I want to go write this so much. Although, I run OS X and Linux and don't have access to any source code or apps that will actually search for spyware.
Perhaps the OS X and Linux version will let you kill root kits and script kiddie ping sweeps.
Oh come on. Didn't you read the bit in the manual that explains that the future as depicted by Deus Ex is the victim of a horrible ammunition shortage?
Even though it is running on PearPC (and thus slower than possibly imaginable), it is still impressive. Although, I just bought a used Beige G3/233 for $10 and I still have more memory (72MB) than the XBox in it.
I only came onboard in the process of converting to XP, so I can't vouch either way for the relative security of 2K, sorry.
Luckily, we have really good network administrators (Just a grunt tech here) and usually we can track down, isolate and kill infections before they can pose too much of a threat to other machines. We did have a couple copies of the latest Bagle running around, and that was no fun, but at least it didn't install itself into the system's shared-library directory.
Coming from Linux, the concept of something installing a DLL to/lib without having root permissions is terrifying.
We actually lock down our Windows XP machines pretty hard, yet for some reason a virus is capable of installing DLLs into the system folder on a non-priveleged account.
We've had a number of keylogger viruses and such pop up on local machines, even from machines with restricted permissions (i.e. can't even write to C:). I don't know what's wrong with XP, but this looks to be a pretty big flaw.
Like the PHB at the office where my wife works said after announcing that the IT guy was to be laid off and not replaced: "I don't see why we need an IT guy-- we never have any computer problems" (cluebat time!)
Are you kidding? That's the top kind of boss. You just wait two weeks until something shits itself, then show up and offer to fix everything again and work as a fulltime IT consultant at twice the rate.
If that doesn't work, you just discuss the situation with his boss.
Call me crazy, but I don't think they invented the first optical mouse. I'm pretty sure I remember someone at PARC developing it alongside one of their Xerox machines, and cancelling it because it wouldn't work quite right.
Grad students are too quick. Use high school kids, you can get them cheaper to boot. Abacuses (Abacii?) are fairly expensive as well, so you should just give them sticks and sand/dirt you find lying around.
Anyone remember the.com's where you brought your own PC into the office? Ya, I picture Valve like this. Sierra has always been cheap, and they love to buy companies and fire everyone. Dynamix anyone?
Unfortunately, this kind of behaviour is the norm instead of the exception, which is why everyone in the industry hates big game publishers (except for the game "press" which likes that they give them plastic swords with the game name on them).
Have you ever seen those TV shows about bounty hunters in the US? Of course it's appropriate. I'd love to see film of big Florida spamhaus heads getting driven into the cold concrete by an unflinching lowlife.
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He is now my own personal saviour. I mean, just look at the Devtendo he built.
Hey... you're right! Too bad they didn't rip off the UNIX core, intelligent software development system, dock and other gadgets though.
This explains the hordes of attractive women who surround me when I open up XCode and start building shaders.
Thank you for clearing this up! I thought I had somehow become a rap star without my knowledge.
You role-played. That's a big no-no in the general public's "Final Fantasy with swords" perception of MMORPGs.
I want to go write this so much. Although, I run OS X and Linux and don't have access to any source code or apps that will actually search for spyware.
Perhaps the OS X and Linux version will let you kill root kits and script kiddie ping sweeps.
Yeah, this article is huge on the front page. I thought for a second I had enabled some kind of "View Full Articles Always" option.
..It runs Windows and uses a 32-bit laptop-oriented processor and has a touchpad mouse?
And this competes with a 64-bit RISC processor-based iMac that retails for almost $200 less?
Plus, it looks like ass. It's for the blind, right?
In third-world diamond and gold mines they usually shoot miners who are trying to escape with the goods.
I'm not sure it would be all that easy to explain to a teary-eyed widow that you iced her husband over a game DVD.
The, uh, keyboards aren't TEMPEST proof. Sorry.
I'm willing to bet the original writer is about 14, tops.
Better patent the activity of patent licensing, too, just to be on the safe side.
If the FBI is busy busting us, then they're not watching commercials and the whole case can probably be thrown out of court.
Oh come on. Didn't you read the bit in the manual that explains that the future as depicted by Deus Ex is the victim of a horrible ammunition shortage?
Me, I blame the Democrats.
G3/233 Beige (Rev. B) for $10 CANADIAN. Mine has PCI. :)
Even though it is running on PearPC (and thus slower than possibly imaginable), it is still impressive. Although, I just bought a used Beige G3/233 for $10 and I still have more memory (72MB) than the XBox in it.
So you think it is an exploit in some service that XP is running that allows it to wedge the DLL in there?
Ah crap, Linux doesn't use DLLs, it uses .SOs. I need some more sleep.
I only came onboard in the process of converting to XP, so I can't vouch either way for the relative security of 2K, sorry.
/lib without having root permissions is terrifying.
Luckily, we have really good network administrators (Just a grunt tech here) and usually we can track down, isolate and kill infections before they can pose too much of a threat to other machines. We did have a couple copies of the latest Bagle running around, and that was no fun, but at least it didn't install itself into the system's shared-library directory.
Coming from Linux, the concept of something installing a DLL to
We actually lock down our Windows XP machines pretty hard, yet for some reason a virus is capable of installing DLLs into the system folder on a non-priveleged account.
We've had a number of keylogger viruses and such pop up on local machines, even from machines with restricted permissions (i.e. can't even write to C:). I don't know what's wrong with XP, but this looks to be a pretty big flaw.
Like the PHB at the office where my wife works said after announcing that the IT guy was to be laid off and not replaced: "I don't see why we need an IT guy-- we never have any computer problems" (cluebat time!)
Are you kidding? That's the top kind of boss. You just wait two weeks until something shits itself, then show up and offer to fix everything again and work as a fulltime IT consultant at twice the rate.
If that doesn't work, you just discuss the situation with his boss.
It's Omega Race. I'd throw you into a woodchipper for a sit-down unit.
Call me crazy, but I don't think they invented the first optical mouse. I'm pretty sure I remember someone at PARC developing it alongside one of their Xerox machines, and cancelling it because it wouldn't work quite right.
Grad students are too quick. Use high school kids, you can get them cheaper to boot. Abacuses (Abacii?) are fairly expensive as well, so you should just give them sticks and sand/dirt you find lying around.
Anyone remember the .com's where you brought your own PC into the office? Ya, I picture Valve like this. Sierra has always been cheap, and they love to buy companies and fire everyone. Dynamix anyone?
Unfortunately, this kind of behaviour is the norm instead of the exception, which is why everyone in the industry hates big game publishers (except for the game "press" which likes that they give them plastic swords with the game name on them).
Have you ever seen those TV shows about bounty hunters in the US? Of course it's appropriate. I'd love to see film of big Florida spamhaus heads getting driven into the cold concrete by an unflinching lowlife.