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General Software Discussion / Re: 'Connect to Internet' shortcut needed.

« Last post by 4wd on March 28, 2013, 02:49 AM »

And if you use the full instance ID?

eg. devcon disable "@PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1503.................."

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General Software Discussion / Re: 'Connect to Internet' shortcut needed.

« Last post by 4wd on March 23, 2013, 11:41 PM »

UPDATE:

After much tinkering with Hotkeyz (the help file (online) is the worst part of the program) I now have a single hotkey to turn the programs on and another to turn them off.
Still no success with including the NIC.

-pilgrim-online (March 22, 2013, 10:14 AM)

Are you sure you're formatting the devcon command correctly?

eg.

devcon.exe disable =net "@PCI\VEN_10EC&DE
V_8136&SUBSYS_015B1025&REV_02\4&25F1891F&0&00E1"

That should work from a CLI, (substitute your particular hardware ID of course), so you should be able to put the command into a batch file.

The =net is not required, I include it to ensure that I'm only affecting a network class device, (just in case there's a non-network device with the same ID - which there never should be).

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Living Room / Re: Anti-Drone Technology

« Last post by 4wd on March 23, 2013, 11:09 PM »

Yeah, but as long as shotguns with 00 buck-shot is legal, they'll have a hell of a time keeping them in the air.  Honestly, I thought it was a hawk raiding my chickens!!!     lol

-Tinman57 (March 23, 2013, 07:09 PM)

Considering the limited range of a shotgun with any anything except rifled slugs or sabot rounds, I think I'd rather have the Redback Weapon System.

It'd look right at home on your Hummer too....for those early morning rush hour slogs to work

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 13, 2013, 11:03 PM »

Interesting that you have a lot of 3rd party sites that show no connection to a visited site - are they due to cookies or referer?

EDIT: Forgot, are you still forging the referer 'cos that would explain it.

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by 4wd on March 13, 2013, 03:04 AM »

Battle Beneath the Earth - Those dastardly Chinese.

The Midnight Meat Train - Not too bad.
Urban Explorer - So so.

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 12, 2013, 06:03 PM »

... spoofing is funnier (see attachment in previous post)

-f0dder (March 12, 2013, 05:19 PM)

I think you may spawn a whole new competition: "Who can create the most artistic web of Big Data?"

 

Still no idea why I get a completely blank graph but I do run a few anti-trackme addons, (don't forget to turn off 3rd party cookies also), and all cookies are session only, (all data is session only, I don't have any drive based cache).

Addons: AdBlock+, Better Privacy, Change Referer Button, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, RefControl
Userscripts: Google Hit Hider by Domain, Google Search Better Privacy, Kill AddThis Mouseover, NoMiddleMan, RedirectionHelper, StraightGoogle

One day I'll have to go through them since I'm sure there's duplicated functionality there.

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by 4wd on March 12, 2013, 05:49 PM »

Zardoz! OMG - Even Barbarella came off looking good by comparison to that orphan.
 (see attachment in previous post)
ohmygodohmygodohmygodipromiseillneverwatchitagainohgodipromiseipromiseipromise!!!!!

-40hz (March 12, 2013, 01:07 PM)

Damn you 40!

Every time I think back to this picture I'm in danger of spraying coffee all over my keyboard 

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by 4wd on March 12, 2013, 08:26 AM »

Movies with Sean Connery are practically all in the same league as the Clint Eastwood movies. 'In the Name Of The Rose' is a great movie from S.C.

-Shades (March 12, 2013, 07:44 AM)

*cough* Zardoz *cough*

 

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Living Room / Re: Offline Tracking

« Last post by 4wd on March 11, 2013, 11:40 PM »

Exit house, turn WiFi off....simples.

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 11, 2013, 03:34 PM »

4wd: default Collusion settings under 'filters' is "show cookie-based connections" and "show non-cookie-based connections" both enabled - for me, that shows a node for every site I've visited (and 3rd party sites those sites have pulled resources from...) - the only edge at the moment is DoCo<>PayPal, though.

-f0dder (March 11, 2013, 08:02 AM)

Always have had those options enabled, I get nothing if I visit a site.  I might play around and see what I have to disable to get some nodes.

Those options do say "connections" though, I would have thought that meant you had to have at least a connected pair.

....it's only really useful to open it in a tab, look a bit at the graph, and close the tab again.

That's the only way I use it, I usually forget it's running for weeks at a time unless I've specifically installed something I want to test against it - then I'll check it every few days.

Or perhaps what I really want is an "advanced" mode that lets me do some regex matching

That'd be nice....I look forward to "f0dder's Referer Mangler" 

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 10, 2013, 07:00 PM »

Btw, how'd you get the collusion graph entirely black? Normally it shows the sites you've visited?

-f0dder (March 10, 2013, 06:29 PM)

I thought it only showed sites that make connections to other sites when you visit, (whether by referer, etc).

As such, having the referer set to the dest site means there is, (in theory), no site-to-site reference to be tracked, (assuming no 3rd party cookies, etc).

