In less than 6 hours from 1% to 50%. Well done anonymous! (1% in 15 minutes is pretty nice)

There has been new game released. Grand theft auto 4. And yet, there hasn’t been any crack for it. Lot of people spend their days reading forums and release blogs to find some crack for it. There are also people who want to harm other people. These people spend their days pasting false links to these forums/blogs with harmful exe files. Most of people are not so stupid that they open exe from unknown source, but … what about dll ? are they safe ?

No, definitely not, pictures are the only thing which can be opened from unsafe source and wouldn’t harm. So lets look closer to this GTA4 crack.

GTA4 is using protection called Securom7. i will not bullshit you, i doesn’t have the sightliest idea how does this work. But all the Securom7 games has one thing in common. Its Paul.dll dll file. So, you open the game.exe, it check the paul.dll and ask if he should run the game, if paul.dll answer yes. game is being run.

it looks like this

i do : “open game.exe“, game do “open paul.dll chechgame“, then game receive response “yes” and game runs. Now little bit closer. When i open game, i use double click. when game open paul.dll it use ‘doubleclick‘ to c:/windows/system(32/64)/rundll.exe paul.dll. so basically, game opens that paul.dll via rundll.exe .

My point is that, it doesnt matter, if you open the file or game does it, that file is just being opened. The original paul.dll gives simple responses, but i bet that it shouldn’t be so hard to create paul.dll which will in response format your hard drive or download some spyware.

Shortly : DONT DOWNLOAD UNKNOWN DLL’s AND EXE’s !!!

btw it’s Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle

EDIT:
If you dont know how to run something with command line, just go to your desktop, find the red alert 3 shortcut, use second mouse button, select properties and you see there TARGET, it should be something like

“C:\Program Files\EA Games\Red Alert 3\RA3.exe”

append the -win parameter so it will look like

“C:\Program Files\EA Games\Red Alert 3\RA3.exe” -win

hit apply and ok.
Next time you use that icon, you will have game in windowed mode.

517 000 google matches for fallout 3 torrent is pretty good when .. there is no torrent for it. 517 000 fake matches.

Do you know what Netbook is ? This word first appeared with asus EEE pc. Small, 7 inch cheap notebook with some small disk and cheap crappy cpu ( celeron ) but … better to browse with than PDA. Notebooks of this kind ( > 10 inch) are called netbooks because … they are unable to run anything besides net applications. Well, not literally, msi wind can run some games, with 200+mb of graphic memory you are able to play gta vice city but, this notebook was designed for web applications. just nice ‘big’ screen for websites, gmail, some office applications, im’s and there we go. Cheap, stable, extra portable .. ready to go.

I have bought myself a MSI Wind week ago. I love that machine. its totally awesome. I can carry it everywhere  i go. It weighs less than 1kg. Extra portable. I can use it in bed, i can use it in restaurant and i can use it as media player while driving :). I am thinking of it as big cell phone, not small notebook.

This netbook is great. I can do whatever i want wherever i want. I can chat, read email, watch forex or just some movie when i am on the go. But there is one thing i am unable to do on it. It’s work.

At the moment i have on my table 3 lcd’s (17′+19′+22′) and i just .. can use one laptop instead of them.  I have been thinking that i might buy myself notebook with 17+ screen and use it everywhere. But after few hours .. jesus that notebooks are so unportable. Maybe it weights only 3 kilo’s but after hour of carrying it .. it will kill your back. I can carry my wind notebook in one hand every day and no problem.

When i want to work, i need computer. I cant do anything on this machine. So, whats the point of buying a notebook ? If i want to use it i will need 2 lcd’s, mouse, good keyboard. And with this, its really not portable. I think its better to have 2-3 computers ( home - work - weekend house ) than carrying a notebook. Or notebook and 3 dock stations. Because, notebook, without lcd’s,  is not for work.

Oh yes, if you want to compare 10′ inch here you can see it with A4 paper on it:

msi wind with A4 paper

Few days ago i have been speaking with some guy - programmer. We has been chatting about programming languages, our jobs and so. It was a wonderful dialog. One his sentence has taken my breath away from me. It was something like ‘yeah, i have bought several programming books too and i am not using them just as paperweight‘. Ok - This is pretty much hardcore but still, nothing bad. I was terrified when he told me that when he is programming he is seeking information in that books. What are we in middle age ? Books are ok, but not as source of fast-needed information. When i have some problem, i just ask google. Now take 2 scenarios.

a) i have programming book. Nice. I have a problem, which function tells me if string is integer ? dunno, ok, now i have to stand up, go find my book and now the hardest part. Find something in it. I can’t even imagine searching for something like this in book. it can take up to 10 minutes. And now, you are doing 10-20 similar searches per day so you are wasting at least 3 hours/day. nice!

b) i have Internet connection. I have a problem. I have one combo. Alt + tab, ctrl + t, google.com, enter, ‘{programming language name} is string integer’. This process take me ~3 seconds ( maybe less ) and in 90% of situations, first google result is what i want/need.

Books are great. Even i have recently bought several books but … not as guide/manual. When i am using some manual i want to be able to paste from there. And secondly, i NEED to be able to search trough it. I need to find something specific. And yet, this is not related to the computer issues only. I prefer cooking with my notebook instead of cook book. One huge plus of notebook is music, and secondly, more recipes, detailed, sometimes video of process. Everything you ever needed.

God i love Internet and online search.

Recently, i have managed to find some time to travel around little bit. I have decided to visit some castles. I guess this does not need more explanation. Just bunch of nice pictures.

PS: sorry for the bad quality, i has been in rush and i am not photographer.

Now enjoy the pictures.

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Have you ever wondered how hard is to create chaos ? How hard it could  be to mistify whole planet ? Well, post long 88 words has done it. Today, this message appeared on 4chan /b/.

“Many may not realize this, but we just may be the strongest, yet most unorganized group of people in the world. Impossible to track us. Our positions in the world vary person to person, but together, we are legion.

Let us take control, create “Joker-Like” chaos, this week has been a cute start, but I believe we can do more, much more. We are the new world order. The Illuminati are like children compared to our stature.

To put it simply, my point is.

Kill the Oprah.”

Few minutes later, there were digg post about her : http://digg.com/celebrity/Oprah_Winfrey_Found_Dead_in_Home - in 3 hours ~650 votes - imho really good. Post was/is linking to the blogspot post about her death. You can even find the comments about saying how wonderfull person she was on both digg and blogspot.

You can even find the screenshots from popular news portals about her death.

I think this troll is most successfull troll of this month

But, despite prayers of anons, Oprah is still alive, most probably wondering wtf is going on.

Google has shown us this with change of it’s logo - now it is LHCGoogle - small change, and i think that nobody will notice, Google is changing their logo 5times/month.

But look at 4chan. Page with billion pageviews and milions of visitors is down. I just love when someone take some actual info and then make fun of it.

Todays winner is definetly 4chan /b/.

Title of page has changed from ‘/b/ random’ to positron uprising. Tagline of page is now:

positron uprising
i for one welcome our new proton spiral overlords
ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH

Every post is being rewritten to ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH, but .. atm posting is disabled ( by network timeout)
In Background you can hear this song in neverending loop - if there is some counter of plays, i wonder how many trillions would be there for this song.

oh yeah, /b/ didnt dissapoint you. You can have nice pair of tits with row row fight the powah sign!

i smell new meme

btw if you are wondering if HTC destroyed earth yet - here you can find the answer.