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Diligent Sloth — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:09:40 +0800

Perhaps beside the post number, can include the name of poster and time.

I'm using this to keep track of my posts and well, I don't really remember if its 550 or 551 or 549 since I last checked

VPN Services

Diligent Sloth — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:02:06 +0800

As some of your probably know, I run a small VPN service here in Lowyat but I do have plans to expand outwards. However as a single person with only so much resources and time, I can do only do so much, so now I'm looking for someone who shares the vision of launching a VPN service that can rival secureix.com.

Preferably, I'd like someone with at least some technical knowledge, I'm prepared to teach how to setup servers, mantainence etc, but note that this is I am not a job provider. I'd like to go for 50/50 sharing or something around those lines. Also, I'd prefer someone who's dedicated towards this, not just 'I try for awhile lah' kind of attitude.

There are quite a number of improvements on my current VPN that I will like to implement but I won't mention them here for fear of 'spies'.

Interested parties may contact me via
PM
MSN: darrell@joycedarrell.com
Email: dsvpns@gmail.com
Handphone: 0168687880

Could we have a swf tag?

Diligent Sloth — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:06:30 +0800

As per topic, we have IMG / Youtube tag, could we have a SWF tag as well?

HtPasswd class

Diligent Sloth — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:19:12 +0800

Need this to work with some htpasswd files, was too lazy to do any 'real' protection so here it is

htpasswd.class.php

CODE

class htpasswd{
public $users;
public $error;
private $_path;

function htpasswd($file=false){
if(!$file){
die('Please specify a file!');
}else{
//configure
$this->_path = $file;
$this->users = '';
//load database
if(file_exists($file)){
$data = array();
$fcontents = file($file);
while(list($line_num, $line) = each($fcontents)){
$user = explode(':',$line);
//$user = $arraydata[0];
$data[$user[0]] = rtrim($user[1]);
}
$this->users = $data;
}
}
}

function create($user, $passwd, $update=false){
$this->error = '';
if(isset($this->users[$user]) && !$update){
$this->error = 'User <strong>'.$user.'</strong> exists! To update the user set the update parameter to true.';
return false;
}
$this->users[$user] = $this->non_salted_sha1($passwd);
return true;
}

function remove($user){
$this->error = '';
if(isset($this->users[$user])){
unset($this->users[$user]);
return true;
}else{
$this->error = 'User <strong>'.$user.'</strong> does not exist!';
return false;
}
}

function users(){
$this->error = '';
$rval = Array();
if(is_array($this->users)){
foreach(array_keys($this->users) as $uid){
$rval[count($rval)] = $uid;
}
}
return $rval;
}

function validate($user, $pass){
$this->error = '';
if(!isset($this->users[$user])) return False;
$crypted = $this->users[$user];

if(substr($crypted, 0, 6) == "{SSHA}"){
$ohash = base64_decode(substr($crypted, 6));
return substr($ohash, 0, 20) == pack("H*", sha1($pass . substr($ohash, 20)));
}elseif(substr($crypted, 0, 5) == "{SHA}"){
return ($this->non_salted_sha1($pass) == $crypted);
}else{
return ($pass == $crypted);
}
}

function save($file=false){
$fcontents = "";
if($file == false) $file = $this->_path;
foreach(array_keys($this->users) as $user){
$fcontents .= $user.":".$this->users[$user]."\n";
}
if(file_put_contents($file, $fcontents)){
$this->error = '';
return true;
}else{
$this->error = 'Couln\'t save the file!';
return false;
}
}

//encryption functions
function rand_salt_crypt($pass){
$salt = "";
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
for ($i=0; $i<CRYPT_SALT_LENGTH; $i++)
$salt .= substr("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789./", mt_rand() & 63, 1);
return "$apr1$".crypt($pass, $salt);
}

function rand_salt_sha1($pass){
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
$salt = pack("CCCC", mt_rand(), mt_rand(), mt_rand(), mt_rand());
return "{SSHA}".base64_encode(pack("H*", sha1($pass . $salt)) . $salt);
}

function non_salted_sha1($pass){
return "{SHA}".base64_encode(pack("H*", sha1($pass)));
}
}

