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system access to open read save crud a file then dig into calling urls then dig into passing parameters to via a command console to a python application and perhaps also how to do that to a compiles object many years ago i wrote some unix commands in vb so i could use them on a windows box it was a great learning task then to dig out the old visual basic code i wrote over a decade ago to see if its worth using the basis of that logic for much harder rolls functionalisation of rolls between applications and a compiled program for rolling dice how to publish to a basic web page how to publish as a binary for win then linux then mac this is such a great thing to do while the radio garbles away in the background happy coding people share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading programming beginner dice python random roll nerdy convergence of starwars and the beastie boys leave a comment posted by typhoonandrew on february 22 2018 sabotage by the beastie boys is the perfect teaser trailer music as demonstrated by how perfectly it sells movies starwars and the beastie boys is a nerdy convergence i want to see this film with this style soundtrack dont believe me check these out after the fold read more of this post share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading movies beastie boys movie solo starwars old laptop becomes htpc leave a comment posted by typhoonandrew on january 31 2018 my 4 year old laptop died about 6 months ago due to a horridly corrupted windows issue which i found basically impossible to fix over the past months i ve been trying to fix it and find a new use for it as a home geek project the issue was my account yes a non admin account with slightly elevated privileges and the admin account was unable to write files anywhere on the local disks this meant that programs crashed nothing would install and likewise nothing could be removed i went as far as booting into safe mode and trying all sorts of permission hacks which looked like poor imitations of chmod and new account hacks before ensuring i had a good backup and wiping the damned thing i still have no idea what i did to corrupt the os that badly and half expect it was either a drastic virus infection or a stupid are you sure prompt where i should have said nooooooo without a root cause i ll blame myself for the mess and move on so the laptop has been wiped clean and a fresh windows 8 1 install is now running smoothly i also caved in and bought a new laptop to muck about in and play games a great gaming laptop is like a slow desktop gaming machine except it costs twice the price the old notebook became the new spare laptop it still a solid pc as it was nice when i grabbed it in late 2014 it has multiple io ports vga hdmi and a good stack of ram and hard disk space it got me thinking of a home theatre pc htpc as the kids used to say first i tried an install if kodibuntu for the os but found the new disk management didn t like installing from dvd or usb same for another version of linux which was a frustrating waste of a few evenings i gave up on using a linux distro quickly after that windows 8 1 isn t a great os anymore but it s already installed and i paid for it so might as well use it kodibuntu isn t available for 64bit windows 8 1 easily either so it s gone aside i wouldn t use a windows os on a dedicated appliance pc by choice without a very good antivirus firewall like sophos home and ensuring the os runs on an account that isn t an admin call me paranoid i m considering an additional layer of protection by only allowing the laptop to connect to a dedicated and segregated wifi network on the router however its not in place yet so still pondering that may also mean upgrading my home router too which i do not want to do just for that config option then i installed kodi the renamed xbmc tool and its working well i was able to quickly add my old media box as a video source and i m now starting to ponder how to use this theatre pc better and what mods might be handy kodi made it very simple once i adapted to how the menus work my plan is to have a good spare laptop which can be lent borrowed moved about when needed and also used up play videos which are using codecs which my old wd media box does not play the wd is even older and suffering from codec fatigue a nd i also worry that the wd is not supported and might be a little insecure by today s standards share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading gadgets and hardware 8 1 codec htpc kodi media windows bitcoin additional thoughts and a great comic leave a comment posted by typhoonandrew on january 19 2018 extending from an earlier post on bitcoin thoughts finding an exchange is tricksy as they could dissapear overnight so many cryptocurrencies are dropping value yet companies and governments are weighing in on the issues surroudning ccs like implementing taxation guidelines for virtual goods aside folks i played online games with laughed at concept of paying real money for in game gold in wow many years ago despite wow eve and many other games demonstrating that gamers have an appetite to do so btc is certainly different enough to not be a fantasic comparison not decentralised owned by one company artificial levers on supply and demand however wow gold has a much better stability than bitcoin thank about that for a sec personally speaking i think the recent adjustment downward by 30 on most of the leading ccs is very reasonable and a lot more is probably on the way this is because there is very little difference in the features and benefits of almost all cryptocurrencies and while the different offering have useful features to offer many investors who helped the bubbles proliferate probably do not appreciate the details enough to differentiate frankly though a few countries have said they will inhibit cc growth like china or seriously hunt for taxation revenue from profits aus and usa that i know for sure so the free and open nature of all virtual currencies is evaporating and there is nothing stopping another cc from starting up and taking the popular name market share from bitcoin e g a cc backed or unofficially sanctioned by china s government would be very powerful maybe china is watching and learning about ccs so they can capitalise perhaps google amazon alibaba or yandex will back or create one too which would make for a powerful market offering too now that bitcoin has having a huge adjustment it might be time for another virtual currency to rise and use the brand of a big corporate as staging to market penetration looking the price adjustments another way investors who hunt for get rich quick have now seen btc hurt them other ccs are following downward what is the intended use for virtual currency i d like to know why people are still buying ccs in bulk the inventor of dogecoin used them to donate money to charities and bitcoin can be used as currency for a few major companies and strange ish products note that these companies take regular money too so buying a bitcoin just to buy a product isn t always logical products need customers who have problems to solve and ccs don t see to