Archive for June, 2006

Summer to-do

Jun 30th

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I have spoken to some friends of mine and they have agreed on it: let’s team up and write various algorithms-related papers for publication.

4th place for us

Jun 25th

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At Windows Challenge finals – congrats to the boys for the presentation.

Update: Here are the final results.

Depeche Mode pictures

Jun 24th

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Cameras were banned so here are some terrible pictures taken with my phone :

As about the concert – words are meaningless :) .

How to hack msi files to install without service packs

Jun 22nd

Posted by andrei

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Get Orca from here, open the MSI and go to the LaunchCondition table. All prerequisites are editable:

(VersionNT>501) OR (VersionNT=500

WESC finals

Jun 20th

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It seems I am really not going to the finals, my USA visa application was refused. The other guys have just left to Redmond this morning with an almost functional BirdSpot. I wish them luck there to get the first prize.

Well – at least I’m staying with Pisi. And will see Depeche Mode, Deftones and Lacrimosa !

Yahoo! Mail hacking

Jun 13th

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Adrian sends me an e-mail we consider one of the most ingenious spreading techniques ever.
Only working with Yahoo! mail at this time, the html mail has an img tag along with an onload javascript handler. When someone opens the e-mail, the javascript code uses XmlHTTPRequests to retrieve your e-mail contacts and to forward it.
The actual code (taken from the e-mail virus) is here. Samples: