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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Temporary Access
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 05:35 PM »
Any thoughts on CSecureEditEx?
-Uncle John (October 13, 2008, 05:00 PM)
Good idea not using the default EDIT control, but I would probably have done things differently implementation-wise... Also, I'm a big fan of being able to "show contents instead of asterisks" for password controls, but obviously in the way that enabling the feature clears the current contents of the control.
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General Software Discussion / 100-fold WPA/WPA2 bruteforce speed increase
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 04:38 PM »
I pondered a bit whether I should post this or not, since it'll undoubtedly be part of Ehtyar's tech news weekly. But I figured it's interesting enough to stand out on it's own... this says something about the massive power today's generally programmable GPUs have for very specific parallellizable operations - almost to the point of making small-scale in-your-own-basement supercomputers affordable.

Russian researchers achieve 100-fold increase in WPA2 cracking speed:brutalgpu.png

EDIT: added hyperlink to image, for those too lazy to google for keywords ;P
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Temporary Access
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 04:29 PM »
"Self destruct" will never work - there will always be a way to bypass it. Refusing to activate based on time is also trivial to bypass. And even contacting a server for decryption keys (which will grant or refuse based on time/whatever) can be bypassed, although that's a bit trickier.

Depending on your exact needs, some of these problems might be acceptable, though.
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Living Room / Re: The eyeballing game
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 04:20 PM »
There, mouse and zooming in firefox (the flash applet was a bit small in 1280x1024 - yeah yeah, this could be considered cheating :))
[Select]
Your inaccuracy by category:

Parallelogram 5.4 3.1 6.6
Midpoint 0.7 3.9 2.0
Bisect angle 3.2 1.1 0.1
Triangle center 4.7 3.3 3.1
Circle center 2.1 4.7 5.4
Right angle 3.0 0.4 1.5
Convergence 4.5 6.4 5.3

Average error:  3.36   (lower is better)
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Living Room / Re: Should Microsoft become an OEM (PC manufacturer)?
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 04:00 PM »
It wouldn't worry me one way or the other so long as they don't make it necessary to purchase their hardware with their software.  I guess I'm saying - so long as they don't become an apple, but some much friendlier fruit.
-Grorgy (October 13, 2008, 03:42 PM)
Fat chance of that happening, should they go down the PC-system road. Look at how locked-down their XBOXes have been... (sure, gaming consoles are a different breed of machine, but I'm still saying... with complete control of the hardware, you can really lock down the system if you want to.)
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Living Room / Re: Anyone Else Stop Getting the BitsduJour Daily Emails?
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 03:58 PM »
I'm not getting their mails, but I do subscribe to the RSS feed. Considering removing it, though, since I've never been interested in anything they offered :)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Where to start with computer programing
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 02:57 PM »
My professors would advise against eclipse because it helps people too much...
Still, I sure recomment it! :)
-jgpaiva (October 13, 2008, 02:52 PM)
I believe that all the helping Eclipse does is actually a good thing - especially for people who have never programmed before. The help it gives is certainly more intuitive than what the java commandline compiler spits out. You could argue that some of it's features might drive people lazy, and all the helpful warnings can make you end up writing sloppy code, but I dunno about that.

Oh, and then there's all the "repetitive manual labor" automation that it does - it's nice speeding up refactorizations, creation of setter/getters, etc. After all, those are examples of step-by-step manual labor that a machine does just as well as you, so why waste time doing it manually? :)
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Living Room / Re: Should Microsoft become an OEM (PC manufacturer)?
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 02:30 PM »
zridling: ALL of Microsoft's software, or just what a regular end-user would ever need? ;)
4584
Living Room / Re: Malware Tricks: Skype Edition
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 02:22 PM »
Skype lets non-contacts IM you? Wonderful :o :o :o
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Living Room / Re: The eyeballing game
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 01:43 PM »
Wasn't familiar with all the English terms, but at least I could guess what they meant. Too bad that it's a single "click-and-release", the mouse cursor makes it a bit difficult to do this accurately. After the first run (where I got a relatively bad score on the parallelogram because I didn't know it was one-click-and-release) with a laptop touchpad, I had an average of 6.40... let's see what the combined total is.

Btw, for the "right angle", do you simply have to do a 90 degree angle, or match the length as well?  :tellme:
[Select]
Your inaccuracy by category:

Parallelogram 13.2 5.4 13.0
Midpoint 0.0 4.1 4.0
Bisect angle 2.6 1.1 2.8
Triangle center 6.1 3.8 5.7
Circle center 3.2 4.0 4.5
Right angle 3.7 4.4 5.2
Convergence 16.0 20.6 7.3

Average error:    6.22   (lower is better)

Nice little game - guess I should try it with a mouse :P

EDIT: added tabs to align the table.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Iobit smart defrag vs o&o defrag pro
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 01:33 PM »
[Select]
c:\program files\sysinternals\contig -s c:\*.*

FTW!!  :-* :-*
-Edvard (October 13, 2008, 12:43 PM)
I wouldn't recommend that.

