Root Access

Go to c:\windows\system32.exe and take a copy of osk.exe / rename it to osk_copy.exe ...

Then take a copy of cmd.exe and call it osk.exe ...

next, boot in to Windows and either type Windows key + u, or click the accessibility/wheelchair icon.

click on screen keyboard... and... it will launch a command prompt as SYSTEM!

next, two choices... the techie way - type "net user <username> <password>" which will do what it says... without confirmation, it will redo the password...

or the GUI/beginner way, type mmc, enter... add the user/pass or computer management snap in, and right click the …

there we go! :)

then... delete osk.exe and rename the copy back to original!

Moshe

hah, wait, what is osk.exe?

Really clever, btw. Let's see how this goes... ::reboots and loads browser on phone::

William Hilsum

It is the accessibility on screen keyboard... there is no MD5/similar/secure check of it... so, replacing it with cmd.exe from the login screen spawns a command prompt window running as system

Moshe

12:38 AM

So this can theoretically be done to any machine via a boot CD with commands?

William Hilsum

The only time this won't work is if you have bitlocker/truecrypt, which will make the drive inaccessible (well, bitlocker yes... truecrypt, only if using full drive encryption), and, if you have EFS, you will loose your keys as they are connected to the password

@Moshe yes! When I first discovered how to get around NTFS permissions back in Windows 3.51 (was it?) many many years ago, I thought I had found the biggest hack.... then, when I grew up/learnt a lot more, you realise... NTFS/Windows permissions are only there to stop local attacks - you own the box/physical control, you can do anything

Moshe

Can't rename on Mac as it's NTFS and Mac can't write to it...

3.11

Can Ubuntu do the trick?

Heck, I can use a Windows boot CD

William Hilsum

Remember that Microsoft have got EFS, Bitlocker, PKI smartcards etc. which as far as I know are unbreakable...

@Moshe no, windows server 3.51 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.5

Moshe

@WilliamHilsum Right, true

Oh, WinServer.

I bet 99% of home/school machines aren't encrypted.

William Hilsum

3.1 never had NTFS

Moshe

12:41 AM

Right

I can do the rename from Ubuntu probably, no?

or a Win7 boot CD

William Hilsum

@Moshe correct, but, schools/businesses usually don't have files on computers, they are on servers and sync...

Moshe

Depends on the school. Universities use servers, local schools often not. ;-)

William Hilsum

sorry... right... ubuntu - yes... if you have VM, you may able to use that... and certainly, a Windows PE disk will

Moshe

PE?

William Hilsum

@Moshe Fair point

Windows PE (preinstallation environment) - The name of the environment that setup runs under. If you have a setup disk, use it, press shift f10 after the first screen and it will load a command prompt window

Moshe

12:43 AM

ok, hang on

Trying to set up alternate browser to chat on

! remembers iPad

Ok. Logged in here.

Does the bit length (64 bit or 32 bit) of the PE matter?

Using the 64 bit windows installer

William Hilsum

@Moshe Makes no difference... as long as you have a 64 bit machine if using the 64 bit disk!

Moshe

I know I clicked on the install disk - jumped into the actual window install... Trying again.

William Hilsum

@Moshe Huh?

It is fine, so long as you don't actually go bast the custom/upgrade screen (then starts to get dangerous!)

Moshe

Oh, interesting. When I put the cd in, EFI showed the Lion install, the windows install, the lion recovery and then TWO DVD options. One was to boot to windows apparently and the EFI boot.

I held down the option key, to show the Mac boot selection screen. I was shown an extra option, that's all.

William Hilsum

ohh... I haven't seen the EFI windows boot, but I know the disk has it

Moshe

12:53 AM

What does it do? I've never seen it before, and I have installed windows on EFI before, hence the problem now. :-)

William Hilsum

I have UFI on my machine... but, never seen the separate EFI install... I just know it exists

Moshe

Windows is loading files. Still. Hang on please.

Is this wait normal? I should try the 32 bit disk, methinks.

Let's see...

William Hilsum

@Moshe honestly, shouldn't make a difference, but, I am not sure what you are seeing

is it the black bar at the bottom?

