A good guild is a lot of fun and a bad guild is extremely frustrating. Your son is probably better off not being in that one.
They give you grief for wanting to learn cooking, That's just plain silly. Smoked sagefish and nightfin soup are valuable buffs for manna burning characters to name two examples.
I don't think the Draenei area feels like an afterthought at all. I agree. There is some fun stuff there. I enjoyed the "graduation ceremony" from the newbie area - killing all the blood elves and their leader. I enjoyed being able to try out a mount at a very low level (the Elekk quest), I enjoyed learning stuff about Druids that I never knew before (I had no idea Furbolgs were Druids and my main is a Druid), and like the other poster mentioned, the parade after the first elite quest is very cool.
The casual player gets next to nothing out of this. I am a casual player and bought BC. So far other than two new races I have seen nothing of the expansion. You obviously have never sold a Blood Elf mask or taken up jewelry making. My level 24 Dranei Hunter is making leveling my level 47 Druid much more fun. It also helps having level 60+s in your guild send you Master profession books.
It may not even have been FreeBSD's fault that it couldn't run for more than a few minutes on the test box without panicking. Linux Kernel 1.2 worked fine, but the 1.3 series did not. I got personal long-distance support from Linus himself tracking down the problem to a slightly bad cache chip. That's what I call service.
You miss my point. In the case of gets(3), it is the standard C library making the system call, not the application. How often do you use a naked read(2) in a program?
I would hope that sprintf does not make a system call because it is a strictly user-land operation. Even if it did, sprintf is a chapter 3 function, not chapter 2.
From the Solaris FM:
The sprintf() function places output, followed by the null byte (\0), in consecutive bytes starting at s; it is the user's responsibility to ensure that enough storage is available.
One thing i haven't seen people say is that syscalls don't go through a normal parameter passing mechanism. No stack overflows because there is no stack, at least not shared between user and kernel space. The kernel uses its own stack and that is exploitable sometimes with carefully crafted symbolic links to name one example. Another example that used to be exploitable before MMUs became standard was the ability to use certain pointers to the first page of.data to read memory that the process shouldn't have access to (this is described in Bach, and it "worked" on both of my first M68K Unix systems).
VMS was a great system for its time, but it was always like a beautiful rose that smelled bad. It supported things that are now only now getting into Linux, particularly, all system calls could be called asynchronously. It had real-time scheduling that could be made hard real-time and fine-grained permissions, both on files with RMS and on process priveleges. It had a rich set of primitives for doing parallel user-land programming like AST callbacks and the lock management system. Fun stuff once you wade through the generally difficult documentation.
It also included hidden interfaces that were basically undocumented and forbidden to non-DEC code. The CLI DCL, was a special process that overlayed parts of its address space with the programs the user invoked on the command line. As far as I remember, the process by which a programmer could do that, was largely undocumented. My most memorable experience was trying to duplicate the actions of VAX/TPU where it was possible to invoke LaTex from inside the editor. No matter what I tried, I could not make user code work the same way (LaTex would block waiting for interactive input). And that included a session where I was on the phone with Digital technical support, supposedly with the VAX/TPU source code in front of him and me reading line-by-line what I was doing.
If any of that sounds familiar, it's probably because when the VMS team was disbanded at Digital, the core went to Microsoft to do Microsoft Windows NT.
Really, the graphs are just a way of artfully showing a simple fact, which is that Windows requires more system calls than Linux, to complete a particular task That's what it looks like and I hate to say this, but who cares and what has this to do with security? The average Unix program doesn't make its own system calls and the most exploited misfeatures were in the standard C library like sprintf, strcpy, and gets, none of which involve system calls.
Probably because of the copyright fiasco that necessitated all the BSD rewrite forks. That cost them a serious amount of development time while they were recoding things.
I got my first involvement with Linux in 1995 when the company I worked for was looking to replace SCO with a low cost alternative. I pushed hard for BSD, but ultimately we chose Linux because it worked better on the hardware we had.
As the copyright holders in part of the Linux kernel, Novell has the right to distribute it ONLY because the FSF (and other copyright holders) have licensed them to do so via the GPL. I do not believe any significant part of the Linux Kernel has been FSF copyright assigned. Can you name one part? Most of the Hurd Mach kernel is not FSF copyright assigned either.
How many gcc contributors are gplv3 zealots, and how many are compiler zealots? I bet more of the latter. I imagine the pragmatists winning out more often that not. That's a good example. Gcc has forked before and wasn't particularly hurt by it. The FSF branch withered away and the EGCS fork became the main branch. Emacs was forked too and I certainly don't view that as a negative thing either.
I took them off the list only to have it put back on by some data entry person. And really got bitched out for the next round of emails. I thought this guy was insane. No, just irritated. I was required by the ACS folks in the Manila embassy to sign up for a SPAM list when I had addenda pages added to my passport. And even though they know I left the Philippines months ago, they still send me SPAM and do not respond to any email I send them. Are government people insane?
