A regular user account will not have write permissions to the "Program Files" directory by default. Assuming extensions are written to "Program Files\Mozilla FireFox\blah" I don't see how anyone other than a power user or administrator could install an extension.
Note: I could be talking out my ass if Firefox stores extensions in the user profile directory on Windows.
PostgreSQL gives you that benefit automagically at the expensive of increased administrative load by forcing you to perform a regular vacuum of frequently updated tables in order to expire "dead" (ie: non-visible to any existing or future transaction) rows. Not that huge a pain if you know PostgreSQL at all (or use the autovacuum daemon) but it constantly bites newbie users in the @ss.
Not for me. Ctrl-r + command leaves the buffer in an editable state where you can alter the command line. !command simply executes the first match it finds.
Just turn on the internal XP firewall (Network Properties -> -> Properties -> Advanced) before you connect to the net. You'll be safe long enough to get SP1/Kerio/etc all downloaded and installed.
There is a learning curve to it. However, once you understand RPN and alter your thinking a bit you'll find that entering extremely complicated expressions is faster and less error prone than if you were entering it via algebraic notation.
That's because essentially all Windows players that support DRM utilize the MS supplied directshow API (and whatever codecs) to decode the content.
It's not too dissimilar to how applications that embed IE are using mshtml.dll. iexplore.exe (and explorer.exe) itself is nothing more than a thin wrapper application that loads mshtml.dll.
"the limited amount of bandwidth at the event was unable to support the required number of Steam sessions."
Many people predicted that this very thing would become and issue and now we have seen it come to pass. So what is the solution now for tournaments? Rent a T3 for an external internet connection when a T1 used to suffice!?!?!? You can kiss low budget HL-based game tournaments goodbye until this problem is addressed.
In theory, you could use any filesystem you desire as all applications that run under DOS are supposed to use its system calls for disk I/O.
However, since FAT is a trivial to understand filesystem there are disk utilities that bypass the standard DOS I/O system calls and access the disk directly. These utilities would obviously fail to understand any file system other than one that was FAT based.
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Plus you can download the.NET framework SDK and use a free IDE like Sharpdevelop for C# and VB.NET for free.
If you run the benchmark you won't be able to select "continue" from the main menu as it will take you to the Convenant ship (the last scene it benchmarks). You'll have to reload from your last save point (potentially forcing you to replay lots of the game if you don't save often).
FPS is important to FPS gamers because of one simple fact... relative motion.
If you have something travelling at a velocity of 600 pixels/s on your screen (not uncommon for objects in FPS games) it is much easier to track it at 100 FPS (relative motion of 6 pixels per frame) than 30 FPS.
Yep, the exact same thing happened to a company I was working at when the SQL Slammer worm hit.
The IT department hadn't bothered patching all of the production/development instances of SQL Server up to SP3. On of the employees with a laptop running MSDE became infected over during the weekend while they were at home. When they came into the office later that weekend and plugged into the network... boom!
but do you really need them? Stuff like that tends to confuse the non-technical user types.
I find it far more effective to make sure that people aren't running as privileged users under NT. If they aren't running as a privileged user and you have a decent virus scanner that has up to date definitions you'll take care of 99.9% of the threats out there. Worst case scenario... some virus/worm wipes out the user's documents folder.
It really isn't that hard to properly secure NT/2000/XP... I just rarely see the IT staff of most companies bothering to do it.
I'm more concerned with the underlying support for encryption that is used to build up a DRM system..NET doesn't directly support DRM as described in the context of the aricle either but yet the article claims the company mentions.NET as an infringing product.
If they are claiming that the.NET framework somehow infringes on their patents I'd be really worried about whether those claims could be extended to Java and J2EE.
True. It'd also probably be just as easy to boot up a linux-on-floppy distro, steal the SAM file and run it through l0phtcrack (or whatever the hell it's called now).
On my dual p3-1000 is takes about 8 to 9 hours to brute force all possible alphanumeric passwords.
I had the same problems because of outdated driver modules that would no longer compile properly. Keep stripping stuff you don't need out until it compiles.
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A regular user account will not have write permissions to the "Program Files" directory by default. Assuming extensions are written to "Program Files\Mozilla FireFox\blah" I don't see how anyone other than a power user or administrator could install an extension.
Note: I could be talking out my ass if Firefox stores extensions in the user profile directory on Windows.
