Auuugh. It is "open source" of a sort (you can DL the perl source).
"Please contact the authors for permission to redistribute this code with or without alterations, or to use this code for commercial purposes."
But it would be interesting to see it under GPL though - and its certainly alterable in its current state for private use.
Freenet should maybe look at this for the distribution model - and kidnap the infrastructure if not the acutal code. Roll into that a bit of gnutella for spice.
A good programmer should never be never too proud to borrow from someone else with a good idea.
If so, the 100K limitation would be pretty easy to blast out, as would b ethe dependance on the good graces of a single company (AT&T) in a single country (USA).
Hmm - actually, it may be more useful to leave the filesize limitation in - move it to something like 500K chunks. Then add something similar to the keysplitting to redundantly split the actual content as well. Put those split parts on differenet servers with redundancy on a distributed net, and you have cryptogtaphically secure, redundant information that protects the servers from knowing the content and hence prevents their ability to be pressured legally. Plus the redundancy of the parts and their ability to be reconsituted via the net from multiple sources makes it nearly impossible to eliminate content.
Combining this with Freenet shoudl be an object for anyone that really values freedom.
Actually interest in Codecs isnt dropping - its just movingover to the bandwidth limited world of wireless. IP (IPv6?) is going to be the way the 3G wireless mobile "phones" operate, and for now the digital network (CDMA TDMA CPDP and GSM) are pretty much limited to 14.4K - that means a good data compression codec is needed (g711 or g729)
And there is a lot of talk about bettering those codecs which will use even less of the available spectrum and bandwidth. This allows even more data to flow to the mobile device (go to Japan nad check out DoCoMo and iMode from NTT to see what a "wireless data culture" is starting to look like).
Thats the way IP based comms are going to be set up. Bet on it. H.323 was designed to communicate to SS7 over an ISDN line - its a telco/wireline oriented protocol stack - lots of stuff you don't need in there. SIP is cleaner and better - and there's already an open SIP IP-masq-proxy for Linux at www.sip-happens.com from a 3Com engineer.
Also, if you want to ride the internet, try making QoS a value-add item - you can give the phone away for free (Opens Source that puppy!), and make money by providing a good backbone with colocation in major cities to drop off the calls to the PSTN. And if you can find one, get one that can route the voice over IP packets for you. A place to start might be Qwest (the most well known), Global Crossings (Lots of fiber world wide), or Level 3 (the only end-to-end IP global fiber network).
They have a different stack (H.323) if you want to develop against Cisco Call Manager 3.0, but their gateway and gatekeeper pairs (3620 and 3640 cisco routers - using IOS 12.x) must confrom the the H.323 stack of protocols -therefore they will interoperate between H.323 terminal devices - I know, because we've had audio portion of a video conferening unit talk to the Selsius IP phones by way of Cisco equipment at both ends.
SIP simplifies things even further - and will eliminate problems like Ciscos' stack onthe call manager. SIP is the future.
So what you are saying isnt quite true if you know all the facts.
And you have an Email address that you can be contacted with where-ever you go. Try reading up on the protocols. Especially SIP - and the Gateway-Gatekeeper interaction in H.323 for similar things.
Look at comapnies like Williams Communications, Qwest - and the newest 800 lb gorilla in the world: Level 3 communications.
They are going to flood the market with cheap bandwidth and knock the old line guys like AT&T and Sprint off at the knees.
Try reading the mini-essay on Silicon Economics at LEvel-3. They have my vote - any company whose CEO lists Snow Crash as one of his favorite novels is definitely out to do things differently.
I've had one of these on my desk for almost 3 months. This and the 3COM SIP VoIP phones are great. They work really well - especially with the 3640/3620 H.323 GK/GW pairs. Learn that Cisco IOS kids - its worth a fortune once these puppies hit the market. Also, read RFC 2543 SIP _ that is going to change the world for Linux. I'm under NDA for that,but keep your eyes open - there are a lot fo great VoIP coming out, and Linux is part of the mainstream from the ground up. Try looking at www.siphappens.com for a look at the tip of the iceberg... Sometimes it pays nice dividends to be working for a far leading edge company in R&D as a convergence architect:-)
here is an exceprt from the lead post by "orionX"...
