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If you happen to forget your Dreambox root password, here’s how to do it:

If you have an image that accepts plugins from internet (e.g. Gemini)
1) Install TuxCom plugin
2) Run it from Yellow button
3) Point to /var/etc/passwd

change the line containing root into root::0:0::/:/bin/sh

now you can telnet your Dreambox with an empty root password and create a new password for root.

Here’s the original source of this article:

http://www.sat-industry.net/forums/dm-500s/22606-how-can-i-retrieve-lost-root-password-2.html

I have one external USB harddisk that I use for my entire documents backup. I take them with me during travelling but always leave it in my hotel room just in case if I lost or damage my laptop. So basically when I leave it, anyone can find it and plug it in any USB port and voila… he/she will have a full access of all my documents.

After googling, I found a nice and free disk encryption tool. It’s called truecrypt. Here are the features I copied from the website:

Main Features:
- Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
- Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
- Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
- Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
- Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).
2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
- Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS.

For more information go to their website at: http://www.truecrypt.org/

The first African American to travel into space was Guion S. Bluford, on the third Challenger flight at August 30, 1983.

Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev spent 748 days on board the Russian space station Mir.

There are more stars in the sky then grains of sand on earth.

In 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova, the first woman in space, married Andrian Nikolayev, also a cosmonaut. Their daughter, Elena, born in 1964, was the first child in history born to a mother and father who had both traveled in space.

The only spacecraft to to visit Mercury is the Mariner 10.

At apogee, the farthest point from the moon to the Earth, is 251,968 miles (405,503 kilometers).

The first photo of the planet Earth taken from space was shot from the Vanguard 2 in 1959.

The Sun is a G type star.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system to have an atmosphere. However, it cannot support life as its atmosphere is made of nitrogen and methane gas.

Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

The moon is 27.24% the size of the Earth.

A piece of a supernova star as the size of the baseball on Earth would weigh more than the Empire State Building of New York City.

The smallest constellation is Crux, which covers 0.16% of the sky.

Pulsars were discovered by British astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, England, in 1967.

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
(He was the first man to be on the moon on July 20, 1969).

The 3 types of asteroids are C-type (carbonaceous), S-type (silicaceous), and M-type (Metallic).

Quasars were discovered by Marten Schmidt in 1963.

The discoverer of the planet Uranus, named William Herschel, originally named it Georgium Sidium after King George III in 1781, but it was changed to Uranus in 1850 for the reasons of the Roman gods.

At midday on Mercury, the sunlight is hot enough to melt lead.

The heaviest known meteorite to fall to Earth, the Hoba West meteorite, lies where it fell in Africa. Weighing about 60 tons, it is not likely to be moved.

In 1992, a yo-yo was brought into space by astronaut Jeffry Hoffman on the space shuttle Atlantis.

A star named Barnard’s star is approaching the Sun at a speed of 87 miles per second. By the year 11,800, it will be the closest star to us.

The United States and Russia do try to make their launchpads as far south as possible. Our U.S.’s N.A.S.A. has it’s launcher at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 28.5 degress north latitude. This gives the satellites an extra (or free) 915 miles per hour. Russia’s space program, however, could only get it as far south as 45.6 degrees north (roughly the same as Portland, Oregon) at its launchpad Baikonur, Kazakhstan. This gives it an additional 730 miles per hour.