just paste my text!

It's very annoying when sites/applications block copy-paste out of some idiotic conclusion that it improves system security. Here is a novel idea - make it a configuration option.
In a mean time here is a script that I've adopted from https://github.com/EugeneDae/Force-Paste
I've added delay that allows me to switch between applications to Copy and then later Paste.

Enjoy.

rootkit.com user database processing

## Build the current version of JTR

$wget http://www.openwall.com/john/g/john-1.7.6-jumbo-12.tar.gz
$tar -zxvf john-1.7.6-jumbo-12.tar.gz
$cd john-1.7.6-jumbo-12/src
$make clean linux-x86-64
$cd ../run/
$./john --test

## restore mysql database

$mysql -p
>create database test;
>use test;
>source /tmp/xxx_backup

## dump user/password into txt file
>SELECT email,password INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/xxx.txt' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ':' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM usertable where length(password)=32;

## feed it into JTR
$./john --wordlist=passwords.txt --format=raw-MD5 /tmp/xxx.txt

## enjoy

$./john --show /tmp/xxx.txt --format=raw-MD5

VMware Server weirdness

Virtual machine working flawlessly on my PC, but adding the same image on another machine fails with some unrelated log entries:
...\VMware\VMware Server\hostd-0.log


[xxxx 'Vmsvc' 8376 info] Foundry_CreateEx failed: Error: (4002) Cannot read the virtual machine configuration file[xxxx 'vm:C:\Virtual Machines\xxx\xxx.vmx' 8376 info] Failed to load virtual machine.
[xxxx 'vm:C:\Virtual Machines\xxx\xxx.vmx' 8376 info] Failed to load virtual machine. Marking as unavailable: vim.fault.InvalidVmConfig

The difference is in the default system locale, which is reflected in .vmx and(!) .vmdk:

machine 1: 

.vmx:

.encoding = "windows-1251"

.vmdk:

ddb.encoding = "windows-1251"

machine 2 .vmx:

.encoding = "windows-1255"

.vmdk:

ddb.encoding = "windows-1255"

VMware server version: 2.0, running on Windows XP/Windows 7

Hint:

Editing .vmdk file is not trivial on windows, most editors will fail to handle multi gigabyte files, you can use biew/beye utility for this.