... and if there's domains that use this baby, just stuff the domains there. Popups only for those sites. And still it's possible to further enrichen this by killing the actual popups (could get as simple as "if that's not an antiadblocker window, kill it")...
No wonder this guy's a bit frustrated. Fighting a desperate war that can't be won, especially if a random non-Mozilla-geek gives a 2-line recipe that makes the anti-adblocker thing to give false positive =)
Kids: If it's interpreted by the browser, it must get deciphered at some point, and since it is, it can be intercepted and tricked into believing whatever it wants to believe =)
I think this thing will just further the development of Mozilla's security policy editor that was planned but probably pushed out of 1.0 release plan... It works even now!
Then I must be color-blind. I keep on seeing a green, fire-breathing lizard on the splash screen whenever I start Moz.
Yeah, that has confused me too... I thought green Mozilla character comes from Netscape, and red Mozillas come from mozilla.org, and these two are enturely separate organizations... I wonder why they're using the wrong lizard in the win32 splash screen and some theme parts? =/
Last I heard a rumor about a rumor about reasons behind No Port of Toolkit, they blamed Borland for not shipping some promised development thingy for Linux. *deepsigh*
Personally, I'm going to try Neverwinter Wine soon - hope that works.
If it's some half-done port that only has the client then I'm not interested. [...]
Now this is an interesting attitude! Personally, I thought anything that means less reboots to Windows would be a good thing... =)
Transcode! That's what I was looking for! Great! I heard about this ages ago but couldn't find it again =)
I have a Pinnacle's BT848-based card, and Nuppelvideo is just about the only program that succeeds in maintaining AV sync to large extent (just don't move the mouse or do anything other processor-intensive or it will lose it...) The problem is, of course, the odd output format that isn't read by any sensible video editor or MPEG compressor. Transcode seems to do that AND it's reasonably new, appears to be easy enough to use, and not bitrotten to hell, unlike the "exportvideo" program suggested by NuppelVideo.
Wish I could apt-get it, now it seems to depend on non-existing package...
(Did I mention most of the Linux video programs are PAIN to compile? Millions of little packages, often broken thanks to API changes somewhere along the way (as in case of libavifile)...)
When Heroine folks released Broadcast2K, they also put ridiculous system requirements to the website... I don't remember the details, I think it had "2 terabyte striped RAID" there. I suppose Cinelerra has improved then =)
Fortunately none of the DVDs I've bought (even from Disney) don't come with mandatory commercials, and if I'm extremely unlucky I'll be in the menus in a minute.
Frankly, if I ever bought a DVD with a 10-minute unskippable commercial/preview, I'd return it to the store that instant. Credible explanation: "Sorry, I have a DVD player that sometimes hangs and needs to be re-started, and I got pissed off when trying to watch that bloody preview 38th time, and that was before I even got to see the normal DVD menu the first time." If that practice of using long previews would be widespread, the angry mobs would Destroy Movie Importer Personnel.
Can you point us to some documentation that supports your point, specifically that Vivendi is spearheading the bnetd lawsuit but Blizzard does not support it?
I'm not saying that Blizzard wouldn't be supporting the thing (at least, the piracy claim is perfectly understandable), merely saying Vivendi is the one whipping them to greater rage...
If Blizzard were alone in the case, they would still attack it - but, I'm entirely speculating here, they might actually listen to comments (such as the ever-popular "Hey, quit lawsuiting us and tell us how to implement the CD key authentication through your servers!")
* They lead to chains of criminal behavior that can be hard to unravel.
Oh yes, indeed. What if there was a right to retaliate if you suspected someone of hAx0ring you - from the point of view of People Who Just Installed This Firewall Thingy? (There are three kinds of end-users: Those who think viruses are Someone Else's Problem and their computer is immune to them, there are those who have been properly educated, and then there's those who after the proper education have become ultra-paranoid about everything from viruses to firewalls - send them an image/jpeg attachment and they freak out).
"But I just used the H-Secure Master Rootkill 2004 to silence this evil hacker the instant this vandal sent me a suspicious packet that my firewall intercepted! I have the logs to prove it!"
