Friday, January 9, 2009

Reset Picasa2/3 Hidden Folder Password

So I had a hidden folder in Picasa that I didn't remember the password for, and I found an article in the Picasa help pages that said you could reset the passwords on the folder by deleting C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Picasa2\db3\catdata_info.pmp.

I only had a single passworded folder, so that probably simplified things; if you look in that file, you might see a 32-character long string with random looking numbers and letters. This is an MD5 hash of the current password. You can change this if you want (I did when testing this using a quick MD5-er at http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/). I also wanted to know what my old password was, so I found an MD5 brute-forcer and got it in a fairly small amount of time (since I was pretty sure it wasn't a long password).

Kind of random, yeah.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Maine Trip

Basically we want to go tenting in the wilderness and Maine is a different place to do it. Now we just need to figure out what we can see and for how little money.

This is shows Mt. Katahdin, and a little to the south of it the lean-to along the Appalachian Trail that we may be able to stay at. I'd like to avoid being inside Baxter, since that will probably cost more. The problem that I haven't figured out yet is where to leave the car. I've looked at getting a bus from someplace to the park's edge and going from there, but I'm not sure that's going to work or be cost-effective.

Thursday, April 10, 2008