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fSekrit / Re: LATEST VERSION: fSekrit 1.3 shrinkwrapped!

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 01:19 PM »

Wow, what an interesting concept and execution.  Very elegant.

From a technical perspective, where are you storing the actual note text?  The original thread says it's merged into the .exe itself, but how are you doing that?  Appending it to the end of the file, writing an alternate data stream, or what?  Just curious.

-Ralf Maximus (November 18, 2007, 12:47 PM)

Thanks

I append the encrypted note data it to the end of the file, followed by an 8-byte {id,datasize} pair. Alternate data streams are cute (and I'll have to investigate whether you can open/create an ADS for a .exe that's currently running), but it's not something I'll use in fSekrit, since ADS is NTFS-only, and easily get lost on copying.

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fSekrit / Re: Beta: fSekrit 1.3 beta thread

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 12:43 PM »

Version 1.3 is released, so time to close this thread...

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fSekrit / Re: Version 1.3 ?

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 12:43 PM »

Sorry, I had completely missed this post!

Version 1.3 is released, have fun

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fSekrit / fSekrit 1.3 shrinkwrapped!

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 12:42 PM »

After more than a year of idling (sorry ), version 1.3 has finally been released!

This release was actually meant to be released on 15th October 2006, but due to the phase of the moon and real-life work, got postponed for over a year. Sorry. But the good thing is that I've only received one bug report (that I can remember, anyway ) about 1.3 beta during this whole year, and that bug has been fixed

Version 1.3 - November 18, 2007 - 99.5kb/50.5kb

• added:  read-only notes, finally
• bugfix: changing key on unsaved document would crash
• bugfix: saving an empty document would crash
• bugfix: running fSekrit.exe (w/o embedded note) from a CD was unable to Save As because read-only file attribute wasn't cleared on destination.

I hope to be a bit more active soon, and I've now figured out how to turn on e-mail notifications for the entire fSekrit subforum, so I shouldn't miss posts (like this one - sorry!).

Hope there aren't any bugs I haven't caught...

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Developer's Corner / Re: Change Version Info Via Command Line Application

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 09:15 AM »

I've been meaning to build something similar myself, since it's too tedious manually changing "build number" in the resource.rc file (and no, Visual Studio doesn't do this automatically for native apps, grmbl).

Remind me in a few days

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Living Room / Re: Sherlock Holmes and Texefex

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 09:13 AM »

Heh, I haven't exactly kept my site up to date, I know. Haven't had time to write up new stuff for it... and the last fSekrit version (1.2) was released 15. September 2006 - embarrassing that I didn't get around to releasing v1.3 yet, my changelog.txt does have a "release date" for it though (15Oct2006), so I dunno what went wrong , hope to get  v1.3 polished up soon.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: File lister

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 07:11 AM »

A simple file list isn't enough though, you'll also need to enumerate NTFS alternate streams...

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Developer's Corner / Re: 300 Ideas for Game Play Mechanics

« Last post by f0dder on November 18, 2007, 06:40 AM »

Oooh, that looks like an interesting find!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Rerun StartUp Folder

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 09:56 PM »

Norton isn't the best piece of antivirus software in the world, personally I'd prefer none at all to Norton...

that being said, many AV apps these days tend to have too many false positives, it's not the first time some AV app has triggered on an AutoHotkey or AutoIt script :/

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Living Room / Re: Laptop or Desktop — which are you?

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 07:21 PM »

Desktop, most definitely - but wouldn't mind having a decent portable laptop for when I'm on the road...

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Living Room / Re: drum program

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 07:21 PM »

We have "fagot" in Danish as well, but couple his nickname with the forum title...

I don't have anything against gay people etc., but his name/title might offend somebody. It does baffle me a bit, though, since his post is a perfectly acceptable one, and doesn't look like a troll post (which I would have expected with that kind of name).

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Living Room / Re: What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 07:19 PM »

You might also want to run OO/Win32, OO/Win64, O2007/WhINE, just for the fun of it

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fSekrit / Re: Run fSekrit from CD

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 07:09 PM »

There, quick and easy fix after isolating the problem...

