Admiral Kirk

rootbear: Not nice to post peoples private information in a forum ^^, even if it isnt hard for anyone with 3 brain cells to find

Domain expired on the 11th, Swift owns it... EDIT: Sorry, ownED it...

boxen = herd of computers Youll often hear an IT guy refer to a group of computers as boxen

lol, I was waiting for someone to split this. And I got mine back in 03. I was lined up to get my CS degree (was in college for about a year), but ended up getting a coding job and said to !@#$%^&* with the degree. turns out to many recruiters, experience counts for more on your resume than certificates or degrees. But of course thiers the paradox of not having any experience, how do you get it if they wont hire you without it? Certs and Degrees can be good to get your foot in the door in these cir!@#$%^&*stances no doubt. But the realy good hi paying jobs realy only come with luck or experience.

lol... 15% markup!?! box pushers like dell take about 3-4% markup, custom built systems from local places will usualy get you at about 10% markup, a little less for higher end boxes. 15% markup where some of said markup goes to pay for shipping isnt too bad, but if its 15% markup PLUS shipping, thats henous ^^. And ya, for all of comptia's tests you have the choice of standard or adaptive. Standard tests has a set number of questions and the questions are static (ie: predetermined). An adaptive test has a very large database of questions and it will try to stump you buy preying on your weeknesses by asking more and more questions from any catagory you get a question wrong in. Basicly, if you dont know your !@#$%^&* backwards forwards sideways and in 12 differnt dimentions, the adaptive can take over 4 hours to finish. But if you dont get a single question wrong, it only asks you about 15-20 questions before passing you

lol, no offense but a+ and mcp are a joke. i took the adaptive a+ test and finished both parts in less than 5 mins... They told me to show up 30 mins early to fill in paper work, i had my cert and walked out the door before the test was schedule to start ^^. nothing beats experience, nothing ever will.

Admiral Kirk [11:57] Total Usage: 6126 hours 44 minutes [11:57] First played: 7-22-1998 19:30:10 (SSC?) Alpha West? Or whatever that Alpha zone was...

TT, Pol, and much more recently, freak, all have my vote. Ive known TT since MG lost hosting at T3, pol even longer than that. None of them have ever done me wrong.

Anyone looked at the network ban list recently ^^

Long time no see nin, you still coding in vb? oh and as for me, !@#$%^&*.... no..., perhaps in caps, with a few more ! or so... With any luck, GS will be doing the picking and hopefully, at least for a few weeks anyway, well have an active bang op, who will then burn out and become just as inactive as everyone else

Holy crap, its plat!! Id vote for your !@#$%^&* in a heartbeat. Plat for NetOp!!

Hence why I refuse to work at large companys ^^. The pay isnt always as good at smaller companys, but at least you have a better chance of avoiding the bullsh*t. ^^

My Votes (in order): 1) Freakmonger 2) Kn|ght 3) Gravitron

What an interesting discusion ^^

Well... Honestly something changed in my life and I thought I was done with SS forever. Now im not entirly certain thats going to be the case, but either way its done now so ill leave it as is. Im going to post this source on my website as well, also under the GPL. Its a more comprehensive and binding license. I still would rather that a hole bunch of forks didnt start showing up all over. But eh, I didnt want to take the time to write my own actualy legaly binding license. At least this will keap people from stealing any of my work for commercial projects without giving back to the community. I may actualy do more work on this I dont know yet, it realy depends on alot of things right now, but either way the source is here to stay under GPL, at least this version of it anyway. This is actualy 0.19 alpha, this hasnt been released in binary yet cause it had a few extra bugs.

My parting gift to anyone that wants it. Any chance of continued development of this project is non-existant at this point. So heres the code, released under the GPL, hope someone finds it usefull.SubChat2_Final_.rar

Yup, I noticed that too, its in my notes of bugs to fix. Although given my current level of activity a bug fix might be a few in comeing. But ill try to actualy get this and a few other minor bug fixes done sometime in the near future ^^.

