Don't use the beta - there are known bugs (mainly truncation) when decrypting, probably introduced as part of the experimental MDC support.
I told Imad about these - I assume he's trying to fix them, and since my build environment is now shaping up nicely I should be able to help him by narrowing them down, and maybe even providing patches.
Betas of encryption software really should NOT be used for real work, just testing.
CKT build 08 is fine, but for me had a few issues with PGPdisk and explorer still. I'd recommend using build 08 until 09 is finished.
Try PGP 6.5.8ckt07 from http://www.ipgpp.com/ - you'll find that now works perfectly under WinXP and there is still source available. There were issues with Win95, but switching back to the June 2000 SDK solved those, so a build 08 could appear soon finalising that.
I never trusted PGP 7 simply because there's no source available, and that struck me simply as a dumb move because I've _seen_ how complex the source code for 6 is.
Now, 6.5.8ckt is the only maintained PGP to my knowledge, especially since the sell-off.
I do _like_ GnuPG, but I'm mildly concerned by one thing. Last time I looked, GnuPG wasn't able to lock secure memory under Windows so that it couldn't be paged out - even PGP needs a driver (PGPmemlock) to do it. Anyone know better?
You know, I reverse-engineered the original (Atari) Dungeon Master (v1.2, that is, the version without the killer bugs), just for fun and to see how it worked.
It seemed to be written in C, for the most part, with all those links and unlinks around the place, lots of sp weirdness, some tables, and some things (graphic stuff mainly) coded in assembly. A rare thing to find a game of that era not totally coded in assembly, especially a game of that calibre.
The only real issue for me was that the pre-calculation took ages on the ST's 8MHz processor, so you were really waiting around when you first started or resumed a game after a reboot. When I got the Falcon, that really made a big difference.
DM was quite easy, though. CSB was more of a challenge, a little less obviously linear, and very confusing in places.
Oh, and why has nobody mentioned the excellent, infinite-levelled, and often overlooked Captive, in my view the pinnacle of that genre on the ST (and a _hell_ of a lot faster than the sometimes slow DM)?
Damocles has no people in it whatsoever, making it a lonely, yet strangely immersive experience. I actually prefer Damocles, because I can finish the game part in just a few minutes and get on to the good stuff, by destroying Icarus with the Author's Computer.:)
Get (I think) a Red Beacon Locator, and go to Damocles - you can pick up Pulvin there and make an absolute fortune (and stop PC Bil). The solution with the electromagnet and the slot machine is cool, too, and you haven't lived 'til you've played the 'shoot-em-up' solution.:)
Remember: Everything has relevance to the game. Paul Woakes spent a long time over his games. It's a shame they never got to finish the PC version, in it's texture-mapped glory...
...hey, if anyone wants to update Bloodwych, Damocles or Mercenary III, that's fine by me!;)
DM never had a two-player mode. Bloodwych did, though. In the demo version you could duplicate the characters between parties and cheat, but not in the full release...
...oh, and did you know that it was impossible to complete the game in one-player mode? Couldn't get into the elemental tower things, because you needed one player to stand each side of the doors to cycle the "airlock".:)
Some wicked puzzles in that game, too. Took the "spinner" to a whole new level of deviousness...
... you take lots of Lego, and then build some mad invention out of it. Not even Technic. Just Lego. End up with some mad dimensional flux agitator or something.
I disagree: the BBC does have adverts, quite a lot of them in fact. It's just that, well, they're all for the BBC...
... quite why they feel the need to advertise something we are already paying for, and (more to the point) can't refuse to pay for (if you want any TV at all, that is) is beyond me.
I must admit, having briefly seen Alex Clauss's efforts with iCab, I was quite impressed. It's a shame that the previous web browser he coded crashes so much he abandoned development, but it looks like he learnt a few things since then.:)
Atari Jaguar: Good grief... the controller from Hell. An extended monster with a -- get this -- telephone keypad. Killed your index fingers trying to hold the thing up.
Just pray... *pray* that no-one signs a virus, worm or trojan with Microsoft's key (*not* impossible).
Then what? Totally blind execution of arbitary code, based on a code-signing algorithm that *ought* to be deprecated, but isn't.