//php4 work around
if(!function_exists('file_put_contents')){
function file_put_contents($filename, $content, $flags = null, $resource_context = null){
if(is_array($content)){
$content = implode('', $content);
}
if(!is_scalar($content)){
trigger_error('file_put_contents() The 2nd parameter should be either a string or an array', E_USER_WARNING);
return false;
}
$length = strlen($content);
$mode = ($flags &FILE_APPEND) ? 'a' : 'w';
$use_inc_path = ($flags &FILE_USE_INCLUDE_PATH) ? true : false;
if(($fh = @fopen($filename, $mode, $use_inc_path)) === false){
trigger_error('file_put_contents() failed to open stream: Permission denied', E_USER_WARNING);
return false;
}
$bytes = 0;
if(($bytes = @fwrite($fh, $content)) === false){
$errormsg = sprintf('file_put_contents() Failed to write %d bytes to %s',
$length,
$filename);
trigger_error($errormsg, E_USER_WARNING);
return false;
}
@fclose($fh);
if($bytes != $length){
$errormsg = sprintf('file_put_contents() Only %d of %d bytes written, possibly out of free disk space.',
$bytes,
$length);
trigger_error($errormsg, E_USER_WARNING);
return false;
}
return $bytes;
}
}
?>

Usage:

CODE

require('htpasswd.class.php');

$htpwm= new htpasswd('.htpasswd');
$htpwm->create('test', 'pass');
$htpwm->save();

//Create User:
$htpwm->create("user", "pass");
$htpwm->save();

//Update User:

$htpwm = new htpasswd(./.htpasswd);
$htpwm->remove('user');
$htpwm->create('new_user', 'password');
$htpwm->save();

//Validate User:

$htpwm = new htpasswd(./.htpasswd);
if($htpwm->validate('user', 'pass'){
echo 'Welcome';
}else{
echo 'Get Lost';
}

/*
Functions:
create('MyUser', 'Pass') : create MyUser with password Pass. (true/false)
remove('MyUser') : remove MyUser. (true/false)
validate('MyUser', 'Pass') : will validate the user. (true/false)
users() : return and array with the usernames.
save() : save the password file. (true/false)
save('/server/www/.htpasswd') : save the password file to /server/www/.htpasswd. (true/false)

Error Handling:
when a function returns false you can get more information via
echo $pwmanager->error;
*/

Opening a company Sdn Bhd

Diligent Sloth — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:29:28 +0800

Hi, I'd like to know if anyone here has any experience setting up a sdn berhad and/or partnership.

What are the procedures / cost involved, any help given would be very much appreciated.

My weirdest customer ever

Diligent Sloth — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:44:58 +0800

Took me quite some time to understand what he meant

CODE

(2:19 PM) Sloth Joyce: hi
(2:19 PM) Sloth Joyce: this is
(2:19 PM) Private: HEy
(2:19 PM) Private: i want VPN use
(2:19 PM) Private: pls
(2:20 PM) Private: becouse i want to download torrents
(2:20 PM) Sloth Joyce: no more free trials available tho
(2:20 PM) Private: i have post lowyat why u not pm
(2:21 PM) Private: i want that
(2:21 PM) Sloth Joyce: which package would you like
(2:21 PM) Sloth Joyce: 3 or 30 days
(2:21 PM) Private: i not Pay
(2:21 PM) Private: i dont paymeny
(2:22 PM) Sloth Joyce: Oh..
(2:22 PM) Sloth Joyce: no more free accounts
(2:22 PM) Sloth Joyce: sorry
(2:22 PM) Private:
(2:22 PM) Sloth Joyce: free trial users all given out quite early already
(2:22 PM) Private: Why
(2:23 PM) Private: i want pls 5hours left free i want testing
(2:23 PM) Private: 1 account
(2:24 PM) Private: Just 5 hours free account
(2:24 PM) Private: Tmnut streamyx
(2:24 PM) Private: i download speed now 4kb/sec
(2:25 PM) Sloth Joyce: Sorry
(2:25 PM) Sloth Joyce: can't help you le bro
(2:26 PM) Private: I need payment
(2:26 PM) Private: Duit Rugi
(2:27 PM) Private: streamyx rm88 vpn RM30 total = 118 wow weste mony
(2:28 PM) Sloth Joyce:
(2:29 PM) Private: i need payment VPN ?
(2:30 PM) Sloth Joyce: Yes you need to pay for it
(2:30 PM) Private: no mony
(2:30 PM) Private: Duit Rugi
(2:30 PM) Sloth Joyce: then don't use vpn lor
(2:30 PM) Sloth Joyce: It costs money for me to set it up also
(2:30 PM) Private: hmm
(2:31 PM) Private: not free trial
(2:31 PM) Private:
(2:33 PM) Private: ok no problem
(2:33 PM) Private: bye

[WTA] Genuine or not

Diligent Sloth — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:26:31 +0800

Hi, this morning received inquiries from a guy interested in my VPN service and he said he was interested in the 6 month package for RM150.

