| stuuf | if you can get a memory dump you can use strings to find all the text in it |
| dhar | softice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftICE |
| thrig | debuggers also allow all sorts of fun |
| simcop2387 | hrm i can't figure this out still i thought i solved it... for some reason my system appears to deadlock sometimes (maybe 0.01% of the time when dealing with certain conditions and lots of IO) |
| lou_cal | dhar: I have heard of that a while back actually in conext of writing keygens |
| thrig | firmware/kernel issue? |
| dhar | lou_cal: that seems to be the popular use for it |
| lou_cal | but I need to be able to write something that will write the data as it shows up to a text file, or even across the network |
| thrig | lots of wacky states emerge at high load |
| simcop2387 | thrig: i'm not sure, i think its kernel related but i have really no clue where to start looking, i've tried different io schedulers and some seem to work better at it (happens less) but i can't figure out the root cause of it |
| dhar | lou_cal: C++ sounds like the logical language to interact with those sorts of API calls lou_cal: but my win32 days are way in the past so I can't remember what functions would peek into memory like that |
| lou_cal | dhar: damn, I don't know C++ so I guess i am SOL |
| simcop2387 | thrig: what i wish was i could get the kernel output at that stage... |
| lou_cal | I have been able to get a hex dump with perl a while back, but I couldn't figure out how to tell it where in the memory to look the code that that guy wrote in some mystery language, used something like the perl Win32::GuiTest module to select the proper window on the screen with the mouse and then it grabs all the text on it, he said it has nothing to do with OCR |
| simcop2387 | lou_cal: yea theres windows ui functions that can grab the contents of widgets from ram, based on the window id, and a few other parameters, i forget how it works, but you can also change them too |
| lou_cal | simcop2387: thank you,I will try to find something simcop2387: your saying there are modules in CPAN most likely that I will need? |
| Khisanth | Win32::API if nothing else lou_cal: the Windows API allows you do have all sorts of fun :) |
| lou_cal | Khisanth: thank you, I'll check it out that should have been the first thing I tried, but I thought that API would mean like a perl specific API having nothing to do with wondows API calls, I don't know why, stupid assumptions |
| simcop2387 | lou_cal: i don't know if its directly supported by the modules, but i know it can be done in some way shape or form |
| pasteling | "jellybean" at 63.76.118.203 pasted "Crypt::SSLeay failed to install" (89 lines, 3.8K) at http://sial.org/pbot/23479 |
| jellybean | can anyone tell me why this perl module has failed to install |
| revdiablo | jellybean: "No OpenSSL installation found" |
| jellybean | i just used yum install openssl |
| dhar | maybe you need openssl-dev? |
| Hammit | i had problems installing that module too. i was using activestate ppm tho |
| jellybean | Apparently no SSLeay installation at '/usr/bin/openssl' what is SSLeay |
| revdiablo | jellybean: http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~ftp/Crypto/faq.html |
| lou_cal | Perl in a Nutshell doesn't even MENTION Win32::API!!! Hopefully I can find some good online documentation. |
| lualu | Hello all, I am looking for some advice on how to go about learning perl- i've gone through most of o o'reilly's bookshelf on perl. |
| tombow | learning perl and intermediate perl |
| crunge | lualu: what do you need perl for? |
| dhar | if you've read all that, you should have all the basics down, now you need to figure out what specialized tasks you want to perform with it :) |