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Yep - seems to be down now.

If you want the binary, you can grab it from my box here - I didn't save any of the web pages.

I've been fighting a battle against spam for years. I think I've hit on some basic rules that work well.

1. Whitelist everybody you know - It's the polite thing to do.

2. Different addresses for different purposes - I use several addresses at several domains, and I make heavy use of qmail's -tag syntax. All of these addresses reach the same mail account, but each address has it's own set of rules - most of the mail sent to hotgrits@yourpants.net goes right into my junk box for later checking; only the ones that get very low spamassassin scores are diverted into my main box. Conversely, some addresses have much higher thresholds, or even bypass all of the spam checks entirely (mailing lists have special aliases that go right into a folder just for them).

2.5 Give each business or website you deal with a unique address so you know who sold your info.

3. Keep machine readable e-mail addresses off of webpages. I used to just use some light cloaking which displayed either a graphic or a encoded address based on the user agent. Last night, I wrote a more advanced cloaker which always displays a graphic, and provides a web based form to send an email.

4. Spamassassin - it is a wonderful program. I use the scores it assigns for pulling low scoring mail out of a stream of crap, labeling higher scoring mail, and for the very highest diverting them to the dreaded junk box.

5. When all else fails, block. Someone was pounding random addresses on my mailserver with hundreds of messages apparently from a nonexistant domain. The number of bounces stuck in the queue was well over several hundred and rising. A few :deny entries in tcp.cdb, and the number of bouncing messages dropped to an acceptable level.

I've been fighting a battle against spam for years. I think I've hit on some basic rules that work well.

1. Whitelist everybody you know - It's the polite thing to do.

2. Different addresses for different purposes - I use several addresses at several domains, and I make heavy use of qmail's -tag syntax. All of these addresses reach the same mail account, but each address has it's own set of rules - most of the mail sent to hotgrits@yourpants.net goes right into my junk box for later checking; only the ones that get very low spamassassin scores are diverted into my main box. Conversely, some addresses have much higher thresholds, or even bypass all of the spam checks entirely (mailing lists have special aliases that go right into a folder just for them).

2.5 Give each business or website you deal with a unique address so you know who sold your info.

3. Keep machine readable e-mail addresses off of webpages. I used to just use some light cloaking which displayed either a graphic or a encoded address based on the user agent. Last night, I wrote a more advanced cloaker which always displays a graphic, and provides a web based form to send an email.

4. Spamassassin - it is a wonderful program. I use the scores it assigns for pulling low scoring mail out of a stream of crap, labeling higher scoring mail, and for the very highest diverting them to the dreaded junk box.

5. When all else fails, block. Someone was pounding random addresses on my mailserver with hundreds of messages apparently from a nonexistant domain. The number of bounces stuck in the queue was well over several hundred and rising. A few :deny entries in tcp.cdb, and the number of bouncing messages dropped to an acceptable level.

I've been fighting a battle against spam for years. I think I've hit on some basic rules that work well.

1. Whitelist everybody you know - It's the polite thing to do.

2. Different addresses for different purposes - I use several addresses at several domains, and I make heavy use of qmail's -tag syntax. All of these addresses reach the same mail account, but each address has it's own set of rules - most of the mail sent to hotgrits@yourpants.net goes right into my junk box for later checking; only the ones that get very low spamassassin scores are diverted into my main box. Conversely, some addresses have much higher thresholds, or even bypass all of the spam checks entirely (mailing lists have special aliases that go right into a folder just for them).

2.5 Give each business or website you deal with a unique address so you know who sold your info.

3. Keep machine readable e-mail addresses off of webpages. I used to just use some light cloaking which displayed either a graphic or a encoded address based on the user agent. Last night, I wrote a more advanced cloaker which always displays a graphic, and provides a web based form to send an email.

4. Spamassassin - it is a wonderful program. I use the scores it assigns for pulling low scoring mail out of a stream of crap, labeling higher scoring mail, and for the very highest diverting them to the dreaded junk box.

5. When all else fails, block. Someone was pounding random addresses on my mailserver with hundreds of messages apparently from a nonexistant domain. The number of bounces stuck in the queue was well over several hundred and rising. A few :deny entries in tcp.cdb, and the number of bouncing messages dropped to an acceptable level.

For the past few months, I've been trying to figure out where I was when I took this picture.
It's been bugging me since I got back from vacation this summer.