I have a program that monitors all file disk activity done through the windows kernel. When I read the new patch message, this peaked my curiosity and had to check what EQ was doing. They going to scan me, I'm going to see what, well some of it anyway
Heres some odd lines.. I don't know much about this sort of thing, but maybe the more experienced can make something out of it. Of course it just might be crap that I'm making a big deal over when its nothing, but here goes
I added a * and how many lines I saw in a row for the certain command for when I saw many of the same line in a row. I did this so I didn't spam as much as I already am =)
Note: Some of the offsets/lengths changed for each of the consecutive read/seek commands but i didn't post the differences.
then randomly later on I keep seeing 3 lines of this here and there:
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0
EQ reading internet history and cookie files?! Whats up with that? If theres some useful info for an Internet game in the history/cookie folders then say it here, however tiny.. I dont want to start something huge, because this might mean nothng.
I use microslop IE explorer 5 if you didn't notice. Didn't try this with netscrape yet.
I started the file monitor right before I clicked the EULA agree button.
>What I'm getting at is, most people who object to ShowEQ (and the rest of the suite) and agreed to HD scanning feel so strongly about online cheating that they'll give up their HD's privacy for an equal chance at EverQuest
And, IMHO, thats what is so scary - we are bringing up a generation that has no concept of the importance of the fundamental freedoms that they take for granted - and blithely give them up!
Its getting so bad anymore, that Im wondering if those militia loons arent at least partly right when they start slinging around quotes like "those who would give up freedom for safety will neither achieve nor deserve either" (paraphrased from Ben Franklin, I believe).
First its "bad things" like cigatettes, then the "war on (some) drugs", then priavte guns (ask Amadou Diallo's widow about the police guns). Now its privacy on the chopping block - how long until the freedoms of speech and expression are given up one slice at a time "for our own good" to a police state?
Its damned scary - generations of soldiers gave up normal life to preserve those rights, civil libertarians have stood up and put thier necks out, and even hackers have contributed [by providing the tools to set information free and preserve basic anonymity --Thanks Whitfield Diffie and Phill Zimmereman!].
But now these online ignroant lumps give all that up because they have no values other than "get me my next l33t level in this game".
And its simply an RE job on the datastream. Passive, nothing more. All it does is lets you see the REAL numbers behind the game that Verant tries to hide with handwaving and frantic knees-bent running about behavior.
The reason? They have some severe design flaws in their game, as well as a piss poor and arrogant attitude toward their player base. The only reason they are raking it in is because nobody else has such a thing on the market yet. They were stomping sites until it got moved to www.hackersquest.gomp.ch, (notice the NON-us addy?) a host site that doesnt have anyone that clicked the Verant EULA, and so far seems immune to their lawyers.
And the prog runs on a separate Linux box: using NAT/ipchains and routing the win box thru the linux box is best, but it can also put the ethX device into promisc and sniff the data. So, really, there isnt jack they can do about detecting it. They seemd to live with this until... What brought this "corporate sniffing" on is that someone took the open source and did a windows port. So every little k3w3l d00d and wannebe could use it.
Verant went into Corporate panic mode - typical of their nasty anti-gamer managerial mindset. Verant went psycho trying to stop it.
But the scariest thing is: when they polled 15,000 of their users, 83% agreed to let Verant search their HD as a precondition of playing the game!!!
What kind of sheep are these? I pity the folks who will need to depend on such weak and obedient asses who will kneel down for a compny just to be allowed to play a game that they are already paying for!
EQ players who said Yes in that poll, you should be ashamed!
To take such a flippant attitude about securing your own system, and then to claim that "hey I didnt know" would work as a defense against those Reno and Company (or big corporate lawyers), well, your post shows that you are now, beyond doubt, a brainless fuckwit. Ever heard of a legal term called "depraved indifference"? With your attitude, you better get to know that one, and "culpable negligence" as well. They will be slamming into you in civil and criminal court someday.
And I will cheer them on - because I work for one of the affected companies, and that hit cost us revenues - which could affect my raise, my salary, my stock, my options, and the stability of my job. So Joe Citizen (in spite of your inability to see past the end of your little high-school ego) was affected, and thats why joe citizen should care: from me whose salary could be affected, to the stores where I shop and spend that salary, to the taxes I pay to help those less fortunate, etc. No man is an island kid, learn it.
Startrek TNG? BAH! Kubrik and Clarke had those optical based storage devices inside HAL's noggin back in the 60's. Watch the disconnect scene in 2001 for an illustration.
>Or you can ask around to try to find a criminal > who has stolen the weapon you want.