*shiver* At least in "RL" things are simple enough so that everyone can know when there's Bad Stuff Going On... but what about these new paranoid end users?
Well, Blizzard sure as hell isn't evil. Their parent company (Vivendi) probably is, and they see bnetd only as a pirate island and act accordingly. Arr!
Blizzard liked - and apparently still likes - people who toy with their games (I recently read interview of Bill Roper where he talked of modding possibilities of WCIII - well, one might consider the comment about the possible Boy Band Warcraft Mod pretty insane... =)
I can understand why Blizzard isn't thrilled about bnetd, but still find Vivendi's attack on it unjustified.
As far as Blizzard goes, I'm not going to buy their stuff. Not as long as I need to tune the bases. That's so 1995, folks. I found Myth series cooler. =)
(And another reason is that Direct3D 8 is hosed on my machine and I don't feel like reinstalling... I need to stick to older D3D and newer OpenGL games!)
A bit hard to use them in NWN, though - even signs don't have visible texts, just show whatever they have when examined or such. I couldn't find a frame-like object to put custom textures to... much less one to place to the *ceiling* of the room (since the ceiling can't be seen in the game anyway).
Or maybe I'll just take a sign and put there a dialogue bit/description that says "This sign has an erotic painting." Simple enough. =)
Maybe... actually, I dragged my entire (classic) D&D stuff collection across the country to see if that could be translated to NWN.
Even found a couple of game magazines and 2nd ed AD&D modules sent by people. The only problem was that NWN doesn't have "erotic painting" and "beautiful young woman chained to the altar" tiles, and this makes converting the reader-made modules a bit tricky, because those things appear in just about every one of these for some obscure reason... =)
Beer? When I played games drunk, I noticed that whatever was remaining of my skills (that is not much) suddently went to hell, so I decided that I should never drink and play. =)
Overkill? No way. First law of emulation: It's Always Too Slow. Faster processor always means less noticeable slowdown.
I have a PIII-600, 256meg memory and a Geforce2MX400, and believe it or not, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (in xmame 0.59.2) is playable but it isn't exactly smooth, even when the original game had only an 11MHz 68000, 8MHz Z80, and a QSound sound chip... =)
hell, I can't even get the VICE emulator to emulate a 1MHz Commodore 64 at full speed! I was completely amazed when I transferred one demo to my real C64 and ran it there... "Wow, this is so fast." =)
Okay, so this 600MHz machine runs a 1MHz machine definitely passably. That means that, um, a 12GHz machine could emulate a CPS-2 box passably? I guess there's some need for assembly optimizations and JIT core in MAME, then =)
Think for a second from Trillian developers' viewpoint: They need to add features to the program, find out how the crazy, closed protocols work if necessary, and such. They don't have the officially published protocol documentation, because, well, it doesn't exist. And the IM companies sometimes do have problems with "other clients".
Personally, I use Jabber, without trying to use the ICQ gateways that are always down anyway and hated by AOL. It's a nice, open protocol.
If you don't know English, learn it, and then read that book.
Reading the books is definitely a recommended method for people who want to learn the language! I was faced with the same sort of thing with... er... um... *blush* Jurassic Park.
Sure, I'll join right away once they open a bank account in Finland. (And with this fantastic money-gathering speed, I seriously doubt they'd bother to.)
At the moment, their only option appears to be PayPal, and PayPal is a Big Silly American Corporation, and Big Silly American Corporations expect that all of their customers have credit cards. Which just isn't true in my case. Sorry. (Looks like they're making some progress on this matter, though, it's possible to transfer money from PayPal to a normal Finnish bank account, but not the other way around...)
The other option would be international money transfer, but banks take insanely high fees for them... probably a bit less in EU, though, but still outrageous prices.
As I have said before, international banking is pain without credit cards. *sigh* And this really hurts every time I really want to contribute to something like this.
Or you could use apache's rewrite rules to forward all attacks to www.micrsoft.com, but I wouldn't recommend that.