Using this site, I was able to match it in a few minutes!

Now I just need to figure out the name of that park...

here is a PDF version for those people stuck on systems with only an acrobat viewer.

It looks like he used a bitmap font, so the conversion looks a little ugly, but it is readable. I'll try to replace it with a better conversion in a half hour or so, as soon as I match the font he used.

I wasn't that impressed by Jolt Espresso - it had a large lift, but it wore off too fast.

In my opinion, the one true energy drink is the Thi version of Red Bull, in the small brown glass bottles.
It's powerful and cheap ($0.65 or so a bottle), so you can keep going for many nights for not much money.

Just pick up a few cases of this stuff (I usually saw it for $0.70 or so a bottle at the local Oriental Mart) and the caffine problems of your staff are solved.

This stuff was vital for my schedule of sleeping for 6 hours every other night when I was in grad school.
I still have a dozen or so bottles lying around that I give to people who think they can handle caffine.
So far they have all bowed down to the fury of the real red bull.

Just pick up a few cases of this stuff (I usually saw it for $0.70 or so a bottle at the local Oriental Mart) and the caffine problems of your staff are solved.

This stuff was vital for my schedule of sleeping for 6 hours every other night when I was in grad school.
I still have a dozen or so bottles lying around that I give to people who think they can handle caffine.
So far they have all bowed down to the fury of the real red bull.

For some time I've been working on a contingency plan for the event that I might end up unemployed.
A major part of it is this trip - just under 6500 miles covering many places I've been before, or would love to go to.
I estimate it would take about 3 months to do properly, so that I could enjoy everything I could without having to rush through it.

I figure camping along the coast of Lake Superior by Wawa would be a great start.
I've spent many a week off in the summer camping there, and never run out of things to see. [Pictures/Writeup of a recent trip].

After that, it would be a westward run along highway 1 accross the canadian shield towards Clagary, Banff, and Jasper.

I probably would dip towards the south as I approached Calgary, to pass through Fort Macleod so that I could visit the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump again, before I lingered for a couple of weeks around Banff and Jasper.
I have only been in this area twice, once about 9 years ago as part of the last long road trip I took with my parents, and last year with a friend [Pictures]. The Banff and Jasper parks are amazing. The Icefields Parkway is Breathtaking. I could probably spend every summer out here for the rest of my life, and never get bored or stop discovering new things.

When it was finally time to move on, I would push on to the west coast, and gradually wander southward along the coast from Vancouver, to Los Angeles.
I intend to try out a small chunk of this part of the run in July, taking a week to drive between Los Angeles and SanFrancisco (and back) with my brother.

After this, everything gets vague. I could swing south, and see Mesa Verde for the first time since middle school, take the central route and revisit Dinosaur National Monument, or swing to the north and rexperience the solitude of the badlands. I probably wouldn't decide until I reached LA.

For some time I've been working on a contingency plan for the event that I might end up unemployed.
A major part of it is this trip - just under 6500 miles covering many places I've been before, or would love to go to.
I estimate it would take about 3 months to do properly, so that I could enjoy everything I could without having to rush through it.

I figure camping along the coast of Lake Superior by Wawa would be a great start.
I've spent many a week off in the summer camping there, and never run out of things to see. [Pictures/Writeup of a recent trip].

After that, it would be a westward run along highway 1 accross the canadian shield towards Clagary, Banff, and Jasper.

I probably would dip towards the south as I approached Calgary, to pass through Fort Macleod so that I could visit the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump again, before I lingered for a couple of weeks around Banff and Jasper.
I have only been in this area twice, once about 9 years ago as part of the last long road trip I took with my parents, and last year with a friend [Pictures]. The Banff and Jasper parks are amazing. The Icefields Parkway is Breathtaking. I could probably spend every summer out here for the rest of my life, and never get bored or stop discovering new things.

When it was finally time to move on, I would push on to the west coast, and gradually wander southward along the coast from Vancouver, to Los Angeles.
I intend to try out a small chunk of this part of the run in July, taking a week to drive between Los Angeles and SanFrancisco (and back) with my brother.

After this, everything gets vague. I could swing south, and see Mesa Verde for the first time since middle school, take the central route and revisit Dinosaur National Monument, or swing to the north and rexperience the solitude of the badlands. I probably wouldn't decide until I reached LA.

