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Alright, something got fucked up.
my roommates Hard drive lost its drive info for C
The partition is still there
The data is still there
I jsut can't get it to boot because Windows thinks its a RAW partition.
So, any tips on how to fix the partition without fucking up the data?

Can someone give me the tl;dr version?

His friend gets turned into a computer by the government, and secretly hacks himself to be awesome, then escapes.  He changes his friend (the person telling the story) into the same, they both get captured by the government.  He refuses to do anything for them, so they let them go and pay them to keep quiet.  He moves to Africa.  The End.

Thanks for turning a really good story into a pile of ass. With none of the actual important details.

Has anybody read this?
My roommate just gave it to me (put it on my desktop with a big fucking READ THIS note)
Its rather interesting, you can read it here.
If only this shit existed today. (I have no doubt it will at sometime in the future.)

Ponyo, is a new anime movie that is coming out soon. By Hayao Miyazaki, the guy behind, Kiki's delevery service, Howl's moving castle, Princess Mononoke, Etc.. I got pre-release screening tickets for this monday, should be awesome.
So, any anime fans in here?

I'll post a short review [yay/nay basically] after I see it if you guys should see it on the 14th :P

I am looking for a few people who know java that are willing to work with me.
I am trying to make a modular 2d game. As many of you know I am horrible at graphical programming so if anyone is willing to help me I can break it down into the segments I need done.
The actuall content of the game has already been developed, I simply need to write a framework that I can adapt the content to.

Each section should be simple and not require MUCH work.

Wow seriously what the fuck man, have you never used a bot before?
No we won't give you cdkeys, use your own damn keys.
If you own two diffrent games, use one key while you're playing the other, and visa versa
If you don't have two keys, you're screwed.
And before you ask, NO you CAN NOT use your original key and play tft or LOD at the same time, they use both of your cdkeys.

If you have not seen this movie I highly suggest you do.
The ending made me 'What the shit?'

Its a good movie, and really well done. It is 'old' from 2001.

Ok so we played a showdow run game tonight.
We started out the basic, Meet the Johnson, get our objective.

A previous employee of the Johnson's company{altech but nobody bothered to ask} had stolen some tech from them and was trying to sell it to the Triad/Mafia. The mark was a playboy, has lots of parties in his penthouse, etc.. so we go to the hotel next door and fail to get a room on the same floor as the mark. So insted we go across the street and look at the office building, which has a whole 2 rooms being used the rest for lease for REALLY cheap. Like 4,000 nuyen/mo {we would each be paid ~250,000 for the job}.

But instead of renting it, or getting the key {they let us explore any floor we wanted} they did a random floor, and stole the keycard. So me, the decker had to 'hack' it and reset it to the floor we wanted. {all it did was send a RF with the floor # out}. So, we basically we stole a floor of a building.

We setup the base of operations there, I hop on the matrix and run over to the mark's network, steal his porn, and change the guest list to include 2 of our party members. {Killing the decker in control of the apartment building in the process because he detected me :P}
Theres a knock at the door and another person introduces himself as being hired by the Johnson, and we take it at face value and let him into the grupe. {It was another one of our friends playing}

We dress up the elf chick in pretty much a whores outfit and send her off the the party. Along with our rigger for good mesure. The elf was a dumbfuck and goes straight for the mark and trys to talk to him. Which causes him to summon his body guard to drag her out because he dosent know any elves.

But our rigger was able to plant out cameras so I get a live view of all of the place. Then the new guy from above orders some pizza, knocks out the delivery guy takes the pizza and clothing and goes to the mark's place. He gets in. And the mark greets him, ... and they know eachother, it's subtile but meh. "Hey, how you been, delevering pizza now eah?" "Sure you can use the bathroom, you know where it is." I'm the only one who notices this. But, cuz i wanted to see where this went I leave it be.

So, the days pass, we watch what the mark does, he meets with the mob, has a metal suitcase that hes trying to sell to them. So we make up a plan, the new guy would be standing on the roof of the hotel, which is level with the floor the mark is on. I would be in the office we .. aquired.. with my high powered sniper rifle, and the rest of the team would barge in shoot it up and steal the case {we were getting bored} So, the elf mage chick does an illusion and changes two of our guys into the look of the mob bosses.

