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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/adh; my proof: https://keybase.io/adh/sigs/-nlOT3TEcphUI1F_WEG_MzCvPXi5fQ6Z5oZaDLQGuVw ]

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9 ngày trướcdiscuss

Basically the only thing interesting about the ConcertMaster is that Carmack used it (and that it looks somewhat cool). As for the keyboard itself, it is just a basic OEM membrane keyboard and not that good one even. The speakers are lets say adequate for the time and size.

Interestingly, the speaker part and the keyboard part are completely separate. The "cable" consists of four separate cables (keyboard, power, line out, mic in) in a thin sleeve. Mine was supplied with AT plug on the keyboard cable and Y-adapter that converted PS2 into AT DIN and barell jack for the speaker power. The keyboard label indeed says it is powered by 9V DC, but I guess that never really happened as PS/2 is 5V no matter what various devices say.

Edit: And as for the supper hard to find nowadays part: I suspect that part of the reason is that the keyboard module inside the thing is ridiculously sensitive to even minor spills.

15 ngày trướcdiscuss

Do not do this unless you do not have any other choice. Preferrably use whatever native barcode support of the printer involved, if it does not have that, just generate the barcode as vector image or bitmap with a resolution that is a integer fraction of the printers resolution. Generating correct Code128 as a SVG is about the same amount of work as generating the correct input for some sort of barcode font (the hard part is determining the switches between character sets, not generating bars from bytes).

15 ngày trướcdiscuss

The fact that this is standard practice does not mean that it is not perverse. It kind of works sanely for plain Code39 (and even then you will see effects of doing that in weird places, like VAG stamping human readable VIN on a chassis, including the Code39 start/stop symbols), once you start using barcode fonts for Code128-derived symbologies (ie. UPC/EAN) the whole thing becomes a pointless exercise.

16 ngày trướcdiscuss

It had, another thing is that it used somewhat questionable system for CD key validation, which is stubbed out in this release (https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/CWR/blob/main/engine/P...).

One thing is 120bit RSA (readily broken with a graphing calculator at the time of release), another thing is the provenance of the RSA implementation code in the original binary.

25 ngày trướcdiscuss

The most important fix in SP1 for Office 2007 was fixing exactly that in Excel. Doing ridiculous amount of 4 byte reads made it basically unusable on network filesystems.

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

One point is that there is no reason for the entire secret to be one element of the underlying field, it can very well be a n-tuple of elements of a smaller field, with GF(2^8) being the somewhat obvious choice if you do not expect ridiculous numbers of shares, no need to deal with bignum math.

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

> cannot start with digit

Not only it can, but both CL and Emacs Lisp actually defines primitives with names that start with digit.

2 tháng trướcdiscuss

It is far from being universal. And the more annoying part of that is that there are at least 4 incompatible "standards" as to the format of the QRcode.

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

IIRC the really cheap Casio Organizers/DataBanks of 90's used 5x5 font. And then my ex used something like that on linux in order to fit a ridiculous amount of xterms onto 14" CRT (somewhat absurd feat with her congenital vision defect).

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

Gnat Studio just works on Windows.

3 tháng trướcdiscuss

It uses exactly the same font in the desktop version, and is probably entirely intentional.

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

The telling part about uselessness of that window is that the most visible difference between StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice.org 1.0 was that equivalent of this window was removed. It got reintroduced probably because it makes packaging LibreOffice for macOS easier.

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

> running identical software on multiple computer systems is the name of the software-architecture game

In the railway signalling industry (which for historically obvious reasons is obsessed with reliability) there even is a pattern of running different software implementing the same specification, written by different team, running on a different RTOS and different CPU architecture.

4 tháng trướcdiscuss

All the magic of Smalltalk is in the development tools that work by means of introspection into the running image, writing source code in text files causes you to lose all that. Add to that the fact that Smalltalk when written as source files is quite verbose.

Smalltalk does have standard text source file format, but that format is best described as human-readable, not human-writable. The format is essentially a sequence of text blocks that represent operations done to the image in order to modify it to a particular state interspersed with "data" (mostly method source code, but the format can store arbitrary stuff as the data blocks).

One exception to this is GNU Smalltalk which is meant to be used with source files and to that end uses its own more sane source file syntax.

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

PostgreSQL has this: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ecpg.html

5 tháng trướcdiscuss

Unles the verification routine (eg. garage) keeps some state somewhere it has no way to prevent replays.

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

There is this kind of webdev-adjacent niche where the model of using documentation (or even intentionally sub-par documentation) as a marketing funnel for consulting and/or "Pro" versions is a thing. These projects are somewhat vocal about vibe coding killing their business models. If these projects really create any meaningful value is another question.

6 tháng trướcdiscuss

If I understand the history correctly then it started as a set of C preprocessor macros.

7 tháng trướcdiscuss

> Creating obfuscated values using integers

While that is often neat solution, do not do that by simply XORing the numbers with constant. Use a block cipher in ECB mode (If you want the ID to be short then something like NSA's Speck comes handy here as it can be instantiated with 32 or 48 bit block).

And do not even think about using RC4 for that (I've seen that multiple times), because that is completely equivalent to XORing with constant.

8 tháng trướcdiscuss

> Security? MUCH worse.

Comparing single-purpose declarative language that is not even really turing-complete with all the ugly hacks needed to make DOM/JS reasonably secure does not make any sense.

Exactly what you can abuse in XSLT (without non-standard extensions) in order to do anything security relevant? (DoS by infinite recursion or memory exhaustion does not count, you can do the same in JS...)