Comments on: Episode 521 – The Cold Boot Attack

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:00:17 +0000

Lawl is the dumbest thing on the net since roflcopter or zomg or kk

By: LordDust

LordDust — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:19:35 +0000

One Imprtant thing you missed to protect you from this sort of attack is a BIOS password. Which won’t even try to boot until it receives the password. Thus rendering all but the custom motherboard useless.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:49:58 +0000

Is there some place I can download the scraper.bin files for usb sticks? I can’t compile it on my old mac. Can’t find it anywhere but Darren mentioned he would post the .bin file in one of the shows.

Tnx

By: sp3cialk

sp3cialk — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:11:43 +0000

Just throwing this in there.. I don’t know why since NeoTokyo is a HL2 mod.. but the noborder switch doesn’t work for it. I’ve gotten so used to having noborder for TF2 and L4D I can’t stand games that do not work with it. I’ve not had a chance to test this but my game always loads on what is set as my primary display. I assume this may take some of the credit for opening on my main display, but I really haven’t wanted games on anything but my main. I have a 24″ and a 22″ to the left of it that I keep IRC, Ventrilo, and HLSW open so this trick is clutch for admins. I have heard you do take small performance (in FPS) from running in window like this instead of at full screen, but I have 2 GTX 260 in SLi.. so I’ve never noticed

Love the show.. keep up the awesomeness!

By: Enzo.Matrix

Enzo.Matrix — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:32:20 +0000

@Darren, no, It somehow always finds the dead centre of your screen, which can be a pain without the border because I couldn’t figure out how to reposition the window. So when you play with the res specs of your monitor it does fill the screen perfectly.

My main is 24″ with 2x 22″ to the right. I use multiplicity (Stardock made something useful) on an old 19″ (left of 24″) in landscape to do my email and msn on my old box.

9600 GT on the 24″ and 8800 GT on the dual 22″ I run into the issue if I drag a game like L4D onto a 22″ I lose frames like mad. Could never figure out how to swap the primary for launch. EVE I like, the give you the choice of adapter.

By: Darren Kitchen

Darren Kitchen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:56:19 +0000

@Enzo.Matrix, that’s a great tip. With the noborder option does the game always start at pixel 1,1 — that is to say at the very top left of the screen, thus filling the screen completely.

Do you know of a parameter that will specify window location? Without the border how is one to move the window?

I ask because I have three monitors, two 19’s flanking a 22.

Getting off topic just a bit: Years ago I tried out playing UT99 and Q3 on 3 screens with an FOV of 180. I had to use windowed mode. It wasn’t that great performance wise then, but now I’ve got dual Geforce 8600’s so I might just give it another go.

@Jesse-PXP, thanks for coming by and clearing things up. Looking forward to the Win7 x64 release.

By: Enzo.Matrix

Enzo.Matrix — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:09:59 +0000

So on this alt-tab craziness. I am not a fan of installing apps to slow down my system. I am also not a fan of alt-tab ruining any of my gaming sessions. I have stumbled upon a simple launch option configuration you can use in any HL2 based game.

-console -sw -w 1920 -h 1200 -novid -dev -noborder

So the run down of what is happening.
Console: duh, gives you console (nice to have cause L4D doesn’t have it in options)
SW: Start in windowed mode
W: Res width (set to monitors max)
H: Res height (set to monitors max)
Novid: Kill that pesky startup video
Dev: extra monitoring tools and options (not needed at all, but I use it when working on Goldeneye so I always have it on)
Noborder: This is the important part…

With having the game start in windowed mode you usually never have an issue with alt-tab, so I took advantage of this by setting the resolution to match my monitor, what happens is you have that stupid windows border around your game and you cant get it full screen the way it should be. Solution was to use -noborder with this little guy active you have the same look as fullscreen but with all the window perks.

The main reason I ended up doing this config was that I use a triple monitor setup and filling out msn and going to other active games can cause issues. Yes I play many games at once, multiple EVE clients and at least one of the following: GE:S, BZ2, L4D, TF2, NS..

I hope others an benefit from this, Enjoy!

By: Arrowofdarkness

Arrowofdarkness — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:41:22 +0000

Hey guys, I also have a beta version of my screenshot widget for PXP. (Screenshot Widget) I was holding off on putting it up on the widget gallery, because I'm working on adding auto phot/soc networking site uploads.

By: Techy

Techy — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:18:15 +0000

Same problem

Bootstrap loaded� trying packet mode� starting after booting.

Tried on 3 laptops. Is it the usb stick fault?

Thanks

By: BeanBag

BeanBag — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:17:29 +0000

@ Jesse-PXP

Thanks for the reply. I’ve sent you an email. Hope you can help

By: Oli

Oli — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:52:11 +0000

There is one more possibility to get a dump of the memory and this without rebooting the computer. There is only a hardware requier (but that are already all around on laptop), it’s a fireware port.
I saw a demo of this technique in a security show, a guy dumped all the memory through a firewire only by plugin a cable between his computer and the other laptop. the laptop was running XP at this time.
And this guy could unlock the user session by sending back the dumped memory to the xp.
So, this is some information about it : http://www.friendsglobal.com/papers/FireWire%20Memory%20Dump%20of%20Windows%20XP.pdf

Btw, Thx for you show, really interessting !!