They head into the apartment building, setting off the metal detectors, and just keep going to the elevators. Before the guards react there in the elevators going up. They walk out... and the real mob/body guards are there. A firefight ensues. One of the mob bosses run into the apartment, right into my line of sight. I use my 12 combat dice to shoot, and explode his head.

One of our other friends is playing the mark's bodyguard. So hes there shooting rubber bullets at everyone because they all look the same. {The illusion charm}

The mark comes into my line of sight and I'm like 'fuck it' and blow his torso out. My teammates take out the bodyguards, except of the PC one, who decides hes gunna fight it out cuz he only sees 2 people. He trys to pellet them, knocking one of them off balance and stunning. The 1st one gets a cop de gra on him at point blank to the head. He survives cuz his skill is cyber. And once again, I say fuck it, And blow his head off from across the street with my rifle :P

After that.... the new guy just drives away on his bike with the case.
....
...
..
.

Turns out, he was hired by the mark to protect the case from us.....

God damnet :P

So, we dont get paied, and he ends up selling the case back to the johnson for 100,000 nuyen.

:) it was fun.

Its my birthday this month so I'm trying to find a cheap PSP.
Anyone have one they don't use for < $100. Preferably around $50-60.

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    System.out.format("M %08X %08X %08X %08X\n", buf[0], buf[1], buf[2], buf[3]);
    for(int x = 3; x > -1; x--){
  int y = buf[x] * 5;
  System.out.println(buf[x] * 5);
      buf[x] = decodedByte + y;
      decodedByte = y;
}
System.out.format("M %08X %08X %08X %08X\n", buf[0], buf[1], buf[2], buf[3]);

decodedByte starts at 2;

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M 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
5
0
0
0
M 00000000 00000000 00000005 00000007
WHY THE HELL is the 3rd int being set to 5?

I am trying to figure out a way to track an object in a room.
This is a real life object in a real life room.
I have a few ideas I jsut thought of, and need input on.
1) IR Radar
Have 4~ IR Radar devices attached to the object {alright, person}. Have them constantly snagging data about the objects it's close to, preferably the walls. Few downfalls, battery usage will be ungodly immense. Object distortion. If a object gets in the way it could throw everything to fuck. Would require a detailed layout of the room. Wha5t happens if the IR beam hits the wall/object at an angle?

2) Stationary base receivers.
This is pretty much the same thing as the above, but instead of having the receiver on the object it will be in stationary receivers located around the room, using the same principals of GPS systems, except in reverse. Still a lot of battery usage as it is still broadcasting the signal, and there is an issue of things getting in the way again.

3) Stationary base receivers utilizing WiFi
The rig will already be WiFi enabled, it's a requirement for a different part of the system. Is there any way we can use the WiFi signal like the IR from above. Having stationary, know, receivers use the wifi signal for there timings? This has the benefit of saving battery {as its using a system that is already being used} and the ability to go through objects/walls.

I am mainly looking for intelligent ideas. Constructive criticism, etc.. Basically i'm trying to get a (X, Y, Z) point for an object, and if at all possible a heading. But i'm pretty sure that'll be simple using a different device.

A bit old, but found it while digging through my emails from my old IT teacher.
From: Richardson, Jim
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:55 AM
Subject: You can appreciate the humor
I don't usually pass this stuff along, but this is so well done and to the point !
Worth your time.

Mr. R.

I don't know if you have seen this or not....but it is hilarious.....enjoy....and share the pain. :)

http://a3.v14853d.c14853.g.vm.akamaistream.net/5/3/14853/v003/1a1a1a72db3eb01f920167db4fb41745a9188ffd69d8399dcb2c97f865c62f5dc02f9ccbfc30689dd0ff6cdf44bc2c5bc83ba01888b7fc356ea7e0/9999_w.asf

I'm looking for a distro of linux, that has support for Toshiba Satellite A205-S5851's wireless card built in. Or a quick way to install the drivers. [my live cd of ubuntu didn't like it :X]
I need to setup dual/tri boot on my laptop. For testing shit. [Vista, Linux, XP, and possibly a ver of mac]
And I need to be able to share files. [mainly music and code :P] I did this like 3 years ago. but I forget and I used Ubuntu which dosent have my drivers built in.

