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Developer's Corner / Re: Mailing lists or Message boards for offering software support?
« Last post by f0dder on August 05, 2006, 05:51 PM »
Well, if it had been programmed decently, it wouldn't have (as many) holes. Yes, it's obviously the most targetted forum because it's the most widespread, but considering the amount of holes and the severity of them, I wouldn't want to run phpBB. Ever.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Mailing lists or Message boards for offering software support?
« Last post by f0dder on August 05, 2006, 05:20 PM »
While phpbb has had its share of hacks, if you stay on top of the patches, you are fine.
Iirc http://www.asmcommunity.net/ used to run phpBB before it switched to SMF... and considering the amount of times the win32asm community has been hacked before it made the switch, well, I certainly wouldn't recommend the previous board software. As holed as a sieve.
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Living Room / Re: World's Tiniest Sculptures
« Last post by f0dder on August 05, 2006, 05:17 PM »
/<-rad!
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Living Room / Re: B drive
« Last post by f0dder on August 05, 2006, 05:15 PM »
Yeah, that sounds right to me, mouser... DOS handled "B:" tweakily when you didn't have a second floppy drive. After harddrives appeared, there wasn't much advantage in having two floppy drives.
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Living Room / Re: Concert Ticket Generator
« Last post by f0dder on August 04, 2006, 11:50 PM »
Nice :D
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: zip all main sub-folders at once
« Last post by f0dder on August 04, 2006, 11:48 PM »
Jity2, you might need some command-line argument to your compressor to make it include subfolders.

Anyway, it should be a relatively trivial task to do what ou want; one of the AutoHotKey people could probably do it insanely fast :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scot Finnie finally decides on an antivirus solution...
« Last post by f0dder on August 04, 2006, 11:00 PM »
Well, IMHO it depends on how good you are at separating things. That's pretty hard wrt. Mac vs. Windows, though (and hell, throw in linux and it gets worse), because there's so many emotions and so much zealotry involved.

If somebody could succeed in having being relatively objective and have, say, mostly windows stuff, but a fair mix of OS-X/linux/*bsd ... then the result could actually be pretty interesting articles

Oh well, don't know the Scott guy so I can't tell how he's doing it. Is any of his stuff worth reading? :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scot Finnie finally decides on an antivirus solution...
« Last post by f0dder on August 04, 2006, 10:40 PM »
Sounds like the guy needs a little pat on the back and a candyfloss.
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What's the Best? / Re: Master Category List for the "What's the Best" section... please help finalize!
« Last post by f0dder on August 04, 2006, 10:22 PM »
I do not see a category for Registry cleaners/optomizers.
-bobdec (July 18, 2006, 10:37 PM)
You do not want those, anyway... they have minimal effect when they "work", and when they fail, you can have serious issues. Issues that are bad enough you cant' just restore the backup your cleaner made. Just ask Carol Haynes :)
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Living Room / Re: Icon Story: fantastically whimsical flash movie
« Last post by f0dder on August 04, 2006, 09:47 PM »
That one rocks... already at the shotgun-loading sound from DooM, I was smiling :-*
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Living Room / Re: Origami Paper Cd Cases
« Last post by f0dder on August 03, 2006, 07:18 AM »
Heh, pretty cool :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Last post by f0dder on August 03, 2006, 07:15 AM »
why not try 3D Analyser? it allows you to change various graphic-related settings, including forced windowed mode

http://www.tommti-sy...n-Dateien/files.html
-koncool (August 03, 2006, 05:41 AM)
Interesting - I wonder how many things it works with / breaks on :)
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: v1.54.02 - file sorting is A-Z and then a-z ?
« Last post by f0dder on August 02, 2006, 01:10 PM »
So, what you want is case-insensitive sorting, aye?
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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: make fullscreen games windowed
« Last post by f0dder on August 02, 2006, 01:08 PM »
Unfortunately, some games block alt+tab, and other games just crash when you tab back to them.

Adding windowed support to existing games might not be the easiest thing on the world. First you'd have to cope with OpenGL vs. DirectX (probably not DirectDraw vs. Direct3D though). Then, at least for DX, there's the problem that some features only work in fullscreen mode - so if the game does error checking on API calls, it might abort.
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Living Room / Re: IRC channel error ...
« Last post by f0dder on August 02, 2006, 01:00 PM »
Sounds like we should really keep away from those "registry cleanres"  :o
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming
« Last post by f0dder on August 01, 2006, 06:23 AM »
but I think there's some usefulness in being able to differ between "I wrote a little program" vs. "I wrote a little script"
-f0dder (July 30, 2006, 03:26 PM)

Where is the difference? And much more importantly: What's the use? (Many songs have been writting about this question, it seems kinda fundamental)
-housetier (August 01, 2006, 06:16 AM)

I guess time and effort spent, as well as some brief idea of the use? But of course some people write long scripts, and other people write short programs, and people use X when they should have used Y etc...

*shrug* :P
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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit & keylogging
« Last post by f0dder on August 01, 2006, 06:12 AM »
Definitely do NOT depend on the on-screen keyboard!

