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Noxwizard

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About Noxwizard

https://noxwizard.github.io/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45563305

    I've been working on a browser plugin for Amazon that attempts to identify the brand and seller country: https://www.wheresthatfrom.org/ It's mostly where I want it to be now, but …

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    Comment #36902067

    "Look mum no computer" on Youtube is wrapping up a series[0] where he bought an old church organ and rebuilt it. He cleaned it up and rewired it to interface via midi as well as th…

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    Comment #35238118

    Indeed. Windows requires elevation for raw sockets as well. The ping binary works without elevation by using the IP Helper Win32 API's ICMP functions: https://learn.microsoft.com/e…

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    Comment #35232182

    This means the listening socket was created using SOCK_RAW as opposed to SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_DGRAM. Raw sockets are used for working with ICMP, doing packet sniffing, sending some …

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    Comment #32703607

    Epic MegaGames had some great shareware games: https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/profile/epic-megagames I remember playing OverKill a lot and I think we actually ended up purchasing …

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    Comment #10182142

    For my Masters' work, I needed high speed tx/rx on Windows and looked into the same things you did. I can't find the statistics for the tests I ran, but WinPcap's speeds weren't mu…

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    Comment #4057610

    One of the inconsistencies that bothered me when I was testing it out was that you use a swipe motion to get to the login screen, but after that you're forced to use a scrollbar. I…

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    Comment #4057602

    You can also find the power button by signing out. Swipe up again to see the login screen and the power button is at the bottom right. It's still not as easy to find as before and …

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    Comment #3646313

    JIRA's patch form lets you submit patch URLs as well as attachments. So if the project wanted to allow users to provide github pull request URLs, they could. It sounds more like th…