How to find interesting obscure stuff on YouTube.
Some YouTube search strings to find random videos and strange stuff.
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How to use a userScript to remove query parameters from a website URL.
How to use a userscript to remove query strings from a website.
Find information in a swapfile image with Linux.
The strings utility for Linux is very useful for finding all text strings in a binary file. I am using a swapfile image as an example. It can easily be searched for various strings that can reveal various information. Below is an example, I am looking for instances of the word “user”. ┌─[✗]─[jason@jason-desktop]─[~/Downloads] └──╼ $strings … Read more
Very useful C code for printing a set of strings in random order.
This is a simple program that prints a few strings one after another in a loop, but it is randomized. This is very interesting. This goes to show it is very easy to do something like this. strings.c1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 … Read more
New Ubuntu distribution and how to use the strings command to search binary files for text strings.
The new Ubuntu distribution is quite an awesome desktop operating system; we have come a long way from the roots of Linux as a desktop alternative that was perceived as being hard to use and unapproachable. Linux these days is very easy to use and the installation and removal of software such as Google Earth … Read more
Finding Windows Malware with Linux.
This output below is the result of running strings(1) on my pagefile.sys file left over from running Windows 7. You can see there is a bit of activity going on behind the scenes of Windows that I was not aware of. I thought my system had no bugs in it at all, but I loaded … Read more