Monthly Archives: May 2008

www.dreamtilt.com.au

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Dreamtilt for non Australian readers is a cheap dial-up ISP for Australia. Now being a fairly well established ISP you would think that they would have decent web coders for their user login parts of their sites. Think again, several weeks back I stumbled upon a poorly written login function on their site that allowed the use of a simple SQL injection (text book styled), that allowed access to login without a valid username and password. The exploit could have been used to edit or delete (lets just hope they keep backups at-least) tables. Now the exploit has been fixed after I contacted the site via email (only took them a week to include one simple function) so I guess I can talk about this now. It got me thinking, how many dodgy programers are out in the wild. Considering that this a simple thing and any web developer should test or sources of injections before releasing a site to the public. I am by no means a programer, except for the occasional script for work.

I suggest you read http://thedailywtf.com/ if you have time. Most dodgy programs end up there.

And Dreamtilt, well done.

Blogging days

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To substain a good source of freshness, I’m changing from daily blogging to Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. This gives me a few more days to write blogs up (I struggle to find the time at the moment to blog).

Ps. One of my assignments got extended so I’m not “assignment free” :<, although It’s not like I’m going to change the assignment so I’m not worrying.

Second time this year

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On Monday, for the second time this year, I will have no assignments, previously after the first week of school, assignment have overlapped meaning I’ve always had school in the back of my mind. I hope I don’t get any new assignments on mondays -_-. Only 3 terms left :>

Easy Mac

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Easy Mac is a nice treat every now and then, but I do see a very annoying marketing problem. How am I supposed to measure exactly 2/3 cups of cold water, and more importantly, why do we use shitty fractions like 2/3 all the time, 34/100 would be so much easier to measure.

Asian Doctors

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Don’t get me wrong, asian doctors are fine (except for maybe the fact that you can never hear them properly), but where the hell are ours? It would personally prefer an Australian doctor over any other international doctor. Do we have a problem with university fees, red tape, lack of interest, low pay, insurance? I don’t see why there can be such an “Australian” doctor shortage. Anyway I have pharyngitis, so blogging might be a bit slow.

GMod On OS X (2.16 MacBook with Intel 945GM)

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I bought GMod the other day and enjoyed it while in Windows Vista (Boot Camp) however it was a bit sluggish. I know from experience that source games tend to run nicer inside Crossover than actually in Windows, go figure. First off you’ll need to install crossover, and steam inside crossover, there are plenty of tutorials on how to do this. Next you’ll need to complete the font hack so you can see the text. In crossover go Programs, Run Command, select the correct bottle, and type in regedit. Inside regedit navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER – Software – Wine – AppDefaults – hl2.exe – Direct3D and double click on tf2_alpha_hack and replace it with “-game tf2; -game ep2; -game portal; -game garrysmod”. Now in steam you’ll have to right click on Gmod and click properties and change the launch parameters to “-console -heapsize 512000 -dxlevel 70 -novid +cl_drawmonitors 0 +r_shadowrendertotexture 00″. If your game launches and you can only see a quater of the window, just change the video settings, they just fit in.