My parents taught me not to 'talk to strangers', etc. Heck, they let me know where the gun at home was in case when I was there alone and felt threatened. Did ever touch it but once? No....but, one time alone, some haggard guy wouldn't get off the front porch asking for water, etc. I didn't let him in...and I watch through the window and peephole, with the gun in my hand locked and loaded till he left.
but seriously what are your parents smoking? Strange. It sounds to me like the poster's parents taught responsibility and judgement too and their trust was justified.
We don't know anything about how the watermark is encoded. What if the value of the bit changed was irrelevant and the watermark was coded by the (relative) position of the bit changed? If you diffed two files, and diddled all the different bits, you would end up with a file with identifiable watermarks of both copies.
This system sounds pretty good to me and is vastly superior to defective-by-design DRM.
They not only were not in the United States when the alleged "crimes" were committed. They were not in the United States when they were arrested. You're not legally in a country until you pass through immigration and get your passport stamped and you do not do this when you are making a connecting flight.
I don't know how this got moderated "+5 Informative" because the article was about game installation not about hardware access to the video card.
I went through game installation both from DVD and from a free 1-week trial for the first time recently and it was a horrifying experience. True, installation is pretty much turnkey after you start it off, but the things it did were absolutely not very nice and the security agent pretty much went bonkers with unsafe code warnings until I turned it off for the duration. The installers were coded like rootkits executing stuff in data buffers and expected to have full access to the whole system file structure. As bad, from my point of view is that the games I loaded (WoW and Stormreach) are both self-modifying and update themselves without stopping to ask for permission first. This was on a (I presume security hardened) enterprise version of MS Windows XP.
The article has a point with regards to games being crippled by security because it pretty much breaks completely how they've been doing things. I like WoW, but I'm glad I didn't install it on a machine of my own or with a real OS on it.
United States security rules are much stricter outside the country and you are searched before getting into any lines inside the airport. The last time I flew from Manila (where there is a terrorist problem) I had to pass through something like 5 checkpoints with X-rays, metal detectors and body searches just to reach the waiting area at the gate. There were numerous signs along the way explaining that this was being done to abide by US security regulations for planes outbound to the US.
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What about Akihabara (the electronics capitol of Tokyo)?
The only problem would be how are you going to play without an OS? An MS Windows installation I could stand would be one with no IE, no applications other than Firefox and whatever it takes to install games. I wouldn't mind paying for that.
I agree. While I did not care for impeached ex-President Clinton as a person, there were periods of time when he had a great presidency simply because there was gridlock (Gridlock is Good) or the Congress and Senate were too busy trying to gun him down. I do not expect a Democrat run congress to do anything particularly useful, but I do hope we start getting a lot of vetoes again. I'll vote for Hillary in '08 for the same reason if she is held in check by a Republican Congress and Senate. Better to have them doing nothing at all than passing tons of really bad laws.
The UK government doesn't have a very good track record with data that it holds. With the way that the accountants are running things it is seen as a resource that can be monetized. Interesting. How much would advertising companies pay for data like that?
Probably, but it's against the law everywhere else too. It's made quite clear inside US Embassies that if you are arrested for doing something illegal inside that particular country (regardless of its legality in the US) DO NOT expect a get-out-of-jail free card though you may be eligible for certain legal services.
(At least in places I've been in Asia) Both sex with underaged people and drug trafficking are strongly discouraged -- "death for drug traffickers" in the Philippines and (the equivalent of) "if you came here looking for sex with minors, GO HOME!" there and elsewhere. I don't know whether the death part is enforced anywhere other than Singapore.
But unfortunately, not all of the world has access to such wonderful libraries As you are probably well aware of. The first private primary school in Banaybanay (Banaybanay is a small municipality in eastern Mindanao) I sent my eldest step-son to had exactly one book in its "library". It was a donated high school text on Shakespeare. However they get this done, it will be wonderful opportunity for many people.
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It may not even have been FreeBSD's fault that it couldn't run for more than a few minutes on the test box without panicking. Linux Kernel 1.2 worked fine, but the 1.3 series did not. I got personal long-distance support from Linus himself tracking down the problem to a slightly bad cache chip. That's what I call service.
I would hope that sprintf does not make a system call because it is a strictly user-land operation. Even if it did, sprintf is a chapter 3 function, not chapter 2.