Yep - and there is a growth of almost 10o illegal guns a day now in Great Britain. Ironically, its due to the fact that the populace is generally disarmed, so if you are a criminal it gives you even more of a likely advantage. And lets face it, criminals are never too worried about the finer points of law to begin with.
> Easy to get? Easier than Great Britain. Harder > than Switzerland.
Yep - the Swiss get their assault rifles and ammunition issued to them to keep at home.
Washout? Try viewing Empire of the Sun. And as a combat veteran let me tell you that the first 30 minutes of Private Ryan absolutely took my breath away. The only thing missing was the smells.
If we coould get THAT kind of effort then Speilberg is up to the task if AI. But your snotty and ininformed flame mean nothing. You want "Spice Girls" of movies, go look at Cameron.
Ok, so the US treated the Japanese "horribly" in the interment camps? BWAHAHAH! They were fed, housed clothed and given their freedom voluntarily - and even got an official apology from the US government and reparations. Compare that to the Japanese treatment of the US Soldiers in the Bataan death march, or the chem and bio experiments on POWs, or the beaheadings and starvation of POWs, or the forced prostitutition of Korean women or the rape of Nanking (bayonetting babies for fun). Those were barbaric evail sumbitches that deserved every bit of death hurled their way - and they *still* havent acknowledged their wrongdoings, much less apologised officially or attempted to make reparations.
Dont be so overwhelmed about our minor transgressions when the other guys were purely evil. Or did you not learn those things (Nanking, etc) in your history classes?
Typical brainless anti-gun rant. Those folks in Aus have no recourse - and their violent crime rate is UP since the criminals were handed a disarmed populace upon which to prey. There, like here, 99.994% (US Dept of Justice statistics)of all guns and gun owners were not involved in any violent crimes; and according to at least two reputable academic studies, the private ownership of guns plays a fundamental part in the deterrence fo voilent crimes.
Dont buy the lies the "popular press" tells you about guns any more than you would buy them about "hackers" or open source. Think for yourself, examine the acts rationally and you will see a lot of what you have been told is simply a lie by the powermongers in government who fear losing control of anything.
Im sure the victims of the Holocaust would beg to differ with that - the US Army was a savior for them. The victims of the Saddam would disagree with that as well - or do you think they'd hate a military to intervene on their behalf when Saddams internal police force was using mustard gas on women and children?
Hmm - lets make the US Military terrible - and see how long it is until China kills tens thousands in their invasion of Taiwan - and then look at the repression that follows.
Who says? Try looking at ESR's web site, and a lot of other libertarian places. Remember that guns insure your freedom - personally, in society and in the world - by defending yourself, the police enforcing laws, and the Army to defend the society.
Perhaps you didnt engage your brain on this one - or are up to your neck inthe usual university collectivist claptrap. Try turning a more ciritcal eye to the old saws used by the far left at the universities.
> Any body which has a purpose of opressing another organization should have problems with the GPL.
Umm, excuse me - I was a soldier, and I didnt oppress anyone - the US military has been the great liberator this century (wiht the possible exception of Vietnam). ITs existence and abilities are what provide a shield for those freedoms - and have done so since the beginning of this nation to WW2 and through the Cold War against Soviet Russia. And the military continues to protect as a deterrent against tyrants (EX: like the Chinese - think Taiwan wouldn't have been rolled over without US presence via USAF and USN there?).
> Anyone who agrees with the GPL should have severe problems with the Army.
Nope - I was in on both - been doing Linux since 0.99p13, and served honorably in the US Army prior to that, and in the Reserves afterward.
Unlike you puling collectivists, I value my rights enough to give up some of my freedom for a time in order to defend them. Likewise, I gave up making money for a time in order to do Linux work. No oppression there - perhaps you should re-examine your premises, for I find them grossly ignorant and personally insulting.
Who says? Try looking at ESR's web site, and a lot of other lebertarian places. Remember that ungs insure your freedom - presonally, in society and in the world - by defening yourself, the police enforceing laws, and the Army to defend the society.
Perhaps you didnt engage your brain on this one - or are up to your neck inthe usual university collectivist claptrap. Try turning a more ciritcal eye to the old saws used by the far left at the universities.
> Any body which has a purpose of opressing another organization should have problems with the GPL.
