LimeWire shut down

Online file-sharing service LimeWire was shut down by a US federal court on Tuesday following a lawsuit filed by the music industry.

Pirate Bay is also shut down.

The move came a little more than five months after a US judge ruled in favour of 13 music companies in a copyright infringement and unfair competition case brought against LimeWire.

The 13 music companies filed their complaint against LimeWire in 2006 and Judge Wood ruled in their favour in May. In June, eight members of the National Music Publishers' Association filed a separate copyright suit against LimeWire. LimeWire software was released in August 2000 and uses peer-to-peer, or P2P, technology to allow users to share music or other files over the Internet.

LimeWire is owned by the Lime Group, a New York-based company.

Bypass a Computer Password on All Major Operating Systems

Obviously you shouldn't use this to gain unlawful access to a computer. But here's how you can get onto a computer without the password legally.

But if you're a geek, however, you'll eventually end up in a situation where someone forgets their password, you acquire a machine with an operating system you cannot access, or similar situation. I can't tell you how many times I wondered "how do I get on my computer without the password?" or how many kids had parent blocks they had to bypass by going into the administrators account and turning it off. "hacking the administrators account" was a google trend search term in 2009.
 
See this tutorial for info on how to bypass the password on the three major operating systems:
Windows, Mac, and Linux.

http://www.joetech.com/2009/01/29/how-to-crack-the-account-password-on-any-operating-system/