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Can you trust the windows cipher command? Is there anything meaningfully better software side?

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Over the ~18 months that I've been learning and practicing writing code, I've continuously run into an issue regarding the seeming lack of information on actually creating a program. It seems like there are plenty of resources on how to write code, but I've never seen anything that shows me how to get the code I've made and create an application which can be clicked on and executed. Where do I learn said thing?

You mean compiling?

I currently have 1 plug that goes into an 8 way, but I need more plug space, but don't have any wall sockets to spare.
It's just for my home entertainment (TV, Bluray, Consoles) and Internet (Ethernet Switch, Router) . Nothing that requires a ton of power

Which of these two would work 'better'?

>Method 1
Wall Socket > Double Plug > 2 Surge Protectors

>Method 2
Wall Socket > Surge Protector 1 > Surge Protector 2

Or should I just pick up a massive 12+ Surge Protector strip?

Anyone?

>Any worthy hobbies to replace Steam?
I don't understand this question

Steam as an umbrella term for "gaming"; pardon the ambiguity.

so I maintain a windows 10 telementry (I dont use win10) host list, one for spotify and one for garrys mod - and I was thinking of making a repo on github to contain and host these lists I was also thinking of adding all the lists I use i.e fanboys and shit - if I gave the original links and credit in the readme is it a scummy thing to do?

Programming and malware analysis - pretty easy incredibly useful skills and IMO a lot of fun

I bought a refurbished thinkpad x201 with windows 7 on it from a distributor with good feedback on ebay. What are the chances there is malware on it? If I do reinstall windows, will using the image of windows on the pc keep any malware on the computer?

Thanks, will check them out!

Hey any one know if there is a Snapchat API that actually works ? thanks
i'm trying to build somthing around it

How do I get more respect on Sup Forums, like 愛してるさわこ !BE/4wes0mE, arguably the smartest poster to date?

Why quit? If it's one of those cases of "hurr I am adult vidya is for kids," kys.

Could always try audio engineering, programming, music, or TV and movies. Gaming does actually have health benefits though, so I wouldn't give it up

what's the effective way to browse for laptops? it depends so much where you're buying.

last two i bought refurbished thinkpads off eBay but that's all i know. i don't use laptops much.

now i'm supposed to buy a computer for my father. 13-15 inch screen, doesn't have to be ultra small. should have decent cpu for media playback but other than that nothing spectacular required. How can i find that for as cheap as possible? can be refurbished

>chances are 0% to 100%.
I'd reinstall it anyway.

Find the MD5 sum of the original ISO on the MSDN Page of microsoft.

Then download (pirate) the ORIGINAL ISO. No shit!
It's easier to pirate the original ISO than to obtain it from Microsoft itself, even if you have an original Serial key.

you might as well. you never know who has monkeyed with thta shit before you got it. use a live distro, and do that 15X overwrite on the HDD overnight, and fresh install.

even if its nothing but piece of mind, its worth doing.

so if I don't have a serial key, what should I use to crack the iso? Or is there a serial key with the refurbished thinkpad I am getting, and if so, where? Also, should I just look for trusted torrent on piratebay for the windows iso?

for programming you can learn for free (codecademy) I'd recommend learning python first and for malware analysis I'd recommend this book amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1593272901/

if you have any questions in the future feel free to email me : [email protected]

>15X overwrite
Not like any professional forensics team is going to analyze your files you deleted years ago.

You don't crack the ISO, cheapskate. Then simply don't use Windows.

Best would be massive one, but currently method 1 is better dude, like seriously, your putting massive strain on first protector in method 2

I have to admit that is overkill. but for some reason the overwrite programs only show the deep wipe once i set the wiper programs to at least 10-15X overwrite. the kind that get even the old sony rootkit out.

>overwrite programs
You what m8?

Just overwrite is with random data. For example open it with dm-crypt and fill the mounted device with zeroes.

Doesn't work with Ubuntu 16.04 anymore.
And I tried it with 14.04 before and i couldn't login anymore after installing it.

i was taking like crystaldisk. i would put the 2.5 hdd in one of the external usb drive holders, and run crystal disk and clear everything. fuck rootkits.

Someone once explained to me how overwritten data can be restored.
It's a very complicated and expensive procedure where the magnetic field or whatever it's called is analyzed for recent changes.

So unless you're a childporn-collecting terrorist, you shouldn't really care about overwriting the Drive several times.

Although I still recommend you to always encrypt your drive. In the normal way, not the retarded "NSA IS WATCHING ME THROUGH THE CAMERA ON MY SMARTPHONE" way.

OK let's say I need to use Windows and don't have a serial key or money, what would I do?

>retarded "NSA IS WATCHING ME THROUGH THE CAMERA ON MY SMARTPHONE"
They are

I'd say it's a lie.

In case you REALLY REALLY WANT to use Windows:
>ReactOS

I know right?

Well, there's several ways, for different OS's and different languages. E.g. for C & C++ (and more) theres compilers for linux and windows, the windows compilers can compile to .exe/executables. Linux compilers generally compile to bytecode without a certain extension or filetype. To make these files runnable you need to make them 'executable' with commands like 'chmod +x filename'.