Umm, excuse me - I was a soldier, and I didnt oppress anyone - the US military has been the great liberator this century (wiht the possible exception of Vietnam). ITs existence and abilities are what provide a shield for those freedoms - and have done so since the beginning of this nation to WW2 and through the Cold War against Soviet Russia. And the military continues to protect as a deterrent against tyrants (EX: like the Chinese - think Taiwan wouldn't have been rolled over without US presence via USAF and USN there?).
> Anyone who agrees with the GPL should have severe problems with the Army.
Nope - I was in on both - been doing Linux since 0.99p13, and served honorably in the US Army prior to that, and in the Reserves afterward.
Unlike you puling collectivists, I value my rights enough to give up some of my freedom for a time in order to defend them. Likewise, I gave up making money for a time in order to do Linux work. No oppression there - perhaps you should re-examine your premises, for I find them grossly ignorant and personally insulting.
Live in Boulder Colorado with alower cost of living, and STILL get the perks, good pay and stock options, grants and year end bonuses? Add to that having the Rocky Mountains in your back yard - Hike spring and fall, rock climbing or biking in the summer, ski in the winter - plus water skiing, golf, pro baseball (Rockies, one of the best ballparks in all baseball), a great hockey team (Avalanche), 2x champion NFL team (Broncos), top notch soccer team, etc. And if you just want to "get away" - drive 1 hour in any direction and you will be out of sight of the city.
p.s. if you want to come here to work, just look at the want ads - plenty IT open here. And if you want to work at level 3, let me know and we can split the $1000 hiring bonus:-) (andy at pagan dot net)
ROFL - and when the weatherby breaks because you had to fire too many rounds thru it without cleaning it, and you cant get parts for the 375, what ya going to do? Thats what the cheapie remmie, AR or AK are good choices. Same reason you go with the 1911.45 or a Glock 9mm.
And as for the chipmunk part, lets see you stand 25 yards away from me an my Glock 23.40S&W or my Kimber (federal hydrashocks in both) - you wont stand long. Same goes for 300m and the AR-15, or my M1A and the 7.62 NATO over your rich man's plyathing weatherby (better wound ballistics). By the way to get that close you gotta go thru a lot of mud out here in the country - gunk up you pretty toys something bad. Not mine - I bag deer (and a couple years ago an elk when I got a tag) with my M1A, scrubbing thru the rain and mud in Wyoming.
Roach was overrated - only the "in" crowd kept playing up to him in order to maintain their credentials as to being "cool". Nowhere near the boundary stretcher that Brubeck in his medium. Hell, most of his licks can be duplicated by Neil Peart (spelling?), heh.
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Auuugh. It is "open source" of a sort (you can DL the perl source).
"Please contact the authors for permission to redistribute this code with or without alterations, or to use this code for commercial purposes."
But it would be interesting to see it under GPL though - and its certainly alterable in its current state for private use.
Freenet should maybe look at this for the distribution model - and kidnap the infrastructure if not the acutal code. Roll into that a bit of gnutella for spice.
A good programmer should never be never too proud to borrow from someone else with a good idea.
If so, the 100K limitation would be pretty easy to blast out, as would b ethe dependance on the good graces of a single company (AT&T) in a single country (USA).
Hmm - actually, it may be more useful to leave the filesize limitation in - move it to something like 500K chunks. Then add something similar to the keysplitting to redundantly split the actual content as well. Put those split parts on differenet servers with redundancy on a distributed net, and you have cryptogtaphically secure, redundant information that protects the servers from knowing the content and hence prevents their ability to be pressured legally. Plus the redundancy of the parts and their ability to be reconsituted via the net from multiple sources makes it nearly impossible to eliminate content.
Combining this with Freenet shoudl be an object for anyone that really values freedom.
Actually interest in Codecs isnt dropping - its just movingover to the bandwidth limited world of wireless. IP (IPv6?) is going to be the way the 3G wireless mobile "phones" operate, and for now the digital network (CDMA TDMA CPDP and GSM) are pretty much limited to 14.4K - that means a good data compression codec is needed (g711 or g729)
And there is a lot of talk about bettering those codecs which will use even less of the available spectrum and bandwidth. This allows even more data to flow to the mobile device (go to Japan nad check out DoCoMo and iMode from NTT to see what a "wireless data culture" is starting to look like).
Thats the way IP based comms are going to be set up. Bet on it. H.323 was designed to communicate to SS7 over an ISDN line - its a telco/wireline oriented protocol stack - lots of stuff you don't need in there. SIP is cleaner and better - and there's already an open SIP IP-masq-proxy for Linux at www.sip-happens.com from a 3Com engineer.
