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General Software Discussion / Re: Keyboard shortcut of the day

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 21, 2012, 12:00 PM »

Another one that's been around for awhile (and is probably seldom used) is now imperative if you want to logoff of (not disconnect from) an RDP session to a Windows 8 or Server 2012 machine is Ctrl + Alt + End. I've been using it and Ctrl + Alt + Break (toggle Remote Desktop full screen mode (So the Win key works on the remote box)) quite a bit lately on a Client's 2012 Server.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Submission - FreeNAS Brute Forcer

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 21, 2012, 11:46 AM »

It also serves as a simple example of what to enter, making explaining it simpler.

-Renegade (November 21, 2012, 07:42 AM)

[Insert Abject Horror Smiley] Pardon me for waxing elitist...but if they don't know what an IP address is, wouldn't it be safer if they stayed out of the box in question? 

If it's a case if input limitations (no name lookup code [gethostbyname(pstrHost)], etc.), I usually just use an IP address input control to force the issue for me. Or let a name/IP radio button set toggle textbox/IP address controls into view in the same location (all the user sees is the 3 dots appear and disapear).

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Submission - FreeNAS Brute Forcer

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 21, 2012, 07:25 AM »

Um... Is this supposed to open and automatically target a specific (private but non-local) IP address by default?

-Stoic Joker (November 21, 2012, 06:46 AM)

Well, the idea is that you'd use it on your own FreeNAS box on your own local network. You'd normally have it assigned a static IP address, or I would anyways. It doesn't target network paths like //freenas/shared/whatever.

-Renegade (November 21, 2012, 07:14 AM)

Understood ... It just struck me as odd that it (first time) started with a target already in mind. And thought that it might be leftover test data (leakage).

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2013 Submission - FreeNAS Brute Forcer

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 21, 2012, 06:46 AM »

Um... Is this supposed to open and automatically target a specific (private but non-local) IP address by default?

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Living Room / Re: Well, I got it: Nokia Lumia 920, Windows 8

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 20, 2012, 11:29 AM »

No man, that's way too manual. The "Windows Phone" Windows 8 app auto-syncs content when plugged in over usb. There is also a Desktop/Windows 7 program (You linked to it previously) that I presume can do the same.

-allen (November 19, 2012, 11:20 PM)

This one? http://www.windowsph...hone-app-for-desktop

Apparently there's a version that runs on a Mac ... But:

The Windows Phone app for desktop won't work on Windows RT

.
That's rather dumb.

-Stoic Joker (November 20, 2012, 06:43 AM)

The desktop app won't run on RT, none do. The Windows Phone app would work on RT and is what I use on Windows 8.

-allen (November 20, 2012, 08:07 AM)

Ah! Okay ... The other link. I was in a bit of a hurry, and got sidetracked being baffled by why they would even bother coding a Mac version...as them folks is hopeless KewlAid fiends.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thoughts on this sort of UI styling?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 20, 2012, 11:22 AM »

Likely these tests are all interrelated and therefore must be run in a group. The top states that is is going to verify several tasks. Then it lists them, and inquires if the user would like to run these tests. Consistent use of plurals makes it rather clear (to me) what's about to happen.

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Living Room / Re: Mysteries

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 20, 2012, 06:52 AM »

When you look at yourself in a mirror the objects you see reflected are inverted in the horizontal plane - why not in the vertical plane ?

-joiwind (November 20, 2012, 05:42 AM)

Everything you see is already inverted vertically by the optics of the human eye. It's then uprighted in/by the brain.

You see, all this time we've actually been standing on the celing, because we really live inside the earth and "outerspace" is underground.

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Living Room / Re: Well, I got it: Nokia Lumia 920, Windows 8

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 20, 2012, 06:43 AM »

No man, that's way too manual. The "Windows Phone" Windows 8 app auto-syncs content when plugged in over usb. There is also a Desktop/Windows 7 program (You linked to it previously) that I presume can do the same.

-allen (November 19, 2012, 11:20 PM)

This one? http://www.windowsph...hone-app-for-desktop

Apparently there's a version that runs on a Mac ... But:

The Windows Phone app for desktop won't work on Windows RT

.
That's rather dumb.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Thoughts on this sort of UI styling?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 19, 2012, 06:49 AM »

I like it as is. None of the UI dress ups detract from it's concisely stated purpose...which allows me to glance at it, like it, and properly understand its purpose in one shot.

