Vega Strike is a good open source example... good point. I heard they're working on moving to Ogre too... should be interesting. I played around with Vega Strike a couple of years ago, but it felt like it hadn't "cooked" long enough so to speak
Yes I actually remember seeing a lot of people on Infinity's forum gnashing their teeth because it will be MMO... hopefully that doesn't sap all the fun out of it...
Re:I learned about some history today.
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Well according to David Braben hardly anything said online about Elite 4 is true... argh... damn cock tease
"Braben did, however, allay fears that Elite 4 may never see the light of day by confirming it is in development.
âoeThere is absolutely tons of stuff about Elite online,â he said. âoeHardly any of it's true! Some of it is, but I'm not going to say which. We are working on it and it's very exciting.â"
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X3 doesn't have seamless planetside travel, does it? I think the last review I read said it didn't... although technically that means I'm looking for a "Frontier: Elite II" or "Frontier First Encounters" successor... the original Elite had no planetside stuff
Until the day I can warp into a system, take my ship that's in space 10,000 AU from the nearest planet, point it at that blue looking planet over yonder (all the while dealing with Newtonian physics), and fly down to the surface (without cutscenes or whatever), then fly around some mountains, notice a weird looking tribe staring at me, then fly back out to space I won't consider a game Elite's successor.
Yea I'm a little bit religious about a damn good realistic game set in space
Until Elite 4 comes out (ahem, cough) Infinity: Quest for Earth looks to be its spiritual successor (yes there's seamless space travel to planetside, as showcased in the trailer)
There's no fundamental reason MS Word can't be a great program. All it needs is a pioneering visionary to thrash it down to a working core, to develop some well thought out guiding principles for how to organize the interface, to mercilessly eliminate the rampant bugs, to study how the current interface fails, and to rebuild it from that working core back up to a well-engineered product. But will that happen? Unlikely.
Switch "MS Word" with OpenOffice and this statement also applies, in my humble opinion...
Well, in this case I think what you're saying is that "if anyone ever has physical access to your machine without your knowledge," right?
If Joe hacker stole the laptop, installed his keylogger or whatever and then placed the laptop back on your desk and he was undetected, THEN he could get the password.
Just stealing the laptop doesn't get you anywhere... I see what you mean
Re: "never give blackhats physical access to hardware" - quite often the whole point of drive encryption is to prevent data leakage when a laptop is stolen. Sometimes blackhats having physical access to the hardware is part of the design
I think you misunderstand... the entire volume is presumed to be encrypted by TrueCrypt, so the assumption is that the data on the machine is safe, even if the entire machine is stolen (such as the case with a laptop)
The thinking is that yes, you could boot to a LiveCD on the stolen laptop and try to e.g. mount the NTFS volume on the machine, but with the entire volume encrypted you wouldn't be able to get any meaningful data off the machine
This isn't a "duh" story, because if you're able to steal a laptop and successfully bypass TrueCrypt's encryption of an entire volume by hooking an interrupt that's definitely a big deal
Looking at the Flamebait mod I guess you didn't apply enough sarcasm sauce to that post there bud:)
Me, I like my Jesus like I like my women... ridin a moped on I50
I think the implication was that Steve "regrows a brand spankin new liver" using stem cells... not just throwing stem cells on the cancerous liver he has now...
Yep ahh the memories lol... and yea a lot of the 'older generation' just knew that we turned red lights into blinky green lights, and that was good enough for them
I was a 25B, and at Fort Huachuca pounding 6' ground rods into the hard ass desert ground was no fun.
Half the time we just left the rods because they'd end up bent to shit if we tried to pull them out.
The coolest stuff I had the opportunity to work on was in Iraq though... satellite shots galore, the Ku band, tiny little dishes so there was no gain on them (shots would drop when it rained because of rain fade) - good times lol
But yea standing outside for 12 hours on guard walking around with local Iraqis with full battle rattle on in 110 degree heat got old. Real old.
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Vega Strike is a good open source example... good point. I heard they're working on moving to Ogre too... should be interesting. I played around with Vega Strike a couple of years ago, but it felt like it hadn't "cooked" long enough so to speak
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/Development:Ogre
Hmm reading over your description maybe I'll get a box together capable of running X3... it does sound pretty good
Yes I actually remember seeing a lot of people on Infinity's forum gnashing their teeth because it will be MMO... hopefully that doesn't sap all the fun out of it...
Well according to David Braben hardly anything said online about Elite 4 is true... argh... damn cock tease
"Braben did, however, allay fears that Elite 4 may never see the light of day by confirming it is in development.
âoeThere is absolutely tons of stuff about Elite online,â he said. âoeHardly any of it's true! Some of it is, but I'm not going to say which. We are working on it and it's very exciting.â"
http://www.videogamer.com/news/hardly_any_elite_4_online_info_is_true_says_braben.html
X3 doesn't have seamless planetside travel, does it? I think the last review I read said it didn't... although technically that means I'm looking for a "Frontier: Elite II" or "Frontier First Encounters" successor... the original Elite had no planetside stuff
Until the day I can warp into a system, take my ship that's in space 10,000 AU from the nearest planet, point it at that blue looking planet over yonder (all the while dealing with Newtonian physics), and fly down to the surface (without cutscenes or whatever), then fly around some mountains, notice a weird looking tribe staring at me, then fly back out to space I won't consider a game Elite's successor.