Also, if you want to ride the internet, try making QoS a value-add item - you can give the phone away for free (Opens Source that puppy!), and make money by providing a good backbone with colocation in major cities to drop off the calls to the PSTN. And if you can find one, get one that can route the voice over IP packets for you. A place to start might be Qwest (the most well known), Global Crossings (Lots of fiber world wide), or Level 3 (the only end-to-end IP global fiber network).
They have a different stack (H.323) if you want to develop against Cisco Call Manager 3.0, but their gateway and gatekeeper pairs (3620 and 3640 cisco routers - using IOS 12.x) must confrom the the H.323 stack of protocols -therefore they will interoperate between H.323 terminal devices - I know, because we've had audio portion of a video conferening unit talk to the Selsius IP phones by way of Cisco equipment at both ends.
SIP simplifies things even further - and will eliminate problems like Ciscos' stack onthe call manager. SIP is the future.
So what you are saying isnt quite true if you know all the facts.
And you have an Email address that you can be contacted with where-ever you go. Try reading up on the protocols. Especially SIP - and the Gateway-Gatekeeper interaction in H.323 for similar things.
Not true any more.
Look at comapnies like Williams Communications, Qwest - and the newest 800 lb gorilla in the world: Level 3 communications.
They are going to flood the market with cheap bandwidth and knock the old line guys like AT&T and Sprint off at the knees.
Try reading the mini-essay on Silicon Economics at LEvel-3. They have my vote - any company whose CEO lists Snow Crash as one of his favorite novels is definitely out to do things differently.
I've had one of these on my desk for almost 3 months. This and the 3COM SIP VoIP phones are great. They work really well - especially with the 3640/3620 H.323 GK/GW pairs. Learn that Cisco IOS kids - its worth a fortune once these puppies hit the market. Also, read RFC 2543 SIP _ that is going to change the world for Linux. I'm under NDA for that,but keep your eyes open - there are a lot fo great VoIP coming out, and Linux is part of the mainstream from the ground up. Try looking at www.siphappens.com for a look at the tip of the iceberg... Sometimes it pays nice dividends to be working for a far leading edge company in R&D as a convergence architect :-)
Please educate yourself before you start spewing Verant falsehoods:
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the entire thread is at:
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here is an exceprt from the lead post by "orionX"...
I have a program that monitors all file disk activity done through the windows kernel. When I read the new patch message, this peaked my curiosity and had to check what EQ was doing. They going to scan me, I'm going to see what, well some of it anyway
Heres some odd lines.. I don't know much about this sort of thing, but maybe the more experienced can make something out of it. Of course it just might be crap that I'm making a big deal over when its nothing, but here goes
I added a * and how many lines I saw in a row for the certain command for when I saw many of the same line in a row. I did this so I didn't spam as much as I already am =)
Note: Some of the offsets/lengths changed for each of the consecutive read/seek commands but i didn't post the differences.
Eqgame FindOpen D:\EVERQUEST\MEMORY.TXT NOTFOUND
Eqgame Delete D:\EVERQUEST\MEMORY.TXT NOTFOUND
eq trying to dump memory contents to a text file then delete it? no biggie here if it is
Here comes the stuff that made me decide to post...
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES SUCCESS GetAttributes *4 lines of this
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\DESKTOP.INI SUCCESS GetAttributes
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES SUCCESS GetAttributes *2 lines
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY SUCCESS GetAttributes *5 lines
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\DESKTOP.INI SUCCESS GetAttributes
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5 SUCCESS GetAttributes
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5 SUCCESS GetAttributes *3 lines
Eqgame Open C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CREATENEW OPENEXISTING READWRITE DENYNONE
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0 *3 lines
Eqgame Close C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CLOSE_FINAL
Eqgame Open C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CREATENEW OPENEXISTING READWRITE DENYNONE
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0 *3 lines
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES SUCCESS GetAttributes
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES SUCCESS GetAttributes *3 lines
Eqgame Open C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CREATENEW OPENEXISTING READWRITE DENYNONE
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Set Modify
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0 *3 lines
Eqgame Close C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CLOSE_FINAL
Eqgame Open C:\WINDOWS\COOKIES\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CREATENEW OPENEXISTING READWRITE ENYNONE
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5 SUCCESS GetAttributes *3 lines
Eqgame Open C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CREATENEW OPENEXISTING READWRITE DENYNONE
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Set Modify
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0 *3 lines
Eqgame Close C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CLOSE_FINAL
Eqgame Open C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS CREATENEW OPENEXISTING READWRITE DENYNONE
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5 INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0 *3 lines
Eqgame Read C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Offset: 0 Length: 0 **20 LINES!!!
