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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change name of particular file in all occurrences on hard disk
« Last post by f0dder on November 15, 2012, 11:31 AM »
I'm familiar with the regular Windows search PATH.  Is there a different one for DLLs that I can check and edit?
-nkormanik (November 14, 2012, 06:31 PM)
MilesAhead already linked to the MSDN information :)

The crazy thing is, the solution is probably a super simple one.

But that's only in retrospect, after you find it.
-nkormanik (November 14, 2012, 06:31 PM)
Isn't it always? :-[
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best USB Encryption Software.
« Last post by f0dder on November 15, 2012, 11:27 AM »
Regarding multiple encryption - if you're just worried about someone stealing your stuff (like if your computer actually gets stolen, or you lose your USB key or phone), using respectable encryption software that uses properly implemented standard encryption algorithms such as AES should be plenty.
-mwb1100 (November 15, 2012, 02:08 AM)
Amen!

And TrueCrypt should probably be at the top of the list of software to consider.
-mwb1100 (November 15, 2012, 02:08 AM)
I personally trust it, even though I have from a reliable source that TC volumes have been decrypted without bruteforcing the key... he couldn't tell me how it had been done, but my impression was memory dump of the encryption key - and that's something you just can't guard against if those somebodies have physical access to your machine, or have been able to plant a trojan.

On the other hand, if you're worried about the FBI or some other 3 letter agency taking a serious interest in your files, I'm in no position to give advice (but I'd guess that TrueCrypt would still be one of the better things to have in your arsenal).
-mwb1100 (November 15, 2012, 02:08 AM)
If any TLA goes after you, you're screwed no matter what encryption they use. They will ruin your life - either they use their super-secret backdoors, or they find some other way to ruin your life. Stop worrying about them, or stop doing things that would attract their attention - simple as that :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change name of particular file in all occurrences on hard disk
« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2012, 05:51 PM »
On JVM.DLLs flying around...  That's why I brought up this matter to begin with.  Surprisingly there are 79 separate instances of that bugger.  Many programs have included it in their installations.  Tucked away in their own subdirectories, at least.
-nkormanik (November 14, 2012, 05:32 PM)
Dirty practice... but shouldn't be too big an issue, unless the programs are extremely dirty and have been adding their folders to the DLL search paths.

Main symptom is when I start the SAS install program, intro window comes up for about 15 seconds, then disappears, without even saying goodbye.  (Normal behavior would be to proceed on to next setup screen.)

Digging, what's going on in those 15 seconds, among other things, SAS looks for the appropriate JRE and JVM on the system.
-nkormanik (November 14, 2012, 05:32 PM)
What kind of digging have you done? If you haven't tried already, you can capture what's going on with Sysinternals' Process Monitor (not explorer!) - but there's an insane amount of information in the dumps, so it can be hard to find the needle in the haystack.

Using a program transfer program (PCMover) I was able to transfer fully installed SAS from one of the working machines to problem machine, thus bypassing install.
-nkormanik (November 14, 2012, 05:32 PM)
Hrm, that's generally a somewhat risky thing to do, especially if you're trying to move big clunky enterprisey software. Doesn't a regular install work?

Your suggested JavaRa looks promising.  Thanks.
-nkormanik (November 14, 2012, 05:32 PM)
Be careful, though. Haven't used it myself, so I don't know just how much it nukes - could be a lot, and with wonky applications installing their own dropping JVM DLLs like crazy, it could end up doing a lot of damage. Worked for a somewhat more "normal" JRE corruption issue for a coworker, though.
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Living Room / Re: Sinofsky resigns from Microsoft. Let's meet the new boss of Windows.
« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2012, 05:46 PM »
Sources familiar with discussions to the naming of Sinofsky to manage the Windows division stated that it was an area of "concern" for both Ballmer and Chairman/co-founder Bill Gates. "Bill and Steve both knew Steven's flaws," said one former senior leader. However, the pair were willing to dismiss their worries as he fixed the problems within the Windows group after the launch of Windows Vista.
-http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Steve-Ballmer-Microsoft-Windows-Sinofsky,19099.html
If you act like a tool, you'll be used like a tool - that only sounds fair to me :)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2012, 04:41 PM »
There, .ini file path should be taken care of - embarrassingly simple fix :)
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Living Room / Re: Sinofsky resigns from Microsoft. Let's meet the new boss of Windows.
« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2012, 02:40 PM »
Word is, nobody much at Microsoft was sorry to see him leave the company.
-40hz (November 14, 2012, 08:58 AM)
Probably not (m)any of the non-MS application developers either.

