Comments on: Don’t mess with Me. Especially if you’re my brother. http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/ Yuvi, a 17 year old wannabe geek from India. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:15:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: kironov http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-236296 kironov Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:15:37 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-236296 I once recorded myself saying "twat" to a wav file then replaced the entire soundscheme on my brother's desktop with that one word... you can imagine the results I once recorded myself saying “twat” to a wav file then replaced the entire soundscheme on my brother’s desktop with that one word… you can imagine the results

]]> By: Rathnavel http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-71970 Rathnavel Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:32:33 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-71970 It hurts me brother.. It hurts me brother..

]]> By: yuvipanda http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-65135 yuvipanda Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:28:30 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-65135 Dear God of Security, I forgot about Vista. Never used it (so far. System too old). That makes the service idea unusable, but we can still write a fake Spider Solitaire(with <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adam_nathan/archive/2006/12/04/thoughts-from-the-author-of-cards-dll.aspx" rel="nofollow">cards.dll</a> ofcourse), make it crash at a regular point, and replace the actual spider solitaire with our fake one. But, I guess Vista's UAC will complain. Vista seems to conspire against me on all fronts... P.S. Why not just create an AI player so strong that she'll lose every time and just lose interest in the thing? Or something psychological like that? I guess you can do it: Your wife may be a canny lass (if I can call her so), but you are a God! Well, a former God, perhaps, but I guess you'll become a god soon again :) P.P.S: What is solitaire anyway? Never figured out how to play that. Nor Freecel. Nor Hearts. And, never looked at Spider Solitaire... Am I weird? Dear God of Security,

I forgot about Vista. Never used it (so far. System too old). That makes the service idea unusable, but we can still write a fake Spider Solitaire(with cards.dll ofcourse), make it crash at a regular point, and replace the actual spider solitaire with our fake one. But, I guess Vista’s UAC will complain. Vista seems to conspire against me on all fronts…

P.S. Why not just create an AI player so strong that she’ll lose every time and just lose interest in the thing? Or something psychological like that? I guess you can do it: Your wife may be a canny lass (if I can call her so), but you are a God! Well, a former God, perhaps, but I guess you’ll become a god soon again :)

P.P.S: What is solitaire anyway? Never figured out how to play that. Nor Freecel. Nor Hearts. And, never looked at Spider Solitaire… Am I weird?

]]> By: Massif http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64677 Massif Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:07:53 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64677 Well aside from there possibly being an issue with a service interfering with an instance of a program (being that they run under different user accounts, and being that Vista probably would throw a fit if a service started sending messages to processes controlled by different users) that sounds like an excellent plan. Except I'm extraordinarily lazy. I shall instead opt for the whole "Could I have my tablet back? Because you're not doing anything useful and I wanted to write something." tack instead. Which only occasionally causes arguments when she gets all huffy about me pointing out that five minutes after she agreed to give me the machine back, she's still playing spider solitaire. For reference as to how important spider solitaire is, I'd draw your attention to this: ( http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2639 ) which is actually quite true to life. (Except for the fact that my wife is more female than the protagonist in that comic.) Well aside from there possibly being an issue with a service interfering with an instance of a program (being that they run under different user accounts, and being that Vista probably would throw a fit if a service started sending messages to processes controlled by different users) that sounds like an excellent plan.

Except I’m extraordinarily lazy.

I shall instead opt for the whole “Could I have my tablet back? Because you’re not doing anything useful and I wanted to write something.” tack instead.

Which only occasionally causes arguments when she gets all huffy about me pointing out that five minutes after she agreed to give me the machine back, she’s still playing spider solitaire. For reference as to how important spider solitaire is, I’d draw your attention to this: ( http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2639 ) which is actually quite true to life. (Except for the fact that my wife is more female than the protagonist in that comic.)

]]> By: yuvipanda http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64514 yuvipanda Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:00:46 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64514 P.S: I'm VERY sure that most of this will not work out: My experience with the other species of the human species (Yes, I did write the other species) is comparable to Linus Trovald's experience with the .NET CLR. Or the Windows NT Kernel. Whatever. Point being, I have no exposure, so the methods described will certainly not work. P.S: I’m VERY sure that most of this will not work out: My experience with the other species of the human species (Yes, I did write the other species) is comparable to Linus Trovald’s experience with the .NET CLR. Or the Windows NT Kernel. Whatever. Point being, I have no exposure, so the methods described will certainly not work.