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Living Room / Re: How Much Do You Trust Wikipedia?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 18, 2012, 03:39 PM »

I like Bacon!

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Living Room / Re: Gadget Fridays

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 16, 2012, 09:28 PM »

I've carried a leatherman for years. I originally hand the slim one that they gave away for the Marlboro Miles promotion, but I lost the damn thing (left it onsite actually). I currently have the Leatherman Blast.

Interesting bit of trivia...they have a 25 year warranty.

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Living Room / Re: It's about ... the clock (mouser)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 16, 2012, 06:38 AM »

Hm... the offset appears to be from server time, not (the assumed usual) GMT. While my board time is correct I'm only using an offset of 1. I'm EST(/DST) vs. the server's local CST (e.g. +1 off). But normally I should be using GMT -5 to get the correct time.

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Living Room / Re: You thought those cheap no-name USB/Phone charger were safe?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 15, 2012, 05:31 PM »

I'd be inclined to think the second yellow wire came loose and shorted to something (first yellow?) cooking that corner of the board. There doesn't really appear to be any thing else there it could have hit.

The 4 diodes amount to a bridge rectifier, and give you a DC square wave, then the transformer drops the voltage. The rest is just for the green lite and power conditioning (to avoid the garbage in, garbage out scenario). Not a really complicated widget..

Just thinking out loud.

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Living Room / Re: Well, I got it: Nokia Lumia 920, Windows 8

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 14, 2012, 11:37 AM »

I'm still waiting for Sprint to get their head out of their ass and offer some proper W8 phones. But for my current W7 phone the office mobile's Outlook tied to exchange does great for scheduled calendar events - I'm hoping/assuming that hasn't changed) - When a scheduled event pops up it plays a sound and a quick glance tells me what it's on about. I don't really need to swipe the phone open it's just there on the lock screen to snooze or dismiss.

How is the camera on the 920? I couldn't care less about the purest nitpicking about maximum bla-bla-bla ... I just want to know if the thing will take a descent picture that will still look right when it gets to a desktop. My current W7 HTC Aspire's performance is less than stellar in that regard.

-Stoic Joker (November 14, 2012, 07:07 AM)

I've never used my phone with Exchange but as near as I can tell mail hasn't changed moving from WP7 to WP8. Those screen waking "toast" notifications are still in play -- much to the chagrin of some who feel it's a serious security/privacy issue.

-allen (November 14, 2012, 08:22 AM)

I was wondering if that aspect would come up. Personally I'm not worried about it - and love the feature for quick glance info. To me it's really more a matter of how securely you carry the phone. Leaving your phone laying around where some passerby can read toast mesages is just plain foolish ... It's not the phones job to protect people from themselves. If something is kept in ones pocket, it ain't gonna get lost (or read by anyone). If that same thing is laid down in various places every time one moves ... well (duh..!) it's just a matter of time before it gets lost (or "leaks" something it shouldn't have).

The camera is fantastic. The way it stabilizes and compensates for my shaky hands is amazing, which also allows it to keep the shutter open longer in poor lighting making it likely the best low light camera phone on the market. I've seen some complain that images taken in good light are a bit washed out... nothing that can't be fixed with a firmware update. I think it's largely people who were hoping "Nokia PureView" would allow them to give up their SLR. It's still the best in-phone camera I've ever used.

Just took this - if you look closely, it wouldn't hurt to apply a little sharpness I guess.

-allen (November 14, 2012, 08:22 AM)

That'll work.

Thanks.

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Living Room / Re: Well, I got it: Nokia Lumia 920, Windows 8

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 14, 2012, 07:07 AM »

I'm still waiting for Sprint to get their head out of their ass and offer some proper W8 phones. But for my current W7 phone the office mobile's Outlook tied to exchange does great for scheduled calendar events - I'm hoping/assuming that hasn't changed) - When a scheduled event pops up it plays a sound and a quick glance tells me what it's on about. I don't really need to swipe the phone open it's just there on the lock screen to snooze or dismiss.

How is the camera on the 920? I couldn't care less about the purest nitpicking about maximum bla-bla-bla ... I just want to know if the thing will take a descent picture that will still look right when it gets to a desktop. My current W7 HTC Aspire's performance is less than stellar in that regard.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 11, 2012, 08:49 AM »

I'm wondering if any of these work while the clock is being unresponsive.

