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No one would ever be THAT bored. why not? i'm planning on doing it at my place very soon, cos i think it'd be kinda cool to see what accuracy you could get. the only reason i haven't done it yet is money and time. should be able to do it around december though.

assuming you've replaced it, buy another wireless b router, have have fun coding on your laptop making a program to triangulate your position :P

open up your computer, look for the motherboard make and model. then google for the manual. it's usually a jumper setting on the motherboard which will reset the bios.

be ashamed! its the infamous "Dave" t-shirt from purepwnage.

nicely done. just ran it in a VM to test a few things. i was expecting SP2 to bring up an "AV Offline" message, but it didn't. the icon stayed in the task bar as long as the mouse didn't move over it (and it's likely that won't happen too often)

right, well Bloodshed only make an IDE (Dev-CPP) which also includes the MinGW compiler. i haven't used that IDE for a while now, but from what i remember, it stored the settings in the programs directory so there should be no issues at all with running that on multiple computers from a flash drive.i used to have minGW on my flash drive and the only issue i ever had with it was it could be very slow on larger projects.

compiler for what language?also, it's very easy to install programs to a flash drive, no different to installing it on a hard drive. problems can arise when the programs store configuration data in a different directory or in the registry. it all depends on what program you want. it's easy to put MinGW on a flash drive (MinGW is a port of GCC so it supports a lot of languages).

is it just me or has that batch script been written 3 times now? :P

That would explain it ^^ Just to calrifie your comment about the example of the byte. 2^8 = 256 is correct, however, a byte cannot hold the value of 256. Computers count from 0 so the largest value a byte can hold is 255. ;) to clarify, i did say "range of values", while you are correct in saying it can't hold 256, it can hold 256 different combinations, 0 through 255 (assuming it's unsigned).**edit** i just re-read this and it sounded incredibly rude. please don't take it that way :/ i was just clarifying what i meant

while i don't disagree, batch scripts do have the advantage of not needing a 10 meg download.

just had a great idea, modified your code a bit and used something i gleaned from a script in the switchblade thread @echo off ::initial variable values SET fileNum=00 SET filename="pwned.r" ::make a string containing the complete filename SET filenameComplete=%filename%%fileNum% ::check to see if the initial file exists, if not, jumps to after the loop IF NOT EXIST %filenameComplete% GOTO noFiles ::the archive loop :processFile ::do what we need with it here ::perform steps in preparation for next file ::increment the file number SET /a fileNum=fileNum+1 ::make the number double digits if %fileNum% LSS 10 set fileNum=0%fileNum% ::make a string containing the complete filename SET filenameComplete=%filename%%fileNum% ::check to see if next file exists and then loop ::else continue on IF EXIST %filenameComplete% GOTO processFile :noFiles ::Continue the script how valid is that? remember, my batch scripting skills suck. **edit** commented it better. have since tested it, it works, except it executes on the first file reguardless, so fixed that too. **edit 2** somewhere in my refinements, i have broken it. will have a working version very soon **edit 3** working again, placed a not on the wrong if statement

that code is good except you either need to have a huge batch-script just in case, or there is a large chance you could miss some files. it'd be good if we could iterate over a list as suggested above, however my batch script ability isn't very strong, so i have no idea if it's feasible in a batch.

i think the problem is more, we don't know how many files it will be split into. a possible solution: the windows scripting host provides some rather powerful libraries. is this an acceptable requirement?

your maths is wrong, it's 2 to the power of key length. so 2^1024 actually = 1.797693134862315907729305190789e+308 same way to work out the range of values a variable can hold, such as a byte can hold 2^8 = 256

agreed. that show is SO awesome.

yeah. UPX does offer several compression settings and so on, so it's possible for a single version of a program to have several different "flavours" i suppose, uncompressed, stripped, stripped and minor compression, stripped and medium compression etc. hopefully AV's don't easily detect changes like that and therefore it should allow a bit of headroom with reguards to getting around AV's.

no, because UPX will recognise when UPX has UPX'd an exe. :P

has anyone tried using UPX on the executables? (sorry if this has been answered already, but this is a HUGE thread, and i don't have time to read it all atm.)UPX is an open source app which compresses executables, so, provided the executable hasn't already been UPX'd, should have a different signature to what the AV's are looking for. **edit** sorry, did a search, it appears they already are compressed.

atleast not your personally identifiable information :P

checkout NVu for page editing like frontpage.

RealVNC TightVNC whenever possible though i prefer to use Windows Remote Desktop (cut down Terminal Server), it tends to be a fair bit more usable than VNC.

yeah mate, positive. except "1" is repeated for some reason. maybe it is the webserver then? i just tried IE 6 and it works fine for me too. i'm running apache on linux. and tried firefox on both linux and windows. **edit** btw, just to point something out, jon DOES specifically mention apache in the episode, so maybe it's possible there is something different between your webserver? having a different request status. try removing that if statement and the entire else block and just try and force it to run the true section, see if that works.

ok, based upon the info you chucked in the edit it's definately the browser. i may have copied it down wrong, your browser security may be too strong or maybe it's just a newer version of IE that isn't entirely backwards compatible (as i said, i'm not a web programmer so i don't know what has changed in IE since the episode was made). hopefully someone here can help you, but in the mean time i suggest google to find some other ajax examples and see how they handle IE. hth.

possibly. what browser are you using? from that code, i don't think there is anything special required on the webserver side. but then again, i'm not a web programmer. i would think it is the browser, i know a lot of browsers don't support ajax.

it MIGHT work if you installed it on your target drive and then moved your original installation (doing this should set up the boot loader correctly) however, i am very possibly wrong on that one.