Besides that would be of no use. The redirect works by saying "These are not the pages you're looking for, please look from www.microsoft.com instead" - it's not *commanding* anything, just a note where the content may be found. The browser is supposed to interpret that, and I guess the virus couldn't care less about redirections.
Personally, I made a quick mod_perl script for this little webcam server on my home computer. It basically works by saying "If the user doesn't have an User-Agent header, return with 403; otherwise, let them do what they want". (People who spoof the User-Agent for some obscure reason usually use something, not leave it completely empty!) This kills most of the viruses, and the server acts like a sadistic bureaucrat towards the skR1pT k1dd0s. "Sorry, this sploit is malformed. Please fill forms 40a and 41b, and go back to the end of the queue. =)"
- The car wouldn't come with headlights because only newbs need to be able to see where they're going.
No, the car wouldn't come with headlights because the implementors thought the law about car headlights was, while well-intentional, also completely unconstitutional. =)
Yeah! And I could barely wait to start converting these adventure modules I have to electronic format. A couple of these adventures are from old, old (late 80s/early 90s) Finnish RPG mags.
The toolkit didn't have these "erotic paintings" to be put to the walls, and almost every adventure has a "naked beautiful young woman chained to the altar" that I couldn't find anywhere (well, I only looked through a couple of applicable tilesets). Damn! Need to make substantial changes to the original atmosphere...
Well, some games do have ads, but most of them are not too disturbing - many times, they fit to the theme of the game, and they're placed in places where they appear in real life, and as such are ignorable enough.
And in Q3A, there are ads too - at least in the Urban Terror mod. Though, most of them are fictional: "CAMPOQ", "CB Magazine", "Avideo Workstation", "8DFX", and, wow, one real ad: "UMP45 - No longer ridiculously accurate but it sure looks cool." I don't think the companies paid for these, though =)
Hehehe, thanks for reminding. I first played Solitaire in Windows 3.0 with a 386SX. I remember when I solved it, the cards bounced around sloooowly and majestically. When we got to 3.1 and 486DX-33, the cards bounced faster... and these days, it's just blur. Great benchmark for processor speed (especially considering it's the program most fast processors, especially the fastest ones in the offices, are used for. =)
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Actually, it's not just bundled with standard dist yet. Here's the relevant snippet for /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://www.atoker.com/mono unstable main
deb-src http://www.atoker.com/mono unstable main
And then just "apt-get install mono".
And the compiler is called "mcs" in *nix.
...and finally, don't ask me, I don't work here, I'm just the Perl guy waitin' for Parrots. =)
So, how long before we see anti-anti-adblocker.xpi? Oh, never mind, just stuff this to prefs.js:
user_pref("capability.policy.antiantiadblocker.sit es, "http://www.antiadblocker.com");m .disable_open_during_load", false);
user_pref("capability.policy.antiantiadblocker.do
... and if there's domains that use this baby, just stuff the domains there. Popups only for those sites. And still it's possible to further enrichen this by killing the actual popups (could get as simple as "if that's not an antiadblocker window, kill it")...
No wonder this guy's a bit frustrated. Fighting a desperate war that can't be won, especially if a random non-Mozilla-geek gives a 2-line recipe that makes the anti-adblocker thing to give false positive =)
Kids: If it's interpreted by the browser, it must get deciphered at some point, and since it is, it can be intercepted and tricked into believing whatever it wants to believe =)
I think this thing will just further the development of Mozilla's security policy editor that was planned but probably pushed out of 1.0 release plan... It works even now!
Last I heard a rumor about a rumor about reasons behind No Port of Toolkit, they blamed Borland for not shipping some promised development thingy for Linux. *deepsigh*
Personally, I'm going to try Neverwinter Wine soon - hope that works.
Now this is an interesting attitude! Personally, I thought anything that means less reboots to Windows would be a good thing... =)
Transcode! That's what I was looking for! Great! I heard about this ages ago but couldn't find it again =)
I have a Pinnacle's BT848-based card, and Nuppelvideo is just about the only program that succeeds in maintaining AV sync to large extent (just don't move the mouse or do anything other processor-intensive or it will lose it...) The problem is, of course, the odd output format that isn't read by any sensible video editor or MPEG compressor. Transcode seems to do that AND it's reasonably new, appears to be easy enough to use, and not bitrotten to hell, unlike the "exportvideo" program suggested by NuppelVideo.