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5 SUCCESS GetAttributes *3 lines
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\DESKTOP.INI SUCCESS GetAttributes
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5 SUCCESS GetAttributes *3 lines
Eqgame Attributes C:\WINDOWS\HISTORY\HISTORY.IE5\DESKTOP.INI SUCCESS GetAttributes
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0 *9 lines
then RIGHT after those
Eqgame Read C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\RASAPI32.DLL SUCCESS Offset: 131072 Length: 4096 *2 lines
Eqgame Read C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\TAPI32.DLL SUCCESS Offset: 106496 Length: 4096 - 2 lines
then randomly later on I keep seeing 3 lines of this here and there:
Eqgame Seek C:\WINDOWS\TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES\CONTENT.IE5\INDEX.DAT SUCCESS Beginning Offset: 0 / New offset: 0
EQ reading internet history and cookie files?! Whats up with that? If theres some useful info for an Internet game in the history/cookie folders then say it here, however tiny.. I dont want to start something huge, because this might mean nothng.
I use microslop IE explorer 5 if you didn't notice. Didn't try this with netscrape yet.
I started the file monitor right before I clicked the EULA agree button.
Heh - you want to see their "encryption/decryption" routine? Its laughable!
// set data at this point
their key is a 32bit unsigned int
Their algorithm is something like the following in a semi-C layout:
decode (uint *data, uint bufferlen, uint globalkey)
tempKey = globalKey
uint reg1, reg2
uint shift1, shift2, add
uint blen = bufferlen/sizeof(uint)
for(int i=0; iblen, i++)
{
reg1 = *data
reg1 = reg1 + tempkey
reg2 = reg1 shift2
reg1 = (reg2 | (reg1 shift1)) + add
*data = reg1
reg1 = reg1 shift1
tempkey = tempkey + reg1 + add
data++;
}
Im not sure I have the sequencing right and the shifts may vary, but thats it.
How would you break something like this?
>What I'm getting at is, most people who object to ShowEQ (and the rest of the suite) and agreed to HD scanning feel so strongly about online cheating that they'll give up their HD's privacy for an equal chance at EverQuest
And, IMHO, thats what is so scary - we are bringing up a generation that has no concept of the importance of the fundamental freedoms that they take for granted - and blithely give them up!
Its getting so bad anymore, that Im wondering if those militia loons arent at least partly right when they start slinging around quotes like "those who would give up freedom for safety will neither achieve nor deserve either" (paraphrased from Ben Franklin, I believe).
First its "bad things" like cigatettes, then the "war on (some) drugs", then priavte guns (ask Amadou Diallo's widow about the police guns). Now its privacy on the chopping block - how long until the freedoms of speech and expression are given up one slice at a time "for our own good" to a police state?
Its damned scary - generations of soldiers gave up normal life to preserve those rights, civil libertarians have stood up and put thier necks out, and even hackers have contributed [by providing the tools to set information free and preserve basic anonymity --Thanks Whitfield Diffie and Phill Zimmereman!].
But now these online ignroant lumps give all that up because they have no values other than "get me my next l33t level in this game".
"EverCrack" indeed!
And its simply an RE job on the datastream. Passive, nothing more. All it does is lets you see the REAL numbers behind the game that Verant tries to hide with handwaving and frantic knees-bent running about behavior.
The reason? They have some severe design flaws in their game, as well as a piss poor and arrogant attitude toward their player base. The only reason they are raking it in is because nobody else has such a thing on the market yet. They were stomping sites until it got moved to www.hackersquest.gomp.ch, (notice the NON-us addy?) a host site that doesnt have anyone that clicked the Verant EULA, and so far seems immune to their lawyers.
And the prog runs on a separate Linux box: using NAT/ipchains and routing the win box thru the linux box is best, but it can also put the ethX device into promisc and sniff the data. So, really, there isnt jack they can do about detecting it. They seemd to live with this until... What brought this "corporate sniffing" on is that someone took the open source and did a windows port. So every little k3w3l d00d and wannebe could use it.