For languages like python or bash, the first line generally shows which program should execute/interpret this file. E.g. for Python this is '#!/usr/bin/env python'. This works for linux and other unix systems like macOS. The shell checks wether or not the program is installed and based on thst information it runs the program.

For windows there are more 'executable' files. For example java .jar files can be executable like .exe files.

If you want to know how to make a simple program executable, just google 'make X an executable for (OS)'.

I hope I'm clear enough, I might be a bit drunk and tired.

It is hypothetical. I just want to use Windows so I can play shitty source games, and want to know the easiest way to crack the ISO. Would downloading one of those pre cracked isos on pirate bay from a trusted user be asking for spyware? If so, what is the Sup Forums approved way to get free windows?

This isn't my request but I'm interested all the same

watch.opb.org/video/2306839650/

user is asking how to download a video from the above URL. Am I correct in saying that on most pages, you can view the source code and just get the video file directly? I recall someone saying as such, how would I do it?

I hate all of you pirating Windows fags. Because I have to clean up your shit afterwards.

You're on your own. Download a ISO with spyware and enjoy.

I'm out.

Still looking for a recommended seed box. Textbooks are expensive.

youtube-dl seems to be able to download it.

You are partially correct.
Most modern sites don't have one video file but multiple chunks of audio and video files for several seconds which get put together by the browser (see HLS/HDS/DASH streams).
Small videos that people put up with their own player might be just one file where you can just grab the video file directly.
Some older ones might stream it from an RTMP server, which you can use something like rtmpdump to get the stream and save it.

In this case it seems to be a HLS stream, you can see the playlist here (for the best quality video stream).
d6uz0or6bt1ws.cloudfront.net/videos/oregon-experience/c2b6e1ec-1a5b-49c5-8534-b045e44a2286/10138/hd-mezzanine-16x9/oex_rajneesh_mezz-16x9-hls-2500k.m3u8

Thanks for the response man. How did you grab the .m3u8 file though? If I'm looking through the source code, what should I be looking out for so I can grab these myself?

Or even for the smaller sites that use their own player, I'm not really sure how I'm actually supposed to find the relevant link

I'm trying to print this pattern:
pattern(11) should give
1110987654321
111098765432
11109876543
1110987654
111098765
11109876
1110987
111098
11109
1110
11

but my code:
string pattern(int n) {
if (n > 0) {
string s;
string lines;
for (int i = n; i > 0; i--) {
string line;
for (int j = i; j > i - n; j--) {
line = line + to_string(j);
}
lines += line + "\n";
}
return lines;
}
else {
return "";
}
}
int main() {
cout

network request in the browsers developer tools.
Though this one seems to be hiding the playlist quite good, I couldn't find it and got it from youtube-dl.

You can look up their implementation of streams like these to see how they got it.

Thanks love

One last thing, is the .m3u8 file something I can 'play'?
>VLC
Doesn't seem to handle it

vlc works fine, just don't download the playlist file but feed it the url.
The files in it are referenced relatively, so VLC can't find them if you open the file after downloading it.

I am the only one who gets pissed off when people say wrong things confidently?

then politely correct them if you're sure about it.

Thanks, got an error message saying it couldn't be played but then it did anyway

don't have any intention on making a youtube/google account - I usually correct people when I have an account on the service but like they can just fucking assume something and treat it as fact or just hear something off someone else and treat it as fact whereas I can know information from 5+ different sources and still think I could be wrong

anyone?

for (int j = n; j > n - i; j--) {

How to listen to YT in the background on an Android without root?

In my batch file I have this:

APP.EXE nigger.bin nigger.wav

This uses app.exe to convert nigger.bin to nigger.wav.

How can I edit this batch file to convert every .bin into a .wav of the same name the input file had?

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b *.bin') DO app.exe "%%G" "%%~nG.wav"

D A Z
A
Z

Should I replace everything I have in my batch file with that?

Thanks by the way.

if
>APP.EXE nigger.bin nigger.wav
is the only thing you have in there, yeah

AutoHotKey or AutoIt, what are the pros and cons? I can make somewhat simple automation scripts on AutoIt, but is AutoHotKey worth relearning?

Awesome. Thanks man, much appreciated.

browser. chrome, ff. even opera works.

I just started learning java and try to understand the concept of how the code is build.

Am I on the right track, that every class has a constructor, to create and a method to perform something on existing objectes? And I can make sub-classes by extending them to a main class that interact with the main one somehow?

Is it possible to put only linux kernel on bootable usb stick? What will it look like if i try to boot it?
If yes, how? If no, what else would you need?

They fixed it and it doesn't work anymore, at least in Chrome.

Recommended file system for a 500gb external hdd? Something that works on both linux and windows

exfat

was not aware.
maybe try youtube red (screams internally) if you're not considering root at all.

recently got a 2.5 inch to USB3 adapter
whenever i connect it to usb2 it works fine, but if i connect it to usb3 it starts spazzing the fuck out and connecting and disconnecting rendering it useless
pic related is the drive

any glaring reasons why its fucking up?

any other usb3 devices acting the same?