Moshe

Yea. Trying a different boot option.

Ok. At the first install screen.

William Hilsum

is it this one? google.co.uk/…

Moshe

1:04 AM

Won't load.

William Hilsum

Setup or the picture?

Moshe

Picture.

William Hilsum

Ok .... explain the screen you are on?

it is 3 boxes - language, location, and keyboard?

Moshe

Yep

William Hilsum

ok, click next here

then press shift + f10

Moshe

1:05 AM

Then repair?

Oh, got it.

Next?

William Hilsum

no... sorry...

just next at the screen with the 3 boxes

then shift f10, nothing else

this will launch command prompt

Moshe

Right, then what?

Next as in, what's next?

William Hilsum

sorry, Its 2AM, so tired! get easily confused :P

Moshe

My prompt shows X:\Sources>

No worries.

:-)

William Hilsum

right... ehh, no idea how many partitions you have, e.t.c. so, going to try a few things

first type c:

then dir ... Does this look like your hard drive?

if not, try d:, then try again until you see your hard drive

Moshe

1:07 AM

Seems to have worked

William Hilsum

usually in Windows PE a local/real hard drive is either d or e, but can be c

Moshe

Yea, my drive. I suppose the Mac partitioin could have mangled things, except its not NTFS.

William Hilsum

ok, so this is your hard drive? (just need to make 100% sure as some CD/expanded Windows PE environments have program files and windows directory e.t.c.)

ok... if this is your Windows drive, do this, in this order:

argh, keep pressing enter too early

cd\windows\system32
ren osk.exe osk_old.exe
copy cmd.exe osk.exe

and done, reboot...

if you did any of the steps I wrote before, let me know

I pressed enter too quick... sorry

Moshe

Hang on. Sec.

Syntax of copy is off.

William Hilsum

write it exactly as I said, should work

what is the message?

Moshe

1:13 AM

The syntax of the command is incorrect.

Added quotes.

Ah, also mistook a comma for a full stop.

Ok, reboot time.

And... Hahahaha

Nice work. It shows a command prompt window.

surfasb

Ah, the classic sticky key trick?

William Hilsum

Sorry, fell asleep at keyboard... not doing to well with sleep recently! too much work :(

@surfasb overwriting osk.exe to get a command prompt and reset a password! :)

Moshe

All done. It worked!

Thanks. Really clever.

Never would have thought of that.

William Hilsum

@Moshe now... just remember to delete osk.exe and rename osk_copy.exe back to osk.exe

otherwise you have a quick backdoor for anyone to use! :)

Moshe

Oh, right. And to turn it off.

surfasb

1:23 AM

Ahh, osk isn't the sticky key trick. But close enough.

William Hilsum

@surfasb Just googled, yeah... same thing, I just prefer osk.exe! I guessed you could do it with others, but, never tried... and thought I was original with this method :(

Moshe

Not letting me rename osk...

Need permission from TrustedInstaller. I can just modify permissions I guess. Right?

surfasb

@WilliamHilsum Well, now you know two methods.

Aye

Moshe

What is the sticky key method?

William Hilsum

@Moshe easiest method will probably be to go back to login screen, go to c:\windows\system32 and type "start cmd.exe" to launch a new process of command prompt, then, close the original one (Which is running as osk.exe), then delete osk.exe and then type "ren osk_old.exe osk.exe"

@surfasb lol

@Moshe from google, it is the same as I just did with you, but targets another application

surfasb

1:29 AM

@Moshe Basically, instead of using osk.exe, you use sethc.exe

Moshe

Got it. Googled me to a mcaffee paper which taught me the takeown command.

William Hilsum

@Moshe there wasn't any need to do that... but, glad it is working

you don't really want to take ownership of it :/ .. but anyway... at least it is working!

Moshe

Took ownership to rename.

wipes off hands

Thanks!

@william may I throw up a blog post about this?

On my blog that is.