I told him to bank in before I would issue his account and he did and sent me the bank in slip. My m2bu did not register any payment so he said he would cancel his mb2u transfer and send via RHB bank instead.

My problem now is I don't know if the slip is valid as I cannot see any transfer in my mb2u account(I have received 3 other payments this morning) and now I am suspecting the RHB transfer confirmation as well.

Will the seniors of the forum kindly advise me on what to do?

New VPN service

Diligent Sloth — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:34:10 +0800

I've got relatively unlimited bandwidth but fairly limited disk space, so I'll be offering a VPN connection for those interested.

What I offer
- Anonymous access to the internet
- Encrypted traffic between server and client
- Option to route certain traffic only through VPN
- Unthrottled bandwidth (max connections to be considered
- Stable connection
- RM 1/day with the payment of 30 days subscription in advance which means RM 30/30 days (minimum).
- Stable connection
- Server is hosted in tmnet datacenter making it FAST (less hops compared to most other VPNs)
- Unmetered transfer (Will not limit you to 100GB a month, download as much as you like

Currently not accepting new signups

Current Trial Users

CODE

mavie21
rockdaman
dex
Irishcoffee
nizamhameed
ramuk
GOD-ZILLA
aBs-
driftmeister
tentris

In process of changing to openVPN server, please be patient if your account has yet to be created.

Any further problems, please don't hestitate to call me at 0168687880 (available 24/7) or add me on msn, darrell@joycedarrell.com

TorrentFlux Server [BT Service]

Diligent Sloth — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:58:12 +0800

Seems to be some decent feedback for the torrentflux thing so I'm wondering if anyone will actually subscribe for such a service...

I'll be offering 3 test accounts for 1 week to get some feedback on how it goes XD...

This is a BT service similar to torrent2ftp. I.e. You set the torrent on MY server, and after it finishes downloading, you can download it via HTTP at FULL speed.

The first 3 people to post here AND PM me get an account to play around with.. Be aware that this is a fairly limited service since I only have around 23GB worth of hd space free left.. I'm currently running ONE download as following

CODE

Current Download: 677.50 kB/s
Current Upload: 0.10 kB/s
Free Space: 22.21 GB
Server Load: 1.97

Temporarily Closed For Mantainence

Some kinks needs to be worked out, for some reason, its taking an excessive amount of bandwidth even though the transfer rate isn't all that high =/

SOCKS server

Diligent Sloth — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:34:35 +0800

Anyone know of any socks server that is relatively easy to setup and also allows for username specification?

OpenVPN / Tinc

Diligent Sloth — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:10:30 +0800

I was wondering if anyone could guide/help me setup one of these on one of my unix boxes as I'd like to share my connection w/o using putty(ssh tunnel)

Edit: My bad, was wondering why it didn't work. Turns out its a RHEL3 host, which does not have the tun drivers installed, and I can't recompile the kernel >.< So that's out for me

Anyone have any other similar suggestions that do NOT require tun ?

Pirate King!

Diligent Sloth — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:10:17 +0800

Anyone playing this game please post your IGN and job..

I'm currrently a lv 20 healer in desperate need of a party

List of Players
1. ih8u(herbalist) - lv20

dnsprobe[234]: dns query failed

Diligent Sloth — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:29:23 +0800

only lately been getting this message, wondering if any other forumers are getting this message also

Winamp

Diligent Sloth — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:26:55 +0800

Anyone else have this problem?

I load winamp even if idle will take 50% CPU util, and won't terminate from memory when i click the 'x' to close it.

