I think cheating is only a problem when there is actual competition going on. Public servers in any FPS-game are so random anyway, that only a blatant aimbotter can affect the game negatively. Luckily, these guys are easy to spot and ban by the server admins.
Speaking as someone who used to cheat in Day of Defeat (pre Steam, pre-vac) I'd have to disagree. In Omaha Beach map when I was at the sniper position (there was only one if you were on the German side) I never saw anyone get past the beach front - and I wasn't even using an aimbot (I was just using a client side hack to paint all the enemy targets red). If no-one was cheating it was actually a relatively balanced map.
I've since grown up (I've only had the one steam account and every single one of my games is active - not banned), but yeah - cheating gives you massive advantages over the other side that I'm sure made it really painful.
Server admins? Half these servers are run by high school students who unknowingly left the lan party machine on from last week connected to the net, and I'd bet money most don't even know how to kick/ban someone.
And before steam - if someone did kick/ban me - I'd change the MAC address on the router and be back in the game - its a total joke.
What they need to do is segregate the servers. One group for corporate maintained machines and another for privately owned servers. Game-masters need to make sweeps through corporately owned servers and take action as necessary, and they need to act on complaints.
In a tournament match in counterstrike about a year ago - we presented a video where a guy got flash banged in his face, and still managed to do 3 head shots on enemy players (despite not being able to see) to valve, and they did nothing about it because their logs didn't say anything... I'm like - but its in the recorded demo! Everything this guy says if fluff - their own support people prove that.
You really can't adapt this - the impedance for this coax is likely 70 ohm (for cable tv) and cat 5 is 100 ohms. You could build a balun, but you'd probably have some weird distance/speed related issues you've never had before. Anyhow if anyone had the parts it would be these guys:
The sad thing is that you may have to buy insurance on products these days simply because they're made so poorly. Among coworkers and friends, there are so many stories of netbooks and laptops crapping out, especially HP's. If a $400 device won't even last you a year, maybe you should buy the insurance. You're going to need it.
Dell tried to sell me a 350$ extended warranty on a 450$ dollar laptop. I told the guy that the part that was bad in it (a toshiba hdd) was 75$ if I fixed it myself. The most expensive component in the machine is the motherboard and its a 120$ part. Why buy a plan for as much as the machine costs? I'll take the risk - $100 is a safe/cheap bet.
It wouldn't surprise me if iPhone insurance was 50-60% of the cost of the phone - and if it is - I wouldn't feel to bad about getting it replaced fraudulently - they made their money off me. (disclaimer: I don't have an iPhone)
You cannot use Foxit on Livecycle forms and other kinds of interactive forms. Foxit doesn't support online commenting and reviewing, Foxit doesn't support 3d annotations (Reader even supports PMI extensions). Yeah Reader is big, but it has a ton of customer requirements.
Foxit does have security advisories - google it, and its not even a major target.
Worse yet, instead of warning you that a PDF is about to execute JavaScript code, Adobe Reader actively and repeatedly harasses you if you turn off JavaScript, telling you that it won't work properly. This, even if the PDF you are viewing contains no JavaScript whatsoever.
Hrm tested this in 9 - it only complains with Javascript disabled that the PDF contains some elements that might not be displayed properly because of the preference, and ONLY IF you open a PDF with Javascript in it.
Static PDF files it does not display any warning if JS is off.
Interestingly enough - in my days at Adobe doing Tier 3 support - the exploit PDF's I'd get from various sources internally were hard to move around the network because virus scanners would delete or clean them up.
I found this rather surprising many times because these scanners would do this to files that were zero day exploits and files that weren't yet disclosed to the public.
Also if your installing reader to your enterprise you can disable browser integration, javascript and a myriad of other features out of the box.
Acrobat/Reader does have a trust manager - but that is only invoked when the viewer goes to an external service to the PC (like the net).
The plain and simple fact is that it is hard to make secure software. Couple that with the fact that the PDF format is well over 20 years old (as you can imagine there's a lot of legacy code in the viewer) and you have a recipe for the perfect security nightmare.
The other problem is - once one researcher/hacker finds a big exploit the blood is in the water and suddenly you have a bunch of people looking into it for obvious reasons.
Disabling browser integration will not disable javascript in Reader... (in fact many of these exploits will operate normally in the stand-alone product).