Not sure, I'll have to play around with it a bit and see what exactly it logs.

So far I'm setting it up to always set http://www.google.com as the referrer, as that's kinda plausible (well, except you'd probably usually have a query string, but... whatever ).

http://www.google.co...put=search&q=sex - give them something to think about 

Meanwhile at the site for Bible Studies:
IT: He got to our site by searching for sex?
Minister: Whatever works.

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 10, 2013, 06:19 PM »

Ah well, I guess I'll give RefControl a try - considered installing it back when I read the Collusion thread, but decided not to based on some of the user reviews. Ah well, here we go

-f0dder (March 10, 2013, 06:03 PM)

You could try just using Change Referer Button instead and have it set to Mode 1, (use the dest page as the referer).

That way you should get the same result but without the whitelist, plus you can easily toggle between it's modes when you need to for a particular site.

Sites that may break are those that get their images from elsewhere and those with download links pointing elsewhere with anti-leech checking, (I've got a whitelisting for a couple of those).

Also Webmin wants to know your referer

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 10, 2013, 04:29 PM »

And possibly install Collusion so you can see who's sharing what with who even though you haven't visited the "other" site.

-4wd (March 09, 2013, 07:36 PM)

Tried that - even with noscript, adblock and ghostery, it gets reaaaaally big and messy (and unusably slow) really fast

-f0dder (March 10, 2013, 12:04 PM)

You forgot to block/forge Referers also - I've had them forged for almost three months and Collusion has been completely blank since then.

Only 6 sites are whitelisted for sending the normal Referer.

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Living Room / Re: Google Chrome + DoCo

« Last post by 4wd on March 10, 2013, 12:10 AM »

I don't have that problem-

-wraith808 (March 09, 2013, 11:26 PM)

Don't worry about it, he's been hitting the bottle again.

He'll wake up tomorrow and deny he ever made those posts....it's happened before.

Or it could be as simple as he's enlarged the text by tapping the Control Numpad + key  

Anyone can do it, here's Dragon:



I'll also point out that Pale Moon doesn't perform this aberration.

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Living Room / Re: Amazon creepy ...

« Last post by 4wd on March 09, 2013, 07:36 PM »

And possibly install Collusion so you can see who's sharing what with who even though you haven't visited the "other" site.

IainB started a thread on Collusion over here.

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Living Room / Re: Recommendations for a Host OS?

« Last post by 4wd on March 08, 2013, 09:39 PM »

I don't know^* if you know but the Microserver is capable of running ESXi 5.1 with 2 or 3 VMs, (given a bit more RAM) - quite a few reports of people doing it.

If you want to have a play with it, you could remove your existing HDDs and plug in a temp storage HDD, plug a flash drive into the internal USB connector and install ESXi on it.

ESXi 5.1 for it can be downloaded from here.

You could conceivably run your FreeNAS within a VM on it as well as another 1 or 2 VMs.  Won't be suitable for playing games but it might be for some low powered or long time frame work.

Just an idea.



^* Does this fulfill the "Tell me something you don't know..." ?
 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Need a ccTalk Windows32 ActiveX control or DLL

« Last post by 4wd on March 08, 2013, 09:24 PM »

There exists a few half-completed python scripts and .NET projects floating around out there but nothing complete.

-DavidPaulsen (March 08, 2013, 09:58 AM)

The nbCcTalkCoinAcceptor project is based on a previously half-completed .NET project.

It was recently hosted upon GitHub, (25 Feb 2013 - original post here), and includes documentation and a sample VS project.

Is that of any use?

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Living Room / Re: Here is an odd windows service problem

« Last post by 4wd on March 07, 2013, 06:19 PM »

Sounds like a job for Process Explorer followed by Autoruns.

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General Software Discussion / Re: keylogger

« Last post by 4wd on March 06, 2013, 04:02 AM »

tspion - A nifty, light, and portable keylogger for legal monitoring purposes.

Intro

Platform: Windows XP/Vista/7

This program is written in D. It uses a global hook to record keystrokes.

Just an experimental project made in two nights.

Interestingly this does not seem to require administrator privileges on Windows 7.

Notice

This software is NOT to be used for purposes that invade other people's privacy. This software comes with absolutely NO warranty whatsoever. You are responsible for how you use this software. Most important notice of all: Ctrl-Shift-Alt-S to shut this program down.

Some antivirus programs may detect this as a keylogging malware. That's okay because this program doesn't hide its keylogging capabilities at all (other than being compressed with UPX, but what modern antivirus does not have the UPX unpacker builtin?).

Just a note, if you download launch_1.2.1.exe, then MSE will complain because of the UPX packing.  If you run the extracted keylogger, (which isn't packed), MSE doesn't say a word.