Wish I could apt-get it, now it seems to depend on non-existing package...
(Did I mention most of the Linux video programs are PAIN to compile? Millions of little packages, often broken thanks to API changes somewhere along the way (as in case of libavifile)...)
When Heroine folks released Broadcast2K, they also put ridiculous system requirements to the website... I don't remember the details, I think it had "2 terabyte striped RAID" there. I suppose Cinelerra has improved then =)
10 minutes unskippable. "Only in America..."
Fortunately none of the DVDs I've bought (even from Disney) don't come with mandatory commercials, and if I'm extremely unlucky I'll be in the menus in a minute.
Frankly, if I ever bought a DVD with a 10-minute unskippable commercial/preview, I'd return it to the store that instant. Credible explanation: "Sorry, I have a DVD player that sometimes hangs and needs to be re-started, and I got pissed off when trying to watch that bloody preview 38th time, and that was before I even got to see the normal DVD menu the first time." If that practice of using long previews would be widespread, the angry mobs would Destroy Movie Importer Personnel.
And people will be plugging this thing to a TELEVISION?
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I'm not saying that Blizzard wouldn't be supporting the thing (at least, the piracy claim is perfectly understandable), merely saying Vivendi is the one whipping them to greater rage...
If Blizzard were alone in the case, they would still attack it - but, I'm entirely speculating here, they might actually listen to comments (such as the ever-popular "Hey, quit lawsuiting us and tell us how to implement the CD key authentication through your servers!")
Oh yes, indeed. What if there was a right to retaliate if you suspected someone of hAx0ring you - from the point of view of People Who Just Installed This Firewall Thingy? (There are three kinds of end-users: Those who think viruses are Someone Else's Problem and their computer is immune to them, there are those who have been properly educated, and then there's those who after the proper education have become ultra-paranoid about everything from viruses to firewalls - send them an image/jpeg attachment and they freak out).
"But I just used the H-Secure Master Rootkill 2004 to silence this evil hacker the instant this vandal sent me a suspicious packet that my firewall intercepted! I have the logs to prove it!"
*shiver* At least in "RL" things are simple enough so that everyone can know when there's Bad Stuff Going On... but what about these new paranoid end users?
Well, Blizzard sure as hell isn't evil. Their parent company (Vivendi) probably is, and they see bnetd only as a pirate island and act accordingly. Arr!
Blizzard liked - and apparently still likes - people who toy with their games (I recently read interview of Bill Roper where he talked of modding possibilities of WCIII - well, one might consider the comment about the possible Boy Band Warcraft Mod pretty insane... =)
I can understand why Blizzard isn't thrilled about bnetd, but still find Vivendi's attack on it unjustified.
As far as Blizzard goes, I'm not going to buy their stuff. Not as long as I need to tune the bases. That's so 1995, folks. I found Myth series cooler. =)
(And another reason is that Direct3D 8 is hosed on my machine and I don't feel like reinstalling... I need to stick to older D3D and newer OpenGL games!)
Or maybe I'll just take a sign and put there a dialogue bit/description that says "This sign has an erotic painting." Simple enough. =)
Maybe... actually, I dragged my entire (classic) D&D stuff collection across the country to see if that could be translated to NWN.
Even found a couple of game magazines and 2nd ed AD&D modules sent by people. The only problem was that NWN doesn't have "erotic painting" and "beautiful young woman chained to the altar" tiles, and this makes converting the reader-made modules a bit tricky, because those things appear in just about every one of these for some obscure reason... =)
Beer? When I played games drunk, I noticed that whatever was remaining of my skills (that is not much) suddently went to hell, so I decided that I should never drink and play. =)
Would be good for other drinks, though...
Overkill? No way. First law of emulation: It's Always Too Slow. Faster processor always means less noticeable slowdown.