William Hilsum

I am writing one up at the moment!

but... now I know that the stickey key method is public, I don't think anything will really happen

Moshe

Ok. Cool. Let me see yours when it is done then. :-)

William Hilsum

1:49 AM

@Moshe blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/10/…

Tom Wijsman

3:57 AM

19 hours ago, by Shiki

Does Process Lasso worth it's price? Oo

Yup, does properly what it advertises. But in general you shouldn't need that...

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman - This may take a while!!!

If I get addicted, I'm blaming you :P

Tom Wijsman

It's much better optimizing your idle cycles than to waste money on a tool that manages cycles that don't need to be consumed in the first place.

@WilliamHilsum It should go fairly quick at this time directly.

I'm not entirely sure whether direct or P2P would be faster...

@WilliamHilsum Well, there comes the moment that you need to decide whether to buy it or not.

William Hilsum

I doubt it will even play on my machine (HD3000) - will try in lowest quality... if it doesn't no harm! ... If it does, I will play a skirmish or one mission... (whatever I can in this edition) just to get the feel (never played star craft before), then I will leave it as I have so much work for the next few weeks

@TomWijsman It is doing 1MB per 3 seconds... so, slower than my max, but I am in no rush

Tom Wijsman

I think you should be able to play it...

Well, start with the tutorial if you are new to RTS.

Campaign differs a bit from multiplayer.

You can indeed set yourself up a 1v1 against an Easy/Medium computer.

I lost twice in a 3v3 team game today due to the same dude randomly appearing up in the match search...

He is like a new player that got ranked higher by luck or perhaps he played together with two guys, he shouldn't be playing in teams of my league... :/

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman RTS is by far my favourite genre - I am a long time C&C fan (pre generals)... I own SC1 battle chest, but, never had time to install it... and... apart from the odd 20-30 minutes for SE game on, or, I really need to clear my head, I haven't had time for games in years... :(

Tom Wijsman

4:07 AM

I haven't ever played SC1...

I come from the Age of Empire/Mythology series from Microsoft.

William Hilsum

My main problem is that I just get hooked far too easy... I have to do everything - If it is fallout, I save the game often and try different possibilities... RPGs, I have to try every combination, explorer every part of a map e.t.c. ... I just prefer not to even start on a game as I know I can't stop myself!

Tom Wijsman

Yeah, I've always been hooked to a single game too. Mainly StarCraft II now...

William Hilsum

I loved Age of Empires (1 and 2)... never got in to Mythology

Tom Wijsman

Love the detail of strategy there.

William Hilsum

English Longbowmen with priests at the back and mass spawn knights (I think it was)... used to love it!!!

Tom Wijsman

4:11 AM

They kind of cut the mass producing with Mythology, and added titans and god powers and that kind of stuff...

Funny enough, I would play Age of Empires/Mythology quite different now.

Like scouting with units, splitting up in two groups and attack from different angles. Taking one or two units and try to take out some villagers...

SC2 has really changed my view on RTS games.

I'm not used to Age of Empires 1 and 2 anymore, last time I played Age of Empires 2 this year it was a lot of figuring out.

William Hilsum

Now I am thinking of my favourite strategy game... Star Trek Armarda 2.... Loved that game so much!

Tom Wijsman

I think I would be able to play Age of Mythology a bit more fluently...

William Hilsum

argh... I want to play it! Got to ressist!

Tom Wijsman

Never played that.

William Hilsum

SC2 has really changed you then!?

Tom Wijsman

4:14 AM

Supreme Commander 2 (SupCom 2, not to be confused with SC2) was something I started and looked quite fun too...

William Hilsum

TA + the mods were better though... SC/SC2 were not bad... but... I think the original was much better

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Yeah, Age of Empires was like "I mass one army and go defeat where I know the enemy is".

William Hilsum

ahh... now you got me thinking of springTA... the open source version! I got so hooked, I went to the top rank in a matter of weeks :/ Can't get started on that again!

... but, if you ever wanted to install it, let me know!

Tom Wijsman

SC2 is like "I go scout and see what my opponent is planning, I harass him and will push from different angles to get his economy broken or get a more superior army myself"

Heard of that game once...

