RyanRies

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Show HN: PSNTDS (Active Directory Forensics Powershell Module)(github.com)
1 points by RyanRies 11y ago|0 comments
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Microsoft's LAPS (Local Admin Password Solution) is getting a lot of attention lately, so I figured I'd open source my version, that I released via my blog three months earlier.
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Show HN: LAPM (Local Admin Password Maintainer)(github.com)
1 points by RyanRies 11y ago|1 comments
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Thank you! Added MIT license.
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Agreed. Learned that the hard way. I have since updated the app with an exclusion specifically for explorer.exe. Later I'll scan the registry and find what the user's shell is, just to cover the rare case that the user has a custo
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Well, maybe. But then maybe I wouldn't have a girlfriend. And more importantly, maybe I wouldn't be reminded that sometimes it's OK to peel myself away from a video game.
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by RyanRies 11y ago
My favorite kind of application. Small, lean, close to the metal, and built like a brick house. :)
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Alright, should be pretty much taken care of in version 1.0.1.
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Good idea.
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Yep, different applications are guaranteed to react differently to this, depending on how they were written. And a lot of games use the _rdtsc intrinsic straight from the CPU... I can't pause that. :)
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by RyanRies 11y ago
Agreed, it's not the most elegant code, but it's so short and simple I haven't bothered reorganizing the code yet. I probably will start adding features like re-bindable pause key, etc., and I will untangle the mess a bit at
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by RyanRies 11y ago
I have thought about this. In fact I even asked Gabe Newell about whether the use of this program might falsely trigger some anti-cheat mechanism within Steam. (He hasn't replied yet.) So, I guess until I get more official information,
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by RyanRies 11y ago
You can also download the executable (if you don't want to compile it) from https://www.myotherpcisacloud.com/post/universal-pause-butto...
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Show HN: Universal Pause Button(github.com)
501 points by RyanRies 11y ago|169 comments
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by RyanRies 11y ago
On one hand, this is very cool. On the other hand, why can't Intel/AMD just put this sort of thing on their CPU dyes and be done with it?
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by RyanRies 12y ago
I didn't know of the critique of K&R in LCTHW that got taken down. I'm surprised that the rabble-rousers weren't able to take it in context. When K&R was first authored, there were no "seasoned" C programmer
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by RyanRies 12y ago
But... I read the title of your post, and the lack of date/time makes me discard it IMMEDIATELY. I HATE articles with no date stamp. No, seriously, I didn't read what you wrote. I have no idea what you said.
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by RyanRies 12y ago
Something related that I thought was interesting - some C/C++ compiler benchmarks from 2011+: http://www.willus.com/ccomp_benchmark2.shtml
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by RyanRies 12y ago
TIL the third most down-voted question on Stack Overflow has 3,735 upvotes and almost 1000 favorites.