... I really ought to check that turning off ActiveX in the IE browser completely fixes this. It might well not, and damn, if it doesn't, it's time to bugtraq this.
Which reminds me. Today, VexMon had it's first proper stress-testing... VexMon on top of VexMon. Almost full speed. It started to grind about 7 or 8 levels deep, by which time I'd long since got bored, split some of them, and was running various Win95's, a SuSE Linux, a DOS 3.3 and an Atari STe running Cybercon III (which, chillingly, ran at about the right speed).:)
... and then, about six layers came crashing down, but at least I was still able to use the VexMon layer above to find out *why*.
(Of course, the trick in running layers deeply, is remembering how to get out again. I had to interrupt then switch off!)
I'll admit, *I* thought NUON was dead... until I checked out YaK's recent homepage update. Vapourware, it is not... although I'm vaguely worried about the size of that Red Bull mountain.:)
We've got the offended section of the EULA attached below.
Honestly, first we get an article about patenting your computer's inventions, now we get one where a document is complaining about it's own content! Can you not see the terrifying consequences?!
The memes are turning upon us! The memes are turning upon us!!
(IWIIHTETIS? - in case of emergency, expand acronym. At poster's option, post may be archived as an example of caffeine-induced psychosis. )
I can't help but think that using software such as this to monitor your employees (or students) is, well, pretty damn malicious. The last thing I'd say any company would want is an atmosphere where people phear The Management. Of course, this kind of atmosphere is exactly what so many companies out there actually have already, so that argument probably won't work... but what about this one:-
So, we're collecting all the keystrokes? Even the ones for passwords? Everything you type, confidential documents, the lot? And then emailing it to your boss?
Now, try to think like a malicious cracker for a moment. Grow younger by X years (where X is any appropriate integer), switch 90% of your brain over to caffeine, get yourself into a mental state where Beavis and Butthead laughs (heh, heh) sound normal. (Drugs are optional.) Heh. Heh.
(Don't worry, it won't be for long enough to cause psychological damage. Probably. )
Now all Mr. (Master? (Miss?)) Kiddie has to do is crack your boss's email account, then - presto, swimming in account passwords, company secrets, you name it. A single point of attack. Heh. Heh. Hey, and they don't even have to get some bozo to install kiddietools like BO2K for them, because some bozo already bought the cracktools, actually went and paid for a site license for them... (What security model are you using, people? Hoping the Nasty People laugh so much and so hard that by the time they picked themselves off the floor, they forget what they were doing?!)
Now, how might they crack the boss's email account? I mean, it's not as if anyone or anything's watching the boss type his password; is it...?
Okay, you can (sober|grow) up now. (Again, optional.) I've made my point.
People with a Clue should probably avoid software of this kind like the plague, and view with righteous suspicion anyone who would try to use it. In fact, people with a Clue should probably remove the software from any machines they actually need to properly use, on the grounds of it being a security disaster waiting to happen.
But hey, I'm preaching to the converted here. If more PHB's read Slashdot, then... er... well, okay, then everyone else would probably move out, in case their PHB noticed how much time they were spending reading it.
Why do I suddenly have a primitive urge to crack some Australian government websites and replace them with, say, a message like "As a citizen of Australia, you're not allowed to look at this webpage, because it contains the word 'Scunthorpe'."? I mean, I know it wouldn't actually achieve anything towards getting this stupid law revoked (face it, very little I could do would, as I'm not Australian); but it'd make *me* feel better.;)
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Don't use the beta - there are known bugs (mainly truncation) when decrypting, probably introduced as part of the experimental MDC support.
I told Imad about these - I assume he's trying to fix them, and since my build environment is now shaping up nicely I should be able to help him by narrowing them down, and maybe even providing patches.
Betas of encryption software really should NOT be used for real work, just testing.
CKT build 08 is fine, but for me had a few issues with PGPdisk and explorer still. I'd recommend using build 08 until 09 is finished.
Is GnuPG able to lock memory under Windows? (I know that PGP uses PGPmemlock, and GnuPG has nothing of the kind...?)
Try PGP 6.5.8ckt07 from http://www.ipgpp.com/ - you'll find that now works perfectly under WinXP and there is still source available. There were issues with Win95, but switching back to the June 2000 SDK solved those, so a build 08 could appear soon finalising that.