Thanks for the bug report, jfsfgdfg (gosh, that's a nickname I won't be able to memorize ), and thanks for pointing out the bug to my slow brain, Carol

Try the attached beta build and see if it fixes your problems. Don't mention the file naming, I think I need to catch some sleep... if it works out, I'll see if I can get a proper beta version (ie, readme.txt and all that) uploaded tomorrow. Been slacking off wrt. fSekrit for far too long now!

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fSekrit / Re: Run fSekrit from CD

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 06:56 PM »

Could it be that during a save when it saves the basecode of fsekrit if the base code is readonly - it will copy as a read only file and then when you try to append the data it will fail because it can't append to a readonly file?

-Carol Haynes (November 17, 2007, 06:42 PM)

I think you're spot on the sugar, baby!

fSekrit uses the windows FileCopy API - it probably copies over the file attributes verbatim, which means the open-for-write after copying the base executable fails. Guess I should clear the file attributes... and obviously, not having write access to a file is different from the file having +R attribute.

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fSekrit / Re: Run fSekrit from CD

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 06:55 PM »

Hmm, BartPE doesn't set %TEMP%?

Shouldn't matter wrt. SaveAs from a blank note, though, since %TEMP% is only used when a note with embedded data is opened.

I assume B:\ is the RAM drive. From the FileMon log, it seems like the file is copied okay, but opening for write (to append the note data) fails. Weird! Does the BartPE boot CD have any (always-running automagic) antivirus stuff running?

Heh, googling for "ACCESS DENIED" "NT_AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" shows that this forum thread is already indexed

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Living Room / Re: Sherlock Holmes and Texefex

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 06:42 PM »

  
Thanks a lot, f0dder
- I was actually annoyed that I supposedly had to go to work tomorrow!

-Curt (November 17, 2007, 06:11 PM)

I was almost panicking myself, even though I meet at 18:00 rather than 06:00

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fSekrit / Re: Run fSekrit from CD

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 05:57 PM »

Does it use any temporary file while writing? In which case it may be trying to write the temporary file to a read only location ... just a thought.

-Carol Haynes (November 17, 2007, 05:41 PM)

Nope, doesn't do that. (And I've just checked my current work-in-progress against 1.2-release, haven't made changes to the filesave code since then). When fSekrit saves, it first copies itself (the current running module) to the target file, and then it appends the note data.

When a fSekrit note with note data is run, it copies itself to %temp%, and then launches that file as the editor... this was done to be able to save directly (was implemented in 1.2, previous versions did some even nastier copying around ). So if your .exe on CD has note data in it, the CD shouldn't even be accessed after launching...

A "blank" note doesn't do the tempfile-copying though, so when doing "save as" a blank note will read from the CD...

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fSekrit / Re: Run fSekrit from CD

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 05:38 PM »

Hm, which exact error are you getting? I'm guessing it's "Error saving file!", which (unfortunately!) is a pretty broad error. I'll see if I can duplicate the error from a read-only network share or something...

EDIT: Save As works fine from a read-only share, plain "save" gives the errormessage twice though, at least that should be easy to fix

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Living Room / Re: drum program

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 05:29 PM »

I think you ought to re-register with another nickname and title

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Living Room / Re: Sherlock Holmes and Texefex

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 05:23 PM »

Curt: Sunday has just begun, there's another almost-24 hours of weekend left

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fSekrit / Re: Run fSekrit from CD

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 04:33 PM »

Hm, you should be able to "file->save as" - obviously "file->save" won't work for read-only media. Which version of fSekrit are you using?

Or have I yet again screwed something up majorly?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: a Self-Contained Archive

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 04:31 PM »

Why not use an encrypted .RAR file?

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Living Room / Re: What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 04:30 PM »

but in the case of Office, OpenOffice can't really be an example of how to make efficient office suites.

Amen to that!

Although looking aside from the bloat and pathetic slow startup times, it does seem (first impression, not benchmarked) that their scripting runs faster than the VBA in office...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scott Finnie unimpressed by NOD32 ...

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 04:28 PM »

I think the real reason they're dropping IMON is because they couldn't figure out how to make it work properly

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General Software Discussion / Re: Track Loading time

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 10:36 AM »

Iirc there's an API call that'll tell you whether an application is input ready (has created a window?), but I can't for the life of me remember the name, nor find it in PlatformSDK. And it's not what you're looking for, anyway, since it's no guarantee that the application is actually ready & done loading.

What you want can't be done generically & reliable.