Simply replace a router while no one is looking?!!
I dare you to actually manage to get an router replaced with no one noticing what you're doing. Anyone who knows anything about what they're doing will notice that your computer probably doesn't quite have the right ports to be a router.
I have no problems with Ludacris as a singer. I haven't heard much of his material, but if it any ways resembles what D'Angelo can do, than he can't be that bad. What bothers me is when people use slang spellings when they don't know any better. Even usage of "u" for "you" and "ppl" for "people" bothers me. It made sense back in BBSing days when you really only had about a 60-character limit for message-board doors, but when there isn't a limit, it just looks juvenile. Like SlySpy007, I come to/. for intelligent discussion about scientific things by people who are relatively mature.
Yeah, an AC got this one first...
SourceForge. OSDN's advertising it all the time at the top of/. at least. Check out the Portal Edition; it looks like it may be what you're looking for.
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Windows XP, and all current Windows operating systems, have a file called the registry in which configuration information is written. If this one (large, often fragmented) file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications. The registry file is a single, very vulnerable, point of failure.
Not true. Windows regularly backs up the Registry on its own, and compares its backup to what is available upon boot-up. Further, backing up the Registry yourself is a simple task: Open RegEdit, select Registry->Export Registry File... and you're ready to go. The file will, granted, be a megs in size, but knowing your way around PKZIP or WinRAR will allow you to compress this file (In a self-extracting.EXE) onto multiple disks for later retrieval if something goes wrong.
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Microsoft apparently designed it this way to provide copy protection. Since most entries in the registry are poorly documented or not documented, the registry effectively prevents control by the user.
I regularly hack my registry in order to eke out a little bit better performance from my computer. Nowadays, I never edit my file associations using Explorer's View->Folder Options->File Types window; I go straight into the registry and do it by hand. I've noticed a disturbingly large amount of extraneous data within the registry, and I slowly cull that as I find it. As well, the Windows Registry has become very well-documented as of late. WinGuides offers a downloadable Registry Guide in.CHM format and numerous books have been published on the same topic.
I will grant that my technical, empirical knowledge is based on use of the Win98SE Registry, but I can't imagine that things would be radically different between 98SE and XP.
I never used the Design tab anyway; I hate WYSIWYG website development.
Besides, I said HomeSite was a complement to Dreamweaver, not a replacement (Assuming you thought I'm advocating HomeSite over Dreamweaver in every way). If you use both for your development, you've basically the two best design products available on the closed-source market. Toss in Flash and Photoshop and you're industry standard.
Ever since downloading the free trial of Allaire HomeSite 4, I've been hooked with the product. Macromedia bought out Allaire (and I think I read that here), and released HomeSite 5, which is hardly different from 4.5, but keeps me with the latest version, which is something I think every self-respecting geek goes for.
Granted, I haven't actually used the free trial ever since. I've been cracking/patching it since around 4.5.2. It's fantastic. I highly recommend Macromedia HomeSite 5, even if you have to buy it (and your employer would probably be willing to pick up some copies; it's a great complement to Dreamweaver from what I'm told). It allows you to work in HTML, VRML, JavaScript, Java, PERL, PHP.. you name it, if you work with the source, you can work with it in HomeSite. It's highly customisable and comes with onboard preview support for IE and Netscape (Mozilla, sadly, isn't supported).
I've heard it's actually 27 hours. I remember hearing something about a sensory-depravation test, where some scientists deprived their subjects of any and all indicators of the present time, and after something like a month they reverted to a 27-hour day... I dunno.
I almost wish I could do that... Block off the windows, hide the clock on my taskbar and just code. I'd at least feel more productive.
that this is probably the first Microsoft's heard of this bug, and by the end of the week they'll have a "Critical Update" for us SE users and a forced bug fix for everybody on XP?
Big whoop, considering the people who know about it (cough,/. readers, cough) generally seem to support Mozilla. Feh.
1. They can henceforth change the terms without notice, just by posting the new terms on the website. (Currently they are obliged to give 15 days notice by email, a period that we are currently in for this change.)
I was never informed about these changes... And I have two running projects on SF.
Fuckers. I'm gonna write to write them a nasty email about that.