From the Solaris FM: The sprintf() function places output, followed by the null byte (\0), in consecutive bytes starting at s; it is the user's responsibility to ensure that enough storage is available. One thing i haven't seen people say is that syscalls don't go through a normal parameter passing mechanism. No stack overflows because there is no stack, at least not shared between user and kernel space. The kernel uses its own stack and that is exploitable sometimes with carefully crafted symbolic links to name one example. Another example that used to be exploitable before MMUs became standard was the ability to use certain pointers to the first page of
VMS was a great system for its time, but it was always like a beautiful rose that smelled bad. It supported things that are now only now getting into Linux, particularly, all system calls could be called asynchronously. It had real-time scheduling that could be made hard real-time and fine-grained permissions, both on files with RMS and on process priveleges. It had a rich set of primitives for doing parallel user-land programming like AST callbacks and the lock management system. Fun stuff once you wade through the generally difficult documentation.
It also included hidden interfaces that were basically undocumented and forbidden to non-DEC code. The CLI DCL, was a special process that overlayed parts of its address space with the programs the user invoked on the command line. As far as I remember, the process by which a programmer could do that, was largely undocumented.
My most memorable experience was trying to duplicate the actions of VAX/TPU where it was possible to invoke LaTex from inside the editor. No matter what I tried, I could not make user code work the same way (LaTex would block waiting for interactive input). And that included a session where I was on the phone with Digital technical support, supposedly with the VAX/TPU source code in front of him and me reading line-by-line what I was doing.
If any of that sounds familiar, it's probably because when the VMS team was disbanded at Digital, the core went to Microsoft to do Microsoft Windows NT.
Probably because of the copyright fiasco that necessitated all the BSD rewrite forks. That cost them a serious amount of development time while they were recoding things.
I got my first involvement with Linux in 1995 when the company I worked for was looking to replace SCO with a low cost alternative. I pushed hard for BSD, but ultimately we chose Linux because it worked better on the hardware we had.
Most of the Hurd Mach kernel is not FSF copyright assigned either.
There's thottbot to get clues how to find and solve the quests, but you still have to spend the time to actually go out and do it.
We don't know anything about how the watermark is encoded. What if the value of the bit changed was irrelevant and the watermark was coded by the (relative) position of the bit changed? If you diffed two files, and diddled all the different bits, you would end up with a file with identifiable watermarks of both copies.
This system sounds pretty good to me and is vastly superior to defective-by-design DRM.
They not only were not in the United States when the alleged "crimes" were committed. They were not in the United States when they were arrested. You're not legally in a country until you pass through immigration and get your passport stamped and you do not do this when you are making a connecting flight.
This is very bad.
I don't know how this got moderated "+5 Informative" because the article was about game installation not about hardware access to the video card.
I went through game installation both from DVD and from a free 1-week trial for the first time recently and it was a horrifying experience. True, installation is pretty much turnkey after you start it off, but the things it did were absolutely not very nice and the security agent pretty much went bonkers with unsafe code warnings until I turned it off for the duration. The installers were coded like rootkits executing stuff in data buffers and expected to have full access to the whole system file structure. As bad, from my point of view is that the games I loaded (WoW and Stormreach) are both self-modifying and update themselves without stopping to ask for permission first.
This was on a (I presume security hardened) enterprise version of MS Windows XP.
The article has a point with regards to games being crippled by security because it pretty much breaks completely how they've been doing things. I like WoW, but I'm glad I didn't install it on a machine of my own or with a real OS on it.
United States security rules are much stricter outside the country and you are searched before getting into any lines inside the airport. The last time I flew from Manila (where there is a terrorist problem) I had to pass through something like 5 checkpoints with X-rays, metal detectors and body searches just to reach the waiting area at the gate. There were numerous signs along the way explaining that this was being done to abide by US security regulations for planes outbound to the US.
What about Akihabara (the electronics capitol of Tokyo)?
The only problem would be how are you going to play without an OS? An MS Windows installation I could stand would be one with no IE, no applications other than Firefox and whatever it takes to install games. I wouldn't mind paying for that.
I agree. While I did not care for impeached ex-President Clinton as a person, there were periods of time when he had a great presidency simply because there was gridlock (Gridlock is Good) or the Congress and Senate were too busy trying to gun him down. I do not expect a Democrat run congress to do anything particularly useful, but I do hope we start getting a lot of vetoes again. I'll vote for Hillary in '08 for the same reason if she is held in check by a Republican Congress and Senate. Better to have them doing nothing at all than passing tons of really bad laws.
You can't blame Clinton for the Clipper chip either. That was Bush Sr.
Probably, but it's against the law everywhere else too. It's made quite clear inside US Embassies that if you are arrested for doing something illegal inside that particular country (regardless of its legality in the US) DO NOT expect a get-out-of-jail free card though you may be eligible for certain legal services.
(At least in places I've been in Asia) Both sex with underaged people and drug trafficking are strongly discouraged -- "death for drug traffickers" in the Philippines and (the equivalent of) "if you came here looking for sex with minors, GO HOME!" there and elsewhere. I don't know whether the death part is enforced anywhere other than Singapore.