So, a brute force password attack would mean trying every combination of keys until you hit upon the proper combination for a password.
Here’s the stupidest, but cool in a bloody-minded sort of way, use a possible OpenSCAD randomizing function:
A script that generates a pile of random keys so you can brute force attack a lock.1
A quick google search tells me that OpenSCAD doesn’t have a random number generator. That’s a bit of a bummer. I was just thinking how cool it would be to have an OpenSCAD file that would give you little variations on itself every time you generated an STL. I’m thinking snowflakes, giant fingerprints, and other things that have a little bit of chance and chaos built in.
Or, perhaps some kind of Mad Libs-esque system where you tell it to create an alien or monster figure and you get a random number of eyes, heads, noses, arms, legs, and tails.
Now, I figure with CloudSCAD it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to add a little bit of javascript that can include a random number with given parameters… So, it’s at least possible.
If this is scary to you, you may be an angoraphobic
The fear of rabbit sweaters.
For a totally different website I have a client whose representative only e-mails me USING ALL CAPS. I cannot imagine what would possess someone to want to communicate like that. Sure, I could just put up with it – but it is so so so difficult to read. Last week I ended up responding to his e-mail with a polite phone call, answered his question, then asked for a small favor – to QUIT E-MAILING ME IN ALL CAPS.
Inspired by MaskedRetriever‘s last few Thingiverse blog posts on OpenSCAD I tried it out again. Well, to be fair, I’ve been trying Tony Buser’s CloudSCAD. I’ll get around to actually installing OpenSCAD, but playing with CloudSCAD is so dang easy. It is limited by the power1 of my netbook.
I have always enjoyed the ease and immediacy of Sketchup. Complex objects and forms are easy. Amusingly, sometimes the smaller simpler bits can be more difficult to tame. 2 But, CloudSCAD does appeal to my programmer/hacker nature.
In any case, I’ve managed to conjure simple forms – spheres, cubes, boxes, cylinders, and cones. I can assemble and subtract forms from one another. But, it appears that more complex or irregular polygons are more difficult.
What CAD program do you use and why?
Just a head’s up to anyone who is entering Pattwac’s latest design challenge, the total prize pool is $150.00.
$50.00 from Pattywac and $100 from MakerBot in store credit. In the original post I got the prizes all messed up. :/
These look promising…
http://www.ohyeahcad.com/download/
I’ll try them out and let you know.
Restoring old lost episodes of Doctor Who?
It takes several hundred hours to restore a single episode, frame by frame. I imagine a room full of monks hunched over individual frames and restoring them with quill and ink.
I’m NOT a morning person. I’m a late afternoon to late evening person. I really don’t hit my groove until around 2AM to 3AM. It is during this time of the quiet hum of the refrigerator and laptop fan that I am seriously hitting my stride for the day. Who am I kidding, even when it’s noisier at 3AM I’m still more productive.
We really have Ben Franklin to blame for the stigma on night owls. Just because of one dude all of a sudden people who like getting up in the morning1 are possessive of some kind of virtue? Bah.
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Who’s your fav Doctor Who villain? Just curious.