The only real risk of disabling javascript in Reader/Acrobat is that if you try to use any form that has any logic in it - it will of course not work.
I had a machine with a rootkit on it (my parents laptop) file called srosa.sys - the only clue there was something wrong with the PC at all was it wouldn't run autocheck.exe and any file called chkdsk.exe was automatically deleted.
It also prevented the installation of any virus scan package - literally deleting and modifying files as they were installed.
Its like that hacker defender rootkit a lot of admins ran into a few years back (but didn't know about it) they were calling support about the information store crashing when you attached a file via the webmail interface. Here's the article in case anyone missed it:
I think the scary thing is if anyone came along with a bug free rootkit that survived patching, didn't crash the OS or her applications/services and was undetectable most of us wouldn't think to look while the machine secretly sent all of our info to some machine in China.
You have a corporate license it sounds like... And yes - it does check the license server for a valid license (KMS - Key Management Service). They do have a voluem license called MAK (multiple activation key) for machines that are connected and disconnected from the corporate network constantly that you can use.
I have a regular retail license for Windows 7 and do not have this issue at all.
Before anyone gets too excited Ubuntu does this too. It told me on my old IBM T40 that the battery only had 50% capacity every time I switched it on - yes it was a very older battery with very little capacity.
Probably because nasa will be removing all the really fun and interesting bits? What nasa is selling are museum pieces - literally, they aren't going to be flight ready or capable.
Speaking from my own experience - I've found that if you are in the kind of business where you spend all day tinkering with stuff you have a tendency to shy away from devices or software that require tinkering at all.
One of the reasons I don't personally beta test software;) (because it was at one point pretty much my job).
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Speaking as someone who used to cheat in Day of Defeat (pre Steam, pre-vac) I'd have to disagree. In Omaha Beach map when I was at the sniper position (there was only one if you were on the German side) I never saw anyone get past the beach front - and I wasn't even using an aimbot (I was just using a client side hack to paint all the enemy targets red). If no-one was cheating it was actually a relatively balanced map.
I've since grown up (I've only had the one steam account and every single one of my games is active - not banned), but yeah - cheating gives you massive advantages over the other side that I'm sure made it really painful.
Server admins? Half these servers are run by high school students who unknowingly left the lan party machine on from last week connected to the net, and I'd bet money most don't even know how to kick/ban someone.
And before steam - if someone did kick/ban me - I'd change the MAC address on the router and be back in the game - its a total joke.
What they need to do is segregate the servers. One group for corporate maintained machines and another for privately owned servers. Game-masters need to make sweeps through corporately owned servers and take action as necessary, and they need to act on complaints.
In a tournament match in counterstrike about a year ago - we presented a video where a guy got flash banged in his face, and still managed to do 3 head shots on enemy players (despite not being able to see) to valve, and they did nothing about it because their logs didn't say anything... I'm like - but its in the recorded demo! Everything this guy says if fluff - their own support people prove that.
I haven't seen this myself - and I have a lot of Windows 7 x64 machines :/.
No I'll take the free computer, and then pave the hdd ;).
Well Coax is usually shielded by an aluminum jacket (at least the good stuff is) so it might still work ok.
But your right - ethernet is a rather sensitive signal (especially at really high speeds).
You really can't adapt this - the impedance for this coax is likely 70 ohm (for cable tv) and cat 5 is 100 ohms. You could build a balun, but you'd probably have some weird distance/speed related issues you've never had before. Anyhow if anyone had the parts it would be these guys:
http://www.blackbox.com/Store/Detail.aspx/CATV-Balun/IC448A-R2
I know that's the wrong way, but it gives you an idea of how much you'd have to pay.
Says you, but if you had people handing you cash to do this you'd glad get your company's engineering department to make it.
I mean - how do you personally justify HTML with Javascript? Its the same concept.
Dell tried to sell me a 350$ extended warranty on a 450$ dollar laptop. I told the guy that the part that was bad in it (a toshiba hdd) was 75$ if I fixed it myself. The most expensive component in the machine is the motherboard and its a 120$ part. Why buy a plan for as much as the machine costs? I'll take the risk - $100 is a safe/cheap bet.