And here's some output, (daten.txt in executables folder):

testing one two tr[BACKSPACE]hree
op
george smithtspion[SHIFT][HOME][CTRL]v - [CTRL(5)]c[BACKSPACE(3)]

[CTRL(4)]v

- [SHIFT]A nifty, light and portable keylogger.[CTRL]c[CTRL]v[DOWN(33)]

[SHIFT]Just a note, if you download launch[SHIFT]_1.2.1.exe, then [SHIFT]MSE will complain.  [SHIFT]If you run the extracted keylogger, [SHIFT]MSE makes[BACKSPACE(6)] doesn't say a word.[CTRL][SHIFT][ALT]S

It only logs physical keypresses, ie. it won't log stuff that's pasted.

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Living Room / Re: How safe is your PIN?

« Last post by 4wd on March 05, 2013, 10:08 PM »

No PIN is safe:

All Credit Card PINs in the world, leaked!

-Deozaan (March 05, 2013, 09:23 PM)

You'll have to extend your list out to at least 6 digits for mine but now I know everyone else's 

Plus, like Rover, I'm kind of low on funds. 

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Living Room / Re: Why Russell Holly returned his Microsoft Surface Pro - A Cautionary Tale

« Last post by 4wd on March 05, 2013, 09:17 PM »

I have no idea how close the nearest one is to where I live.

-Deozaan (March 05, 2013, 11:36 AM)

It wouldn't matter anyway, it's closed.

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Living Room / Re: Grab 50GB of Box Online Storage Free for Life (2013-02-12)

« Last post by 4wd on March 05, 2013, 04:11 AM »

I'm not writing software, just seeing if some shell script magic could be done... 

-Edvard (March 05, 2013, 12:46 AM)

Something like these from Jack Dwyer?

Box.net-Backup-bash-script
Box.net-Backup-bash-script-v2

Must get back to trying to get davfs to work on the VPS so I can actually do a backup....

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Living Room / Re: Long Range WiFi WITHOUT line of sight. HELP!!!!

« Last post by 4wd on March 04, 2013, 06:09 AM »

Oh, I could probably setup a Terminal Computer with PCI based wifi, if that would be better than dongles.

* Stephen66515 shrugs

-Stephen66515 (March 04, 2013, 05:36 AM)

If you use PCI cards that means you need to run good quality low-loss coax cable between the PCI card output and the antenna at the dish.
If it's any more than a meter in length, the signal loss may start to make a significant impact.
Any length of quality low loss coax won't be cheap either, (compared to a 5m USB lead).

With the dongle, you have no such problem - the signal is received and decoded in the dongle and you send just the normal serial data down the cable, good for up to 5m, (per USB spec).

If you use a WiFi extender at the dish and run the data back over CAT5e, you're probably good for 20-30m before POE voltage drop may be a problem - even then, you could just place the POE injector close to the antenna and continue back to the router/computer in CAT5e for another 20-30m without a problem.

Another idea is if you could get one of the small WiFi hotspot devices to run in repeater mode.  You could then place that at the focal point of the dish, just supply it with power and have it rebroadcast the WiFi signal throughout your place.

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Living Room / Re: Long Range WiFi WITHOUT line of sight. HELP!!!!

« Last post by 4wd on March 04, 2013, 03:22 AM »

So...Question is...Anybody have ANY clue...if this is possible?

I will be linking with a specific connection...so I don't need something to scan for open networks or anything like that.

-Stephen66515 (March 04, 2013, 12:35 AM)

Yes it should be possible.

The WiFi you're trying to access, what is it specifically?

eg. Is it just a friends wireless router, some free wireless community network, etc.

For the former they might need to provide a directional antenna pointing at you, (a cheap USB adapter at the focal point of your sat dish or parabolic), as well as you needing one aligned with it.
If it's the latter then their antenna setup should be that only you'll require the parabolic/dish.

FWIW, if the dish can be placed within 5m of the router/computer then it's easiest to use a USB 802.11n adapter at the focal point, (you can waterproof it by housing in a plastic pill container), and running a 5m USB extension lead, you may be able to extend it a little by using a active USB extension lead.

If the dish has to be mounted further away than 5m then I'd look at a WiFi extender mounted at the focal point using Cat5e cabling back to the router/computer and using POE, (Power Over Ethernet), to power it.

As for what you do with the dish/antenna, there are numerous sites on the net that deal with using them to extend WiFi range, eg.
This guy modifies the LNB at the dishes focal point to insert a USB adapter.
The image in the post below it is from Stan Swan's excellent article about using "spider skimmers" as parabolic antennas.
Instructables
eHow

The main points being:

• Is it an offset dish.
• Where's the focal point, (if the LNB is still attached, this makes it easy).

I'd try with just using a dish at your end first, (because it's the easiest), and seeing if you can get a decent signal.  For that, Netstumbler or inSSIDer is good for pinpointing the best signal as you move the dish around.

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Living Room / Re: When is your birthday?!

« Last post by 4wd on March 02, 2013, 08:16 PM »

I don't believe in that stuff either but Capricorns rule  

-rgdot (March 01, 2013, 06:09 PM)

Think again  




Crap, just realised Renegade'll come back with something about burgers and lasagne....