What's new ?

 - plays a ringtone and/or
 - windows shutdown and/or
 - 2 different standby modes (if one of them doesn't work for you)
 - can stop leetmp3 (stop music playback)
 - can draw directly to the desktop (program shows up in the systray then)
 - saves your mode selection on exit, and restores it ( in the %userprofile% folder )
 - just 40 KB

download 'ere 

What else to say about the vids i saw... well, Dave Aitel is a poser, but some of his ideas are interesting, and most of the pro's over there made a lot of hot air, looks as if the money put shit in their brains. Stop talking guys and show some skills...
I wish they would do more practical exercises instead of going through their ppt sheets...
And to you filmer guys: ever heard about xvid codec ? it's not needed to waste 500mb for half an hour of miserable quality video.
That one goes to the guys from WTH as well.

If you don't know Joanna already from 21c3, talking about linux kernel, check her site on  http://invisiblethings.org/ - she's the only girl that knows how to write a driver (and looks quite nice ;) ...at least she knows how to code (better than me i have to admit...), but her english is quite poor, and she seems to have missed the rhetoric class.

btw i recommend µtorrent as bittorrent client. it's small (100kb) and fast. also you can select single files inside a torrent package, which you don't want to download. 

and if you wonder what i did the last months, well, i coded some trainers for GBA games (inside the visualboy advance emulator of course - its a lot easier to hack inside a PCs mem than inside a gameboy) -> example http://www.delphipraxis.net/topic81652,0,asc,19.html 

there are 2 for pokemon (am i a lamer now ? :P ) and 1 for fire emblem

i also did kinda hack for http://patrizier-online.de -> http://forum.patrizier-online.4players.de/viewtopic.php?t=4988&start=15 
contact me if you need it. if you don't find out my email adress, get lost.

i'm also trying to do a xircon (my fav. irc client) clone in delphi which supports multiple servers. right now i'm stuck with some shitty richedit issue... apart from that it works already well.

22c3 conference:
ftp://dewy.fem.tu-ilmenau.de/
ftp://ccc.chscene.ch/congress/2005/video/ (128 kbps)

21c3
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/21c3/

what the hack 2005
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/rehash.whatthehack.org/rawtapes/

• retnygs tools: 12 fine tools of this page in a 150 kb zip archive.
  
• psview: lists processes and injected dll's and kill them the hard way, so the cannot restart themselves. console.
  
• strreplace: search and replace strings in a textfile via command line.
  
• ping: console ping program, vcl and kol source code for api-style ping with roundtrip time.

LineTerpreter v1.3
a Console/GUI Program [24 KB] to start another program with the contents of a textfile
as parameter, by going through every line of the text file.

if started without any parameters, it switches to windowed mode.

Example:
->Existing Folder with files unpack1.zip unpack2.zip and blubb.zip:
... (what to do is described in readme.txt or here (screenshot also there))
->Result: linterpreter starts:

C:\zip\pkunzip.exe -o unpack1.zip C:\unpacked
C:\zip\pkunzip.exe -o unpack2.zip C:\unpacked
C:\zip\pkunzip.exe -o blubb.zip C:\unpacked

Pls take a look at the screenshot

Another Goodie i found: a german keyboard driver for DOS that uses just 400 bytes of conventional memory. 

Both exe's are around 20-35 kb in size. As usual, i also supplied the sources.

Well, i wrote a lot of tools in Delphi, and i was too lazy to adapt all my utilities to KOL by hand, so i decided to write a Converter for Delphi with VCL to KOL.

Initially i posted the Converter on the new english Delphi and KOL-forum of Blueaura (see KOL / Articles).

KolConverter has a compiled filesize of 33KB. The original (delphi with VCL) had around 450.

The first new(er) tool of mine i converted to KOL was C-Char Converter, a program that can be used to convert C-String buffers like \x90\x90 to binary files, javascript and delphi strings.
Very useful in combination with the packet sniffer Sniff'em, to hardcode packets into your delphi app, so u can get connected to a variety of networks ;)

Expect some tools of mine rewritten in KOL to follow in the near future, and new tools as well...

MAME SERVERS
I checked the Server listed below in the MAME article... they don't work anymore.
Emuchina now is using a Webinterface for MAME downloads that require a registered login.
PlanetEmu.net is changing the Directory Name on  their FTP daily.
So you have to use a packetsniffer to see how your browser connects to the FTP when you manually download a file via web-interface (check all packets that are sent from you to port 21 of the planetemu.net's ip adress - in one of the packets u will find a request like this GET /32490356.45/test.zip. After knowing the directory name you can replace the string in the filelist).

DYNAMIC IP ADRESS TO STATIC DNS NAME
I was using FTP the last days permanently, so i decided to create an account at www.whyi.org to get a dynamic hostname like test.yi.org everytime my dialup-connection is established. This hostname then points to my local ip. As WhyI only has a PERL client for updating the IP, i wrote my own tool that is started automatically after reconnect (I use the tool StayConnected 3.20 for this purpose - you can enter you dialup password and everything, and after that switch on the mode stay connected with CS2000, where you can specify a command that's started every new connect. U have to switch on after that the ISP settings again).