Well, I hate programming for Bnet anymore.
But, I was looking at JBLS's code the other day.
After dusting a few feet of dirt off of it. I realized, the code is really, REALLY fucking ugly.
So god dammen many useless features. Shit that nobody needs to have. JBLS should just run in the background, no interface at all. A daemon.
So, I *may* end up almost completely re-writing it.
Which is where you all come in, Brainstorm time.

Few core features:
Async packet handling:
  -Set number of worker threads for entire server, or set number per connection.
    -Per connection:
      Can cause an ungodly amount of threads [100 connections * 5 per connection ...]
      Would cause no possible cross-connection backup [lag]
    -Per server:
      Low thread count [25 worker threads should be fine, if that]
      Possibility of a queue [lag]
  Personally i'm for the per server route.

Checkrevision:
  -'Intelligent' guessing. AE: packet 0x09 you only get the archive number. Take a guess based on product for the current one in use by battle.net.
  -Multi-threaded, The MAIN lag time of JBLS is in the crev, Namely lockdown. But having 2-3 instances of each crev classes loaded means 3 crevs can be run at once. Once again this could be set num per server, or one instance per connection.
  -Lockdown, Dear god this needs to be improved. we NEED a faster way of loading the files. A more efficient way. JBLS with all files loaded into memory for Lockdown uses 85~mbs of memory. Unacceptable.
  -Inheratance, v1, v2, and v3 of checkrevivion are all exactly the same, cept, v2 introduced padding, v3 introduced 64-bit unsigned ints. Having one core v1 that handles u64s and simply replacing the readFile() function. [thats what its called now] would save a SHITLOAD of room code wise.

Administration:
  I, Will leave that to the outside user. I *might* make JBLS extensible. AE: make helper functions [reloadConfig, setVerByte, blah blah blah] leave others to make there own plugins for it. Oh, hell, I could make the eintire server selfcontained and have things like config files, statistics, etc.. in plugins.

Main thing that pissed me off about working on JBLS back in the day was that I was stupid, I jsut kept adding shit into it. I never really defined the CORE of JBLS and had everything round it. [Though the code I ave now, unreleased, is a bit better at doing that]

So, should I make it plugin sytyle ala JavaOp? This then involves the question of threadding. If a plugin registers that it will handle packet X, and then a client sends 2 X's in a row. The threads would split, 2 would pickup the X packet. Race for the single instance of the handler, And then have to queueup again. Is this big enough of a concern that I should do something about it? How about, when a plugin registers a packet handler, each worker thread createa a subthread. Then again we get into an ungodly ammount of threads.

I know there is a simple way to do this, I jsut am not seeing it.
Also 1/2 this thread was me talking to myself, but feel free to chime in.
As you all know my MAJOR downfall is planning things out to be clean/efficient.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can make a 'persistent' dll?
What I mean is a situation like this:
I inject my dll into ProcessA
ProcessA creates ProcessB
My DLL Auto-Injects into ProcessB

Right now I'm simply using the CreateProcess(target, start_stopped)
CreateRemoteThread(my dll)
ResumeThread(target thread) Mehtod.

On a slightly unrelated note, Anyone happen to know how to get the size of a process in memory? [exa: I want to search only X Process's memory space]

Lol so is anyone gunna help me?

I was gunna help you untill I head the word 'p1mp'
Thats just.... wrong....
~Hdx

You're still a retard, so no.

Anyone have some premade jobs for shadowrun?
A few friends and I want to try playing it over Fantasy Grounds [It'd be awesome if we could find a torrent of v2.. but eah]
Anyways. Anyone got some premade jobs, or anything that is Shadow run related?