Here's a couple of articles for y'all:
http://www.lhotka.ne...eHopeForWindows.aspx
http://arstechnica.c...fective-immediately/
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Change name of particular file in all occurrences on hard disk
« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2012, 02:33 PM »
I'm just asking because I think one of those freeware memory tools that force Windows to create a large contiguous block of memory may actually work on XP. It may be worth an experiment to zero in on the issue. You should be able to find some free ones on Softpedia.
-MilesAhead (November 14, 2012, 01:18 PM)
They're lame snake-oil. If you're going to try out a memory manager, find one that uses Windows' SetProcessWorkingSetSize API - that's still a symptomatic-"treatment" band-aid, but at least it's less lame. I don't have any suggestions at hand (though I remember seeing a tool a while ago that outlined the snakeoilness of the other applications and "did things right", so they're out there). It's not the first place I'd look, though.

nkormanik: I think the "JVM may fail if a DLL or some other process has pinned a chunk of memory in such a manner that the JVM cannot reserve the contiguous amount of memory requested" is a red herring, that would be something happening inside a complex java application interacting with native code - not likely to be something that prevents an application from starting.

How much memory is in the machine that fails, and how much in the machines that work? How much free memory is reported (by a proper tool like Sysinternals' Process Explorer)? Are there differences in the JRE versions installed on the failing and the working machines? What amount of JVM.DLL do you have flying around? (There should really only be one copy for each installed JRE and JDK, unless something is very funky - which something related to SAS might very well be :-\ ).

If it's a JRE issue, you might want to try uninstalling all JREs (and JDKs), then run http://cybernetnews.com/uninstall-java/, and finally install the same JDK version as on one of the working machines.

Also, almost forgot: what's the symptoms when you try to launch the application? If it's a "Windows failed to load JVM.DLL" kinda message, it might be as simple as a x64 vs x86 JRE version issue.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2012, 05:59 AM »
Hm,

I think I have an idea what this could be. If you use Sysinternals' Process Explorer and check the properties of the SendToFileGrab.exe process (when it throws up the error messagebox), what does it's "current directory" say? My guess is that it's going to be the active directory in xplorer2 rather than the script directory, which means it won't be able to read the .ini file.

If that's the case, try moving it to your c:\windows folder and see if that solves the problem temporarily - I'll look into a better solution later, which obviously means reading the .ini file from the same directory as the .exe is in :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best USB Encryption Software.
« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2012, 12:17 PM »
Leo Laporte... is he that guy that podcasted with Steve Gibson? In that case, please take what he says with a grain... no, wait, metric sh!tton... of salt.
Which adds the most entropy - adding 30 to a number, or adding 10 three times?
-f0dder (November 13, 2012, 11:54 AM)
You could be right there. I just don't remember it all. I only remember the "jist". And yes, Steve Gibson was on the show. I forget who else though. John probably - though I forget his crabby last name.
-Renegade (November 13, 2012, 12:02 PM)
If it had been Bruce Schneier, there would've been a bit of credibility.

But Leo and Steven? They don't go beyond "intuitively feels right", and that's simply not good enough when it comes to security.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2012, 12:14 PM »
See if this works for you :)

Sending arbitrary stuff to arbitrary windows might be useful, and I'd be kinda surprised if there wasn't already some tool around to do it - but it was fun enough dusting off Auto-It again (and I'm sure the task could be done a lot cleaner than my quick hack :)).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best USB Encryption Software.
« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2012, 11:54 AM »
Leo Laporte... is he that guy that podcasted with Steve Gibson? In that case, please take what he says with a grain... no, wait, metric sh!tton... of salt.

