though, lots of internet manners among other things. I made quite few friend as well. I was active; participated in two support groups… I kind of just lost interest (hope?) after a while of realizing something I won’t share with you now.

The only major thread I had to attend to was my unofficial awn-curves thread which I worked on and molded to support new awn releases. It was highly enjoyed, although there were a few bugs here and there.

My guide got cited by the awn installation guide at the forums, with a nice “nikoPSK has written a quick tutorial on installing awn-curves” which is now replaced by the simple bar appearance change you now have to make.

Awn-curves was merged into the new stable release of awn, so ends my time at Ubuntuforums as I have to tend to nil. I think it’s nice for the people wanting awn-curves for their dock, and good work to meek for getting that far.

Truth is; I’ve told this many times, I don’t really like docks unless it’s RocketDock by Punk Software (and Punk makes a whole lot of great windows software) and Apple’s nicely refined dock.

I left a nice note in my signature saying I have departed with a mail link to contact me if anyone so wishes. I ask most of my questions on IRC now, but I have greatly declined in using that form of communication too.

I hope I made a mark of sorts, at least on some people. As I’ve been playing games like Teeworlds, some users will say: “Hey, I know you, nikoPSK from Ubuntuforums?” and that makes me feel good, because it was most likely a user I helped or played many of the thread games with.

I guess it has all been a learning experience; like this weblog. I learn more as the days go by, example: how to write better. Indeed it has all been fun, and I did enjoy the most part of it, but also time has become an issue with this.

I may be back someday, who really knows; but I must say, I shouldn’t have started out with such a serious forum… or should I? I wouldn’t have this weblog, I wouldn’t speak proper English over the internet and a few other things I’ve learned.

I hope you don’t miss me ,
nikoPSK

Internet explorer eight rules.

It’s so true. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it with my own two eyes. Right in front of me; I was basking in the glory of internet explorer eight running under wine; and damn, did it look good.

I mean; Microsoft was the first to invent tabbed browsing; silly Mozilla trying to copy them and fail miserably. They also revolutionized their invention of tabs with something called quick tabs which owns so much.

Let me say; they also charge for almost all their add-ons. Isn’t that cool? Price means more value; silly little Opera and Firefox where users pay nothing for their add-ons. I mean; what you give is what you get, right people?

It can also do something really cool too. Want to know what it is? It teaches you to almost roboticly find text on a page because it doesn’t have a text search feature. Right on Microsoft!

I also love the feature that teaches you to go grab your own dictionary to see if you spelt the word you think you spelt wrong right; oh yeah baby! Another thing is the new “undo close tab (like Firefox)” and “saving and restoring sessions (like Firefox)” which are not stolen from Mozilla; Mozilla just broke into Redmond headquarters, stole and claimed these new top secret features as their own.

Some other really awesome stuff about internet explorer eight is that there will be “virtual desktops (like Linux)”, and “the ability to rearrange items on the task bar”. The last one is magical and will make our lives so much easier. It’s patented under the name of “MS quick-arrange”.

But; go buy Vista now to get the full features of internet explorer eight! Go! Now! I don’t see you going! Oh well; but I insist on you getting the Ultimate version because Ultimate means it will be Ultimate; and you can’t deny that.

Or just wait another year and buy Vienna. Or don’t. No; just get vista now and enjoy a year of fulfillment and pleasure.It will be like having little tiny monks people working inside your web browser to make it a better place, go and try it now. Get internet explorer eight.

nikoPSK