True, he has gone pretty close to that fine line, but I've known about Pulse for a long time.. I think before he was even coding it, just as he was starting the project.
It's not really keystroke logging.. I know you've read this before - it's keystroke counting. And I usually don't download things willy-nilly. Well, okay, I grabbed Modometer for kicks but it's rare for me to do something like that.
My dumbassed brother, on the other hand.. You know anything about the security risks with Direct Connect and CasinoOnNet? I'm thinking about trashing them but I want a really good reason before I go ahead with it.
That would of course require an understanding of assembly language for x86 and AMD, because I doubt they operate the same. Something that I honestly doubt the mainstream of/. readers (though I may be wrong on this) is blessed with. I know I'm not.
There's also an option to only send out a record when you want to, which would mean that you could go for days without sending a record. If it were a stroke logger, then it'd keep a logfile. It's only a keycounter.
As I said before - do you really think someone passing around spyware would make it so blatantly obvious?
Actually, it is available to some people. Basically, the author's friends. I just started running Pulse today. It probably only occupies something like 1 MHz of CPU time and about 62K of RAM. Whoop-de-shit.
Precious CPU cycles? What the hell are you running, a 486/80?! I'm running it right now, with ZAP, so I'd know if it were transmitting anything as I type, and I already looked for a log file.. nothing. It's clean.
Oddly enough, just as it's been touted, all it does is count your keystrokes. It detects a keypress? It says "Hey, cool! KeysPressed++;." Nothing more.
So then set up your sniffer to log, then grep the log every once in a while.
I just joined the team. I'll go look for a log file, okay?
- returns -
Well, shit on me! There isn't one! Considering the thing only sends to the server once every hour, or day, or whenever you want it to, it'd need a log file. Since there isn't one, it is Most Certifiably Not a keystroke logger.
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Simply replace a router while no one is looking?!!
I dare you to actually manage to get an router replaced with no one noticing what you're doing. Anyone who knows anything about what they're doing will notice that your computer probably doesn't quite have the right ports to be a router.
I have no problems with Ludacris as a singer. I haven't heard much of his material, but if it any ways resembles what D'Angelo can do, than he can't be that bad. /. for intelligent discussion about scientific things by people who are relatively mature.
What bothers me is when people use slang spellings when they don't know any better. Even usage of "u" for "you" and "ppl" for "people" bothers me. It made sense back in BBSing days when you really only had about a 60-character limit for message-board doors, but when there isn't a limit, it just looks juvenile. Like SlySpy007, I come to
-laughs-
Hey cool, someone else with my line of thinking; I never thought that was possible! You, sir, just earned a Friend bonus.
Like an AM or VHF loop antenna?
Yeah, an AC got this one first... SourceForge. OSDN's advertising it all the time at the top of /. at least. Check out the Portal Edition; it looks like it may be what you're looking for.
I regularly hack my registry in order to eke out a little bit better performance from my computer. Nowadays, I never edit my file associations using Explorer's View->Folder Options->File Types window; I go straight into the registry and do it by hand. I've noticed a disturbingly large amount of extraneous data within the registry, and I slowly cull that as I find it.
As well, the Windows Registry has become very well-documented as of late. WinGuides offers a downloadable Registry Guide in
I will grant that my technical, empirical knowledge is based on use of the Win98SE Registry, but I can't imagine that things would be radically different between 98SE and XP.
I never used the Design tab anyway; I hate WYSIWYG website development.
Besides, I said HomeSite was a complement to Dreamweaver, not a replacement (Assuming you thought I'm advocating HomeSite over Dreamweaver in every way). If you use both for your development, you've basically the two best design products available on the closed-source market. Toss in Flash and Photoshop and you're industry standard.
Ever since downloading the free trial of Allaire HomeSite 4, I've been hooked with the product. Macromedia bought out Allaire (and I think I read that here), and released HomeSite 5, which is hardly different from 4.5, but keeps me with the latest version, which is something I think every self-respecting geek goes for.