Verant went into Corporate panic mode - typical of their nasty anti-gamer managerial mindset. Verant went psycho trying to stop it.
But the scariest thing is: when they polled 15,000 of their users, 83% agreed to let Verant search their HD as a precondition of playing the game!!!
What kind of sheep are these? I pity the folks who will need to depend on such weak and obedient asses who will kneel down for a compny just to be allowed to play a game that they are already paying for!
EQ players who said Yes in that poll, you should be ashamed!
Ok Larry, come to the US and sue me you pompous ass.
To take such a flippant attitude about securing your own system, and then to claim that "hey I didnt know" would work as a defense against those Reno and Company (or big corporate lawyers), well, your post shows that you are now, beyond doubt, a brainless fuckwit. Ever heard of a legal term called "depraved indifference"? With your attitude, you better get to know that one, and "culpable negligence" as well. They will be slamming into you in civil and criminal court someday.
And I will cheer them on - because I work for one of the affected companies, and that hit cost us revenues - which could affect my raise, my salary, my stock, my options, and the stability of my job. So Joe Citizen (in spite of your inability to see past the end of your little high-school ego) was affected, and thats why joe citizen should care: from me whose salary could be affected, to the stores where I shop and spend that salary, to the taxes I pay to help those less fortunate, etc. No man is an island kid, learn it.
HAND or FOAD, your choice.
Startrek TNG? BAH! Kubrik and Clarke had those optical based storage devices inside HAL's noggin back in the 60's. Watch the disconnect scene in 2001 for an illustration.
>Or you can ask around to try to find a criminal
> who has stolen the weapon you want.
Yep - and there is a growth of almost 10o illegal guns a day now in Great Britain. Ironically, its due to the fact that the populace is generally disarmed, so if you are a criminal it gives you even more of a likely advantage. And lets face it, criminals are never too worried about the finer points of law to begin with.
> Easy to get? Easier than Great Britain. Harder
> than Switzerland.
Yep - the Swiss get their assault rifles and ammunition issued to them to keep at home.
Washout? Try viewing Empire of the Sun. And as a combat veteran let me tell you that the first 30 minutes of Private Ryan absolutely took my breath away. The only thing missing was the smells.
If we coould get THAT kind of effort then Speilberg is up to the task if AI. But your snotty and ininformed flame mean nothing. You want "Spice Girls" of movies, go look at Cameron.
Ok, so the US treated the Japanese "horribly" in the interment camps? BWAHAHAH! They were fed, housed clothed and given their freedom voluntarily - and even got an official apology from the US government and reparations. Compare that to the Japanese treatment of the US Soldiers in the Bataan death march, or the chem and bio experiments on POWs, or the beaheadings and starvation of POWs, or the forced prostitutition of Korean women or the rape of Nanking (bayonetting babies for fun). Those were barbaric evail sumbitches that deserved every bit of death hurled their way - and they *still* havent acknowledged their wrongdoings, much less apologised officially or attempted to make reparations.
Dont be so overwhelmed about our minor transgressions when the other guys were purely evil. Or did you not learn those things (Nanking, etc) in your history classes?
Typical brainless anti-gun rant. Those folks in Aus have no recourse - and their violent crime rate is UP since the criminals were handed a disarmed populace upon which to prey. There, like here, 99.994% (US Dept of Justice statistics)of all guns and gun owners were not involved in any violent crimes; and according to at least two reputable academic studies, the private ownership of guns plays a fundamental part in the deterrence fo voilent crimes.
Dont buy the lies the "popular press" tells you about guns any more than you would buy them about "hackers" or open source. Think for yourself, examine the acts rationally and you will see a lot of what you have been told is simply a lie by the powermongers in government who fear losing control of anything.
> Military is evil, making it work better is bad.
ROFL - are you that simpleminded?
Im sure the victims of the Holocaust would beg to differ with that - the US Army was a savior for them. The victims of the Saddam would disagree with that as well - or do you think they'd hate a military to intervene on their behalf when Saddams internal police force was using mustard gas on women and children?
Hmm - lets make the US Military terrible - and see how long it is until China kills tens thousands in their invasion of Taiwan - and then look at the repression that follows.
Please open your mind as well as your source.
>Linux and guns don't mix.
