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the easiest way to get aircack-ng and reaver working on ubuntu 12.04

neither aircack-ng nor reaver is in the repos in ubuntu 12.04. aircrack was dropped in the precise cycle because it was dropped by debian temporarily in order to sort out some licensing and maintenance issues, and reaver is fairly new and just didn't make it in time. fortunately both packages are in 12.10. by far the easiest way to get these packages to work in 12.04 is to download the quantal versions and install them in precise. i've done so, and i haven't run into any problems. :) the packages can be found here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/aircrack-ng http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/reaver once installed, run: ifconfig to figure out your wifi interface. then put it in monitor mode: sudo airmon start wlan1 next, run 'airodump' to figure out the BSSID of the network you are aiming to penetrate: sudo airodump mon0 when you have found it, cntr-c to exit. then run 'wash' on it to see if reaver is possibly going to be successful....

making a high quality djvu file/ebook from somewhat crappy pdf scans

i am assuming you either you have a hard copy of an article/book/etc., or else a pdf file of a scanned in document that you wish you clean up and make into a high quality djvu file. also, i am a linux user, i have no idea (and couldn't care less) how to do it on windows/mac. here is how i do it. tools gscan2pdf (my fav scanning program presently) scan tailor (brilliant piece of software) steps if you have a hardcopy, i recommend using gscan2pdf (the name is deceiving, it also outputs djvu). it may, in fact, do almost everything you need to get your documents cleaned up. play with it; it is a powerful tool.  if you have a pdf file, the first thing you need to do is to convert it to a multipage tiff file. the highest quality way to convert it that I have found is by using the following ghostscript command: gs -SDEVICE=tiffg3 -r600x600 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile="output.tif" -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -- "input.pdf" this seems to output a much higher quali...

t-moble short prompt vs. standard prompt?

anyone know the difference between the two? does it cut out all the rubbish before someone can actually leave a message?

overview of your legal rights with the websites you use

http://tos-dr.info/