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General Software Discussion / Re: ReactOS

« on: June 20, 2006, 12:16 AM »

Yea, I agree... they'll never be able to catch up with Microsoft.. though they've had an opportunity with this lag between XP and Vista.

While I doubt it'll ever be something that's useful to the majority, I do find it an interesting project and I'm sure that they've had a good time and a lot has been learned about Windows internals that wasn't previously known. Therefore, I totally support their effort.. no matter how futile it may be .

-db90h (June 20, 2006, 12:05 AM)

Deffinitly! Me too. I always think alternative operating systems are very interesting.

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Living Room / Re: Broken Windows Theory

« on: June 20, 2006, 12:01 AM »

Well, the other day on slashdot there was an article entitled: "Gates' Replacement says Microsoft Must Simplify"
linking to this: http://www.theaustra...509645-36375,00.html

I couldn't agree more. Overly complex projects litterally suck the life out of developers. Modularity could be a solution I think.

So we'll see where that goes. There could be some interesting changes ahead. But first we have to survive Vista. :shiver:

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General Software Discussion / Re: ReactOS

« on: June 19, 2006, 11:50 PM »

The problem with ReactOS/wine/... is that they will always run sooo far behind. Every time Microsoft releases a new API they are going to have to implement it, without reverse engineering the Microsoft code. And they haven't even completed the API's from a decade ago. Good luck

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LAN Email monitoring

« on: June 19, 2006, 03:31 AM »

Note that you can also use ethereal with cain, if ettercap looks too difficult. The cain interface is a bit easyer to work with. You can use cain for arp-poisening, and then capture all data in ethereal or any other sniffer.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LAN Email monitoring

« on: June 19, 2006, 03:28 AM »

by the way, here's the source code for an ettercap filter that will log all email sent over the network to a file, and display a message in the window every time it captures email data. (remember that it needs to be compiled with etterfilter first.)

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if (ip.proto == TCP) {
  if (tcp.src == 110 || tcp.src == 25) {
      msg("Captured some email data!");
      log(DATA.data, "C:\\email.log");
  }
}

You can replace the C:\email.log with any file you want to log to, but remember to use double backslashes(\\) because backslash is an escape character in C.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LAN Email monitoring

« on: June 19, 2006, 03:01 AM »

I'd go for ettercap since it can do much more than cain can. Cain is good for sniffing voip stuff.
You can write custom ettercap filters that fetch the email for you.
Ettercap can be fully extended with plugins as well, it requires some scripting from your part, but the tradeoff is that you can completely customise which data to capture and how to process it.

You can use ettercap in combination with ethereal if you want, or any other sniffer. You can use ettercap for arp poisening, and ethereal for filtering data without having to go through any script writing in ettercap.

Here is a screenshot with ethereal and an email filter applied. (I only added the pop protocol, you could make it capture both pop and smtp if you want)

Using ettercap's ARP Poisoning features you can capture all data on the network (so not just data from / to your machine)

By default, ethereal captures silently (to avoid overflowing the buffer when allot of data gets sent really fast and there are no filters set.) but you can enable live data monitoring.

(the screenshot is taken on linux but it also runs on windows.)


http://www.ethereal.com/
http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: LAN Email monitoring

« on: June 19, 2006, 12:09 AM »

With ARP poisening you CAN monitor from one central location.
It tricks the router in sending all packets through your computer (the one where you want to monitor everything) even if your computer isn't the destination for the packet. This allows you to monitor all lan traffic from one central computer, including email.

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Living Room / Re: Broken Windows Theory

« on: June 16, 2006, 11:51 PM »

Why don't they use a compile farm with many of those dual cpu boxes?
Why don't they have a modular design where you only have to compile what needs to be compiled?
...

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General Software Discussion / Re: soft and hard links in ntfs

« on: June 14, 2006, 12:48 AM »

You can't "cd" to a shortcut, for example.
You can't "type" a shortcut in commandprompt and get your original file, for example.
Shortcut generally only work with thingies you click on.

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Living Room / Re: UV Art - really cool!

« on: June 09, 2006, 12:20 PM »

Cool!

You can actually do some of this at home if you have a blacklight, a drawing table, and some fluorecent markers or paint (http://www.blacklight.com/items/BLWPNT46)

I used to know someone who used to do this all the time, all you have to do is make a drawing with regular paint or markers, then go over it with the fluorecent kind. Depending on the kind of markers and/or paint you use it will be visible or unvisible in normal light. But either way, you can get a totally different drawing under a blacklight. It's pretty cool

Offcourse the work on that site surpasses all of that and is done very professionally, it looks really great.

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Living Room / Re: Is Your Son a Computer Hacker?

« on: June 09, 2006, 11:49 AM »

hahahahahaha  lol thunder7

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Living Room / Re: PZIZZ power napping software

« on: June 09, 2006, 11:04 AM »

Sounds kinda scary. What if they include brainwashing messages in there?

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Living Room / Re: 10 minute video of Japanese Rube Goldberg Machines

« on: June 07, 2006, 12:53 PM »

hahaha :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME211CawFk8

I dunno why but this cracks me up.