I never trusted PGP 7 simply because there's no source available, and that struck me simply as a dumb move because I've _seen_ how complex the source code for 6 is.
Now, 6.5.8ckt is the only maintained PGP to my knowledge, especially since the sell-off.
I do _like_ GnuPG, but I'm mildly concerned by one thing. Last time I looked, GnuPG wasn't able to lock secure memory under Windows so that it couldn't be paged out - even PGP needs a driver (PGPmemlock) to do it. Anyone know better?
Use or similar instead of single-pixel gifs, _please_.
You know, I reverse-engineered the original (Atari) Dungeon Master (v1.2, that is, the version without the killer bugs), just for fun and to see how it worked.
It seemed to be written in C, for the most part, with all those links and unlinks around the place, lots of sp weirdness, some tables, and some things (graphic stuff mainly) coded in assembly. A rare thing to find a game of that era not totally coded in assembly, especially a game of that calibre.
The only real issue for me was that the pre-calculation took ages on the ST's 8MHz processor, so you were really waiting around when you first started or resumed a game after a reboot. When I got the Falcon, that really made a big difference.
DM was quite easy, though. CSB was more of a challenge, a little less obviously linear, and very confusing in places.
Oh, and why has nobody mentioned the excellent, infinite-levelled, and often overlooked Captive, in my view the pinnacle of that genre on the ST (and a _hell_ of a lot faster than the sometimes slow DM)?
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/sjx.
That's Mercenary III, not Damocles.
:)
:)
;)
Damocles has no people in it whatsoever, making it a lonely, yet strangely immersive experience. I actually prefer Damocles, because I can finish the game part in just a few minutes and get on to the good stuff, by destroying Icarus with the Author's Computer.
Get (I think) a Red Beacon Locator, and go to Damocles - you can pick up Pulvin there and make an absolute fortune (and stop PC Bil). The solution with the electromagnet and the slot machine is cool, too, and you haven't lived 'til you've played the 'shoot-em-up' solution.
Remember: Everything has relevance to the game. Paul Woakes spent a long time over his games. It's a shame they never got to finish the PC version, in it's texture-mapped glory...
...hey, if anyone wants to update Bloodwych, Damocles or Mercenary III, that's fine by me!
Ah, Bloodwych!! :)
:)
:)
DM never had a two-player mode. Bloodwych did, though. In the demo version you could duplicate the characters between parties and cheat, but not in the full release...
...oh, and did you know that it was impossible to complete the game in one-player mode? Couldn't get into the elemental tower things, because you needed one player to stand each side of the doors to cycle the "airlock".
Some wicked puzzles in that game, too. Took the "spinner" to a whole new level of deviousness...
"MURLOCK, YOU MAY BUY A SPELL - PICK A CLASS"
Ah, great days.
... you take lots of Lego, and then build some mad invention out of it. Not even Technic. Just Lego. End up with some mad dimensional flux agitator or something.
... that not everyone gets to ask Slashdot what to do for their final year AI project...
;)
Jammy. Very jammy. Hope it works out.
Solution from a veteran of this issue :) - always, if fingerprinting is suspected, use more than one supplier.
:)
Then, take deltas between the two copies, and if they differ, deal with any checksums&hashes and fake the serial.
The bored might like to come up with ways to prevent this technique...
I disagree: the BBC does have adverts, quite a lot of them in fact. It's just that, well, they're all for the BBC...
... quite why they feel the need to advertise something we are already paying for, and (more to the point) can't refuse to pay for (if you want any TV at all, that is) is beyond me.
I must admit, having briefly seen Alex Clauss's efforts with iCab, I was quite impressed. It's a shame that the previous web browser he coded crashes so much he abandoned development, but it looks like he learnt a few things since then. :)
I just have to point out:
Really? Try out Selphie's Limit Break, "The End". It'll kill just about anything, except the very very last boss.
But that's cheese fighting anyway. :)
Obviously ludicrous. Especially to those of us who like our drinks with a little more carbon than the average beverage. :)
Just pray... *pray* that no-one signs a virus, worm or trojan with Microsoft's key (*not* impossible).
Then what? Totally blind execution of arbitary code, based on a code-signing algorithm that *ought* to be deprecated, but isn't.
