beta 2 is much better than previous CTPs which were almost unusable - I had to turn off UAC to preserve what's left of my hair.
there's still some core OS UI that's not UAC-enabled, though. for example, you can't fully configure network connection settings without running running explorer.exe elevated.
the prompt appears on a sparate desktop, it's HWND isn't retrievable by any application, and the regular keyboard message pumping mechanism is bypassed.
unfortunately, this breaks the brilliant synergy2 tool temporarily...
Vista disables DWM (required by Aero) in a number of circumstances. i forget the complete list, but the easiest way to disable Aero is to get a DC for the desktop window. with DWM, there is no desktop DC, the desktop is composited on the video card, not in GDI space. apps that need to read bits from the screen need to have the desktop composited by GDI, and for backwards compatibility they disable DWM while such an app is running.
also, OpenGL apps, which require exclusive access to the video card, will cause DWM to be disabled, since DWM is explicitly designed to share video resources between applications and the current OpenGL drivers do not support this.
wait, highly radioactie substances (ie the dangerous ones) have short half-lives, right? so, either civiliztion is destroyed quickly in a catastrophy (man-made or otherwise) or the highly radioactive stuff will have already decayed. the stuff that will last a long time is the weakly radioactive stuff, which probably isn't much more dangerous than the existing natural sources of radioactiviy (sub-terranean radon gas, uranium deposits, etc...) also, i figure if we continue to advance at the current rate, we'll have an easy way to send most of this stuff into the sun in a few hundred years.
Google has also complained about Microsoft's use of the 'Microsoft' name on their microsoft.com, virtualearth.com, live.com, hotmail.com, msn.com and other sites.
"We stongly believe they are abusing their power in the market place." said Google's legal representative, "We assert that they should have links to our sites prominantly placed near, or even replacing, their branding. Also, we believe the advertising on those sites should be provided by us, that the anti-phishing feature in Vista should mark all Microsoft sites as suspect, and that Windows Defender should uninstall Internet Explorer and Windows Update should install Firefox."
well, i guess it depends on what you mean by 'preloaded'. yes, the drop down initially only contains MSN, but if you click on the 'get search providers' it'll take you to this list of alternatives which does include Google, AOL, Yahoo! and other MSN competitors.
sure, you have to use two more clicks to make Google the default, but how many other defaults can you change in 1 click or less?
this is what they're doing for Vista. With Vista's PAE all users in the 'BUILTIN\Administrators' group (except the real Administrator user) are given a split security token. the user runs as non-privileged most of the time, and doesn't have write access to system directories, HKLM, etc... however, when a process requests elevated permissions (via a key in the its manifest) a dialog is shown to the user requesting confirmation of the elevation.
C:\>cacls c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
They do...
You're forgetting: most people like to run their malware as root...
fire was probably used/tamed by man long before they learned how to create it. i imagine early 'domestic' fires we created by just taking part of a wildfire to a different location and keeping it alive. the trick, of course, is finding stuff that'll easily burn during, or soon after, a thunder storm. unless you're lucky/unlucky enough to live near a volcano.
Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy!
Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or
bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick,
wouldn't it?
can someone explain to me the benifit of releasing the details of the vulnerability?
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Thusly, nobody can figure out C++, and it follows that those people that think they know C++ actually don't.
wait, who's 'post-hoccing' whom, here?
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and given that ~0.01% of all programming os OS kernel development, and one guy doesn't know the language enough to work out how it can work for his kernel, then the language sucks?
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there's still some core OS UI that's not UAC-enabled, though. for example, you can't fully configure network connection settings without running running explorer.exe elevated.
unfortunately, this breaks the brilliant synergy2 tool temporarily...
also, OpenGL apps, which require exclusive access to the video card, will cause DWM to be disabled, since DWM is explicitly designed to share video resources between applications and the current OpenGL drivers do not support this.
the 9/11 hijackers used knives...
that's not a skunk, it's his socks...
very nice.
wait, highly radioactie substances (ie the dangerous ones) have short half-lives, right? so, either civiliztion is destroyed quickly in a catastrophy (man-made or otherwise) or the highly radioactive stuff will have already decayed. the stuff that will last a long time is the weakly radioactive stuff, which probably isn't much more dangerous than the existing natural sources of radioactiviy (sub-terranean radon gas, uranium deposits, etc...) also, i figure if we continue to advance at the current rate, we'll have an easy way to send most of this stuff into the sun in a few hundred years.
"We stongly believe they are abusing their power in the market place." said Google's legal representative, "We assert that they should have links to our sites prominantly placed near, or even replacing, their branding. Also, we believe the advertising on those sites should be provided by us, that the anti-phishing feature in Vista should mark all Microsoft sites as suspect, and that Windows Defender should uninstall Internet Explorer and Windows Update should install Firefox."
sure, you have to use two more clicks to make Google the default, but how many other defaults can you change in 1 click or less?
If you're reading this Alan, I've got some excellent 'Get Out Of Jail Free' pills you might be interested in...
this is what they're doing for Vista. With Vista's PAE all users in the 'BUILTIN\Administrators' group (except the real Administrator user) are given a split security token. the user runs as non-privileged most of the time, and doesn't have write access to system directories, HKLM, etc... however, when a process requests elevated permissions (via a key in the its manifest) a dialog is shown to the user requesting confirmation of the elevation.
C:\>cacls c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Administrators:(ID)F
BUILTIN\Users:(ID)R
They do... You're forgetting: most people like to run their malware as root...
now, taking a core sample from orbit, that i'd like to see.
I can tell you for certain that up to 100% of any piece for software will be re-written before it's shipped.
Maybe he'll go on to work for AOL where he'll no doubt create a fully customizable AOL client called MeeToo.
You can have spin and still be balanced. You just need to account for precession.
fire was probably used/tamed by man long before they learned how to create it. i imagine early 'domestic' fires we created by just taking part of a wildfire to a different location and keeping it alive. the trick, of course, is finding stuff that'll easily burn during, or soon after, a thunder storm. unless you're lucky/unlucky enough to live near a volcano.
Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
can someone explain to me the benifit of releasing the details of the vulnerability?
and given that ~0.01% of all programming os OS kernel development, and one guy doesn't know the language enough to work out how it can work for his kernel, then the language sucks?
However, hardware DRM, coming to a monitor/player/chipset near your very soon, is going to be very hard to break.
It'll probably be at the top of every MSN Search results page, regardless of your query.
I don't own a television. How's the government forcing me to use the Broadcast flag, exactly?