"The fact that they specifically stated the exploit was in Flash, and did not mention any major compromise of protected mode or privilege escalations, suggests that there were none."
You didn't RFTA very well. They were only expected to reveal the exploit to the TippingPoint officiators who were the source of the prize funds. The article at TippingPoint's website makes it very clear that the exploit required Adobe Flash, but that they would not release any further details to the public. There very well could have been a sandbox break-out, but we won't know for sure until the exploit is revealed publicly. All your hot-air about IE7 protected mode, UAC and whatever else is nothing but speculation on your part.
First, let me say that I'm not one of those gaming freaks that cares only about frames-per-second. That said, are you aware that WinXP SP3 beta is currently benchmarking about 10-15% faster than SP2. Thus, your difference of 4% suddenly becomes 14% overnight and for free.
I could be wrong, but I suspect WinXP will still be the platform of choice for gamers for many years to come despite incremental improvements to Vista.
Our office also uses a low-end Riverbed appliance and it does work some amazing magic for many different services (HTTP/S, POP, SMTP, CIFS). The clincher is that it is transparent to your network, so if you're using CIFS file shares the locking still works correctly. However, there were some caveats for us:
- We use Novell (NWFS) in our main office, but Riverbed only accelerates CIFS file shares. We had to implement CIFS shares specifically for our satellite office.
- The magic of the Riverbed appliance is in reducing *bandwidth* consumption. If you have a high *latency* (>65ms pings) then you're shit out of luck because the excessive delay in transferring even a small amount of data is going to make it feel very slow.
That said, most Riverbed re-sellers will provide a trial. We trialled ours for a week before buying it. In that time I must have performed about 50 different tests, and for anything but NWFS file transfers I was extremely impressed.
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"The fact that they specifically stated the exploit was in Flash, and did not mention any major compromise of protected mode or privilege escalations, suggests that there were none." You didn't RFTA very well. They were only expected to reveal the exploit to the TippingPoint officiators who were the source of the prize funds. The article at TippingPoint's website makes it very clear that the exploit required Adobe Flash, but that they would not release any further details to the public. There very well could have been a sandbox break-out, but we won't know for sure until the exploit is revealed publicly. All your hot-air about IE7 protected mode, UAC and whatever else is nothing but speculation on your part.
meh, wake me when he has anti-aliasing working.
First, let me say that I'm not one of those gaming freaks that cares only about frames-per-second. That said, are you aware that WinXP SP3 beta is currently benchmarking about 10-15% faster than SP2. Thus, your difference of 4% suddenly becomes 14% overnight and for free. I could be wrong, but I suspect WinXP will still be the platform of choice for gamers for many years to come despite incremental improvements to Vista.
Our office also uses a low-end Riverbed appliance and it does work some amazing magic for many different services (HTTP/S, POP, SMTP, CIFS). The clincher is that it is transparent to your network, so if you're using CIFS file shares the locking still works correctly. However, there were some caveats for us: - We use Novell (NWFS) in our main office, but Riverbed only accelerates CIFS file shares. We had to implement CIFS shares specifically for our satellite office. - The magic of the Riverbed appliance is in reducing *bandwidth* consumption. If you have a high *latency* (>65ms pings) then you're shit out of luck because the excessive delay in transferring even a small amount of data is going to make it feel very slow. That said, most Riverbed re-sellers will provide a trial. We trialled ours for a week before buying it. In that time I must have performed about 50 different tests, and for anything but NWFS file transfers I was extremely impressed.