Shaun

The numbers on AMD processors originally were intended to show approximate equivalence to an Intel processor's speed in MHz, however since they both stopped playing the MHz race quite some time ago now (AMD way earlier), the numbers don't really mean much. I suppose maybe they are trying to use it now to show how much work it can do as if it were a single core CPU or something, but if that is the case than what single core CPU? The numebrs on AMD chips were originally based on Pentium 3 speeds I believe, would it be equivalent to a 5GHz P3? Clock speeds mean so little now (not that they really meant a lot to start with) it really doesn't tell you much, and I doubt those number are anywher near accurate. In general it's better to just take it as an arbitary rating of processor power.

Nope, but you can get devices to produce the correct frequency strobing light, and if you use one and get caught you get at least 6 months in prison in the US.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php e.g. if (preg_match('/index/', $_FILES['file_upload']['name'])) { //do something }

i've got the dvd's of season 1 & 2 :P No, you haven't.

I don't really like Aero anyway, it's waste of resources in my opinion so I have it turned off.

The second series has already started filming according to Graham Linehan's blog.

Old version though, I suppose someone could port the latest version if they wanted to.

Euurgh.

I didn't think The IT Crowd was that good, although Graham Linehan is a good writer, Richard Ayoade is an awful actor with no sense of comic timing. The only thing I bothered watching it for was the Chris Morris appearances.

What's a bo?

What password?

Uh, yeah, that's what I meant when I said "I've tried running the program with that institution ID and it seems to be a test institution or something, it has a lot e-learning systems with "test" or "demo" in their name to choose from.". Edit: You can enter numbers anyway if you use the 1-0 keys above the letters on your keyboard. Or just se my version of the EXE with the restrictions removed.

876543216 is the institution ID. It says Institution ID right there are the top of the CSV file. (Don't know if it's the default one or what though). Edit: I've tried running the program with that institution ID and it seems to be a test institution or something, it has a lot e-learning systems with "test" or "demo" in their name to choose from.

I replaced most of the evil calls in Lockdown.exe with NOPs using OllyDbg and replaced the part of the program which sets the window to the entire size of the screen to make the window only 800x600 (actually I increased the size of the .text section so the VirtualSize was the same as SizeOfRawData using a hex editor and put the new code in the extra bit at the end because there wasn't enough room to fit it in otherwise). Also I replaced the list of programs to disallow with a load of null characters using a hex editor. Actually I juest realised I uploaded the wrong version earlier in the thread - I have like 10 different versions of the EXE, that version still detects if you have prohibited programs running I think, although it only does it when it first starts up so you can just start the browser first - the proper version is here if you want to look at it. You can compare the original and my version using a hex editor or something to see what I did. Hex Workshop (which I use) has a compare function.

Nope. Nope. Well, that isn't how VMWare detection is usually done, and plus I had it running in VMWare 5 with VMTools installed anyway, so I have no idea why it wasn't working for him. No, this is professional software by these people. Actually it doesn't identify itself as Firefox, I guess he misread the user agent. It actually identifies itself as IE 6: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)". There is one DLL, TaskKeyHook.dll from which only 3 functions are imported, all of which are for restricting the system. Nope, the proctor password is produced by combining the name of the exam and a password selected by the instructor which she/he gives to the students which is then hashed (using javascript downloaded from the exam HTTP server as far as I can tell).

Maybe, it stopped crashing, but you also stopped sending me messages which is when it started crashing last time.

Laptop: Big My main PC isn't running X at the moment and I can't be bothered to start it.

Well done for bumping a thread with a post no one cares about.

What the hell are you listening to? Also: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8261

http://www.hak5.org/wmf/ Obviously whoever did it didn't realise it mattered what case the path part of the URL was in. Or that was part of the puzzle.

That is what is says (apart from being in all uppercase, although that hardly makes a difference). Maybe that address used to work but doesn't anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1,_2007

It's hardly stealing, that's such an overused term. I suppose it could be called fraud, but I doubt it would be legally classified as such. If he's agreed to tell the truth maybe he could be liable to civil action due to breach of contract, but something tells me no one cares.

No music or art or anything should ever be illegal.... I don't even think hate speech should be illegal. Well I don't make the law you know, I'm just stating the facts.

I didn't say that. If I had the spelling would be a lot better.