ScreenStamp!
Craig from youreadmyblog.info let me know a few days ago about a project him and a few of his friends from uni have started called ScreenStamp!
He is looking to get some feedback as far as I know and I think that the software is pretty useful so I will give it a mention here.
Here is the description from Craig himself:
What is ScreenStamp! going to do?When ScreenStamp! has been fully developed for the release of the BETA version, it will once run ask you for a location to save your screen shots to, along with a name that the program will number, allowing the user to concentrate on the job at hand as a pose to saving screen shots.ScreenStamp! will also time and date stamp the screen shot at the top right hand corner.
Where did the ScreenStamp! idea come from?
When myself and my work group at University, where we are studying Ethical Hacking for Computer Security were carrying out an Information Gathering exercise the task of taking and saving screen shots with the clock opened and date showing was becoming really boring, so myself and a couple of other group members decided that and application that would do this for us would be well worth the time spent on creating one, after we had looked at failed to fins an application that did exactly what we had in mind.
I urge you all to go try it out and let us know what you think and of any bugs you find, it is available for both windows and linux with the possibility of Mac version coming soon (although the linux version may work on Mac??)
You can find out more and download @ http://www.screenstamp.co.uk
Mass Pagerank Checker is back!
I've re-uploaded my mass pagerank checker after losing it when I installed WordPress.
Sorry to anyone who was looking for the tool within the last week or two but it's back now and fully functioning 
Regards
Stephen
Transfer MySQL database to remote server
This post has been rewritten. Please see How to transfer a MySQL Database to a remote server for updated information
Hey,
This week I've moved back from my ultimate dedi to a Futurehosting VPS in an effort to cut costs and turn a larger profit from Drag Racer. I tried to make the transfer of data as quick as possible and seeing as how my database is a few hundred MB I transferred it using mysqldump.
First thing's first, you need to prepare the receiving server. Create a user for the sending server to connect as using this command from the mysql console:
GRANT ALL PRIVILAGES ON *.* TO 'username' @ ' [OLD SERVER IP] ' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
This will allow your mysql server with the IP [OLD SERVER IP] (replace this with it's real ip ofcourse) to connect using the username 'username' and password 'password'.
Next we are going to use mysqldump in the linux shell (or windows cmd prompt, I'm not 100% where it's located in windows) to dump our databases to our new server. The syntax of the command is as follows:
# mysqldump -u username -p -h [NEW SERVER IP] [DATABASE NAME(S)]
The command to dump two databases (one called database1, the other database2) to ip 192.168.1.1 is as follows.
# mysqldump -u username -p -h 192.168.l.1 database1 database2
mysqldump will now take a few minutes (depending on the size of the database in question) to dump the entire contents of database1 and database2 onto your new server (in this example 192.168.1.1). I recommend that once you are finished with this, you remove the user we created to copy the database over. To do this we use this command from the mysql console:
drop user username;
If you have any questions please leave them below in the comments. I also recommend using the following website to look up the commands I showed and their uses:
mysql.org
Windows XP Crash on demand
I know I'm about 6 years behind with this, but when I stumbled across it on another one of my frequent 2am internet journeys I was quite amused.
From http://www.tweakxp.com/article37502.aspx
Windows-XP has a "feature" (???) with which it is possible to manually crash a system by simply holding the right CTRL key and pressing the "Scroll Lock" key twice. This feature can be turned on by the following steps:
1. Start regedit. (If you are unfamiliar with regedit, please refer to this FAQ)
2. Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters
3. Create a new DWORD value and name it CrashOnCtrlScroll
4. Right-click on this newly created value and click on Modify
5. Enter 1 in the Value data field and click on OK.
6. Close regedit and reboot your system.
7. Now you can blue screen (crash) your system by holding the right CTRL key and pressing "Scroll Lock" twice.Note:
Your system may reboot or show a blue screen whenever this crash is initiated. If your system reboots after initiating the crash, and you want to see the blue screen, follow these steps:
1. Go to Control Panel > System
2. Click on the Advanced tab
3. Under Startup and Recovery, click the Settings button.
4. Under System failure, uncheck the option Automatically restart.Happy crashing...
Now, the first thing I wondered was WHY. What possible reason could the devs have for this weird little keystroke. And then I set out to test it. I then realised that I was booted into MacOS. I wasn't going to reboot into that ungodly OS just to purposely crash it (it usually would anyway) so I've just put it up here, incase anyone is bored enough to try it on their (or a friend's 
pc)
Stephen
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