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General Software Discussion / Acrobat bug can lead to malware installs without even opening an infected file

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2009, 03:00 AM »

If you've been living in fear of opening any suspicious PDF files since we let you know about a still-unpatched bug in Adobe Acrobat that could expose your PC to a malware infection, we've got some bad news for you: it turns out that, due to how the bug is integrated into the software, it's possible for malware authors to still get into your system, even if you never actually open an infected file.

The bug affects only Windows computers running Acrobat version 7 or later. Because the program doesn't correctly read PDF files containing a certain type of compressed image, a specially-crafted PDF can at once crash Acrobat and inject its own code into the system, beginning a malware installation. Even though this bug's been public knowledge for weeks, and exploits are already out taking advantage of it, Adobe has been delaying its release of a patch to fix it, scheduled to be available on the 11th.

http://www.obsessabl...ng-an-infected-file/

from http://www.downloads...n-originally-tought/

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2009, 12:45 AM »

uh oh, target is making a run at taking Chris's pun medal.

Edvard are you finding these pictures or creating them??  They are just too good for you to be inventing them all.

ps. for those who don't get the lime and coconut reference, it's from a song.

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Living Room / Re: Extreme Change

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2009, 12:43 AM »

Fun idea for a thread.. let's see what people come up with..

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Living Room / Re: These Wonderful Friends of DC

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2009, 12:31 AM »

Freeware Genius with some nice words:

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your mouse of choice?

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2009, 12:26 AM »

how come there aren't more mice with small trackball wheels where the mousewheel normally is? doesn't this seem like a logical thing to build?

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Living Room / Re: The Making of The Petaminx - Rubik's Cube Cubed and Made by Insane People

« Last post by mouser on March 06, 2009, 12:00 AM »

Edvard, lol, nice one 

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Finished Programs / Re: REQ - Random (real random) file from folder and subfolders

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 11:59 PM »

nice idea, nice work scancode 

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Living Room / Re: Google Maps on Paper [ScreenToaster promo video]

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 04:23 PM »

i dont even care if there is a point.. it's beautiful and wonderous.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: [bug] FARR error and freeze if html view mode page tries to close win

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 02:20 PM »

fixed -- not yet uploaded -- will be in next update.


A separate but related issue:

what's still not fixed that i'm not sure how to handle is the other side of this coin -- posting to a web page javascript that the page is closing if the user clears the search or closes farr.. 99.99% of the time this does not matter, but for some javascript things (like maybe tiddywiki), a script on a page wants to do something (or prompt user) when the user is leaving the page.

Update: Maybe i spoke too soon -- on testing it seems that the js unload event is indeed called when switching away from browser window, so that's good.

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Mircryption / Re: Having Trouble in combination with another script (eggdrop)

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 01:33 PM »

why don't you join #donationcoder on efnet and i can see if i can help you more, it's hard to do this over the forum.

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Official Announcements / Re: MARCH 2009: It's the 4th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 12:40 PM »

Where do I send the chocolate/pictures?

See address on bottom of About page.

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Living Room / Re: These Wonderful Friends of DC

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 09:31 AM »

And here's Confessions of a freeware junkie, another great software blog:

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: License Question

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 09:11 AM »

i've resent your license key, you can message me if you don't receive it and i can try to figure out why.
i'll move this post to another section later.

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Mircryption / Re: Having Trouble in combination with another script (eggdrop)

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 09:08 AM »

try not using plaintext block script at all, just to make sure it isn't to blame.

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Mircryption / Re: Having Trouble in combination with another script (eggdrop)

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 06:33 AM »

if you disable your channel specific encryption key lines, does the problem go away?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Aliases for tracking packages

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 06:05 AM »

Thanks for this, very useful 

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Independent Study Projects / Re: Planetary Weight Computer System ... haha... Still learning C

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 05:45 AM »

you can edit your post your make the correction

it's a good start.

first to answer your question about breaking out of a loop: this happens not infrequently.  a common solution is to have a flag before the switch statement like:
bool needtobreak=false;

then you have your switch statement, where if you wanted to break from loop you would simply do:
needtobreak=true;

and then after your switch statement you would have

if (needtobreak)
  break;


Now some more general comments:

You are using some styles that would be considered ok in the early days but are frowned upon these days.
For example, using numeric error codes.  You dont want to use any magical numbers in your coder, it makes it very hard to read as it gets bigger.  A better solution might be to define at the begining of your file:
#define ERROR_BADWEIGHT 1
then in your code:
err_msg(ERROR_BADWEIGHT)
and in void err_msg(int error you wouild have:
if ( error == BADWEIGHT)


you are also repeating a lot of code like with dif functions for each planet.  it would be a good excercise to try to make it more generic, with at the very least a single function like:
PrintWeightOnPlanet(char* planetname, double weightconversionfactor)

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Mircryption / Re: Having Trouble in combination with another script (eggdrop)

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 05:38 AM »

can you try disabling (put a # in front of) the lines:
set mcpskey(defaultd) "my_key"
set mcpskey(defaulte) "my_key"

and set keys ONLY for the channels you care about.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Feedback on dcmembers site

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 04:54 AM »

Love it 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Command line tools for after-capture processing

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 04:22 AM »

See the help file on Advanced Usage->"Using 3rd Party Tools" for more info on configuring multiple tools with SC, that you can trigger from the Tools menu.  It actually has a little tutorial there.  Try getting it to work with an image editor before you try a .bat file.



BUT.. I'm trying to remember though if the "External Editor" which is configured a bit differently and in a different options tab, supports these commandline parameters.  I'll have to check on that and update it if not (If it doesn't, then its just going to be passing the image filename as the first paramter).

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Dc Member Blog Idea - Feedback Requested

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 04:08 AM »

Lutz, that's a good question -- but mainly the idea is to leave it up to the group to come to some consensus about the scope of the blog.. i'd guess that much of the content would be about software, but not all.  It can reflect individual interestes, as long as no one is trying to use it as a marketing gimick.

Back to the issue of whether we should host it as a separate wordpress blog vs. adding it to the forum system, here are two existing blogging addons for the simple machines forum software (and then there is also my own homebrew system):

• http://custom.simple...ds/index.php?mod=793
• http://custom.simple...s/index.php?mod=1209

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Screenshot Captor / Re: SC Folder window popping up after screenshot

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 04:06 AM »

i'm hard pressed to think why it would do this, except maybe you've configured it to launch something post capture that it can't find?



if you can't figure out the culprit, exit SC, backup your ScreenshotCaptor.ini file and then restart to reset default options.  then compare your old versus new settings .ini files to figure out what it was.

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 01:53 AM »

but uh.. what about the other new guy?

A big welcome to Rodney and Tyler too, who i missed from before.  And anyone else in this thread that I may have missed. 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by mouser on March 05, 2009, 01:46 AM »

And a belated but warm welcome to you Ordstrin! 

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Living Room / The Daily What’s Top 7 Billy Mays Infomercial Re-Dubs : NSFW Language

« Last post by mouser on March 04, 2009, 07:10 PM »

Has anyone else here seen these before?  It's a new kind of humour on the youtube, audio dubs of infomercials.

Here's a list of Top 7 dub-overs of infomercials starring Billy Mays, complete with video.

They are hillarious if only for the fact that they try to stick quite close to the original scripts -- they seem improvisational in spirit.  They aren't trying to change the meaning of the infomercials, they are just putting a little twist on the presentation style.  That's their brilliance.

Honestly i am in awe of the people who come up with the ideas to do these kinds of things.

http://www.listicles...infomercial-re-dubs/