William Hilsum

if you mean spring - it is amazing... an open source engine that is fully TA compatible... so powerful and amazing what they have done - springrts.com

Tom Wijsman

4:19 AM

My problem with a lot of games is, I start with them and I never get to complete them.

William Hilsum

hehe - I buy them and don't play half, the ones I do, I play until the end and I have done almost every combination etc.!

Tom Wijsman

Kind of like exams, then a reinstallation due to a new version of Windows; and the save game gets saved somewhere but I never reinstall the game and load up the save game again...

William Hilsum

I have a hard drive somewhere with old saves

ohh... one game I never got to finish that really bugged me - enter the matrix! (because of exams!) .... ahh, got to stop talking to you, you are making me think of games!!!

Tom Wijsman

My entire data collection is kind of a mess and it would take long to get everything neatly organized into folders...

My external drive is mostly except for some backups folders.

But it's like, my Downloads folder is filled with a lot of files of which I probably only need 25% of or less...

@WilliamHilsum I finished that one, after trying the famous helicopter game crash for quite some times... ^^

Sathya

heh.

chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/421/whining-room

William Hilsum

4:25 AM

@TomWijsman ditto!

@Sathya :P

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Hmm, are you early awake or do you also still have to go sleep like me?

Gotta go sleep, cya...

Sathya

seriously? window7?

you put all sorts of synonyms and yet some ~~dumbass~~ person comes with a weird tag

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman Still not asleep! Goodnight!

@Sathya There is always one!

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum :(

</whine>

William Hilsum

9 mins ago, by Sathya

Whining Room

This room is for whining in. All manner of QQ will be tolerated.

3

:P

I know, you were being sarcastic... Doesn't matter :P

Sathya

4:34 AM

@WilliamHilsum :P

Journeyman Geek

5:12 AM

hm

ahh hell

mwhahahaha - i googled up a odd looking spammy post with no link recommending a bit of software and the username... and turned up a whole load of posts by someone with the same name recommending it

Journeyman Geek

5:36 AM

hm

imgur seems down

Sathya

@JourneymanGeek yep..

since the past hour or so

William Hilsum

Wow, I have had Chrome up for about a month+ ... Didn't realise just how much memory it was taking up with all my tabs :/

Journeyman Geek

superuser.com/questions/347571/… a little too strong?

(granted in.linkedin.com/pub/ranvir-kumar/1b/569/a35 and god knows how much other things points at a rather amateurish attempt at SEO... )

William Hilsum

5:51 AM

Is imgur off or is my machine just playing up? - Image of Chrome memory usage failed to upload twice :/

@JourneymanGeek Fair enough imho.

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum imgur.com has a notice about being in emergency mode

William Hilsum

Looking him up on LinkedIn - Your a cyber sleuth!

@Sathya Thanks! Maybe I should of checked their home page!

Sathya

> Emergency maintenance We're currently expirencing issues with uploading and viewing some images, and are working on correcting them now. Please check back soon for updates.

@JourneymanGeek na. tbh I doubt if he'll ever come back...

Journeyman Geek

@WilliamHilsum: i did something more insidious. I googled him ;p

i'm like a regular hacker james bond or something, with less guns, booze and girls

I think imgur is back up

William Hilsum

6:15 AM

Did you just do ravinar then the company on a hunch? ... People called me a spy :P

Journeyman Geek

6:30 AM

lol two answers, both with products by the same name with no actual link in the answer. Ranvir is an indian name, which is uncommon for spambots, which tend to go by common western names. It smelt funny, so i figured i'd google the company he recommended, and his name

and... facebook.com/ranvirkumar84?sk=wall he has links to everything he posts on facebook... and i'll stop now, cause i have better things to do ;p

DMA57361

8:08 AM

morning all

Sathya

morn @DMA

Journeyman Geek

11:14 AM

oldie but goodie sonic840.deviantart.com/art/…

Journeyman Geek

12:12 PM

gah bored

Gareth

argh, all that hard work trying to get all SU images onto imgur... really not many left to do at all... then they go and have problems and switch the image uploader off :)

hopefully not too many images uploaded before they fix it

Journeyman Geek

12:53 PM

I feel sorry for any workplace that has clacky mechanicals for its employees. They are so much nicer to type on but the sheer clackyness of it... serverfault.com/questions/322366/…

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William Hilsum

4:20 PM

I'm Leaving Super User.... I should of been on Server Fault all along.... They seem to give everyone there a job!!!

