Archive for December, 2007

Total Guitar Magazine: Decryption Error

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007


Like most metalheads I own a guitar I can't play. I also subscribe to Total Guitar Magazine. This month I noticed that I couldn't decrypt the special 'VIP Area' of the CD.

Bugger-1

Basically If I was using a PPC Mac I would be able to decrypt the data. It seems they have included the PPC only shared library for blowfish. Hmm. Well as it happens I have a copy of the x86 library that I can use to decrypt the data.

If you are suffering from this problem:

  1. Download the library here.
  2. Look inside any OSX app by right clicking (or CTRL clicking) on the application icon and selecting 'Show Package Contents'
    Showcontent
  3. Now navigate down to 
    Contents/Resources/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/Crypto/Cipher/
  4. Copy the Blowfish.so into the Cipher Folder, there should be one there already so you'll be asked if you want to replace the existing one

You should be able to run the decryptor.app now and get access to your MP3s.
Whoever makes this application should be able to make the decryption library Universal so lets hope they do that in the future.

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Face Book suicide

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Today was the day when I could take it no longer. Pissed off by the number of bollox Face Book plugins I needed to install just to do simple things and pushed by the recent beacon hoo haa I removed all my friends and clicked to deactivate my account. Of course I am still annoyed that I can't delete my account and that I am still present on their system. All I can say is CASCADE!!!!!!!! CASCADE I TELL YA.

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