]]> By: yuvipanda http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64513 yuvipanda Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:59:02 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64513 Dear God of Security, There are, quite a number of ways to get your canny lass (If I may call her so) detached from her tablet. The one that immediately comes to mind is to move the desktop to the room with the TV. Or, construct Glass Walls so that you can see the TV while in the other Room. Or, you could just write a simple service that halted the game in the middle with an error, at random times. This service would take in a config file to know which games to interrupt when. So, Spider Solitaire would crash with a DLL not found error, while some other game would crash with some other error (You need to crash a few more games to get the canny lass (If I may call her so) uncanny) As I said, "simple service". Thank You, God of Security. Dear God of Security,

There are, quite a number of ways to get your canny lass (If I may call her so) detached from her tablet. The one that immediately comes to mind is to move the desktop to the room with the TV. Or, construct Glass Walls so that you can see the TV while in the other Room.

Or, you could just write a simple service that halted the game in the middle with an error, at random times. This service would take in a config file to know which games to interrupt when. So, Spider Solitaire would crash with a DLL not found error, while some other game would crash with some other error (You need to crash a few more games to get the canny lass (If I may call her so) uncanny)

As I said, “simple service”.

Thank You, God of Security.

]]> By: Massif http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64500 Massif Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:16:50 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64500 I do have a brother, but he has his own computer, on account of being 31. Now I also have a wife, who is completely obsessed with spider solitaire, so this could come in handy for putting her off. And thereby getting the Tablet back in my hands; but I'm not too sure that both our PCs suddenly developing a graphics glitch specifically effecting the only game she plays and I don't would escape detection. She's a canny lass (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canny) so I'm sure she'd rumble me. Also you may have noticed that I let slip that we have two computers, so I really don't need to detach her from the tablet... Except that I like the Tablet dammit! That's why I bought one! (The reason she can't play spider solitaire on the desktop is because the TV is in a different room from the desktop, and she couldn't possibly be limited to just one form of entertainment at a time.) Perhaps I should purchase a second monitor for the desktop, then she could play spider solitaire and watch tv on it... but she'd probably complain about the spare room being cold. (Which is where the desktop is.) Maybe I should buy another tablet, but having a computer / person ratio > 1 is a sign of excessive gadgettiness methinks. I do have a brother, but he has his own computer, on account of being 31.

Now I also have a wife, who is completely obsessed with spider solitaire, so this could come in handy for putting her off. And thereby getting the Tablet back in my hands; but I’m not too sure that both our PCs suddenly developing a graphics glitch specifically effecting the only game she plays and I don’t would escape detection.

She’s a canny lass (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canny) so I’m sure she’d rumble me.

Also you may have noticed that I let slip that we have two computers, so I really don’t need to detach her from the tablet… Except that I like the Tablet dammit! That’s why I bought one! (The reason she can’t play spider solitaire on the desktop is because the TV is in a different room from the desktop, and she couldn’t possibly be limited to just one form of entertainment at a time.)

Perhaps I should purchase a second monitor for the desktop, then she could play spider solitaire and watch tv on it… but she’d probably complain about the spare room being cold. (Which is where the desktop is.)

Maybe I should buy another tablet, but having a computer / person ratio > 1 is a sign of excessive gadgettiness methinks.

]]> By: yuvipanda http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64352 yuvipanda Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:58:43 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64352 @Sharath: Enjoy being brother-less, mate. There are certain advantages as well though (nothing comes free, including being brother-less) But still, you could use the app on yourself... ;) @Sharath: Enjoy being brother-less, mate. There are certain advantages as well though (nothing comes free, including being brother-less)

But still, you could use the app on yourself… ;)

]]> By: Sharath http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64315 Sharath Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:05:05 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64315 ROTFL! would love to use this app. but wait ... i dont have a brother :D saves me from pulling out my hair ;) ROTFL! would love to use this app. but wait … i dont have a brother :D saves me from pulling out my hair ;)

]]> By: Rory - Neopoleon : Links and a Hardcore Christmas http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64289 Rory - Neopoleon : Links and a Hardcore Christmas Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:10:31 +0000 http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/12/01/dont-mess-with-me-especially-if-youre-my-brother/#comment-64289 [...] but it's still based on mutual appreciate of style. The most recent one that I loved was this - it's about how Yuvi handles sharing a computer with his younger brothers who take up Yuvi's [...] […] but it’s still based on mutual appreciate of style. The most recent one that I loved was this - it’s about how Yuvi handles sharing a computer with his younger brothers who take up Yuvi’s […]

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