Sathya

4:36 PM

@WilliamHilsum aww.

Boris_yo

@Sathya Hello is this you?

@WilliamHilsum What job?

Sathya

yes, that be me

Boris_yo

@Sathya "Is this you John Wayne? Is this me?"

Sathya

@Boris_yo ?

Boris_yo

@Sathya John Wayne... Never heard of him?

William Hilsum

4:42 PM

@Sathya Logica!? My dad did a project for them!

Sathya

@Boris_yo not 'til now

@WilliamHilsum yeah, I work for Logica!

William Hilsum

And Kingfisher! Nice! Wonder if it tastes better in India!

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum what project, if I may ask

Boris_yo

@WilliamHilsum How much SuperUser pays you?

@WilliamHilsum Per hour.

William Hilsum

@Boris_yo About £90-£100 ... (I wish) ... I am unpaid of course!

Sathya

4:44 PM

@WilliamHilsum well, it is one of the best local beers in India

Boris_yo

@WilliamHilsum You said you leaving SuperUser. Why you leave?

William Hilsum

@Sathya I can't remember... I will try to take a look

@Boris_yo Read the blog post above it!

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum ok..

bonus points for anyone figuring out what T-shirt I'm wearing ;P

William Hilsum

I can't seem to find it... He does contracts, typically between 3-18 months international - all usually mobile phone related (launching networks etc.).... I think his Logica work was either Indonesia or Kuwait.

Sathya

ok - right now, my project is with Logica Finland

William Hilsum

4:47 PM

@Sathya "Supe U" ... ehh, I think ......... ok, had this typed for the past minute, can't think of a joke...

Sathya

@WilliamHilsum bwahahaa

'ello @DMA & @ThomasMcDonald - I see a new DP for @ThomasMcDonald

user30

alreet

user30

aye, courtesy of Ronan on Gaming

Sathya

aha

DMA57361

@Sathya hi, and "DP"?

Sathya

4:50 PM

@DMA57361 DP == Display pic, aka (gr)avatar

twitter term - sorry for the confusion

DMA57361

ah, I knew what you meant (from the follow up lines), just not the term used :)

Sathya

:)

Mylo Xyloto

}} Mylo Xyloto (pronounced ) is the upcoming fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Coldplay, set for release on 24 October 2011. Writing and recording Chris Martin stated that he does not believe "bands should keep going past the age of 33," but later rephrased this to say that what he meant was that they must proceed "as if it's our last, because that's the only way to proceed" in December 2008, adding that he thought the band would never split. Bassist Guy Berryman, who earlier wrote that the band will "just have to start work and see how it shapes up", reported that the ...

set for 24th release but already out in the 'tubez

Shiki

Anyone else using Waterfox here?

Diago

@Shiki Huh? Nevermind. Another FireFox clone.

@Sathya Thoughts?

0

Q: Fact or fiction, Do hard drives re-write data when only reading?

Fact or fiction without any friction, I have heard in passing on the web only about 2 times, that hard drives will re-write the data onto the platter when Only reading the data off of that platter. Question applies to modern normal consumer hard drives with spinning platters, and read/write head...

hard-drive

(Yes my finger is hovering over the close button)

Sathya

@Diago I'd agree with the close button click

> If i am supposed to have a specific problem, then: For very long term storage of data, if this is actually true, then reading the data once a year could insure a better magnetic polarity differance. For long term storage not only would it be good to spin it up and get the motor moving, but to do a read of the data one time.

Diago

5:00 PM

Done

Sathya

@Diago alright.

Diago

What's with all these new Somewhere on the internet... questions popping up all over the place?

Two in a row

@Sathya Was I too fast?

Sathya

@Diago Nope. I'd have done the same

@Shiki No, and I'm not convinced about it's utility or claims.