For some time I've been working on a contingency plan for the event that I might end up unemployed.
A major part of it is this trip - just under 6500 miles covering many places I've been before, or would love to go to.
I estimate it would take about 3 months to do properly, so that I could enjoy everything I could without having to rush through it.

I figure camping along the coast of Lake Superior by Wawa would be a great start.
I've spent many a week off in the summer camping there, and never run out of things to see. [Pictures/Writeup of a recent trip].

After that, it would be a westward run along highway 1 accross the canadian shield towards Clagary, Banff, and Jasper.

I probably would dip towards the south as I approached Calgary, to pass through Fort Macleod so that I could visit the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump again, before I lingered for a couple of weeks around Banff and Jasper.
I have only been in this area twice, once about 9 years ago as part of the last long road trip I took with my parents, and last year with a friend [Pictures]. The Banff and Jasper parks are amazing. The Icefields Parkway is Breathtaking. I could probably spend every summer out here for the rest of my life, and never get bored or stop discovering new things.

When it was finally time to move on, I would push on to the west coast, and gradually wander southward along the coast from Vancouver, to Los Angeles.
I intend to try out a small chunk of this part of the run in July, taking a week to drive between Los Angeles and SanFrancisco (and back) with my brother.

After this, everything gets vague. I could swing south, and see Mesa Verde for the first time since middle school, take the central route and revisit Dinosaur National Monument, or swing to the north and rexperience the solitude of the badlands. I probably wouldn't decide until I reached LA.

• He was in Boy Scouts (I was in troop 371 with him)
• He was always into strange experiments, from making thermite, to building large batteries to give people shocks.
• At one point in high school, he became very interested in radioactive decay, and the reactions that can transform one isotope into another.
• Shortly after that, he started showing off many giger counters, bits of metal with radiation symbols etched into them, and other items when we met for lunch.
• He knew chemestry pretty well, although he was not always that careful. (he used to reclaim silver from discared film for extra money)
• As we both messed around with electronics, I gave him a catalog from a slavage yard with crates of dozen of different items that had been left out in the rain. They were selling dead smoke detectors for really really cheap.
• He brought in a opened Americum container from a smoke detector to lunch one day. At this point, I stopped sitting near him in class, and at lunch, and started calling him "Glow Boy".
• About a month into my Freshman year at college, I got a phone call from him. He said that he had just been raided by the EPA and the NRC, and that he needed to know what the name of that salvage yard had been.

I've had an eyemodule for several years now, and I've taken several hundred pictures with it. It was great to leave it plugged into my visor, and know I always had a camera on me if I came accross something I wanted to show to other people.

I picked up an Eyemodule 2 a little while ago, and I've only taken a couple of dozen or so pictures with it. While I love the built in lens cap, and the higher resolution is nicer under optimal circumstances, under low light levels the eyemodule 1 works better, as the eyemodule 2 is easy to blur.

I've had an eyemodule for several years now, and I've taken several hundred pictures with it. It was great to leave it plugged into my visor, and know I always had a camera on me if I came accross something I wanted to show to other people.

I picked up an Eyemodule 2 a little while ago, and I've only taken a couple of dozen or so pictures with it. While I love the built in lens cap, and the higher resolution is nicer under optimal circumstances, under low light levels the eyemodule 1 works better, as the eyemodule 2 is easy to blur.

I've had an eyemodule for several years now, and I've taken several hundred pictures with it. It was great to leave it plugged into my visor, and know I always had a camera on me if I came accross something I wanted to show to other people.

I picked up an Eyemodule 2 a little while ago, and I've only taken a couple of dozen or so pictures with it. While I love the built in lens cap, and the higher resolution is nicer under optimal circumstances, under low light levels the eyemodule 1 works better, as the eyemodule 2 is easy to blur.

I use a little trick that combines both of those techniques.
It's a little block of RXML that defines a tag called cloak. You use it like this:

<cloak email='foo@pathwalker.org' />

If Roxen determines that the client is a robot, or it can't identify what the client is, then they get a graphic.

If they are detected as a normal webbrowser, then they get a partially entity encoded address.

If anyone uses Roxen as their server it might be of some use.

How well we show up when doing a vanity search.

How well we show up when doing a vanity search.

I use this little rxml widget on all of the email addresses on my web site.