Which adds the most entropy - adding 30 to a number, or adding 10 three times?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best USB Encryption Software.
« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2012, 11:21 AM »
I won't recommend any specific software or algorithm, but I will say that multiple iterations with encryption, even with the same algorithm, are stronger.
-Renegade (November 13, 2012, 10:20 AM)
I know this "intuitively feels right", but please back up the claim with work from acknowledge cryptographers :-)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2012, 12:29 AM »
Sure thing, I'll have a look at the changes after work today - I had already planned adding those, since they're required for the script to really be useful, just wanted to know if this was what you had in mind before spending more time on it :)

However, I think it might be better to define the path to FileGrab.exe in an INI file or similar, rather than on the commandline - there's a limit to how long commandlines can be (depending on Windows version as well as the API used to start the new program), and xplorer2 has to pass full file paths to the script.
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Living Room / Re: Well, I got it: Nokia Lumia 920, Windows 8
« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2012, 12:15 AM »
there's no file manager on the windows phone.  i know that's not  big deal to 99% of the users, but i'd still like to have one just like a regular os.  but i guess i'd be expecting too much.
-superboyac (November 12, 2012, 09:30 PM)
Indeed you are - you're not supposed to access files. Heck, you're not even supposed to know about files - each app is it's own little data island. Thanks crApple, for infecting Microsoft with this line of thought.

If you want a tiny snip of freedom and access to your own data, you have to go Android.
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2012, 10:33 AM »
Here's a first attempt.

Put the SendToFileGrab.exe 'somewhere reasonable', then in xplorer2 go to "Customize->User Commands->Add new...". Choose whatever name you want, an optional hotkey, and for the "Description" field (which should really have been called "Command" O_o), add something along the lines of ">D:\src\autoit\SendToFileGrab.exe $A" (yep, the larger-than character is required).

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The script currently requires FileGrab to be started - starting it if not already running is something to be added if the script otherwise works for you :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Lifetime license from Audials+GAOTD: no good
« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2012, 09:01 AM »
I tend to try and stay away from programs with "lifetime licenses"... or at least expect nothing more than "until the next major version", where "major" is defined as "100% totally arbitrary management decision".
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2012, 07:01 AM »
Humm, I wonder if it would be OK for you to post the program somewhere - as far as I can tell, while pcmag requires money for it now, it used to be entirely freeware...

I wouldn't mind trying to cook up a solution, but I'm not going to pay $8 to do it :)
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: "Filegrab"-like functionality integrated into the file explorer.
« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2012, 05:46 AM »
Does FileGrab support command-line arguments? If it does, it would be very easy to integrate into x2 through the use of "Customize -> User Commands".
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2012, 01:39 PM »
Yeah, yeah.... Let's just go make fun of Renegade because he posts drunk all the time and makes stupid mistakes/typos~! :P ;D

This time around, I'm blaming some pretty damn good Australian wine! :D
-Renegade (November 11, 2012, 10:04 AM)
I'll make fun of you for drinking aussie wines - but as long as you're staying away from french, we can still be friends :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: Sign of the times for OpenSource software?
« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2012, 08:02 AM »
Boom! Nailed it! OpenSSH is THE go-to for that. Any time you look into the topic... you ALWAYS end up with OpenSSH pretty much no matter what. Pretty much every time I ever need to do some kind of encryption, even if I'm using a third party component, I end up using OpenSSH.
-Renegade (November 10, 2012, 06:59 AM)
Do you mean OpenSSH or OpenSSL, renny?
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Living Room / Re: The Pre-emptive Censor - Dotcom Loses ME.GA Domain
« Last post by f0dder on November 09, 2012, 04:22 AM »
Who's afraid of the big bad US1?

...Gabon is, apparently.

1: synonymous with "big media fscktards".
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Living Room / Re: Kim Dotcom 400 Million Dollar Plan for NZ Free Internet!
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2012, 03:59 PM »
About the only major financial institution that still is able to maintain virtual absolute secrecy while retaining an aura of legitimacy is the Istituto per le Opere di Religione or " Vatican Bank."
-40hz (November 07, 2012, 03:09 PM)
Gotta love organized crime religion :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: CSS File Content "Vanishes" on Ubuntu Machine
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2012, 11:16 AM »
Heh, filename case was the first thing I thought of, but didn't bother mentioning it because you said FireBug showed the file as loading :)
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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2012, 11:13 AM »
Finished "The God Delusion", quite liked it - but it was preaching to the choir, of course :)

Next up: Huxley's "the doors of perception" & "heaven and hell".
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General Software Discussion / Re: Back to Firefox - sudden loud noise
« Last post by f0dder on November 07, 2012, 07:51 AM »
Media autoplay is blocked here by a combination of NoScript, AdBlockPlys and not having the Flash plugin installed - when I need some flash stuff, it's not much bother firing up Chrome for that specific occasion :)
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