Yea I'm a little bit religious about a damn good realistic game set in space
Until Elite 4 comes out (ahem, cough) Infinity: Quest for Earth looks to be its spiritual successor (yes there's seamless space travel to planetside, as showcased in the trailer)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp8WOCuR_pQ
Site: http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/
Can't wait for this to come out... Frontier First Encouters with a DirectX engine just isn't cutting it anymore....
Oh come, on it depends on how far "deep down" you go.... you go "far enough down" and both distros are running on a Linux kernel with a GNU userland.
(ok, ok for the pedantic folks - unless you're running a Debian GNU/HURD kernel, or Debian with a Solaris kernel...)
I know eventually a true, almost impossible to counter exploit will be found by them, for Linux.
I think you lay the melodrama on a bit too thick... there's not really such a thing as an "impossible to counter" exploit...
Rocco: "Hey, Doc, I've gotta buy you, like, a proverb book or something. This mix and match shit's gotta go."
Really interesting post... "Labradoodle" means Labrador retriever and poodle, right? Oh wait there's a Wikipedia article never mind ^_^
There's no fundamental reason MS Word can't be a great program. All it needs is a pioneering visionary to thrash it down to a working core, to develop some well thought out guiding principles for how to organize the interface, to mercilessly eliminate the rampant bugs, to study how the current interface fails, and to rebuild it from that working core back up to a well-engineered product. But will that happen? Unlikely.
Switch "MS Word" with OpenOffice and this statement also applies, in my humble opinion...
Interesting writeup... I had no idea OpenBSD has these restrictions in place for single vs multi user runlevels.
Thanks for the informative writeup!
Well, in this case I think what you're saying is that "if anyone ever has physical access to your machine without your knowledge," right?
If Joe hacker stole the laptop, installed his keylogger or whatever and then placed the laptop back on your desk and he was undetected, THEN he could get the password.
Just stealing the laptop doesn't get you anywhere... I see what you mean
Re: "never give blackhats physical access to hardware" - quite often the whole point of drive encryption is to prevent data leakage when a laptop is stolen. Sometimes blackhats having physical access to the hardware is part of the design
Er, Linux can do the immutable dance too... not just a BSD specific thing
Although now that I think of it... how does setting +i on everything help?
I think you misunderstand... the entire volume is presumed to be encrypted by TrueCrypt, so the assumption is that the data on the machine is safe, even if the entire machine is stolen (such as the case with a laptop)
The thinking is that yes, you could boot to a LiveCD on the stolen laptop and try to e.g. mount the NTFS volume on the machine, but with the entire volume encrypted you wouldn't be able to get any meaningful data off the machine
This isn't a "duh" story, because if you're able to steal a laptop and successfully bypass TrueCrypt's encryption of an entire volume by hooking an interrupt that's definitely a big deal
Had to dust off the ol' "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag for this one...
Brings a whole new meaning to the "Fake Steve Jobs blog" lol... hmm what do we call it? iSteve?
Looking at the Flamebait mod I guess you didn't apply enough sarcasm sauce to that post there bud :)
Me, I like my Jesus like I like my women... ridin a moped on I50
You can unzip the xpi and edit the actual "version identifier" to bump it to 3.5.1 if you're impatient :)
Nice article on how to do this here
You know, if you log in, you can set your preferences up so that you never ever see a Microsoft article....
Hmm looks like maybe I stand corrected... it why is this article in the "Technology" section when it is very obviously a Microsoft article?
Either way it's cool you co-authored a book on IIS back in the day
My first post was directed at 'Frosty Piss' by the way... I just didn't get why he posted "Hi Christian Gross"
Congratulations, you can Google!... IIS 2... wow that was a while ago :)
Apparently you can also read his email address in his username tag line! Great job...
(I hope this post didn't come across too "assholish"... I'm just joking around)
I think the implication was that Steve "regrows a brand spankin new liver" using stem cells... not just throwing stem cells on the cancerous liver he has now...
Yep ahh the memories lol... and yea a lot of the 'older generation' just knew that we turned red lights into blinky green lights, and that was good enough for them
I was a 25B, and at Fort Huachuca pounding 6' ground rods into the hard ass desert ground was no fun.
Half the time we just left the rods because they'd end up bent to shit if we tried to pull them out.
The coolest stuff I had the opportunity to work on was in Iraq though... satellite shots galore, the Ku band, tiny little dishes so there was no gain on them (shots would drop when it rained because of rain fade) - good times lol
But yea standing outside for 12 hours on guard walking around with local Iraqis with full battle rattle on in 110 degree heat got old. Real old.