Diago

@Shiki I have to say you run some of the strangest software I have seen. (Purely based on your questions so far)

William Hilsum

@Diago @Sathya - good call!

Diago

5:03 PM

@WilliamHilsum It always is :P

It's been hours since I last irritated a user, so I needed something to destress

William Hilsum

hehe! :P

Sathya

Diago, stirring Super Users' hornets since 2008

:P

Shiki

@Diago - You should give it a try. It's really awesome. :)

William Hilsum

ImgUR still off... cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/2009/10/…

Sathya

anyhow time to go to sleep, have a good one folks

William Hilsum

5:05 PM

@Sathya Goodnight!

Diago

@Shiki 1. I run a Mac. 2. I run a Mac. 3. I run a.... I don't need awesome. I use awesome everyday. What I need is mind blowing.

@Sathya Sleep well

William Hilsum

@Diago Bah :P

Shiki

@Diago - So you use AwesomeWM on Mac? :O

Diago

@WilliamHilsum I actually deleted my Windows boot camp today when I realized I haven't used it in 4 months

Shiki

(awesome awesome.naquadah.org)

Diago

5:07 PM

And I only use Windows at work for coding, which is slowing down since I am planning to move that across.

William Hilsum

@Diago Oh well... I have a mac here as well now (Ios development... Too slow in a VM)... but... apart from aesthetics, I really don't get it! ... not worth having a debate about though!

Diago

@WilliamHilsum Agreed. I didn't get it either. Now that I got it.... I love it. My house will be PC free in another 6 months once I can get rid of the server.

William Hilsum

@Diago What will you replace the server with? Just a NAS or something?

Diago

@WilliamHilsum I already have a Lian Li DAS connected. I am thinking of getting the Synology 1511 or 2411 with all my software loaded. Otherwise the Mac Mini

Since the Lian Li already works with the Synology, and it's awesome.

William Hilsum

Cool, well... FYI, If you were not to go PC Free, one cool thing that I purchased on recommendation from a few people here was a new HP Micro Server, in England and some other regions, they are doing them at ~£100 which is a bargain for a full ESX compatible machine... and 4 hard drive slots, so, makes an amazing nas/similar unit and very low power usage

Diago

5:18 PM

@WilliamHilsum I was looking at that at one stage. However the DAS solution works well, it's currently got 7.5TB over 5 x 2TB drives with RAID 5

William Hilsum

Not seen the Lian Li DAS... Looks cool...

Diago

Which will last me till next year

@WilliamHilsum It's quiet and took 5 minutes to setup. A colleagues introduced me to it and it was worth every cent. I introduced him to the Synology which he bought and he loves it.

William Hilsum

@Diago :P Only next year! ... We are very similar! I have 4x1TB and 2x2TB (along with a few other bits), but, I use Raid 1, so you have a lot more space than me!

Diago

@WilliamHilsum The server's operating drive is 2 x 1.5TB's in RAID 1

William Hilsum

I find it so hard to choose units as they are just so similar :/

Diago

5:21 PM

I am pedantic. We have closed on 2.5TB of HD Movies and growing. I am not losing them for anything. So I spend a lot of time researching before spending the money

If I get the DS 2411 I am filling it with 12x 3TB drives

William Hilsum

@Diago wow! lol... well, I got a bunch of 2TB drives for my micro servers, but, haven't time to set it up yet... 3TB drives were too expensive for me

Diago

They are pricey now, but will drop when the 4 and 5's come out next year

I am waiting for SSD prices to drop

William Hilsum

@Diago I have been meaning to get a SSD for ages for my machine... but, I feel they are a big waste for a NAS unit though

Diago

@WilliamHilsum I want 2 for our Mac's. But I want big sized drives which is why I am delaying. A colleague set up a RAID 10 server with 24 x 160GB SSD's

Blinding Fast is an understatement. They copy TB's in minutes.

William Hilsum

Just looked up that Synology unit you said... For the price, that is amazing... May have to consider it for myself when I fill up the Micro Servers!

Nice!