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1772718
Haven't seen anyone post this before and found it while browsing. I mean the setup is perfect!
~Hdx

Ron, any ideas on how I can populate the IAT save getting a DB of all the function address in all window's DLL's?
Also, what exactly does qsort() do? I think I know what ti does, I jsut need to process how to implement it in java.
After that, lockdown is done 100%
<3
I still don't have net -.- HOPEFULLY the 6th. Bastards.
~Hdx

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/*
* Author: Hdx
* Date: 05-01-07
*/

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;

//iago's buffer class
import util.Buffer;

public class bni{
  private ArrayList iconlist = new ArrayList();
  public boolean loadBNI(String file){
    Buffer fileData = new Buffer();
    try{
      /* Just read out the file, this will throw an error if the file is unreadble (Not found, locked, etc) */
      FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
      int i = fis.read();
      while(i != -1){
        fileData.addByte((byte)i);
        i = fis.read();
      }
      fis.close();

      /* BNI Header format:
       * (DWORD) HeaderLength (always 0x10) - Length of this BNI header
       * (WORD) BNI Version (Only 0x01 is supported)
       * (WORD) Unused (always 0x00)
       * (DWORD) NumIcons - Number of icons
       * (DWORD) DataStart - Length of the BNI file header, and start position of TGA file
       */

      int headLen = fileData.removeDWord();
      int ver = fileData.removeWord();
      fileData.removeWord();
      int imagecount = fileData.removeDWord();
      int datastart = fileData.removeDWord();
      /*
      System.out.println("Header length: 0x" + Integer.toHexString(headLen));
      System.out.println("BNI Version: 0x" + Integer.toHexString(ver));
      System.out.println("Images: " + imagecount);
      System.out.println("Start position: 0x" + Integer.toHexString(datastart));
      */
     
      Icon[]  icons = new Icon[imagecount];
      /* Image info format:
       * (DWORD) FlagValue - User's flags must match this value after a BitwiseAnd of the two for this icon to be valid
       * (DWORD) IconWidth - Icon's width
       * (DWORD) IconHeight - Icon's height
       * (DWORD-List) Software - User's software must be one of these values for this icon to be valid. (Real games support up to 32 values for this field)
       */
      for(int x = 0; x < imagecount; x++){
        int flags = fileData.removeDWord();
        int width = fileData.removeDWord();
        int height = fileData.removeDWord();
        int[] prods = new int[32];
        int z = 0;
        i = fileData.removeDWord();
        while(i != 0){
          prods[z++] = i;
          i = fileData.removeDWord();
        }
        icons[x] = new Icon(flags, width, height, prods);
        //System.out.println(icons[x].toString());
      }
      BufferedImage fullicons = tgaToImage(fileData); //This takes in a TGA compressed image and returns a BufferedImage to be split up.
      if(fullicons == null) return false;
      int currentX = 0; int currentY = 0;
      for(int x = 0; x < icons.length; x++){
        if(currentX + icons[x].getWidth() > ((Image)fullicons).getWidth(null)){ //If this image wont fit, move down (Possile bug if all images are not the same height)
          currentX = 0;
          currentY += icons[x].getHeight();
        }
        Image icon = fullicons.getSubimage(currentX, currentY, icons[x].getWidth(), icons[x].getHeight()); //Split em up yo!
        icons[x].setIcon(icon);
        iconlist.add(icon);
        currentX += icons[x].getWidth();
      }
      return true;
    }catch(Exception e){
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return false; 
  }

  /* GetIcon(Flags, Product)
   * This will go through all the current icons you have loaded,
   * and pick out the appopriate one for this information.
   * Note:
   *  Order of selection is in the order they were loaded form file.
   *  This means, an icon takes presidence over any icon loaded after it.
   *  So load your custom bni first if you want it to override the real ones. :P
   *
   *  This returns the icon in an Image object, If there is no suitible icon, null is returned.
   */
  public Image getIcon(int flags, int product){
    Object[] images = iconlist.toArray();
    if(flags != 0){ //Check all icons that have flags 1st.
      for(int x = 0; x < images.length; x++){
        int iconflags = ((Icon)images[x]).getFlags();
        if((flags & iconflags) == iconflags && (iconflags != 0)) return ((Icon)images[x]).getIcon();
      }
    }

    for(int x = 0; x < images.length; x++){//Now if an icon was not found, check against each product list.
      int[] iconproducts = ((Icon)images[x]).getProducts();
      for(int i = 0; i < iconproducts.length; i++)
        if(iconproducts[i] == product) return ((Icon)images[x]).getIcon();
    }
    return null;
  }



  /* This is a simple class to hold the data for each Icon we get. Pretty self explnitory */
  private class Icon{
    private int flags = 0;
    private int width = 0;
    private int height = 0;
    private int[] prods = null;
    private Image icon = null;

