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| August
1, 1999 - 13:15 EST posted
by SCEditor |
Somethin'
to laugh about...
Hm, the 'something'
is a, in reality, a amateur hacker. I don't want to laugh
about
the real hackers out there, I know you know how to get access
to systems, but this
guy was just too stupid, but continue:
That's how everything began:
Just surfing the web, I heard a Protoss calling in some
language I can't understand - my ICQ sound sheme. Somebody
requested a ICQ chat, subject 'waana have a game'. I accepted
and now, the first thing I said was 'Hi', but the guy at the
other end, calling himself 'Ben' alleged living in Bruxelles,
the capital of Belgium, just asked 'Can I send you the file
now?'. Me, now just carefully asked what game it is. 'I'll
send it to you, open it and see yourself', the guy replied. 'No,
tell me first.', I answered. 'It's a kind of combat game', he
said. 'But what type of game', I wanted to know. He said
nothing. 'Is it like Mortal Kombat or which game?'. Instead
of answering to my question, the guy just typed in 'Do you
like Mortal Kombat?'. I was really not trusting this person
from now on, to know more about the game, I asked him in
which language he wrote it in. He told me he is French, but
the program displays are in English. I aplogized for just
saying language, correcting me with 'Sorry, I mean in which
programming language did you write it?'. He somehow didn't
react. That was the first point. If somebody writes
a program, and then a game, he KNOWS which programming
language he used. He added another time that he's French and
doesn't understand 'programming language'. I described but he
didn't answer. Me, wanting to really know now which one he used - 'Is it
BASIC or PASCAL'. 'basic, I think', he added. 'The basic for
windows or dos?'. 'windows' he answered. Ok, next thing I
asked him was, how long it took time to write the program. No
answer. Now there was another Protoss sound, a file transfer
descripted 'game' this time. I accepted the transfer,
and after it was finished the guy asked: 'How is it?',
thinking I would have been so stupid to open his file
immediately. Instead of opening, I executed a program,
Borland Resource Workshop, I had this from my old programming
language. Looking in the file called 'GAME..EXE' (two dots!),
I noticed it isn't Visual Basic in which it's written in, but
it is Delphi. Having switched back to ICQ chat, I told him if
he wants to make fun of me. First, it isn't Visual Basic, and
he told me he doesn't know much English, but his programming
language is in English (because of English strings)!! 'One
sec...', I told him. Now I opened the Netbus archive I downloaded
some time ago from a hacker site. Looking if the file sizes
match each other, I noticed the one he sent me was 10 KB smaller.
'Ok, I'll open it now.', I said. I clicked on it, nothing happend
I just could hear my harddisk writing. Me, shocked, immediately
ran COMMAND.COM, and typed 'dir' to see if any files would have
been deleted from my harddisk. Puh, no files have been erased,
but if some have, I haven't noticed yet, in fact they aren't
important then. Now I had an idea, and 'cause I have Windows 98,
I opened the execute command line (you know what I mean), and
typed 'msconfig'. In there, I immediately opened the 'Autostart'
card. There was it in, 'GAME..EXE' called, running the program
'C:\WINDOWS\GAME..EXE /nomsg'. Just some lines above that
entry, I noticed 'PATCH.EXE', 'C:\WINDOWS\PATCH.EXE'. I knew
this file was from Netbus, I tried it out myself this time and
ran the PATCH.EXE. Now I knew this guy abused my trust in people
to have fun...I switched back to ICQ chat, shouting 'So is it
a trojan?' at him. He, laughing out loud that he succeeded,
hacked in his keyboard, bringing 'What? Yes, it is a trojan
and F*** YOU' on my screen. I didn't know what to do now, but
then this guy opened my CD drive with the Brood War CD in.
Not thinking of anything else, I pressed the POWER
button on my computer and it was out. No more hacking on
my computer.
As fast as possible, I connected again, trying to find this
a**h****. I didn't find him. I know why, he just changed his
name and where he comes from in his ICQ details. Maybe he
used the details of someone else, I'm not sure. All I know
now is, that I should have quit the ICQ chat to save it,
and then have turned off my computer. Maybe I would have
found him again if I did so, but I didn't.
I restarted again, and searched my whole harddisk for viruses
and found some - always the nice 'Netbus 1.07/Patch' trojan.
I deleted every file, scanned again - he didn't find anything
else.
I'm lucky I haven't taken any damage from that, I have only
learned something: I should never trust strange people at once.
Anyways, this guy is just too stupid, I bet I would have been
better if I would have been him. First, it was just too
obvious that it wasn't a game he wanted to give me, 'cause he
didn't know in which language he programmed it, and next, his
behavior in general wasn't really believable.
ITo all other hackerz who
probably read this, plz don't hack my page now, you have
proved it with other page hacks...
and ppl: The net is a dangerous place, especially if you
use ICQ (you know these little programs...)!