It wouldn't surprise me if iPhone insurance was 50-60% of the cost of the phone - and if it is - I wouldn't feel to bad about getting it replaced fraudulently - they made their money off me. (disclaimer: I don't have an iPhone)
If all they did was fiddle the boot.ini - why not just fix these "destroyed" pc's?
You cannot use Foxit on Livecycle forms and other kinds of interactive forms. Foxit doesn't support online commenting and reviewing, Foxit doesn't support 3d annotations (Reader even supports PMI extensions). Yeah Reader is big, but it has a ton of customer requirements.
Foxit does have security advisories - google it, and its not even a major target.
If you write a script for Word to do something that would normally take a thousand mouse clicks to do - why is that bad?
If you have a browser form that has a script to submit to a server and valid the form fields while doing so - why is that bad?
Hrm tested this in 9 - it only complains with Javascript disabled that the PDF contains some elements that might not be displayed properly because of the preference, and ONLY IF you open a PDF with Javascript in it.
Static PDF files it does not display any warning if JS is off.
Interestingly enough - in my days at Adobe doing Tier 3 support - the exploit PDF's I'd get from various sources internally were hard to move around the network because virus scanners would delete or clean them up.
I found this rather surprising many times because these scanners would do this to files that were zero day exploits and files that weren't yet disclosed to the public.
Also if your installing reader to your enterprise you can disable browser integration, javascript and a myriad of other features out of the box.
Acrobat/Reader does have a trust manager - but that is only invoked when the viewer goes to an external service to the PC (like the net).
Yes Foxit actually has security issues as well.I personally don't think there are as many because Foxit isn't in as much wide use (Foxit isn't bundled with new PC's for instance).
The plain and simple fact is that it is hard to make secure software. Couple that with the fact that the PDF format is well over 20 years old (as you can imagine there's a lot of legacy code in the viewer) and you have a recipe for the perfect security nightmare.
The other problem is - once one researcher/hacker finds a big exploit the blood is in the water and suddenly you have a bunch of people looking into it for obvious reasons.
Disabling browser integration will not disable javascript in Reader... (in fact many of these exploits will operate normally in the stand-alone product).
The only real risk of disabling javascript in Reader/Acrobat is that if you try to use any form that has any logic in it - it will of course not work.
I honestly have no clue :( - I don't live around there anymore.
Used to be across the road from the first Fry's Electronics.
I had a machine with a rootkit on it (my parents laptop) file called srosa.sys - the only clue there was something wrong with the PC at all was it wouldn't run autocheck.exe and any file called chkdsk.exe was automatically deleted.
It also prevented the installation of any virus scan package - literally deleting and modifying files as they were installed.
Its like that hacker defender rootkit a lot of admins ran into a few years back (but didn't know about it) they were calling support about the information store crashing when you attached a file via the webmail interface. Here's the article in case anyone missed it:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeremyk/archive/2004/07/19/187696.aspx
I think the scary thing is if anyone came along with a bug free rootkit that survived patching, didn't crash the OS or her applications/services and was undetectable most of us wouldn't think to look while the machine secretly sent all of our info to some machine in China.
You have a corporate license it sounds like... And yes - it does check the license server for a valid license (KMS - Key Management Service). They do have a voluem license called MAK (multiple activation key) for machines that are connected and disconnected from the corporate network constantly that you can use.
I have a regular retail license for Windows 7 and do not have this issue at all.
If I had to listen to Rush forcibly all day - I'd probably want to off myself - who knows - maybe it works with insects too?
Before anyone gets too excited Ubuntu does this too. It told me on my old IBM T40 that the battery only had 50% capacity every time I switched it on - yes it was a very older battery with very little capacity.
Probably because nasa will be removing all the really fun and interesting bits? What nasa is selling are museum pieces - literally, they aren't going to be flight ready or capable.
Its probably cheaper this way.
You ever stop and think that a person who developed the core of an OS and gave it away isn't in it for the money?
I think if more people behaved like Linus this would be a more pleasant world to live in.
Speaking from my own experience - I've found that if you are in the kind of business where you spend all day tinkering with stuff you have a tendency to shy away from devices or software that require tinkering at all.
One of the reasons I don't personally beta test software ;) (because it was at one point pretty much my job).
Watch the movie - all will become clear:
http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=HDDBOOST&area=usa