PostgreSQL gives you that benefit automagically at the expensive of increased administrative load by forcing you to perform a regular vacuum of frequently updated tables in order to expire "dead" (ie: non-visible to any existing or future transaction) rows. Not that huge a pain if you know PostgreSQL at all (or use the autovacuum daemon) but it constantly bites newbie users in the @ss.
Not for me. Ctrl-r + command leaves the buffer in an editable state where you can alter the command line. !command simply executes the first match it finds.
ctrl-r + type partial command gives similar behavior. Pressing ctrl-r repeatedly steps through matches in the command history.
Just turn on the internal XP firewall (Network Properties -> -> Properties -> Advanced) before you connect to the net. You'll be safe long enough to get SP1/Kerio/etc all downloaded and installed.
There is a learning curve to it. However, once you understand RPN and alter your thinking a bit you'll find that entering extremely complicated expressions is faster and less error prone than if you were entering it via algebraic notation.
That's because essentially all Windows players that support DRM utilize the MS supplied directshow API (and whatever codecs) to decode the content.
It's not too dissimilar to how applications that embed IE are using mshtml.dll. iexplore.exe (and explorer.exe) itself is nothing more than a thin wrapper application that loads mshtml.dll.
"the limited amount of bandwidth at the event was unable to support the required number of Steam sessions."
Many people predicted that this very thing would become and issue and now we have seen it come to pass. So what is the solution now for tournaments? Rent a T3 for an external internet connection when a T1 used to suffice!?!?!? You can kiss low budget HL-based game tournaments goodbye until this problem is addressed.
gg Valve
My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I Level I with a whopping 4k of ram. Good times.
Does the -test8 supermount patch work against 2.6.0 without hacking?
In theory, you could use any filesystem you desire as all applications that run under DOS are supposed to use its system calls for disk I/O.
However, since FAT is a trivial to understand filesystem there are disk utilities that bypass the standard DOS I/O system calls and access the disk directly. These utilities would obviously fail to understand any file system other than one that was FAT based.
Plus you can download the .NET framework SDK and use a free IDE like Sharpdevelop for C# and VB.NET for free.
If you run the benchmark you won't be able to select "continue" from the main menu as it will take you to the Convenant ship (the last scene it benchmarks). You'll have to reload from your last save point (potentially forcing you to replay lots of the game if you don't save often).
FPS is important to FPS gamers because of one simple fact... relative motion.
If you have something travelling at a velocity of 600 pixels/s on your screen (not uncommon for objects in FPS games) it is much easier to track it at 100 FPS (relative motion of 6 pixels per frame) than 30 FPS.
Yep, the exact same thing happened to a company I was working at when the SQL Slammer worm hit.
The IT department hadn't bothered patching all of the production/development instances of SQL Server up to SP3. On of the employees with a laptop running MSDE became infected over during the weekend while they were at home. When they came into the office later that weekend and plugged into the network... boom!
No doubt. Ham's shorthand puts modern day teenager IM message shorthand to shame. :)
s/ZoneAlarm/Kerio Personal Firewall/g
http://www.kerio.com/
Much more powerful than ZoneAlarm.
but do you really need them? Stuff like that tends to confuse the non-technical user types.
I find it far more effective to make sure that people aren't running as privileged users under NT. If they aren't running as a privileged user and you have a decent virus scanner that has up to date definitions you'll take care of 99.9% of the threats out there. Worst case scenario... some virus/worm wipes out the user's documents folder.
It really isn't that hard to properly secure NT/2000/XP... I just rarely see the IT staff of most companies bothering to do it.
I'm more concerned with the underlying support for encryption that is used to build up a DRM system. .NET doesn't directly support DRM as described in the context of the aricle either but yet the article claims the company mentions .NET as an infringing product.
I was referring to the encryption components you jackass.
If they are claiming that the .NET framework somehow infringes on their patents I'd be really worried about whether those claims could be extended to Java and J2EE.
True. It'd also probably be just as easy to boot up a linux-on-floppy distro, steal the SAM file and run it through l0phtcrack (or whatever the hell it's called now).
On my dual p3-1000 is takes about 8 to 9 hours to brute force all possible alphanumeric passwords.
Cain & Able requires you to install a service which requires administrative rights as well.
To sniff traffic it requires installing a packet driver... which also requires administrative rights.
I had the same problems because of outdated driver modules that would no longer compile properly. Keep stripping stuff you don't need out until it compiles.
The 1.10 patch isn't some minor bugfix patch. It adds new skills, items and other content to the game.