Sure, if you have enough free unfragmented disk space, you will end up with defragmented files... but since contig (afaik, anyway) doesn't do any "big picture planning", your filesystem won't be compacted, and new files will thus quickly become fragmented. It's a great tool for defragmenting individual files, though :)
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Living Room / Re: Should Microsoft become an OEM (PC manufacturer)?
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 12:06 PM »
40hz: http://www.chippc.co...hin-clients/jack-pc/ ? :)

Yeah, it's not a fully-fledged PC, so you need a terminal server. But darn they're cute... and can do power-over-ethernet.
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General Software Discussion / Re: I gave in: Should I have?
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 11:21 AM »
wreckedcarzz: I'm indeed pretty dumbfounded at your previous insecurity policy - wow O_o

What I don't get is... why install Avast? STOP DOING DMZ AND ONLY FORWARD NECESSARY PORTS (uPNP is OK), turn on Windows Firewall, and make sure windows filesharing is password-protected. That removes a lot of attack vectors, and if combiend with responsible web browsing (either using Vista with IE7+UAC, thus running sandboxed, or FireFox+DropMyRights), you've eliminated most attack vectors.
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Older Newsletters / Re: DonationCoder.com Article - One Year Report on our Experiments with Donationware
« Last post by f0dder on October 13, 2008, 11:17 AM »
Not sure that's a good idea, czechboy.

I personally get pretty suspicious when something asks me for an email address, and for unknown software I'll definitely be entering a bogus address unless I absolutely HAVE to enter a valid one. Now, of course I know that DonationCoder software has no bad intentions, but if I was a new user that didn't know about the site yet and just wanted to try FARR or Screenshot Captor? I would enter bogus information.

Also, I think there shouldn't be too much about donating in the newsletter, as it could easily be seen as begging. Iirc we've seen one or two posts from people who couldn't remember signing up for the newsletter who thought they were being spammed, and if the newsletter was full of donation-begging... then that could easily seem worse.

On the other hand, I don't have a better solution I'm afraid. The license policy does seem strange, even if I understand mouser's reasons.
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Living Room / Re: Should Microsoft become an OEM (PC manufacturer)?
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 10:35 PM »
No, please no!! Not another apple in the bussiness. Things are good as they are now, for me :)
-jgpaiva (October 12, 2008, 08:35 PM)
+1.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Self Distruct
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 06:24 PM »
40Hz: encryption would obviously have to be applied before the system is stolen - ie., either full-system encryption with TrueCrypt, or a single partition or container file where your data is stored. And of course it only stops people from getting your precious data, it doesn't prevent people from re-selling the stolen hardware.

Btw, I don't believe you really need multi-pass disk wiping these days, unless you want to guard yourself against NSA and electron microscopes. A single 0-pass should be sufficient to wipe against what normal people's hardware could be exposed to.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Where to start with computer programing
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 05:45 PM »
JAVA is a pretty OK language to learn programming with, actually. It has a large class library with tons of useful stuff (not always super-nicely designed, but nothing's perfect), it's hard to shoot yourself in the foot, and it's not a toy language that can't be used for anything serious. And eclipse is a free and pretty decent language for it.

From there on, taking on C# or C++ shouldn't be too hard, since those languages are very similar in structure to JAVA - more complex and powerful too, but you don't need to unlock the full power of a language to start with.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Self Distruct
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 05:13 PM »
See Skrommel's DoOrDel.
-Deozaan (October 12, 2008, 03:45 PM)
"Bypassing it is simple", says the page.

+1 to scancode, proper encryption is the way to prosperity.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Qliner Hotkeys (open source): Hotkey program with visual keyboard
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 10:57 AM »
Unfortunately doesn't work on 64bit windows - I suspect it's the same type of problem that CircleDock had.
-f0dder (October 12, 2008, 09:17 AM)
f0dder,
Forgive me for asking, but is that 64 bit XP or Vista.
Ken
-KenR (October 12, 2008, 09:52 AM)
Both, I bet. The CircleDock issue manifested itself on my XP64 box, and I tried Qliner on my Vista64 laptop. Pretty much exactly the same issue - 32bit hook DLL and dotNET built for "any cpu" instead of targetting x86 (32bit). 64bit apps can't load 32bit DLLs.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Qliner Hotkeys (open source): Hotkey program with visual keyboard
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 09:31 AM »
Want to me to debug it? It's C# so I should be able to get it working or see what's wrong.
-VideoInPicture (October 12, 2008, 09:22 AM)
Do you have access to a 64bit machine, though? I suspect it'll be as simple as setting the build type to x86 instead of "any", but I can't be arsed to play around with it myself right now :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Qliner Hotkeys (open source): Hotkey program with visual keyboard
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 09:17 AM »
Unfortunately doesn't work on 64bit windows - I suspect it's the same type of problem that CircleDock had.
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Living Room / Re: One answered question before you died
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 04:18 AM »
I'm not happy with my choice of "perception of reality", but I can't think of a better way of putting it at the moment (experience of the world? Sensory feedback - is red to me red to them?).
-Darwin (October 11, 2008, 03:25 PM)
I've had that conversation with a friend. Obviously we all see "red" as "red" - but that makes me think along the lines that "OK, so we use the same palette index, but do we see the same RGB colors for that index?" :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Iobit smart defrag vs o&o defrag pro
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 04:14 AM »
Yeah, the whole NTFS compression thing combined with their extremely silly GUI makes me stay faaaar away from anything made by DiskTrix.

I have to agree with Shades on the free space requirement, though - while having some free space available helps, it shouldn't be set as a percentage... has more to do with the largest file that has to be defragmented.
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Living Room / Re: Tech News Weekly: Edition 41 [NEW]
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2008, 04:08 AM »
s/hacked/cracked/g
-Gothi[c] (October 11, 2008, 10:32 PM)
Hacking: breaking into computer systems.
Cracking: removing software protection.

Clinging on to old definitions is silly. Does anybody use the original meaning of 'gay' these days?
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Living Room / Re: One answered question before you died
« Last post by f0dder on October 11, 2008, 01:59 PM »
* f0dder tries to make up something witty that includes "so long, and thanks for all the fish".
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