Two things: (1) Because it makes things so easy, a lot of people use it without ever bothering to learn the underlying API that it uses to actualy do all the stuff it does. Which results in people ignorantly using it and creating incredibly crappy programs. and (2) The purpose of a general framework is to encapsulate every low level operation one could possibly need, in so doing however, it creates a very inefficient system with an average of 65% more code being executed than you actual need to get the job done. Problem one _can_ be solved, those that actually understand the entire Win32 API but still use MFC tend to at least create competent programs. However the inefficiency's of using a generalized framework cannot be truly removed. One who understands every last nuance of the underlying structure of MFC can do a good job of minimizing this problem, but it can never be truly removed unless you just don't use MFC and directly manipulate the API yourself. Thats my short answer

Well, I doubt anyone realy cares, but in case anyone actualy is sitting thier waiting for an update to subchat2 im here to fill you in. You shouldnt bother waiting Im not saying that ive dropped the project, certainly not. Ive got a large amount of beta code that ive written that hasnt yet made it into any official releases. But my life currently doesnt leave me much time to work on subchat2 anymore. Whys that? Well, ive just recently been given a contract for a fairly large service and office management program, which I obviously wasnt about to turn down. Alot of my coding time is spent working on that beast. Also just last week I got engaged to my GF of 4 years (anyone remember vipergirl?). So ya, not alot of free time But!! I havnt given up. Also, I would like to officialy extend the offer ive made to a few people that have asked. If anyone wants the source code of the latest official release so that they can make thier own personal version, your welcome to make a personal request to me by forum pm or send me a note using the online form at my website (kirk.sscentral.com). Just a note for anyone that wants to try the above, the entire code base is in ANSI C++ using pure Win32 API. Thiers no MFC, ATL, or any of that other crap. The code is well organized and commented, but thier is no overview, doxygen, or visio of the code structure. Additionaly thier is a large chunk of code ive been writing. A custom control to replace the primary RichEdit display window. The point of this was to increase efficiency for VERY large chunks of display text (over 50k lines) and also to fix up the scrolling inconsistancys. Its about 75% finished if anyone is good at writing pure win32 api, GDI controls and wants to take a look at it thier welcome to. Aaand thats about it. I dont know of any low level coders in SS that know the win32 api that well so I dont realy expect anyone here realy wants to poke around with it. But if someone actualy does, let me know. Its redistributed with a pretty standard non-distribution license. Anyway, im out to disapear for probably another 6 months But then again who knows ^^.

Wouldnt be hard at all, just a matter of doing it. Read new post in regards to that

I am so deaply sorry for all you poor souls enduring the horrors of Windows Vista, may your tortured souls rest in peace ^^

On point one, yes I think we all agree that thier is too much wrong with SS (protocol, client and server software) for anyone to consider worth fixing. For point two, of course thiers no reason that it needs to be a 3rd party app, I was just expaining how they did, doesnt mean it cant be done with a fully indegrated solution. The idea of the 3rd party app however, was to make it possible to keep the security elements closed source and therefore more difficult to tamper with, while keeping the client and server open. Obviously closed source != completely secure, just makes it more difficult. Does anyone else relize that this is a completely useless (hardly even acidemic anymore) conversation but that none of us can seam to resist posting again and again?

SubChat2 is way to burried in win32 api to be easily ported to anything, even windows mobile 5 which has the closest api to regular nt api thier is. a Java client of some type would _defintly_ be the way to go here, !@#$%^&*uming someone has made one.

Not a contradition at all. Allegiance had a massive problem with cheating while it was owned by, and subsequently dropped by Microsoft, the games creator (big surprise). But once the game went Open Source the community developed a means to authenticate the client code by way of a 3rd party app, and maintain the client and server as open sourced. Since that point thier hasnt been a single report of cheating since, although SS's population is probably more than 10x larger than Allegiances so that might skew the results a bit. As for reversing the encpryption for Ctm and creating a new client that could pose AS Ctm? Yes its possible, the Ctm encryption has been reversed by a particularly gifted individual. But thier would be no point in releasing it. No one is going to spend the time necisary to re-code an SS client from scratch, and I seriously doubt anyone could do a better job of making it cheat resistant than Priit did. The encryption key generation technique was particularly impresive ^^. At any rate, the point is, its priit's game, anyone who wants to make a _new_ game, SubSpace2 perhaps? Should go ahead and try, mabye it will be better. But SS is as it is and I doubt that it will ever change without becoming a new game. As both Grav and I have mentioned in previous posts, the unerlying Protocol is inherently flawed, and any actual "improvements" to this game beyond what has already been done would realy require a complete redesign of the protocol, client and server on almost all fronts. While this isnt an impossible task, its probably FAR more work than Priit would feal like doing, and thier isnt realy anyone else in this community with both the skill and (heres the important part) free time and motivation to do that much work.

When you use the Windows API to hook into a running process, thier are other API commands that said process can use to determine if its being hooked and by what. Thier are ways around this, they are not easy. Thier are also ways to brake into, and detect a process's memory space that is not your own. And as I mentioned in another post, since the SS protocol is entirly client authoritative, any methods that are able to byp!@#$%^&* Ctms memory space protections would allow cheating. In short, use a chat client while on the VIP, if on ASSS use that servers dedicated chat protocol, or just use what comes with Ctm.