      /exit   : Exit T-Clock 2010
      /prop   : Open T-Clock 2010 Properties
      /start   : Start the Stopwatch Counter (open as/if needed)
      /stop   : Stop (pause really) the Stopwatch Counter
      /lap   : Record a (the current) Lap Time
      /reset   : Reset Stopwatch to 0 (stop as/if needed)


Also might be worth a shot to try the released with sourcecode build 98 to see if it behaves differently.

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Living Room / Re: Win 8 Zero-Day Exploit

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 04, 2012, 07:37 AM »

Boot-level attacks are on the rise according to security experts. Attackers have found great success with rootkits that infect a Windows machine’s BIOS or Master Boot Record, giving them persistent and often undetected access to a machine. Boot-level attacks can also lead to further malware infections where an attacker can harvest credentials and use an infected computer as a pivot point for attacks on other machines in a network.

-The Article

I've been seeing many of the MBR variety in the field lately, but hadn't realized the BIOS exploits were off the drawing board and in the wild. Any ideas how one would even go about trying to detect/remove one of those??

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Living Room / Re: Confusing Apple Promo (Spoof)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 03, 2012, 11:04 AM »

Perfect!

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Living Room / Re: Internet freedoms restrained - SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/CETA/PrECISE-related updates

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 02, 2012, 03:53 PM »

More copyright fun:

http://torrentfreak....ng-10-movies-121101/
BitTorrent Pirate Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Damages For Sharing 10  (porn!) Movies

-TaoPhoenix (November 02, 2012, 09:45 AM)

Well, they better have been lesbian porn, because to my knowledge, the highest paid yet is $780,000.

http://www.news.com....ejlrpu-1226503001489

And that's for the real thing!

-Renegade (November 02, 2012, 10:05 AM)

I find something (ok...better make it many things) about that story extremely disturbing. Is it just me?

-40hz (November 02, 2012, 03:34 PM)

Hay, if somebody is willing to pay top dollar for a blank slate...what's the harm? It wasn't "special"?? 9 time out of 4 "special" is in reality defined as short, confusing, and on somebody's thigh. ...Yeah, getting paid well would ruin that memory...

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 01, 2012, 06:39 PM »

What?! Much like Friday The 13th the emperor and Vader didn't actually die? 

-rgdot (November 01, 2012, 06:28 PM)

  ...Darth Vader takes Manhattan..?  Oh crap ... They'll do it if it sells tickets.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (download)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 01, 2012, 06:36 PM »

Damn peculiar that is. With all of the WMP systems ripped out of N it makes sense that T-Clock would have problems as it is dependent on much of it for its media file handling. But Enterprise shouldn't have any effect on it ... That I can think of.

May haps if we can get a larger test group a trend or commonality could be spotted/found.

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Living Room / Re: Facebook's New Orwellian Censorship

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 01, 2012, 06:21 PM »

Nope...I don't want less government in my life. I want less 'corporation.'

-40hz (November 01, 2012, 02:36 PM)

Actually, I want less of both.

-wraith808 (November 01, 2012, 03:26 PM)

+1

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« Last post by Stoic Joker on November 01, 2012, 06:19 PM »

I heard way back in the early 90s (before the prequels were even heard of) that Star Wars was originally 9 parts and that the "original" trilogy were the middle 3 parts.

-Deozaan (November 01, 2012, 06:04 PM)

I remember hearing the same back then and was also a bit confused by the 6 part story "update".

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Living Room / Re: Don't You Want to be "Safe"?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 31, 2012, 07:45 PM »

In latest case to test how technological developments alter Americans' privacy, federal court sides with Justice Department on police use of concealed surveillance cameras on private property.

-TaoPhoenix (October 31, 2012, 04:41 PM)

I wonder exactly how hard it really is to generate a 'small' EMP..

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Living Room / Re: You thought those cheap no-name USB/Phone charger were safe?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on October 31, 2012, 07:22 PM »

Sounds more like they're not safe for (Princes and the Pea) iPhones. We've got 20+ cell phones at the office mostly Androids, 2 iPhones, and my Windows 7 phone. All of them charge daily on the $3 (wall and USB)chargers that I got from NewEgg at various points (depending on what was on sale), and none of them died from anything other than getting dropped one to many times.

Come to think of it I don't really know what the iPhones charge off of ... But the Androids and I are perfectly happy with the cheap stuff.