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General Software Discussion / Re: SQX format for compression
« Last post by f0dder on January 21, 2006, 12:57 PM »
RAR isn't a closed format - only the compression code is kept secret. There's full source available for a consone unrar, allowing it to be ported to whatever systems. So...
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Living Room / Re: OFFICIAL WINDOWS UPDATE for Windows Vulnerability - READ IN
« Last post by f0dder on January 19, 2006, 09:27 AM »
...so much for Gibson's "magic value" theories - here's a guy that KNOWS how to reverse engineer, and has actually done it: http://www.sysinternals.com/Blog/
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Living Room / Re: Fred Langa's Take on security ...
« Last post by f0dder on January 19, 2006, 07:42 AM »
Heh, the Langa guy is yet another Gibson follower, it seems... *sigh*
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Living Room / Re: Rubber Johnny
« Last post by f0dder on January 19, 2006, 07:32 AM »
I watched the video a while ago, and... it's spooky. Unnerving. I like it :)
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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 06:40 PM »
From what other people have said, whatever it is that does happen is not at all helpful. (as if BSOD was...)
It *IS* helpful to driver developers :)
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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 05:45 PM »
...and because mac mice ship default with one button, you have to either keep the button pressed for a couple of seconds or do mouse+keyboard combos for at lot of things were a right-click would have sufficed. Slow and kludgy.
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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 05:15 PM »
Yeah, Berkely Software Distribution is a unixen, and has spawns like Free,Open,Net{BSD}. BSD developers tend to seem a bit more competent and structured than linux developers...

Dunno what the Mac OS X equivalent of a BSOD is, but older versions had the "bomb dialog"...
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Living Room / Re: caffeine free week - who wants to join me?
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 05:04 PM »
I'm with you - but please use a sane date format :) (YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY - MM/DD/YY is just whack :P )
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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 05:01 PM »
kernel: integrated stuff from Mach 3.0 + BSD 4.4 + more.

GUI: cocoa/nextstep - http://developer.app...es/CocoaHistory.html

:)
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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 04:51 PM »
OS X isn't based on linux, it's BSD/Mach. Wouldn't surprise me if there's some NextStep stuff in there as well.

As for macs being more stable than windows, ho humm. I've had very few crashes in 2k and XP, and all the showstoppers have been due to bad hardware or bad drivers; never had a BSOD that was windows' fault.

App-level bugs are another thing, of course.
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Living Room / Re: Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 01:48 PM »
I've only used pretty old macs (ie, before OS X), and not very much - my impression was that it wasn't an extremely stable system, one locking app could bring the entire system down. Even win9x seemed more robust.

And iPods - geez. Looks like bad 70'es scifi beige-and-rounded stuff, I can't stand it.
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Living Room / Why Macs Suck
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 01:26 PM »
Pretty fun video - I certainly loved it :P
http://video.google....-6553260189868317794

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Will SSC work on Win95-B?
« Last post by f0dder on January 18, 2006, 08:56 AM »
Wow, there's still people using win95? :O
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Post New Requests Here / Re: BIG Idea: GUD
« Last post by f0dder on January 17, 2006, 08:42 PM »
blackbox/windows: www.bb4win.org

No idea if there's any such applets for Konfabulator - but you can have a look at their site, there's a lot of different stuff.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: BIG Idea: GUD
« Last post by f0dder on January 17, 2006, 04:40 AM »
blackbox, geoshell, litestep, <etc>. And widget things like the bloated Konfabulator.

I prefer blackbox (bb4win/bblean) - because it's *lean*. And it's not too hard to write plugins for, either. Konfabulator is okay, I suppose, if you like eyecandy but don't mind bloat; it's not a shell replacement, just a widget-thing, using javascript and stuff.
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General Software Discussion / Re: suggesting: "best encryption"
« Last post by f0dder on January 17, 2006, 04:38 AM »
And, as soon as I stop hitting my head against silly lack-of-sleep bugs, you can add fSekrit to the list...
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Living Room / Re: Vegetarians
« Last post by f0dder on January 17, 2006, 04:38 AM »
*grin*
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Living Room / Re: OFFICIAL WINDOWS UPDATE for Windows Vulnerability - READ IN
« Last post by f0dder on January 16, 2006, 10:31 AM »
Heh, even the /. zealots say that Gibson is a crackpot ^_^
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Post your Programs where Scrolling Window Capture Fails
« Last post by f0dder on January 16, 2006, 04:39 AM »
Stefan, you should use GIF or (preferably) PNG image time when saving captures of user interfaces - JPEG is better for photos and stuff, but gives a smudged look for pictures like the above.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: is there a way to add watermarks to each captured image?
« Last post by f0dder on January 15, 2006, 11:08 AM »
Ah, I didn't think of the #1 case - silly me.

#1 should be pretty easy to do, and pretty useful too :)
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Living Room / Re: OFFICIAL WINDOWS UPDATE for Windows Vulnerability - READ IN
« Last post by f0dder on January 15, 2006, 11:07 AM »
I read the transcript, and this "keeps offering him the opportunity to back down" looks more like something to cover their asses. It seems like Gibson hasn't analysed the flaw (ie, proper reverse engineering) but rather just fiddled with .WMF files until he produced one that worked, and then jumps to conclusions that 1 is a "magic backdoor value", while it sounds more like a buffer overflow to me. I haven't done RE of it either, but I'd rather opt for something that sounds plausible instead of brewing up conspiracy theories.

you have to give him some credit for sticking his neck out so far on something that's going to get a lot of push back.
Not really. Sticking out his neck this way gives him publicity, and that's what he wants.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Executable Compressor Programs
« Last post by f0dder on January 15, 2006, 11:04 AM »
Yep, I don't disagree and using the 'force' switch also works, not to mention the various ways of compiling your code that also avoids the problem
Oh, which ways are that? I tried looking for compiler/linker settings to avoid the generation of load config data, but couldn't find any.

Btw, using --force to solve the problem sometimes produces crashing executables.
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Living Room / Re: OFFICIAL WINDOWS UPDATE for Windows Vulnerability - READ IN
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2006, 01:50 PM »
Mr. Gibson is such a sensationalist. I'm reading the transcript of the MP3, and all I see is "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME". And it sounds like he, as usual, isn't really understanding what's going on - *sigh*
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General Software Discussion / Re: January 2006 Security and Critical Releases ISO Image
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2006, 01:36 PM »
http://nliteos.com + http://ryanvm.msfn.org/ :-*
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Living Room / Re: LCD Screen price hike in the EU coming ...
« Last post by f0dder on January 14, 2006, 01:34 PM »
*sigh*. It's so annoying that we have this great and powerful thing that would be capable of doing some real good... but what do they do? *sigh*
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