have enough customers except for the speculators digital currencies are getting a lot of attention now due to their rise and fall so if they stabalise it will be good to watch where the investing market goes next no idea where the prices are going but this is so interesting to watch my bet is downward hard to about 450 for btc because at that price they might actually be useful to humans as well as investors share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading crypto and cryptocurrency bitcoin btc cryptocurrency currency investors speculators virtual goods does meltdown or spectre affect normal users probably not leave a comment posted by typhoonandrew on january 10 2018 the impacts of two new cpu security expoits are being tested at present and i ve seen two different views one that it will have an impact of single digits and another saying that those single digits are not relevant or almost not for gamers and normal users because they don t involve the kernal tldr you have no choice except to patch and move on maybe keep reading in the background the cpu exploit probably won t greatly impact a gamer or a normal user and if they do it will be a small slow down pretty much everyone is nominally affected so the playing field is still level patching the machines is important duh there are no known exploits in the wild yet it will be years before consumer grade hardwar is released which won t be impacted because deisgning new cpus takes time and then the companies will need to get the hardware into market the background what is it https www schneier com blog archives 2018 01 spectre_and_mel_1 html they have to do with manipulating different ways processors optimize performance by rearranging the order of instructions or performing different instructions in parallel an attacker who controls one process on a system can use the vulnerabilities to steal secrets elsewhere on the computer a poc exploit which is not in the wild https googleprojectzero blogspot com 2018 01 reading privileged memory with side html share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading gadgets and hardware hacking and security cpu exploit meltdown spectre a bitcoin random thought its now a darn risky investment artefact 2 comments posted by typhoonandrew on january 9 2018 quickly to be frank a family member with a traditional banking and investment background asked me about bitcoin as an investment option i had to tell him that i m no expert and he should play with ccs with as much many as he d like to throw away in fact i then suggested that giving money to strangers might be just as valid an investment it is a fabricated artefact here is why bitcoin started as a techie concept which took a few years to be taken seriously by the techies then moved to a very enticing and interesting practical implementation with benefits pizza games anon purchases and is now a mechanical artefact that suits investors and risk takers this write up by seeking alpha is an example which indicates that bitcoin is at its apparently weakest stage likewise the other ccs are not at all mature its a growth stage that may lead to a great long term currency when one of the many cc options becomes stable and ubiquitious bitcoin is neither at present but is very dynamic and interesting if you can throw away the time and money it costs you to investigate what that means is nobody is buying pizza anymore investors are solidly looking at it for quick bouncing returns that s not a good time to buy especially when a coin costs ud 14 000 15 35 high fees at this stage in its life i don t think it is much different from the stock market except there is no centralisation or control nobody to hold accountable frequent technical issues and no demonstrated longevity think about that risk profile its amazingly risky by comparison and people are buying and selling in large amounts recently i m intersted in what happens later when more curencies are in the market offering different options for stability style of implementations or by financial institutions or countries we are amid the maturing of ccs and there are great times ahead if i more time and 5k i was happy to throw away i d still buy in and i d take a serious look to other ccs instead of bitcoin or wait till bc stabilises a lot more the enticement is to find another cc which costs 50 coin and hope it tripples as that would be enough of a test via seekingalpha bc value share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading crypto and cryptocurrency bitcoin cryptocurrency risk firefox mr robot add on fail is akin to u2 fail leave a comment posted by typhoonandrew on december 19 2017 i m staggered to read that mozilla tried to advertise the tv show mr robot by forcing the install of an add on yes it was disabled by default but thats is plainly a crap thing to do so much for thinking of the community or for acting responsibily as reported by shaun nichols of the register mozilla automatically installed a weird add on to firefox on people s computers an add on that turned out to be a marketing promotion for the hit telly show mr robot the reactions are justified and blunt its almost implausible but happened i do not understand how this would have been seen as clever advertising and was probably damaging to their geek cred as if anything the geek audience of mr robot tends to be more security and it sector aware and wouldn t like the move did the music industry folks love it when u2 brute forced their new album into the itunes media library broadly speaking no there was a lot of bad press and apologies mozilla chief marketing officer jascha kaykas wolff has posted a mea culpa on the mozilla blog we re sorry for the confusion and for letting down members of our community kaykas wolff wrote while there was no intention or mechanism to collect or share your data or private information and the looking glass was an opt in and user activated promotion we should have given users the choice to install this add on the exec also said mozilla did not sell out its loyalists to a tv network this was done for free over the course of the year firefox has enjoyed a growing relationship with the mr robot television show and as part of this relationship we developed an unpaid collaboration to engage our users and viewers of the show in a new way kaykas wolff explained somehow that just makes it even worse i don t care that they didn t get paid i care that they did it if fact the did sell out however their price was exceptionally cheap in dollars and expensive in reputation damage so bye bye firefox you re done for another few years or until chrome does something equally stupid and i m forced to pick between the lesser of two evils share share share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin share on x opens in new window x like loading hacking and security ethics fail firefox mrrobot terrible why do you hate your users xkcd on self driving cars bravo leave a comment posted by typhoonandrew on december 7 2017 great comic as usual its only as the concepts drift wistfully past your personal point of insanity that it makes you think something here might be unreasonable should the ai decide that mimicing driver ...