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Living Room / Re: interesting usability test videos for dif. linux desktop programs (gnome,etc.)

« on: June 07, 2006, 01:42 AM »

gjehle: my point exactly

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Living Room / Re: Digital Distribution of Music

« on: June 06, 2006, 12:20 PM »

Yeah, I just saw this on slashdot. It's sick.

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Living Room / Re: Mousers

« on: June 04, 2006, 11:38 PM »

Cuties

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Living Room / Re: June 4 Podcast

« on: June 04, 2006, 10:06 PM »

Well, I got to try out something new.
A multi track recording thingie for linux.

http://ardour.org/

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Living Room / Re: VisualComplexity gallery collection - very cool

« on: June 03, 2006, 01:26 AM »

gothic, i've actually had that idea for a while since a separate project i worked on at one point was visualizing such graphics with graphviz.. so maybe i will.

-mouser (June 02, 2006, 05:23 PM)

Interesting

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Living Room / Re: Extremely cool visualization of global statistics over time.

« on: June 03, 2006, 01:23 AM »

Yeah, I had the same,... looked funky before, looks ok now.
That's a very interesting graph thingie. I passed the url to a friend of mine that studies geographics and demographics. Some interesting results.
I moved from Belgium to the US last year and there's some results there that I always suspected.
There's lots of industry in belgium and lots of city, not much nature around.
Mind you that belgium is a very tiny country, and yet, when you look at the CO2 emission graph(in tons per capita), it is way up there, very close to Japan. Then if you look at
the urban population percentage, it is the 4th in the world, scoring close to hong kong and Macao, in China.
Also interesting is when you look at the military budgets, the US scores very high, along with China.
Hehe, that last one kinda shows the urge to take over the world. Singapore is way up there, along with Jordan and Pakistan.

Then also interesting how Luxembourg is RICH!! if you look at income per capita.

Strange result: Why does Cuba have so many physicians?

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Living Room / Re: interesting usability test videos for dif. linux desktop programs (gnome,etc.)

« on: June 03, 2006, 01:09 AM »

Maybe people that want something that just "works" shouldn't get into computers
Software rarely just works. Even on Windows.
And maybe people that don't want to tweak should stick to Windows.
I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the idea that everyone in the world should be using Linux, since it clearly has a different audience. No matter how fluffybunny-easy the wm/user interface gets,
I don't see your average AOL joe user using Linux without ever running into any issues that require greater computer understanding. (or understanding what's under the hood of all that fluffy gui, rather.)

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Living Room / Re: VisualComplexity gallery collection - very cool

« on: June 02, 2006, 02:19 PM »

How inspiring,
mouser, maybe you could make an smf plugin that makes such a cool graph from the threads/posts/and users on the forum.

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Living Room / Re: usability test videos for linux desktop tasks - interesting

« on: June 02, 2006, 01:59 PM »

You can't just say Linux instead of Gnome.
Linux, the operating system is just the kernel. It's not like in Windows where the GUI stuff is all part of the OS. People could be running anything, it doesn't have to be Gnome. And lots of people I know don't run Gnome or KDE (since they are a bit bloaty.)
All MS did with their start button is put a very ugly skin around it. Not much innovation if you ask me. A gnome panel can have something similar to a start button but it's removeable and moveable, so it can be placed anywhere, on any panel. It's optional. Even the entire panel is optional. Many other window managers (like fluxbox/blackbox) launch their 'start menu' by rightclicking on the desktop for example. Then there's many NextStep'ish windowmanagers out there that many people use, which have floating boxes on the edges of the screen which can be buttons to launch applications, or drawers containing a bunch of application launchers, or entire programs running in a tiny box (dockapps). Gnome may be most commonly pre-installed with many distributions but i'd say it's far from being "The Linux windowmanager" that would tick allot of people off. Calling video's like this Linux usability tests, is just more misinformation that can add to prejudgmental ideas non experienced linux users can have. (eg: I don't like linux, because I don't like gnome.)

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Living Room / Re: usability test videos for linux desktop tasks - interesting

« on: June 02, 2006, 01:41 PM »

This doesn't show much about LINUX usability since it's a bunch of windows people not knowing what they are doing. If anything they are demonstrating how similar/unsimilar GNOME is to windows. Half of the things on that list I would have done through commandline anyway :p
Title of parent should be Windows to Gnome migration or something. Don't forget that there are countless other windowmanagers out there that have a completely different functionality.

Because someone who has used windows all his life, gets shoved infront of a box running gnome (which also runs on bsd, and other unixes and possix os'es not just linux.) and doesn't immidiatly find what he's looking for, doesn't mean that linux is more or less usable.

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Living Room / Re: So....How many processes do you have running on startup and during normal usage

« on: June 02, 2006, 01:35 PM »

*cough*

http://bluescreenofd...ath.co.uk/vmware.jpg

PhilKC

Sweet

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Living Room / Re: So....How many processes do you have running on startup and during normal us

« on: June 01, 2006, 01:18 PM »

(this is on gentoo linux)

A 48

B 82 (with gnome)   
B 62 (with fluxbox)
(includes firefox, code::blocks, a terminal, irc, etc,..)