What is the best distro to install on a headless home server. I dont want it to come installed with any bloat like an X server or DE. So far I've been looking at Debian. I also thought Slackware would be nice but the package management is a turn off. How is Arch as a server OS?

Okay, thanks.

I'm running debian.
It does have quite old packages, so some stuff you're better off compiling yourself every now and then.

I've tried arch on a raspberry pi, but it shit itself after updating packages after 2 months without. So I wouldn't recommend it unless you keep the packages updated regularly.

I doubt it, that'd be petabytes of data to archive per day

Does Daz work well, no viruses?

>no viruses?
probably not or someone would have caught it by now - you should do an independent malware analysis if you want to be certain

do you have USB3 drivers for your motherboard ?
i've had issues with usb3 on win7 before.

I have an old laptop running 24/7 as a server, if it in some case overheats, can it burn or will it just turn off?

it'll turn off when it overheats.

Thanks my man

Old packages was what I was afraid of, but I dont really know how old they are. I suppose I can compile something every now and then though

So I have a new tablet, and I'm thinking of rooting it, mainly to delete all the bloatware that can't be uninstalled. But once I've done that, what else should I do? Or can I do? What other benefits are there to rooting a tablet?

How would I get my browser to automatically redirect from one specific domain to another, while keeping the rest of the URL the same?
Like foo.com/foobar redirecting to bar.com/foobar

Anyone know of an extension or something that does that?

There are certain cosmetic things you can only do while rooted, I believe. You can also run a *nix environment if the device has enough RAM. Other than that I don't know how useful it is.

guess i'm just retarded
i tried a different port and it works fine
the port i tried before is fucky both on windows and linux, so i guess it's just fucked

i use xposed modules to add/remove features to some official apps like youtube.
there are xposed mods for pretty much anything you need. look into it.
if you're into tasker you can use the root features. can be useful sometimes. more so on a phone tho.
once your manufacturer stops updating the device you could replace the official rom with an unofficial one with the latest android version.

that's what i personally use root for but there are a million more things you can do.
also, global adblocking.

This is an incredibly stupid question, but Google has failed me– because I'm no doubt using the incorrect search terms. I know next to nothing about technology, so please bear with me.

My mobile recently died a death, so I'm currently using a Motorola RAZR I XT890. I've noticed I can only watch YouTube videos in 360p and below, as there are no other quality options. Are the videos capped at this quality, due to the phones resolution? The screens resolution is 540 x 960 pixels (~256 ppi pixel density). Would the ppi have to be over 300ppi to watch videos about 360p?

write a greasemonkey script. could be as little as 2 lines.
tampermonkey on chrome.

// @include foo.com/foobar
// ..other greasemonkey params
// ==/UserScript==
document.location = document.location.replace('foo','bar');

sorry fucked it up...
document.location = document.location.toString().replace('foo','bar')

I added a third hard drive to my computer. Why does it give me the option here to eject the 700gb HDD as if it were a USB?

is the port set as hot-pluggable?
if it is then you get the option to eject it, check in your motherboards uefi.

maybe because it's connected to a removable HDD caddy?
Is that a laptop?
Or maybe a retarded producer of your motherboard marked this specific SATA port as external one, hence option to eject

I have the Intel DB65AL motherboard. I'm pretty sure I plugged the HDD cable to the black one. I will check in a moment.

Can you please stop this political correctness?
you mean the nigger one

So it's actually connected to the red port. What will happen if I reconnect it to the black one? Do I have to reinstall anything?

shit man, how we going to call the blue one?

the one that matters

Check your motherboards manual what each port color means.
Some might be only SATA2 ports.

You can just plug it in somewhere else, it doesn't matter.

If I clone a drive onto a partition with files on it, will those existing files be lost? I need to backup everything on this SSD to an HDD and it's got the free space but I need to keep the files on the HDD and I need to keep them separate from those on the SSD. I tried just copying the disk but it kept getting stuck so I think cloning is the best option.

Pic related is from Macrium Reflect - if i just hit "copy selected partitions" will I be fine?

This is my browser, I don't know what this behaviour is called, but why's it doing this?

The blank whites I'm referring to. I've got in i5-6200u, it can't be the processor because I've a laptop with an Intel Pentium that isn't this bad. What is it? It performs fine

It's nothing to do with hardware acceleration and I updated my graphics drivers too

Thanks

Is this bad?

did you try a different browser ?

How would one go about making an inexpensive but reliable NAS?

Saw a few things mentioning the Raspberry Pi but I'm not sure how capable it would be if several people were trying to save and download files off of it. Most files would be documents, pictures, and videos.

Edge is fine if I'm scrolling but it also scrolls much slower than Chrome. If I use the spacebar it displays whites but I don't know if that's intended behaviour. I'll try Firefox, but moving from Chrome isn't really an option