Granted, I haven't actually used the free trial ever since. I've been cracking/patching it since around 4.5.2. It's fantastic. I highly recommend Macromedia HomeSite 5, even if you have to buy it (and your employer would probably be willing to pick up some copies; it's a great complement to Dreamweaver from what I'm told). It allows you to work in HTML, VRML, JavaScript, Java, PERL, PHP.. you name it, if you work with the source, you can work with it in HomeSite. It's highly customisable and comes with onboard preview support for IE and Netscape (Mozilla, sadly, isn't supported).
I've heard it's actually 27 hours. I remember hearing something about a sensory-depravation test, where some scientists deprived their subjects of any and all indicators of the present time, and after something like a month they reverted to a 27-hour day... I dunno.
I almost wish I could do that... Block off the windows, hide the clock on my taskbar and just code. I'd at least feel more productive.
Cheap S3 ViRGEs? -snif- That's what I use... 4 whole megs.
I wish I had a job to upgrade this thing.. although I like the 192 megs RAM.
that this is probably the first Microsoft's heard of this bug, and by the end of the week they'll have a "Critical Update" for us SE users and a forced bug fix for everybody on XP?
/. readers, cough) generally seem to support Mozilla. Feh.
Big whoop, considering the people who know about it (cough,
Fuckers. I'm gonna write to write them a nasty email about that.
True, he has gone pretty close to that fine line, but I've known about Pulse for a long time.. I think before he was even coding it, just as he was starting the project.
It's not really keystroke logging.. I know you've read this before - it's keystroke counting. And I usually don't download things willy-nilly. Well, okay, I grabbed Modometer for kicks but it's rare for me to do something like that.
My dumbassed brother, on the other hand.. You know anything about the security risks with Direct Connect and CasinoOnNet? I'm thinking about trashing them but I want a really good reason before I go ahead with it.
That would of course require an understanding of assembly language for x86 and AMD, because I doubt they operate the same. Something that I honestly doubt the mainstream of /. readers (though I may be wrong on this) is blessed with. I know I'm not.
Because, if you'd read the site, it's an experiment in distributed computing. Not in hiding shit in TCP segments (not packets - IP uses packets).
There's also an option to only send out a record when you want to, which would mean that you could go for days without sending a record. If it were a stroke logger, then it'd keep a logfile. It's only a keycounter.
As I said before - do you really think someone passing around spyware would make it so blatantly obvious?
That would be absolutely retarded. Besides, then it'd need that non-existent log file that I already checked for.
There are plenty of keylogging and password sniffing trojans out there already. Why would I be surprised at one more?
Because every RAT you'll find usually tries to masquerade itself as something different.
Computer viruses are defined by their ability to replicate. Nothing more.
Fair enough. Might conspiratorial have made more sense?
See? You get it.
But, you see, it doesn't log keystrokes. It counts them. Doesn't index them by key. Just adds to an int variable every time a key gets pressed.
Hell, I'm running a 333 here. I have a 486 running FreeBSD 4.4 in the corner. If there were a Linux build, I'd drop it on my BSD.
I'm totally confident in Pulse. Mainly because I know the author. Don't worry - there's nothing wrong with it.
Actually, it is available to some people. Basically, the author's friends. I just started running Pulse today. It probably only occupies something like 1 MHz of CPU time and about 62K of RAM. Whoop-de-shit.
But yeah, it's entirely benign.
You really think somebody other than Cydoor would do something that viral? Man, I think you should change your username to Captain Conspiracy.
Precious CPU cycles? What the hell are you running, a 486/80?! I'm running it right now, with ZAP, so I'd know if it were transmitting anything as I type, and I already looked for a log file.. nothing. It's clean. Oddly enough, just as it's been touted, all it does is count your keystrokes. It detects a keypress? It says "Hey, cool! KeysPressed++;." Nothing more.
So then set up your sniffer to log, then grep the log every once in a while. I just joined the team. I'll go look for a log file, okay? - returns - Well, shit on me! There isn't one! Considering the thing only sends to the server once every hour, or day, or whenever you want it to, it'd need a log file. Since there isn't one, it is Most Certifiably Not a keystroke logger.
Well then, why not join up, and run a port sniffer at the same time? That way you'll actually have proof.
Just because it's been written to run on Windows doesn't mean it's vanilla Micro$oft spyware.