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I think the point here is to help you create a standalone application that you could give to a client or a worker, so that they can use your tool like a standalone application without being overwhelmed.-mouser (October 27, 2007, 07:03 PM)
PS: can anyone guess who's the little dude on the left?-jgpaiva (October 27, 2007, 06:15 AM)
Did you read the article? Sorry, but this leaves the impression, for those who will only see your comment and not read the article, that this is a bad thing. As the article points out, this is meaningless. This only allows hackers to crack very small and very simple passwords - ones like 'EatMeat' - your basic letter only 8 character passwords. If you do the math, they would need to make this whole thing work 1,000 faster just to make it crack a password in a human's lifetime. Any reasonable password cannot be cracked in any reasonable amount of time. And it is very easy just to change your password today and turn it into a passphrase, making it almost impossible within your lifetime, to be cracked. For example, change your password from 'jE84%kd^' to "*IfYouAren'tFiredWithEnthusiasm,$YouWillBeFiredWithEnthusiasm." This is a random quote I grabbed and salted it with a '*' and a '$'. This is, to all intents and purposes, uncrackable via brute force.-Armando (October 25, 2007, 10:54 AM)-tinjaw (October 25, 2007, 11:10 AM)
The toughest passwords, including those used to log in to a Windows Vista computer, would normally take months of continuous computer processing time to crack using a computer's central processing unit (CPU). By harnessing a $150 GPU - [...] - Elcomsoft says they can cracked in just three to five days. Less complex passwords can be retrieved in minutes, rather than hours or days.
Password cracking can be used to unlock data on a computer, but will not usually work on a banking or commercial website. This is because is takes too long to run through multiple passwords, and because a site will normally block a user after several failed attempts.
Anyone want to resume creating DC podcasts? I think superboyac just volunteered to create some original music for them. What if each episode was just an interview with a DC member?-mouser (October 24, 2007, 04:18 PM)
I've recently bought a new computer, a notebook. I'm a student so I thought about using the computer to take notes during the lecture. But it's a technical university, so there's always a lot of mathematical mambo jambo on the blackboard, and that's my problem: I do not know any program that could be used efficiently to take notes during a technical lecture.
I'd like to have a program, where I could write a text like this:
Determine the stability:
[x1';x2']=[2 3;5 2]*[x1;x2]+[0;2]*u
y=[2 4]*[x1;x2]+1*u
or similar, and the program should display a nice formatted text and the mathematical expressions with matrices. Also things like sqrt x, or x^2, or x/2, and similar, should get a nice, mathematical and readable look.
The Microsoft Equation program (installed with MS Word) is very very inefficient, because to write anything you will most likely have to use your mouse several times, and this is much slower than just typing the formulas. The tool in OpenOffice is no better for me (and I dislike the whole OpenOffice thing also). So my question is: do you know any tool that would do what I described? Or do I have to write it for myself?-TPReal (October 24, 2007, 06:11 AM)
Bloons Tower Defense #1 (see discussion here)was a very fun and very well done Tower Defense style game which i would consider one of the more enjoyable such games i've played, if not the most challenging.
Well here comes Bloons Tower Defense #2, with more kinds of towers and some harder difficulty modes. Yes!-mouser (October 19, 2007, 03:07 PM)
what about dust ??-tomos (October 23, 2007, 03:58 PM)
Like, instead of spilling your drink over the keyboard, you choose your newly acquired HDD. And you've just finished making a backup. And the HDD in your computer fails...
Hey, maybe someone will use it as decoration-Lashiec (October 23, 2007, 03:39 PM)
I love the detail of the little guy outside the spaceshuttle!
I wonder why he's confused, though. Could you ask Audrey, Ralph?-jgpaiva (October 19, 2007, 05:10 PM)
Deozaan,
on the black background it looks really good
would make a great logo like that with a black background-tomos (October 19, 2007, 12:34 PM)
I was thinking about purchasing Stardock's Multiplicity and did a search for it here on DC and found this thread. I forgot about Synergy.
I have a few questions that maybe somebody can answer. First off I see that there hasn't been a release of Synergy since April 2006. It is so stable that no new releases are necessary, or has the program fizzled out? Multiplicity is still being updated by Stardock and has been proven to work with games. How well does Synergy work with high-end games? Does the game take a hit in FPS when it is used? I also don't like that Multiplicity is Windows only as I am not.
I guess I can try Synergy and then the 15-day trial of Multiplicity, but that seems like work.
So, any reason I shouldn't go with Synergy?-tinjaw (October 18, 2007, 10:14 PM)
it takes 2+ days to send the newsletter emails because there are 45,000 of them and they have to be staggered over time or they will kill the server.-mouser (October 17, 2007, 05:18 PM)
The blind man tells the woman he loves her perfume-TeaTime (October 18, 2007, 03:16 PM)
i will actually see if i can't fix that.. it's hard to preserve all the object position changes that happen when you crop.-mouser (October 18, 2007, 02:06 PM)
Well.. Regarding the crop function, actually paint.net also works like that, i prefer that behaviour.
You're right about undo, though. It should really Undo-jgpaiva (October 18, 2007, 01:34 PM)
