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May 29, 2007
Dreamweaver Site Password Decryption
I was monkeying around with Visual Studio this weekend, trying to pick up some C#, and I built this little app. It is used to strip the lousy decryption from passwords in Dreamweaver .ste files. It's handy if you, like me, have found yourself saving an FTP password in Dreamweaver only to forget it a couple years later.
Yes, you can do lousy things with this tool if you have access to another person's Dreamweaver install, but the encryption is weak enough to where you shouldn't consider it protected anyway. Please only use this tool for your own sites and your own passwords.
To use the tool, open Dreamweaver and go to Site / Manage Sites. Click the site you want and press Export. Open the exported .ste file in Notepad and grab the alphanumeric string in the pw="" parameter. Open DreamPass, paste in the string and you'll get your password out.
Note that I didn't figure this out on my own – I used information from Bart Grantham's site for the hard part.
If you want a sample to play with, this is what the encrypted password looks like: 636967666F796E387B
Posted by Lee Clontz at 2:03 PM | Comments (0)
May 22, 2007
Heath Ledger as The Joker
I wasn't sure about the casting of Heath Ledger as The Joker in the new Batman movie, but this creepy shot gives me hope that the movie will be pretty darned awesome.
Posted by Lee Clontz at 3:41 PM | Comments (0)
May 14, 2007
Brody’s Day out
Brody's just over three weeks old now and is doing very, very well. We had his first appointment at the craniofacial center about ten days ago and we had exhausting, but very insightful, meetings with a bunch of doctors about his cleft lip and palate. I thought it might be interesting if anyone happens by this site with a cleft child.
Occupational Therapist / Nutritionist: The feeding team, consisting of an occupational therapist and a nutritionist, had put Brody on an increased-calorie formula the week before to fatten him up and it's definitely working. An extra four calories an ounce make a big difference when you only weight eight pounds. He's eating very well using the Pigeon nipple and gained 17 ounces in about eight days, roughly double what they needed him to.
Geneticist: The geneticist did two things for us – she gave us a sense of what Brody's chances were of passing his cleft onto his children (roughly 3-5 percent) and to examine him to see if there were any other obvious genetic issues. Cleft lip and palate doesn't typically correlate with other genetic problems, but obviously it's a concern for parents. He looks healthy, though, and no further testing was said to be necessary.
Dentist: Turns out that cleft kids have a much higher rate of tooth decay than other kids, so brushing teeth is going to be a near-constant endeavor. Brody has had an ulcer in his mouth from where the nipple is rubbing the roof of his mouth and they gave him some medication to keep it from getting an infection.
Orthodontist: Brody was fitted for his NAM, which he'll get next week. The NAM will help guide the gum together over the next 12 to 14 weeks before his surgery. The molding wasn't fun – basically, a piece of molding putty pressed into the roof of his mouth for a minute – but he won't remember it.
Plastic Surgeon: The plastic surgeon said that Brody's cleft was larger than average, but was certainly fixable. His work will kick in once the orthodontist is done with the NAM. He'll repair the lip at about four months and the palate some 10 weeks later.
Audiologist: Brody failed his hearing exam in the hospital, which is very common among cleft kids because of fluid behind the eardrum that doesn't drain properly. Brody failed a second test, but the audiologist said that his test was consistent with fluid and will probably go away when he gets tubes in his ears when he has his first surgery.
Incidentally, the audiologist did her testing with a piece of software running on Windows 3.1 on an old Compaq DeskPro. I did kind of an embarrassing double-take when I saw the old 3.1 widgets, but hopefully no one noticed.
Social Worker: Everyone gets a visit from the social worker to make sure we're not going nuts. I guess we did well enough that she didn't think we were totally going off the deep end.
So that was our day. Brody's wearing tape across the lip now to start pulling the lip together and it's working nicely. He's continuing to gain weight and, occasionally, lets us sleep.
Posted by Lee Clontz at 1:15 AM | Comments (0)