    Icon(int f, int w, int h, int[] p){
      flags = f;
      width = w;
      height = h;
      prods = p;
    }

    public int getWidth(){ return width; }
    public int getHeight(){ return height; }
    public int getFlags(){ return flags; }
    public int[] getProducts(){ return prods; }
    public Image getIcon(){ return icon; }
    public void setIcon(Image i){ this.icon = i; }
    public String toString(){
      StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
      buff.append("Flags: 0x");
      buff.append(Integer.toHexString(flags));
      buff.append(", Size: ");
      buff.append(width);
      buff.append("x");
      buff.append(height);
      buff.append(", Prods:");
      for(int x = 0; x < prods.length; x++){
        if(prods[x] != 0){
          buff.append(" 0x");
          buff.append(Integer.toHexString(prods[x]));
        }
      }
      return buff.toString();
    }
  }
 
  /* togToImage(Buffer)
   * This will create a BufferedImage out of the raw TGA data.
   * Currently, only supports format 10 in the TGA standards.
   * http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/%7Epbourke/dataformats/tga/
   */
  private BufferedImage tgaToImage(Buffer data){
    try{
      byte infoLen = data.removeByte();
      byte colorMapType = data.removeByte();
      byte imageType = data.removeByte();
      short colorMapOrigin = data.removeWord();
      short colorMapLength = data.removeWord();
      byte colorMapEntrySize = data.removeByte();
      short startX = data.removeWord();
      short startY = data.removeWord();
      short width = data.removeWord();
      short height = data.removeWord();
      byte depth = data.removeByte();
      byte descriptor = data.removeByte();

      for(int x = 1; x < infoLen; x++) data.removeByte();

      if(colorMapType != 0){
        while(colorMapEntrySize > 0){
          data.removeByte();
          colorMapEntrySize -= 4;
        }
      }
      boolean topdown = ((descriptor & 0x20) == 0x20 ? true : false); //There are two ways the image could start, top left, or bottom left
      /* System.out.println("Start: " + startX + "x" + startY + ", " +
                          "Size: " + width + "x" + height + ", " +
                          "Info Length: " + infoLen + ", " +
                          "Type: " + imageType + ", " +
                          "Depth: " + depth + ", " +
                          "Descriptor: " + descriptor + ", " +
                          "Color Map Type: " + colorMapType + ", " +
                          "Color map Orign: " + colorMapOrigin + ", " +
                          "Color Map Length: " + colorMapLength + ", " +
                          "Color Map Entry Size: " + colorMapEntrySize + ", " +
                          "Top Down: " + topdown);
      */

      BufferedImage bimage = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
      Graphics g = bimage.getGraphics();
      int pixlesPainted = 0;
      int position = 0;

      while(pixlesPainted < (width*height)){
        int header = data.removeByte();
        if(header < 0){ //Repeat the same value
          header &= 127;
          header++;
          int blue = (data.removeByte()+256)%256;
          int green = (data.removeByte()+256)%256;
          int red = (data.removeByte()+256)%256;
          g.setColor(new Color(red, green, blue));
          for(int x = 0; x < header; x++){
            int w = (int)(pixlesPainted % width);
            int h = (int)(pixlesPainted / width);
            if(topdown)
              g.fillRect(w, h, 1, 1);
            else
              g.fillRect(w, height-h-1, 1, 1);
            pixlesPainted++;
          }
        }else{//Raw pixle info
          header &= 127;
          header++;
          for(int x = 0; x < header; x++){
            int blue = (data.removeByte()+256)%256; // Stupid java signed bytes -.-
            int green = (data.removeByte()+256)%256;
            int red = (data.removeByte()+256)%256;
            int w = (int)(pixlesPainted % width);
            int h = (int)(pixlesPainted / width);
            g.setColor(new Color(red, green, blue));
            if(topdown)
              g.fillRect(w, h, 1, 1);
            else
              g.fillRect(w, height-h-1, 1, 1);
            pixlesPainted++;
          }
        }
      }
      return bimage;
    }catch(IndexOutOfBoundsException e){
      return null;
    }catch(Exception e){
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
  }
}
Comments?
There is one non-java dependency, And that would be iago's Buffer class.
~Hdx