If the client is detected as a robot, or the detection fails, the address is displayed as a randomly named graphic.

If the client is not detected to be a robot, then just a light entity encoding (which I change from time to time) is applied to the address, which is displayed as a mailto link.

No, I spent $45 on a very well designed knob shaped input device. The fact that it also makes an excellent volume control is (to me) just a bonus.

I love it - it's really amazing how many tasks are made easier by having a knob you can fiddle with.

When I'm grabbing frames from a video I took on vacation to make a QTVR file, I use left and right to pan through the track, and a click to save the current frame. If I'm actually editing the video, I reassign the click to split the current track.

For editing code, or using a console, I set left and right to the up and down arrows, and the click to return. It's great to twirl it with one finger, and use it to scroll through long documents, or to just give it a twist and a press to zip through my command history, and repeat a command I know I typed sometime in the past 10 minutes or so.

Music? Well, I must admit, it does make a very nice volume control...

Parts One and Two are now completely copied.
I'll try for the high quality versions now.

There is a complete mirror of the single file version of part 2 in here.
Part one is at about 75%, and still downloading right now.

I saw a sudden dropoff in Nimda infection attempts a while ago.
It's quite obvious if you look at the graph I have here.
One moment, the nimda hit count is heading straight up, the next, a sharp bend to the right as the rate of new hits drops to almost nothing...

Why bother writing your own caching code when you can just let your Webserver do it for you?

With Roxen's cache tag, I just threw <cache minutes=15> </cache> tags around the cpu intensive parts of mine and let Roxen handle the rest.

I do have a cron job that parses the logs every 15 minutes, and updates the backend database. (I could have done that from the web page as well, but then my samples wouldn't be taken every 15 minutes).

Why bother writing your own caching code when you can just let your Webserver do it for you?

With Roxen's cache tag, I just threw <cache minutes=15> </cache> tags around the cpu intensive parts of mine and let Roxen handle the rest.

I do have a cron job that parses the logs every 15 minutes, and updates the backend database. (I could have done that from the web page as well, but then my samples wouldn't be taken every 15 minutes).

I've been having fun with that myself - I have a list of everyone who hit me here.
Lots are home users who probably don't realize that they have IIS running, but there are a few sites that look like decent sized places.

Not too many attacks where I am - so far this month I've seen the old worm 91 times, and the new worm only 13 times.

I'm making a nice graph of the infection attempts over time Here. It Should be fun to see how long it takes for version 2 to pass version 1.

It's never a mistake to grab an old SGI - Irix is slick, and if you don't want it, you can be sure that someone you know will swap you something for it.

I tried to grab this one a couple of years ago when MSU was getting rid of it.
Someone beat me to it, but later that day, I got a call offering it to me, as it wouldn't fit through the door of my friend's apartment!
I snapped it up, as I had plenty of room, and was working at a place where I had easy access to Irix disksets.

Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.

I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).

I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)

Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
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Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.

I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).

I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)

Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
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Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.

I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).

I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)

Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
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Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.

I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).

I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)

Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
--

Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.

I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).

I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)

Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
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Interesting - I've been buying those Pretty brown bottles at my Favorite Asian market for well over a year now, and have been wondering which version came first.

I like the taste of the Blue and Silver version a little better than the brown glass version, but I find the brown glass version gives me a much larger kick, and is MUCH cheaper ($0.70 as opposed to $2.00).

I never really liked the gold cans that much - I think the metal reacts with the contents. (although it does taste a lot better than Shark)

Lately, my favorite weekend all-night codejuice hasn't been any of these - it's been a Mr. Brown with a splash of George Dickel, and a Taurine capsule...
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When I first thought about getting my iBook, I was concerned with having only one mouse button. After a very short time I actually started to like it!

My normal hand positions when using the trackpad are roughly this.

I keep the fingers of my left hand on function, control, option, and apple; and use my right hand on the trackpad. I just use the thumb of my right hand to hit that one big button.

I really appreciate not having to make all those little side to side finger motions in order to hit a different mouse button. I just hold down the function key I want (without any side to side movement of my left hand) and whack that big button with my thumb (no additional side to side movement of the right needed, as I can reach that big button from any position on the pad).

Now that I'm used to it, it's great :-)
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I stuck a copy of the image on my server at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hunger f3/ mirror/698.jpg
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If anyone actually has a Visor with a module of some kind, let me know.

