I was given a word 2010 docx document the other day to edit, only the issue was that it had protection added to stop people from editing it which I needed to remove.
I spent an hour searching for a document password cracker / remover with no luck until I happened across a post on spiceworks which gave a easy working solution to remove the password from the word 2010 file.
So here’s the solution, for future reference:
make a copy of the original file
right-click and rename the extension to zip
extract the files
open the extracted folder and look for word\settings.xml
right-click and edit
find a string with “w:documentprotection”, it’ll be after the “w:proofstate” group
cut/delete the “w:documentprotection” area of the xml file and save
drag your new settings.xml from the extracted folder to the zip folder
rename the zip folder’s extension with the edited .xml file back to docx
LittleBobaFooFoo ~ Spiceworks Forum
this 100% worked to remove edit protection from word 2010 docx but it should work with any office 2010 file and as they share similar file structures, it should work with office 2007 too.
Responsive Web Design is here to stay, it is now regarded as the way to develop sites and contain the same core content across devices through the same site.
In many cases and I have done this myself, Responsive Web Design has been explained and sold as a set of views one for mobile, one for tablet and one for computer but this is not actually the case and it shouldn’t be explained like this at all as it gives the wrong impression of what the technology does.
This type of web development shouldn’t be to target specific device types or even specific devices i.e. different views for iPad and nexus 7 or mobile and desktop but rather to give accessibility and similar experiences to all resolutions.
The key here is that is requires a change in mentality for the designers and developers as we’re not working to a specific device set or even towards a set view at set resolutions but rather a layout that flows and changes as necessary with graceful degradation when viewed on strange resolutions.
We also need to consider working in pixels has become kinda irrelevant due to high DPI (retina) grade screens where a single pixel is only half or even a quarter of a pixel on standard screens.
Overall designers and developers need to start using terms such as small screen and large screens instead of mobile vs desktop along with considering a small screen physically might be classed as a large screen pixel wise.
iftop isn’t in the CentOS repo by default which is a shame, luckily there is an rpm on repoforge available; just run this little bash command/script to install the correct version depending on arch or display saying it’s unavailable.
if uname -a | grep -q "64"; then rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm; elif uname -a | grep -q "86"; then rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm; else echo Not available for your arch.; fi
As part of the ongoing development of my site and services, there will be some services that will be discontinued within the next few months.
Services Portal
This is really just a very static web page which probably isn’t used, it’s a pain to maintain and really just a waste of disk space. This service will be removed on 6th April 2013. If you use this service then please book mark the pages you require from the services portal.
Filestore turns to Cloud Files
As some users of my filestore system may know, the uploading method isn’t very simple and overall the hosting of files can be much easier on other services, this is why I have overhauled the filestore system.
The current filestore system isn’t going away just yet but will be migrated to a better solution. The new filestore will be more cloud-like with the ability to store calendar and contact information, along with a sync tool for computers (Mac, PC, Android and iOS) and a simple new interface. The same interface will be available for file sharing and a directory list will continue to be available.
This new service will be under the files subdomain and not filestore, this is to help the transition be smooth, I will be contacting the relevant users when this change will come into effect.
Manager
The web manager will also go through a change, mainly to give users more control over their services but to also be more mobile compatible. This change won’t effect any files and migration will be made once all the new services are ready to be used. This will however mean that some interfaces will change, so don’t be surprised when everything’s suddenly different; we will leave the old manager available for a short period of time as things transition.
Proxy
This service is going to be retired in the near future. It shouldn’t be being used and I don’t wish for it to be publicly available anymore. This is really just a courtesy notice in case anyone is using it.
Backups
Anybody using the backup system that I provided will be migrated to the private cloud system which will be a similar system to the successor of the filestore (above) but it will be contained on a separate server, require different credentials and also have limited sharing abilities.
Services Already Removed
The (very) old static blog site that was left up for historical reasons has finally been removed; along with a small server list containing servers that are no longer active.
So overall there’s some exciting new changes being made in the near future.
I’ve been trying to make a smaller install of the RaspberryPi‘s distro Raspbian for use as a headless server/base as a minimal install. The default image contains a full desktop environment, development tools aimed at general users and firmware for most common WiFi chipsets which are entirely unessesary for a headless server for web and dhcp services.
I’ve decided to document what I did to save me time next time I reimage my Pi.
Re-activate Root
[login as pi]
sudo su
passwd
[new root password]
exit
Remove the user Pi
[login as root]
deluser pi
rm -R /home/pi
rm -R /home/Desktop