... I really ought to check that turning off ActiveX in the IE browser completely fixes this. It might well not, and damn, if it doesn't, it's time to bugtraq this.
Translation/metamorphosis processors are, I have heard, slower at equivalent clock speeds, yes...
:)
...but I guess the trick is that you can clock them much higher, because there are far fewer gates in the chip, thus less heat generated by it.
At the moment Transmeta are playing on the low-power sideeffect of this, but it will be interesting to see a high-performance version of a Crusoe...
Plus, I love the idea of running a debugger VM at processor level... and think what a Transmeta VMware-type app could do.
Hehehe... :)
:)
:)
Which reminds me. Today, VexMon had it's first proper stress-testing... VexMon on top of VexMon. Almost full speed. It started to grind about 7 or 8 levels deep, by which time I'd long since got bored, split some of them, and was running various Win95's, a SuSE Linux, a DOS 3.3 and an Atari STe running Cybercon III (which, chillingly, ran at about the right speed).
... and then, about six layers came crashing down, but at least I was still able to use the VexMon layer above to find out *why*.
(Of course, the trick in running layers deeply, is remembering how to get out again. I had to interrupt then switch off!)
I love this project. It's fun.
Someone's got wayyyyy too much time on their hands. But, uh, funny. :)
I'll admit, *I* thought NUON was dead... until I checked out YaK's recent homepage update. Vapourware, it is not... although I'm vaguely worried about the size of that Red Bull mountain. :)
We've got the offended section of the EULA attached below.
Honestly, first we get an article about patenting your computer's inventions, now we get one where a document is complaining about it's own content! Can you not see the terrifying consequences?!
The memes are turning upon us! The memes are turning upon us!!
(IWIIHTETIS? - in case of emergency, expand acronym. At poster's option, post may be archived as an example of caffeine-induced psychosis. )
For your own safety and that of others, you might want to ease off on the coffee a little. ;-)
I can't help but think that using software such as this to monitor your employees (or students) is, well, pretty damn malicious. The last thing I'd say any company would want is an atmosphere where people phear The Management. Of course, this kind of atmosphere is exactly what so many companies out there actually have already, so that argument probably won't work... but what about this one:-
So, we're collecting all the keystrokes? Even the ones for passwords? Everything you type, confidential documents, the lot? And then emailing it to your boss?
Now, try to think like a malicious cracker for a moment. Grow younger by X years (where X is any appropriate integer), switch 90% of your brain over to caffeine, get yourself into a mental state where Beavis and Butthead laughs (heh, heh) sound normal. (Drugs are optional.) Heh. Heh.
(Don't worry, it won't be for long enough to cause psychological damage. Probably. )
Now all Mr. (Master? (Miss?)) Kiddie has to do is crack your boss's email account, then - presto, swimming in account passwords, company secrets, you name it. A single point of attack. Heh. Heh. Hey, and they don't even have to get some bozo to install kiddietools like BO2K for them, because some bozo already bought the cracktools, actually went and paid for a site license for them... (What security model are you using, people? Hoping the Nasty People laugh so much and so hard that by the time they picked themselves off the floor, they forget what they were doing?!)
Now, how might they crack the boss's email account? I mean, it's not as if anyone or anything's watching the boss type his password; is it...?
Okay, you can (sober|grow) up now. (Again, optional.) I've made my point.
People with a Clue should probably avoid software of this kind like the plague, and view with righteous suspicion anyone who would try to use it. In fact, people with a Clue should probably remove the software from any machines they actually need to properly use, on the grounds of it being a security disaster waiting to happen.
But hey, I'm preaching to the converted here. If more PHB's read Slashdot, then... er... well, okay, then everyone else would probably move out, in case their PHB noticed how much time they were spending reading it.
Why do I suddenly have a primitive urge to crack some Australian government websites and replace them with, say, a message like "As a citizen of Australia, you're not allowed to look at this webpage, because it contains the word 'Scunthorpe'."? ;)
I mean, I know it wouldn't actually achieve anything towards getting this stupid law revoked (face it, very little I could do would, as I'm not Australian); but it'd make *me* feel better.
Oh, is that what those pretty purple flashes are?... Cool. :)