This new Tool, i call it YI_ACT, opens a connection to the whyi server and submits the new ip. You can see the status in a small browser window.
The tool automatically closes after 30 seconds.
You can download it here, Screenshot is here.

FREE WALLPAPER
I made a wallpaper of the japanese model Hosyo Nana. It fits a 1280*1024 desktop, if you have a smaller resolution, you can use any image editing software to shrink it. 

Yesterday I was using MailFilter on a HTML file that used UPPERCASE HREF tags... i forgot to think about that earlier, so i fixed the bug and added a feature to save the settings.
Also i made again a new version of LineTerpreter. Now it includes a timer (i used it to download a HTML page every 20 minutes to a different filename). I complete abandoned the old Interpreter part with the cryptic code and replaced it by some user-friendly checkboxes. It now offers also a counter, like i promised in my future visions...
Look here at the Screenshot of the new Lineterpreter

I spent the last days busy downloading the full set of MAME games (hint: MAME is an Emulator for those cool Arcade-Computer's with "INSERT COIN"-feature). The set consists of around 3500 games.

To get them i had to do some steps: first i went to www.emuchina.net and copied the full list of MAME games (and Hyperlinks too), I used my tool MailFilter to filter out all links to the chinese FTP, and imported it in BulletProof FTP 1.13, my favorite FTP Tool. Quickly i saw that this server sucked, mostly it was busy, and if i managed to log in, the connection was closed every 3 minutes. Also my Ip was blocked after 3 reconnects (coz' of the reconnect interval of 10 second, with 30 they don't block you). 

I searched for alternatives where I could download the full set and found www.insomniak.net , who has most games but a fu**ing web interface. i don't wanna sit there all day clicking, so i  used the packet sniffer CommView 2.4 to see how to connect to insomniak's FTP.

Knowing how to connect to his FTP, i used UltraEdit32 to Replace the Emuchina FTP's address by Insomniak's in my FileList. Unfortunately Insomniak just owns around 2/3 of the games, so I did the same procedure with www.planetemu.net, to get their correct FTP login.

Now i had to find out the missing files, so i created a batch file that checks if a file exists, if it don't it brings the message "filename" missing, and used that in conjunction with my tool LineTerpreter, to check all Lines in FileList and check if the file exists on my harddrive. By doing so, i had to enhance LineTerpreter, now it's able to use the stop button, also u can turn off the single parameters, as the batch file just needs the second parameter, AND it saves your options now. That's why now the new Version 1.1 of LineTerpreter is upped.

But imagine by downloading 3000 zip files it's possible that some are not working. To find the corrupt Zip files i coded a new tool called Zip-File Checker. If you use your brain you should be able to know what i did with the resulting list of filenames. Right, I deleted them, and downloaded them again (this time from planetemu).

To keep my Connection running (it's automatically disconnected after a few hours) I implemented a function in my tool RemoteShutdown (it's the only tool of mine that is auto-started on my pc, as it's also used as a proxy server). This Function does the following: If the dialogue "Verbindung getrennt"- that means "Disconnected" appears, the tool automatically clicks on the the Re-Dial Button.
Sorry this function just works with german Win 98, as i don't know the Window titles and Button names in other OS'es. If you send me a picture of your Redial-Dialogue, i can implement it.

Another new function in RemoteShutdown is: if the server is started up (RS should now start automatically) and in the time of 30 sec. nobody connects to it, I resume that the server has been started manually, so the Remote Shutdown is disabled. This is to prevent the client-users to shut down your PC while you are working. If they start the server with my tool, it connects automatically after startup. In this case they can also shut it down.

Screenshot: Scanning my drive for missing MAME files with new LineTerpreter

Today i add the following tools including their sources:

• RemoteShutDown: Use this to remotely start any win32 machine in your network via wake-on-lan and also shut it down. You can even chat with that program. Very useful if you run an internet proxy at home. 
  Screenshots here
  
  
• MailFilter: Use this program to rip all Email-Adresses or Hyperlinks to specified Filetypes out of any file. Output to txt-file or directly on-screen.
  I use this in Combination with LeechURL and LineTerpreter to filter filelinks to a textfile, which then are downloaded logically one by one.
  Screenshots here
  
  
• LineTerpreter: A Tool for automatic batch processing by going through all lines of a textfile. these lines are then used as parameters for a specified command, functions included to separate the filename from a long string. 
  Screenshots here
  
  
• LeechURL: CommandLine based downloading for internet files.
  This Time including the Sourcecode.
  Screenshots here
  
  
• WebVampire: A try to make a download manager using Microsoft's Browser Component. It looks and feels like IE, has the ability to download image files from any site. But since there are always new mechanisms in the internet i would always be busy patching that program on and on. So i stopped development, but it still works on many pages. Screenshots here

get it at the download page.

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