Finally, there's just one thing left, I'm thinking about
installing ICQ, these are the two reasons:
- F***ed up my registry, my comp runs a whole slower now
- There are these little programs which, for example,
send anonymous ICQ messages to me or which display my
IP number, even if I don't want it.
/me now stops
writing finally.
| July
29, 1999 - 8:15 EST posted
by SCEditor |
E-Mail
address change
Ok guys, don't
think now I change my e-mail address 'cause I've nothing else
to post ;) The old one had a suffix with @gmx.at, but the
funny thing at it is that the "at" stands for
Austria, but I am German, living in Germany, which is "de",
so I got the new e-mail address which is [email protected] now. If you just have sent one a few
minutes ago, don't worry, the old one will still remain for
some time. Please update you e-mail address books etc. Thanks.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ok, for the full post head
over to the Offical
SCAIEdit Website
to read it.
Future
plans
Ok, I will do a
remodel of this page again, and then, I will found my own SC
site. Unfortunately, I haven't found a name for it yet...but
I have found some staff members I'll ask them if they want to
join and if they want there won't be more members for some
time. But if one or more don't want, somebody of you might be
able to join. So guys, if somebody of you is interested in
probably being a staff member, just send me an "application"
to [email protected] or contact me via ICQ. Maybe you will
be, maybe not ;)
| July
19, 1999 - 08:25 EST posted
by SCEditor |
SCAIEdit
II Tutorial updated for pre-release III
That's the next
thing, it has been updated on Saturday, I just didn't
find the time to post about it here, just at the Offical
SCAIEdit Website.
If you don't know about it,
take a look here.
WindowBlinds
Ok, I think that's
the first time I make a post here which is not about
AI scripting.
Reason is, I've found a neat program when I was surfing
around the web.
It's called WindowBlinds and let's you
change Windows' titlebars, buttons etc.
You can take a look to the
screenshots 1 - 2 or head directly over to StarDock
to get it. The name is WindowBlinds, but I
think you'll find it ;)
But remember: The prog may
have some errors sometimes in displaying.
| July
17, 1999 - 02:30 EST posted
by SCEditor |
SCAIEdit
II pre-release III out!
Ok, you maybe
know already 'cause it's out since one week. Unfortunately, I
couldn't find
the time to update my website. So get over to the Offical SCAIEdit Website and get it!
StarCraft
AI Scripting Homepage gets over 2000 visits!
Thanks to all of
you out there who visit/visited my page!
StarCraft
AI Scripting Homepage gets forum
You may have
already noticed, if not, look to the left frame. There's a
new point called
'Forum'. Feel free to post about anything there, for SCAIEdit
questions, you should post
them at http://scai.infoceptor.com (Help Forum). Go
directly to it here.
Tutorial
for pre-release III almost done
I've almost
finished the new tutorial, it will include a FAQ and the 'Avanced
techniques'
by Lava. It should be released 'til tomorrow, if not
already today ;)
Full
ASC ---> ASC2 converter and new ASC2edit II now upload
If you already
tried SCAIEdit II pre-release III, you
already know about the new versions,
if not, go to the Files page and get more information about them
or download them!
| June
25, 1999 - 06:45 EST posted
by SCEditor |
ASC2edit
II BETA out!
Yes, you read
right. You now may think: "Hm, another version of that ASC2edit...".
And you may think it's the same program again with one or two
additions like ASC2edit
version 0.6 was!?
But you aren't right. ASC2edit
II BETA is really completely new!
For all of you who don't
believe I have screenshot. Take look at the screenshots:
Shot 1 - Shot 2 - Shot 3 - Shot 4 - Shot 5
Download
ASC2edit II BETA (70 KB)
Download Runtime files
After you have tested it,
please let me know what you think about it ;)
ASC2edit
0.6 BUG!
Oops, it seems
to me that ASC2edit 0.6 really had a bug :(
I'm wondering
why nobody else reported this, but let's forget about that...
Oh, and before I forget it,
thanks very much to Lava who reported that
bug ;)
However, ASC2edit II
BETA is out, so this bug is corrected.
| June
18, 1999 - 9:25 EST posted
by SCEditor |
Site
links
I have removed
all Javascript from the page, I don't think the CSS (style
sheet) is one.
The URL http://get.to/SCEditor will still exist for some time, but
please do now always
visit http://come.to/SCEditor!
Script
competition ideas - first results
To let you know,
if you haven't been to my page yesterday: I'm collecting your
ideas to the
script competition. What would you do if you were in charge
of it? So if you have any ideas to
the script competition, please send them to me or post them
in the SCAIEdit help forum.
Also, if you like one of the following ideas, please send me
an e-mail to [email protected]!
The ideas I got were just few,
that doesn't matter because the ones I got were very good.
For example, Bob Dole has sent me the
following idea (copy/paste):
1. Make a theme for a
week or however amount of time u want to allow, then
have people send them in. They will be rated on their
effectiveness ( how
good the strategy is ) and marked down for any flaws they
have.
I would say you would give them a score out of ten for their
strategy, then
hack off one point for each flaw. Also, I think they should
be rated by 4 or
6 people. Why? So a person actually has to get about 75% or
66% of the group
( a larger majority than 3/5) to win.