Who says? Try looking at ESR's web site, and a lot of other libertarian places. Remember that guns insure your freedom - personally, in society and in the world - by defending yourself, the police enforcing laws, and the Army to defend the society.
Perhaps you didnt engage your brain on this one - or are up to your neck inthe usual university collectivist claptrap. Try turning a more ciritcal eye to the old saws used by the far left at the universities.
> Any body which has a purpose of opressing another organization should have problems with the GPL.
Umm, excuse me - I was a soldier, and I didnt oppress anyone - the US military has been the great liberator this century (wiht the possible exception of Vietnam). ITs existence and abilities are what provide a shield for those freedoms - and have done so since the beginning of this nation to WW2 and through the Cold War against Soviet Russia. And the military continues to protect as a deterrent against tyrants (EX: like the Chinese - think Taiwan wouldn't have been rolled over without US presence via USAF and USN there?).
> Anyone who agrees with the GPL should have severe problems with the Army.
Nope - I was in on both - been doing Linux since 0.99p13, and served honorably in the US Army prior to that, and in the Reserves afterward.
Unlike you puling collectivists, I value my rights enough to give up some of my freedom for a time in order to defend them. Likewise, I gave up making money for a time in order to do Linux work. No oppression there - perhaps you should re-examine your premises, for I find them grossly ignorant and personally insulting.
>Linux and guns don't mix.
Who says? Try looking at ESR's web site, and a lot of other lebertarian places. Remember that ungs insure your freedom - presonally, in society and in the world - by defening yourself, the police enforceing laws, and the Army to defend the society.
Perhaps you didnt engage your brain on this one - or are up to your neck inthe usual university collectivist claptrap. Try turning a more ciritcal eye to the old saws used by the far left at the universities.
> Any body which has a purpose of opressing another organization should have problems with the GPL.
Umm, excuse me - I was a soldier, and I didnt oppress anyone - the US military has been the great liberator this century (wiht the possible exception of Vietnam). ITs existence and abilities are what provide a shield for those freedoms - and have done so since the beginning of this nation to WW2 and through the Cold War against Soviet Russia. And the military continues to protect as a deterrent against tyrants (EX: like the Chinese - think Taiwan wouldn't have been rolled over without US presence via USAF and USN there?).
> Anyone who agrees with the GPL should have severe problems with the Army.
Nope - I was in on both - been doing Linux since 0.99p13, and served honorably in the US Army prior to that, and in the Reserves afterward.
Unlike you puling collectivists, I value my rights enough to give up some of my freedom for a time in order to defend them. Likewise, I gave up making money for a time in order to do Linux work. No oppression there - perhaps you should re-examine your premises, for I find them grossly ignorant and personally insulting.
How about this:
:-) (andy at pagan dot net)
Live in Boulder Colorado with alower cost of living, and STILL get the perks, good pay and stock options, grants and year end bonuses? Add to that having the Rocky Mountains in your back yard - Hike spring and fall, rock climbing or biking in the summer, ski in the winter - plus water skiing, golf, pro baseball (Rockies, one of the best ballparks in all baseball), a great hockey team (Avalanche), 2x champion NFL team (Broncos), top notch soccer team, etc. And if you just want to "get away" - drive 1 hour in any direction and you will be out of sight of the city.
p.s. if you want to come here to work, just look at the want ads - plenty IT open here. And if you want to work at level 3, let me know and we can split the $1000 hiring bonus
ROFL - and when the weatherby breaks because you had to fire too many rounds thru it without cleaning it, and you cant get parts for the 375, what ya going to do? Thats what the cheapie remmie, AR or AK are good choices. Same reason you go with the 1911 .45 or a Glock 9mm.
.40S&W or my Kimber (federal hydrashocks in both) - you wont stand long. Same goes for 300m and the AR-15, or my M1A and the 7.62 NATO over your rich man's plyathing weatherby (better wound ballistics). By the way to get that close you gotta go thru a lot of mud out here in the country - gunk up you pretty toys something bad. Not mine - I bag deer (and a couple years ago an elk when I got a tag) with my M1A, scrubbing thru the rain and mud in Wyoming.
And as for the chipmunk part, lets see you stand 25 yards away from me an my Glock 23
Roach was overrated - only the "in" crowd kept playing up to him in order to maintain their credentials as to being "cool". Nowhere near the boundary stretcher that Brubeck in his medium. Hell, most of his licks can be duplicated by Neil Peart (spelling?), heh.