Well, I have a EyeModule for my visor, and I love it. I've been having way too much fun with it since I got it.

Plug and play works great - stick it in, and the software gets installed.
The resolution is 320x240 - pretty good for web pages.
Picture quality is good while moving in bright (outdoor) light; if you are indoors, you have to hold still.
If it gets too dark, you get the "Christmas Light" effect that old color quick cams used to get.
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30 minutes to run the test on a palm?
The visor version of the test took a fraction of a second.

I kind of figured my visor would pass the test - with all of the fun I've been having with my Eye Module I've been filling up my ram every day.

(If you want to see what pictures I've been taking, I have some up here. Noting spectacular - just playing around.
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Email address is real.

Ok - I converted it.
You can grab MPEG versions from http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/video/dune/
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weak from Austria

Strong from Thiland

Really Strong also from Thiland

I drank way too much of the third one a couple of months ago, and pushed my caffine tolerence way too high, so it's back to faygo for me.
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weak from Austria

Strong from Thiland

Really Strong also from Thiland

I drank way too much of the third one a couple of months ago, and pushed my caffine tolerence way too high, so it's back to faygo for me.
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weak from Austria

Strong from Thiland

Really Strong also from Thiland

I drank way too much of the third one a couple of months ago, and pushed my caffine tolerence way too high, so it's back to faygo for me.
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If you want MPEG, I'm running the quicktime files through my converter now, and I'll have them up at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/video/tetris/ in a few minutes.

Hey - it worked.

I'll put the MPEG files up at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3 /video/lotr.rxml
They'll go up as they finish encoding, and stay up until someone asks me to take them down.

I've thrown a copy of the files on one of my machines at http://house.ofdoom.com/be/

If you dont like that much preperation, try the local asian food market for some import ramen. I reccomend KimChi Spicy Bowl Noodle.

I second this - that stuff rocks! I'm lucky enough to have an asian food market across the street from me so I get to experience a wide variety of dried noodle products!

One that I've been eating a lot lately is called "Super Bowl" ( picture ). It's pretty good - several chunks of noodles, several seasoning packets, and a plastic fork enclosed in a handy container. One of these will fill me up when I've forgotten to eat all day, and I need to eat something fast.

I like to cook - I have some portabella mushrooms that I'm planning on using in the next day or two, and I have been giving a lot of thought today on what I want to make for dinner.

I also have a huge stockpile of ramen which I eat often. Here are some reasons I keep eating it:
1. Ramen never goes bad.
If I have a stockpile of ramen, I always have something to eat, even if I've been out of town for a couple of days.

2. If you pick the right brand, it tastes good.
I'm hooked on Tung-I Ramen ( picture ), that stuff actually tastes good; the noodles themselves are flavored, and it comes with several seasoning packets, so you can control the balance of the seasonings.

3. Even if you pick a cheap brand, you can still make it taste good.
Add celery, an egg, etc, and you end up with a decent meal ( picture ).

So, I tend to think of it as a backup food - something halfway decent for me to eat when I don't have anything else.
(If I get really hungry, I have a can of spam. One look at that, and I can think of dozens of things I'd rather eat!)

I like to cook - I have some portabella mushrooms that I'm planning on using in the next day or two, and I have been giving a lot of thought today on what I want to make for dinner.

I also have a huge stockpile of ramen which I eat often. Here are some reasons I keep eating it:
1. Ramen never goes bad.
If I have a stockpile of ramen, I always have something to eat, even if I've been out of town for a couple of days.

2. If you pick the right brand, it tastes good.
I'm hooked on Tung-I Ramen ( picture ), that stuff actually tastes good; the noodles themselves are flavored, and it comes with several seasoning packets, so you can control the balance of the seasonings.

3. Even if you pick a cheap brand, you can still make it taste good.
Add celery, an egg, etc, and you end up with a decent meal ( picture ).

So, I tend to think of it as a backup food - something halfway decent for me to eat when I don't have anything else.
(If I get really hungry, I have a can of spam. One look at that, and I can think of dozens of things I'd rather eat!)

I have two of my favorite steganographic tools available at http://house.ofdoom.com/~hungerf3/steg/

I have Jsteg (as patches against version 4 of the Independent JPEG Group's software, and a prebuilt windows version), as well as White Noise Storm. They both, in my opinion do excellent jobs of hiding data.