I'm now using WMP so its not a HUGE issue but it is ANNOYING

Securing GET requests

Diligent Sloth — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:21:18 +0800

CODE

<?

class secureURL
{
var $gz;
var $password;
var $filter;
var $params;
function initialize($password,$filter=null,$params=null,$gz=false,$auto_global=null)
{
global $secureURL;
$secureURL = new secureURL();
if ($filter !== null)
{
if (!is_array($filter)) $filter = array($filter);
foreach ($filter as $key => $var)
{
$filter[$key] = strtolower($var);
}
}
if (!is_array($params)) $params = array();
$secureURL->gz = $gz;
$secureURL->password = $password;
$secureURL->params = $params;
$secureURL->filter = $filter;
ob_start('secureURL_output');
if (@$_GET['crypt'] && @$_GET['hash'])
{
$_GET['crypt'] = secureURL::decrypt($_GET['crypt']);
if (secureURL::hash($_GET['crypt']) != @$_GET['hash'])
{
$_GET = array();
return;
}
$_GET['crypt'] = html_entity_decode($_GET['crypt'] , ENT_QUOTES);
parse_str($_GET['crypt'] , $_GET);
if ($auto_global === null) $auto_global = (ini_get("register_globals"));
if ($auto_global)
{
foreach ($_GET as $key => $var)
{
$GLOBALS[$key] = $var;
}
}
}
}
function crypt($string)
{
global $secureURL;
$password = $secureURL->password;
$i = 0;$j = 0;
for ($i = 0;$i < strlen($string);$i++)
{
$string[$i] = chr(ord($string[$i]) ^ ord($password[$j]));
$j++;
if ($j >= strlen($password)) $j = 0;
}
$string = base64_encode($string);
return $string;
}
function decrypt($string)
{
global $secureURL;
$string = base64_decode($string);
$password = $secureURL->password;
$i = 0;$j = 0;
for ($i = 0;$i < strlen($string);$i++)
{
$string[$i] = chr(ord($string[$i]) ^ ord($password[$j]));
$j++;
if ($j >= strlen($password)) $j = 0;
}
return $string;
}
function check_filter($url)
{
global $secureURL;
if ($secureURL->filter === null) return true;
$url = parse_url($url);
return in_array(($url['host'] ? $url['host'] : "") . $url['path'] , $secureURL->filter);
}
function hash($string)
{
return dechex(crc32(secureURL::crypt( (string) crc32($string))));
}
}
function secureURL_output($content)
{
global $secureURL;
$content = preg_replace_callback("/(href|src|action)=([\"'])(.*)\\2/Ui" , 'secureURL_encode' , $content);
$content = preg_replace_callback('/(href|src|action)=([^" \'>]*)/' , 'secureURL_encode2' , $content);
if ($secureURL->gz && function_exists())
{
$content = ob_gzhandler($content);
}
return $content;
}
function secureURL_encode2($matches)
{
global $secureURL;
$text = $matches[1] . "=";
if (strpos($matches[2] , "?") !== false && secureURL::check_filter($matches[2]))
{
$query = substr($matches[2],strpos($matches[2] , "?") + 1);
if (is_array($secureURL->params) && count($secureURL->params))
{
$params = array();
parse_str($query,$params);
$query2 = '';
foreach ($secureURL->params as $key)
{
if (isset($params[$key]))
{
$query2 .= "&$key=" . urlencode($params[$key]);
}
}
}
$query = "hash=" . secureURL::hash($query) . "&crypt=" . secureURL::crypt($query);
if (isset($query2)) $query .= $query2;
$matches[2] = substr($matches[2] , 0 , strpos($matches[2] , "?") + 1) . $query;
}

$text .= $matches[2];
return $text;
}
function secureURL_encode($matches)
{
global $secureURL;
$text = $matches[1] . "=" . $matches[2];
if (strpos($matches[3] , "?") !== false && secureURL::check_filter($matches[3]))
{
$query = substr($matches[3],strpos($matches[3] , "?") + 1);
if (is_array($secureURL->params) && count($secureURL->params))
{
$params = array();
parse_str($query,$params);
$query2 = '';
foreach ($secureURL->params as $key)
{
if (isset($params[$key]))
{
$query2 .= "&$key=" . urlencode($params[$key]);
}
}
}
$query = "hash=" . secureURL::hash($query) . "&crypt=" . secureURL::crypt($query);
if (isset($query2)) $query .= $query2;
$matches[3] = substr($matches[3] , 0 , strpos($matches[3] , "?") + 1) . $query;
}

$text .= $matches[3] . $matches[2];
return $text;
}

?>

To use just include the class on every page you want 'secured'

CODE

require_once('inc/secureURL.php');
secureURL::initialize('somerandompassword');

Note: I did this a really really long time ago, and looking back, I've made quite a few mistakes in the code, but all in all, it *should* work

Bread Crumb Naviation

Diligent Sloth — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:28:23 +0800