Diago

5:27 PM

@WilliamHilsum Try the online OS demo. You'll be even more surprised. It even allows 3rd Party Addons

On that note. Time for some coffee, games and TV shows. At the same time.

William Hilsum

My friend has been selling a few Synology devices and told me they were good... I got burned on a few rubbish 2 unit ones years ago... I haven't checked them out for a while... certainly looks cool

@Diago hehe, I should get on with work! Talk to you later!

Tom Wijsman

6:14 PM

@Shiki No, I run my own optimized compilation of the latest alpha release. Should outperform Waterfox because they miss some things like some flags and they are on a more stable version...

William Hilsum

7:21 PM

Something really troubling - a website I did for a friend about a year ago www.bexleypark.co.uk (warning, do not click without reading on... )now comes up with a warning page, and I did it from Chrome (which I think is safe) inspected the code, and it has been infected/changed with a bunch of stuff.... This website is pure html, no php, asp or anything else... Anyone know how this is possible? I can only think it was a) FTP password compromised or b) web host compromised (It was the club's ISP)

Shiki

@TomWijsman - I've tried to compile Firefox's source a couple of times already from the info I found with Google and on Pale Moon's info page... but no success

it really IS a hassle

Tom Wijsman

@WilliamHilsum Either has access to the FTP or used some kind of exploit.

@Shiki Why not read the MDN documents themself?

Shiki

Fail: I've opened my RDP connection from the taskbar, opened up 'cmd', and then typed: sudo halt

William Hilsum

@TomWijsman AFAIK, my client keeps the FTP passwords in a DB with his credit card numbers, banking and other details - as far as he knows, nothing else has been hacked and he hasn't seen any problems (he has good security)... I think it is purely a problem at the web host, but, they aren't owning up :/

Shiki

@TomWijsman - Could you link me a working HOWTO?

Pretty pwease~?

Tom Wijsman

7:28 PM

developer.mozilla.org/en/Build_Documentation

developer.mozilla.org/En/Simple_Firefox_build

Shiki

Thank you!

Tom Wijsman

@Shiki: There you go. :)

Shiki

It's Tuesday, Tuesday

Gotta compile my browser

oh well I should stfu and get to work

Tom Wijsman

I think my compilation got a bit outdated by now...

Shiki

well, I want to have an amd64 build with nocona and stuff

Tom Wijsman

7:31 PM

I should automate it a bit more, rather than looking up the Pymake syntax and such every time.

Shiki

(mainly targeted for Core2+ ... but the "core2" flag in GCC will run the app slower than "nocona")

William Hilsum

7:48 PM

Restored the website from backup... Very scary though

Shiki

8:14 PM

NOD32 is like some kind of Tamagotchi

It asks for "attention" every once in a while

when I click on the bubble, nothing.

Poor thing. :(

Tom Wijsman

10:40 PM

Okay, after looking through the question...

1

Q: Can you help me identify an audio player with a green square as an icon?

I'm trying to remember the name of an audio player for windows whose icon was a green square. Just a green square, like 10x10px. I can't remember its name. I know that it was really light. Do you know which one is it?

audio player

I am wondering if these are just two persons advertising the product.

Given that the original answer was just "Billy." and it is the only thing they have done on Super User...

Perhaps a mod might want to keep an eye on them by leaving a note on their acconut.

Iszi

11:01 PM

Moderators, please disregard my flag here:

0

Q: Do firefox "lock tab" option automatically refresh the tab every X seconds/minutes?

I just discovered this feature of firefox 7 and I find it really interesting. The only part I didn't understood is if it automatically refresh tabs every X time, that's really something important because I don't know if I have to do it every time I visit the page Any information will be useful, ...

firefox tabs firefox-7

I flagged it requesting migration to SU. For some reason I thought I was on Sec.SE at the moment.

It's been a long day.

William Hilsum

11:36 PM

@TomWijsman Or check the ips... Looks suspicious as well... but, it is free, so I am a little confused! Anyway, the site looks interesting, bookmarked for when I have more time to try a few of their programs

Journeyman Geek

hm, the imgur upload option is down :(

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