Saturday, December 26, 2009

How to remove/erase your BIOS/CMOS Password on Windows, Ubuntu/Linux , BSD platforms

BIOS password is stored in a non-erasable part of the CMOS ('BIOS memory'). If you have forgotten the Bios/CMOS password on your laptop/desktop, here is one 5-minutes-solution to remove it.
This solution was working for me on a Linux environment, Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala and is also working on a Windows, BSD environment.
CMOS is a type of battery-powered chip that holds data without requiring an external power source. In a laptop/desktop, CMOS holds the basic instructions the computer needs to initialize its hardware components and boot up. These settings are known as the basic input output system (BIOS) or CMOS settings.
Before trying to figure out where is your CMOS located and how would you safety remove it for 30 minutes, as a solution to erase your Bios Password, or finding out what is the backdoor password for your computer - some BIOS’ have pre-installed backdoor passwords, you can succeed using the CMOS password recovery tool 5.0. This tool works in Windows, Linux and BSD platforms.

For Windows follow those steps (you need to have administrator privilege):
1.Download the CMOS password recovery tool 5.0 freeware here;
2.Unzip the file;
3.Install ioperm driver - that gives direct port I/O access for specified ports to user-mode process – “ioperm.exe -i”;
4.Ioperm has to be running, start the service with “net start ioperm";
5.Run "Cmospwd_win.exe" file;
6.Restart your computer, press F2/other key to access your BIOS menu without any password.
The old password is erased and that took you less than 5 minute.
7.Uninstall the ioperm driver with "ioperm.exe -u", to increase your security.

For Linux/BSD follow those steps (you need to have root privilege):
1.Download the CMOS password recovery tool 5.0 freeware here;
2.Uncompress/untar your Tar file;
3.Open a terminal and write the commands to locate your file;
4. You have a few command options:
cmospwd /d ---> to dump cmos in ascii and scan code
cmospwd [/d] /[wlr] ---> cmos_backup_file write/load/restore
cmospwd /k ---> kill cmos
cmospwd /m0010011 ---> to execute module 3,6 and 7

If you chose “cmospwd /k “ as I did, you will have 3 options:
1 - kill cmos (also the date and time , this can be adjusted later);
2- kill cmos (keeping the date and time);
0 - abort ;
Your password is erased and you can access your Bios again.
Success!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Thoughts: between the law of attraction and the quantum mechanics

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” Joseph Campbell

The universe is made of mass and energy, mutually convertible. According to some principles in quantum mechanics our thoughts have also energy and like atoms, are governed by the "like attracts like" concept of physics, attracting whatever is the person thinking of . The law of attraction says that if you really want something , believe in it and you are open to receiving it, you’ll get it and if you put a lot of attention and thought onto something you don’t want its possible you’ll get that also. So focus only on things that you want.
Our thoughts are deciding our future and what we have at this point in our lives is the result of our mind.
A person's thoughts will attract the people, the material things and the events in his/her life.
In David Bohm’s vision, a quantum physicist who made a number of significant contributions to physics, particularly in the area of quantum mechanics , the thought “is the whole thing - thought, felt, the body, the whole society sharing thoughts - it's all one process. It is essential for me not to break that up, because it's all one process; somebody else's thoughts becomes my thoughts, and vice versa. Therefore it would be wrong and misleading to break it up into my thoughts, your thoughts, my feelings, these feelings, those feelings... I would say that thought makes what is often called in modern language a system”.
There are many theories saying that the law of attraction is working but there are also the questions – why is there so much poverty, why is the hunger the gravest single threat to the world's public health, if this law is working?
There isn’t an answer for that but if I look back in my life I see achieving things that I wanted with my whole heart, things that I believed will come true, things that I put a lot of attention and positive thought into them.