IMHO the way that works best is to type your passphrase out of sequence, using the mouse to reposition the caret. A password like "gromit99wallace32" might end up as a keystream of "tgrallce3mio99wa2". It *IS* annoying to do this though, especially because the password input field is masked...

And it's not foolproof, if the keylogger places some API breakpoints rather than just snooping raw keys, it can easily get the "pieced-together" final passphrase.

There's a couple of solutions that could be applied.

1) Kernel-mode driver code (could also solve the page-to-disk problems)
   Too much work and bother. Requires different drivers for 9x/NT/64bit. Not suitable for use on limited user accounts and usb flash drives.

2) Custom control for keyboard input.
   Requires *some* work and would add a bit of bloat, but is doable. Still requires the "shuffled" way of inputting data, but at least it would overcome the "breakpoint on GetDlgItemText" problem.

3) Some additional "visual clue".
   If you had to, say, pick three colors from a 16-color palette in addition to your passphrase, then a generic keylogger wouldn't give all the data necessary to open the file (unless it also logged client-relative mouse events, *sigh*). A targetted attack would still be possible, though.
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Living Room / Re: A Scanner Darkly
« Last post by f0dder on July 31, 2006, 05:46 AM »
has anyone read the original story? i've read other p. k. dick stuff; do android's dream of electric sheep is quite removed from blade runner and should be appreciated as a separate thing altogether i'd say. his short stories, that i read, didn't really live up to my expectations. i've heard that 'a scanner darkly' is meant to be a 'classic' - anyone have any opinions?
-nudone

Oh!

So THAT'S who the guy is :P - nope, never read any of his stories, but watched blade runner.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: db90h's best kept secret #1: Command Prompt Explorer Bar (Free OSS)
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 09:14 PM »
Looks interesting enough... but xplorer^2 has some tricks with the "location" bar, so I don't need this :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Processing 1.0: hobbyist scripting code for art
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 09:02 PM »
Looks pretty interesting, I've fired off a mail to the oldest of my younger brothers and told him to have a look at it :)
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Living Room / Re: Windows Powershell from Microsoft (free)
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 08:54 PM »
I guess I should have a look; cmd.exe does pretty much what I need most of the time, though. But if PSH is resizable vertically, that might be reason enough to use it - if it's still fullscreen-able.
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Living Room / Re: A Scanner Darkly
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 08:53 PM »
Back on focus again :)

ASD certainly looks interesting, and I'll want to watch it when it's done. I like the visual style a lot, and the plot seems interesting.

I don't think it will be viable for a lot of films to get processed this way - it'll end up feeling cheesy in the "bah, be original" way.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 03:26 PM »
housetier: somehow, I don't see that oneliner as a program... but it's one of those fuzzy feelings. I don't see a person using VB to make a buttonclick change a textfield's color as "Programming", either.

On the other hand, scripting languages (whether we're talking perl, python, LUA, bash scripts or even .BAT files) can certainly be used for programming - and even shell scripts can do pretty complicated things. So why isn't the above oneliner "programming" to me? What does it lack?

Good question. I think it has something to do with variables, algorithms, program flow control, etc. When those are lacking, it just isn't programming to me. Hell, I don't think of writing RegExes as programming, although one could probably argue it is.

It's not really meant as patronization; but I think there's some usefulness in being able to differ between "I wrote a little program" vs. "I wrote a little script"... but there's a zillion shades of gray :)
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Living Room / Re: A Scanner Darkly
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 03:15 PM »
nudone: *shrug* - the cartoonizer doesn't look like it has a big movie company backing it... or, in other words, the big studios with lot of financial backing should be able to do something better.

Sure, even with a very good filter, it might need a bit of human intervention, if nothing else at least some QA. But 500 hours per minute of film? Thats, what, 20 minutes per frame if we're considering 24fps? (Sorry if the math is wrong, I'm tired :P)
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General Software Discussion / Re: WINRAR free this sunday 30th July 2006
« Last post by f0dder on July 30, 2006, 03:12 PM »
I have to agree with db90h on the state of the LZMA source - it's frigging ugly, some of the worst I've seen in a long time. I took a five-minute look at it and decided that I had better things to do than utilizing LZMA compression. The GPL license sucks, and so does the majority of code released under it.

I also agree WinRAR is king - it's got a nice, clean interface, doesn't try to do a lot of weird things, etc. It has UnRar for a lot of platforms, supports all important things on NT (security info, alternate data streams), has extremely good command-line support etc.

One way is to use the 7za.dll (available from sf.net for download). The 7za.dll works via COM interfaces. It, however, doesn't use standard COM interfaces for creating objects.
-Josh
Now how bloody stupid is THAT?

For those of you that have taken advantage of this offer, you can't use the instructions in the email they sent you, once you have that key.

It says to double click the key file but that will result in this error:
-app103
There's many apps (all protected by asprotect, iirc?) that decide to associate themselves with the *.key file extension - pretty lame.
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