I have a PIII-600, 256meg memory and a Geforce2MX400, and believe it or not, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (in xmame 0.59.2) is playable but it isn't exactly smooth, even when the original game had only an 11MHz 68000, 8MHz Z80, and a QSound sound chip... =)
hell, I can't even get the VICE emulator to emulate a 1MHz Commodore 64 at full speed! I was completely amazed when I transferred one demo to my real C64 and ran it there... "Wow, this is so fast." =)
Okay, so this 600MHz machine runs a 1MHz machine definitely passably. That means that, um, a 12GHz machine could emulate a CPS-2 box passably? I guess there's some need for assembly optimizations and JIT core in MAME, then =)
Think for a second from Trillian developers' viewpoint: They need to add features to the program, find out how the crazy, closed protocols work if necessary, and such. They don't have the officially published protocol documentation, because, well, it doesn't exist. And the IM companies sometimes do have problems with "other clients".
Personally, I use Jabber, without trying to use the ICQ gateways that are always down anyway and hated by AOL. It's a nice, open protocol.
Reading the books is definitely a recommended method for people who want to learn the language! I was faced with the same sort of thing with... er... um... *blush* Jurassic Park.
At the moment, their only option appears to be PayPal, and PayPal is a Big Silly American Corporation, and Big Silly American Corporations expect that all of their customers have credit cards. Which just isn't true in my case. Sorry. (Looks like they're making some progress on this matter, though, it's possible to transfer money from PayPal to a normal Finnish bank account, but not the other way around...)
The other option would be international money transfer, but banks take insanely high fees for them... probably a bit less in EU, though, but still outrageous prices.
As I have said before, international banking is pain without credit cards. *sigh* And this really hurts every time I really want to contribute to something like this.
Besides that would be of no use. The redirect works by saying "These are not the pages you're looking for, please look from www.microsoft.com instead" - it's not *commanding* anything, just a note where the content may be found. The browser is supposed to interpret that, and I guess the virus couldn't care less about redirections.
Personally, I made a quick mod_perl script for this little webcam server on my home computer. It basically works by saying "If the user doesn't have an User-Agent header, return with 403; otherwise, let them do what they want". (People who spoof the User-Agent for some obscure reason usually use something, not leave it completely empty!) This kills most of the viruses, and the server acts like a sadistic bureaucrat towards the skR1pT k1dd0s. "Sorry, this sploit is malformed. Please fill forms 40a and 41b, and go back to the end of the queue. =)"
No, the car wouldn't come with headlights because the implementors thought the law about car headlights was, while well-intentional, also completely unconstitutional. =)
Yeah! And I could barely wait to start converting these adventure modules I have to electronic format. A couple of these adventures are from old, old (late 80s/early 90s) Finnish RPG mags.
The toolkit didn't have these "erotic paintings" to be put to the walls, and almost every adventure has a "naked beautiful young woman chained to the altar" that I couldn't find anywhere (well, I only looked through a couple of applicable tilesets). Damn! Need to make substantial changes to the original atmosphere...
But otherwise, it's not at all bad game. =)
Well, some games do have ads, but most of them are not too disturbing - many times, they fit to the theme of the game, and they're placed in places where they appear in real life, and as such are ignorable enough.
And in Q3A, there are ads too - at least in the Urban Terror mod. Though, most of them are fictional: "CAMPOQ", "CB Magazine", "Avideo Workstation", "8DFX", and, wow, one real ad: "UMP45 - No longer ridiculously accurate but it sure looks cool." I don't think the companies paid for these, though =)
I got my GB around 1991, and Tetris came with it.
And when I got my GBA in 2001, I used its excellent improved circuitry to... play Tetris. The thing had a processor the size of a solar system, and I used it to play something that required a fraction of original GB's processing capability!
Hehehe, thanks for reminding. I first played Solitaire in Windows 3.0 with a 386SX. I remember when I solved it, the cards bounced around sloooowly and majestically. When we got to 3.1 and 486DX-33, the cards bounced faster... and these days, it's just blur. Great benchmark for processor speed (especially considering it's the program most fast processors, especially the fastest ones in the offices, are used for. =)