I have finally fixed PerlForums, seems like RandomBase in general has been fixed now! Please report any bugs you see so we can fix them.

New server, new look. RandomBase.com will receive a totally new design very soon. The old red will be replaced by a more stylish gray, you'll see it soon enough!

Downtime sucks, moving sucks. I am still fixing up all the bad coded parts of randombase and subprojects to fit nicely onto the new server, but one script happens to be more annoying to 'port' than the other. Perlforums for example is full of errors, which I really don't understand since the server environment itself hasn't changed that much, we changed only some directory structures to be easier for editing and adding stuff. Also, lots of people experience DNS troubles but that's only a matter of time, luckily.

Glad to be back though!

I have had quite a busy weekend, on programming side that is. I'm currently working on a brand-new project in a niche that I am extremely unfamiliar in, being everything that children to adolescents should like. When the project is finished it will probally appear in my portfolio. The work I'm doing for it will be mainly coding as usual, at the moment I'm working on an upload menu with a Wordpress admin frontend to approve/disapprove images. A blurred screenshot of it can be found below.

Unless you're some tech expert, of course. To use these commands, go to your Start menu, click "Run ..." and type in "cmd", you can type the commands here to test. This only works when you're a user with sufficient rights (not a guest, for example). All these commands were tested on Windows XP Professional running Service Pack 1. Detailed help on each command can also be retrieved by using <command> /? in the command prompt.

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It's not what you'd expect from the big M, a press release announcing the extended availability of Windows XP home edition. This would be the first time ever Microsoft extends an "older" operating system, and thinking of the marketing that went with the Vista release, this was extremely unexpected. Maybe they finally acknowledge that the world just isn't ready for the resource intensive Vista. Personally, I think we haven't seen the last thing of XP, since Service Pack 3 is on its way too...

Are you fond of proxies? Then check out RB proxy and IW proxy. I realise 'ironwarez' doesn't have much to do with proxies, but it is an old domain name that I had to put to use somehow, no? These lists are both (magically) updated at different times from different sources, roughly each 24 hours.

If you ever wonder what to do when your internet access has been limited to 16 kbps and you only have your localhost server: write useless Javascript/PHP applications! To begin with, there is the most important script called the Carehat generator (source). And a good second is this script where you have exactly thousand little blocks to show your artistic talent! My own artistic talent doesn't go much further than a lame smiley, sad.

I couldn't find any good hash cracker for SMF. This one isn't actually finished but it has the most used/important function being dictonary attack. The menu/usage is quite simple:

Menu..
1. Numeric attack
2. Alphabetic attack or whatever
3. Mix 'em up Johnny
4. Dictionary attack
< Choice >

Of course, this is not a hack tool of any kind. It just helps you recovering passwords that are hashed in the database. You'll need a Perl executer though and the DIGEST::Sha1 extension but this comes with most Perl distributions already. Download the source code here. A screenshot of the tool included below.

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