2. Basically the same, but people can send in any style scipt
they want, but
now rated on if it gets the job done, if it is unique, and
how complex it
is, so no lame rushes can work.
Oh, and the winner should get a nice graphic to put on his
site or his
posts.
I think this is a very good
idea, if you also like this idea, please e-mail me, so that I
can take
it to the next results. Another one that I got was from Lava
(copy/paste):
Below I copied the
contents of an email I sent to Dark-Vengeance about how
I would run the AI Script Competition if I was in charge
and other ideas I had on it:
> First I would create a suitable map, kind of like the
one I sent you but a
> lot more detailed and with things such as expansions,
etc. I would then make
> a list of all the rules for the tournament. Interested
users could download
> the rules and the map, and base their AI script around
it. Then when you
> decide, I would allow users to sign up. To sign up, all
you need to do is
> send an IAF or ASC2 containing your script. I would
check every single
> script to make sure they work, then I would create the
tournament tree, in
> the form of a single-elimination tournament.
>
> Next I would make a CWAD containing both the AI scripts
competing, and a
> version of the map using it. I would decide on times for
each match. The two
> competitors, me, you, _Dark_Knight_, and anyone else you
want will get
> copies of the CWAD. At the specified time in a specified
bnet channel, I
> would host the game using the CWAD and the map, then let
the other viewers
> join. If the people who made the AI's aren't there, then
too bad, we start
> anyways. Whoever wins goes on until they get to the
finals.
Also, this idea is very good.
Some people may want to know what I would do if I was
in charge of the script competition:
What I would do is in
general based on the idea of Jørgen Palmhøj, which says
the following:
> I think you should
put all the Zerg scripts in one group, Terran in another, and
> Protoss in the last. Then they play against each other
and the best from
> each group (Zerg, Terran and Protoss) meet each other
and the one that wins,
> WINS!
I would take two ways:
The idea of ,Jørgen
Palmhøj, but also make a jury rating the
scripts. We have two winners, one for "comp vs. comp"
and "jury rating". This just
would be good because those who are in the jury could take
part in the "comp vs. comp"
script competition. If I was in the jury and we rate my own
script, it just wouldn't be
fair, but I want to take place in the competition, so this is
my only solution at the moment.
The jury rating would be
exactly the way Bob Dole suggested.
ASC2edit
0.7 progress
I have some
plans for this weekend. First, I will create the two multi-race
AIs and then I'll
continue working on ASC2edit. It may take
time until Monday or Tuesday, I want to include
the ASC2 syntax checker and calling with
file as parameter and some other until then...
(Next update planned:
June 21, 1999)
| June
17, 1999 - 11:20 EST posted
by SCEditor |
Script
competition
The news of
today are to all of you who are complaining why that the
script
competition is still not here. I think because _Dark_Knight_
and Dark-Vengeance
don't know exactly how it should be, maybe you will complain
again about it when it's
here, so it's up to you: It would be good if you could send
me your ideas to it, like should
it be "Script against comp rating" or a jury rating
the scripts. And what races should the
script use, I think it would be much better to take multiple
competitions, the first one to
"Terran script again Zerg comp" etc. Remember to
send the ideas to me or to post them
in SCAIEdit help forum because I haven't talked about this
with _Dark_Knight_ and
Dark-Vengeance and I don't know if they have
time to collect all ideas etc. After I got
some I will update my site again with ideas, how many liked
this idea etc. and of course,
let you know in the forum. Please send them to [email protected]!
| June
16, 1999 - 11:05 EST posted
by SCEditor |
Over
1000 visits!
First, thanks to
all out there who visited my site. After the release of SCAIEdit
II
I got much more visits, so especially thanks to _Dark_Knight_
for announcing my
site in the Links section of the Offical
SCAIEdit Website! And of course, good luck
to Dark-Vengeance who is now webmaster of
the site and to _Dark_Knight at
Camelot Systems.
New
page design
I
have not been lazy the last days and put up a new design.
Hope
you like it ;) The links in the frame on the left, I don't
think I should
replace them with buttons, maybe I'll do.
ASC2edit
0.6/ASC to ASC2 converter
Wonder, why I
haven't made some scripts/tutorials the last time?
I've been programming two useful programs, one "bringing
back the
SCAIEdit I interface", named ASC2edit which is in version 0.6 now.
The second one is the ASC
to ASC2 converter, as the name says it converts
the old ASC files to ASC2.
Download
ASC2edit 0.6 (105 KB, zipped)
Download ASC to ASC2 converter BETA (105
KB, zipped)
Warning: Both
programs can't insert/convert the bugged ASC2 commands!
Please see the README.TXT in the archive for more information!
Scripts
S.C.ripts'
scripts are now uploaded, unfortunately not in IAF
format.
I try to put them in IAF until the next
update.
My scripts are available in ASC2
and IAF format because I took my ASC
files and converted
them.
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