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Living Room / Re: Do Not Track
« Last post by f0dder on October 12, 2012, 01:06 PM »
Well, let's all collectively say F*CK YOU! to the advertisement companies by using a mix of AdBlockPlus and Ghostery... see how they like that. And set a custom X-DONT-TRACK-SCREW-YOU HTTP header :)
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Living Room / Re: How to tell if the Universe is a computer simulation
« Last post by f0dder on October 11, 2012, 12:11 PM »
Computer simulation? That's too far out, man.

Really, we're all just in the head of somebody who's having a wicked DMT+Acid trip.
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Living Room / Re: An Odd DOS Attack
« Last post by f0dder on October 09, 2012, 02:05 PM »
As it's on Wall Street, of course no criminal charges were placed. Go figure.
...Because it's to much like trying to charge someone with rape at an orgy.
:-*
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Living Room / Re: World of Warcraft cities hacked
« Last post by f0dder on October 08, 2012, 02:09 PM »
Reminds me of something commonly found in WoW: People saying rouge rogue instead of rogue rouge. :P
There, fixed that for you ;-)

(See the patch notes for 4.1.11).
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Living Room / Re: World of Warcraft cities hacked
« Last post by f0dder on October 08, 2012, 11:02 AM »
Noticed this a bit earlier today, did a bit of investigation.

Apparently the exploit had been used by a group of three WoW exploit writers for a while, mainly to do runs of the Baradin Hold instance - combined with a teleport hack, they could clear out the instance in no time, earning a lot of gold. Finally blizzard caught wind of it, banned one of the guys, and then the rest got pissed off, shared the exploit with a few others, and set off to disrupt the major cities of several servers.

Some weeks earlier, one of those guys had found a way to *crash* entire servers, afaik by sending some malformed packets.

A couple of references:
Baradin Hold Instakill
Server crash exploit
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Might also have been worth to look at justice's Carbon system - just throwing in the link for completeness' sake :)
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by f0dder on October 08, 2012, 07:30 AM »
"You can't eat gold" as the saying goes.
O'Rlly? - *giggle*
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by f0dder on October 05, 2012, 09:35 AM »
s an activist site accepting donations, but still, it's 1 more. Out of the blue. (I really wasn't looking for anything Bitcoin related, but noticed it, and thought of this thread.)
Activist? You know what that's a synonym for, right? Yep, you're right! ( ;) )
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For those that don't click through, here's the game of "pick the pot":
 (see attachment in previous post)
"I definitely think it's the one on right... yeah, definitely maybe... though I'm too stoned to care, lol."

(Now-famous words of a Canadian law enforcement officer).

Also... I kinda doubt the daisies have the characteristic smell that hemp plants have. Those guys ought to be really, really ashamed :-)
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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit not working on an old XP PC
« Last post by f0dder on October 05, 2012, 12:40 AM »
Now, everyone silently send up an appropriate word of thanks to Mr. Gates for his decision to hide file extensions by default.
Dunno if that was Bill's decision, but it's definitely one of the less wise things Microsoft have done. One could argue that we shouldn't use file extensions instead, but rely on file metadata instead, but I'm not convinced about that - extensions survive across different filesystems and transport protocols, are fast to deal with, and are conceptually simple :)
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Not everybody has or can afford extra RAM.
Really?
16gb (2x8), for notebook, cost 70$
cannot afford this?
Yes - for some people, that's half a month of dinners.

I'm glad I'm not there anymore, but not everybody are as lucky.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by f0dder on October 04, 2012, 02:33 PM »
They look wicked cool - what's the link? I might get one even though I'm skeptic wrt. the whole scheme :-)
It's just a gimmick to sell copper at inflated prices. That's all. Copper rounds are insanely overpriced.
It looks pretty.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by f0dder on October 04, 2012, 11:57 AM »
They look wicked cool - what's the link? I might get one even though I'm skeptic wrt. the whole scheme :-)
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: TwistedBrush 30% off
« Last post by f0dder on October 04, 2012, 10:45 AM »
Hm. Installed the GOTD version, and went to the GOTD "activate now" site, and it says "TwistedBrush Pro Studio 17 activated - what next?" (but no serial or anything). But TwistedBrush asks for serial+key which that page doesn't give me...

Oh, scratch the above - the URL the installer gives is wrong (even though it seems valid), you have to visit the link in the readme... seems to work. What happens with GOTD programs if you ever have to reinstall, btw? I assume the original installer doesn't want to run after the GOTD-day :)

(A plain copy of the files from my VM to my workstation seems to work just fine, so that's kinda solved... at least the technical part. What does The License say?)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!
« Last post by f0dder on October 04, 2012, 10:30 AM »
Respect for letting the guy vent. Although it would behoove him to return with a calmer tone  - (hint to OP) - so that an amicable resolution could be reached.
Posts like that are usually done as a one-off thing, without the user ever returning. It's a bit sad, since sometimes (on DoCo: often) people actually try to alleviate whatever problems the OP was frustrated about.
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Yes, Chrome use more ram, maybe much more, i never compare, but to start new Firefox instance when you have 200-300 tabs in it need to wait a minute, and new Chrome start instantly even if you have 600 tabs. And work as fresh one (not the case with Firefox)
Nope.

In recent versions, FireFox by default only reloads the necessary tabs - and in previous versions, there were addons for this functionality.

Also, Chrome does a process-per-tab (might have moved to groups of tabs per process in a recent version, like IE9 does) - which means it'll always use quite a lot more memory than firefox (there's pros and cons to the multi-process approach, but it's not a definitive win). Not everybody has or can afford extra RAM.

As for JavaScript speed, that's an ongoing battle - it's nice that there's some competition between the browsers. Currently, Chrome has the lead, but the foxy devs are working hard on changing that :-)
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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 05:53 PM »
It has been suggested that I disable this feature by default.. I guess maybe this post is the sign that I should.
Probably a good idea - I got confused the first time my screenshots "disappeared". OTOH, I probably wouldn't have found the feature if it had been disabled by default, and I do think it's a nice feature - although it would probably be better if the default grouping was per month or week rather than per day? (that's probably where the OP's frustration is from: having a few files in each of a zillion subfolders... that's a pain to move back if your file manager is cruddy old Explorer).
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Living Room / Re: Barebone server: what else do I need to complete it?
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 05:46 PM »
Are you saying the Lian Li case is not thick enough?  What are my alternatives?
Haven't seen one of them IRL, so I don't know - but most cases, even high-end ones, I've seen have been "somewhat too thin" aluminium, like 40hz says. The Corsair Obsidian 550D I got for my new server is pretty decent, but still - I would rather have it be made of steel than alu, and a few mm thicker. Dunno what that would have done to it's cost, though, and I would've been wrecked from carrying it home from the store :)

And, again: you can probably get the cooling system quiet enough, but vibration, man... vibration.
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Living Room / Re: Barebone server: what else do I need to complete it?
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 04:11 PM »
A couple of things to keep in mind:

1) while your amount of harddrives are going to require *some* cooling, even if you end up with very silent cooling the vibration from the harddrives are going to make a fair amount of noise. You'll want the case to be massive, not the flimsy few-millimetres-thick that even high-quality cases usually are made of.
2) even if you put in power supplies that are ridiculously over-specced (which you shouldn't), be sure to set the harddrives to "staggered spinupw" (or Powered-Up-In-Standby) individually before you attempt turning on the system that's been finally assembled with 20 disks.
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I have used that but it inexplicably seems to get wiped of the tabs in the groups, so I can't rely on it.
[/quote]If you have multiple firefox *windows*, you need to make sure the one with your groups is the last one you close, since the built in session thingy only saves the session for the last closed FF windows.

This is definitely not optimal, and has bitten me a couple of times, but I've kinda gotten used to it :)
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Living Room / Re: VPS Recommendations Anyone?
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 10:13 AM »
FWIW, if you're primarily interested in more of a webmail solution (which is probably smarter if it's your server) take a look at Roundcube. I've been evaluating it and it's very impressive.
Screenshot looks pretty nice - and the advertisement on the box says "browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface.", so you could slam that on top of dovecot? Seems interesting!
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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit not working on an old XP PC
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 10:10 AM »
Nice to hear :)

Would probably have been better to .zip up the file? Unless, of course, the webmail either disallows .zip or checks contents for executables as well (*sigh*).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool New Malware/Spyware ;)
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 08:04 AM »
You're sitting at your desk. Someone calls. You raise your phone to see whose calling. They just nabbed your computer screen.
Taking the phone from my pocket, they'd get snaps of my floor, and perhaps (if lighting conditions are bad) some snaps of my cluttered desk. But my monitors? Nope.

If I do decide to take the call (and the camera can be activated while a call is ongoing), they'd be able to get snaps of pretty much everything in my apartment, considering how restlessly I usually shuffle around while talking :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Cool New Malware/Spyware ;)
« Last post by f0dder on October 03, 2012, 07:12 AM »
Too lazy to read the PDF, but...

how often do any of you guys have your smartphone camera pointed at anything interesting? When I'm carrying mine around, it's usually in one of my pockets. *If* the camera can be activated while making phone calls, I guess I could be mapped - while I don't do a lot of phone calls at home, I do tend to shuffle around when I do.
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Tab groups in firefox - Ctrl+Shift+E.
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