I wouldn't be surprised if LG ran into a COM issue with Windows and decided to make the program for reliable for the user by disabling UAC instead of resolving the problem in a different way.
There really isn't any reason they needed to do this, besides incompetence or malice. I know, I develop commercial software that does much the same thing as their software.
I commented further down with more details regarding why.
There are ways to work around UAC without disabling it in this case. I know, because I wrote MaxTo, which does much the same things, and works with software running under UAC.
If you want MaxTo to work with UAC, you'll need to run MaxTo elevated. If you say deny elevation, it simply won't work with elevated software.
I'm pretty sure LG just took the "easy way" out (or they may have nefarious purposes, but I won't speculate), instead of figuring out how to communicate between elevated and non-elevated processes.
To do this sort of thing, you'll need to divide your software into a few parts. First and foremost, you'll need to install a global system hook. That hook has to be written in unmanaged code (meaning C/C++). You'll need software that controls the hook (but it can be written in a managed language). Now, both the controlling software and the hook has to be compiled as both x64 and x86 code. They will probably also have to communicate with eachother across the x86/x64 platform boundary.
Now, to get the software to communicate (using window messages) across the UAC boundary, you have to specifically let Windows know which window messages your app will accept from the other side. This is probably the step they missed. You do this by using ChangeWindowMessageFilter or ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx.
I interviewed Ole André today, for the Norwegian software news site Programmer.no. In the interview, he clears up some confusion about videoconferences vs. webcams, and tells us about how it was done. The interview is available as an English translation and the original in Norwegian.
Actually, this law is a byproduct of the European Union. As far as I can tell, it is being forced upon us by the EU. Norway is not a member of the European Union, but are still forced to adopt many of the same laws, this just being the most recent of many.
In the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, you can choose to download "Extended databases", which not only detects viruses, but also malware, spyware, adware and the likes. Since it is a realtime scanner, it should prevent those programs from running.
I have identified this service to be a scam using the "superfluous female person standing next to logo" method. I'm still wondering where her headset went, though...
When most scammers use this technique, they usually try the "Superfluous beautiful female person standing next to logo"-version. But then again, this is slashdot.
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According to this article at The Guardian, NASA is actually thinking of creating earth-like conditions on Mars. Will I get to visit Mars in my lifetime? My expiration date is sometime in the years around 2070.
5. Keanu Reeves performance was subpar, even for him. In the climactic battle with Smith at the end, he looked drugged and was not convincing as the leader of the free world. He had no fire, and it was the machines and the Oracle that actually spurred him on to defeat Smith (esp. the machines, as they revived him after being consumed by Smith).
I agree to everything you said, except this. I myself just got back from viewing it; he had no reason to have a "fire" driving him through this. He had just lost Trinity, and was to sad to be hateful nor especially intent on killing Smith.
But, overall, I agree with most of the others here; this is the worst of the 3 movies. The Matrix was brilliant, Matrix Reloaded was not as great as the original, while Matrix Revolutions was downright disappointing.
MS will give Australia higher license fees when they decide that OSS should be adopted someplaces. MS can do that, since they know that the government won't be able to switch to OSS just like that.
This happened in Norway some time ago, when the government figured out that the MS license they hade made on behalf of all the schools in Norway, actually prohibited all use of software that had MS equivalents, which excludes a lot of software, Linux included.
When the government terminated the license, MS then proceeded to charge more for each school that wanted to use MS software, a number which probably didn't change much, and MS got paid more money for the same number of licenses.
As a part-time DJ, running audio through computers and MP3 most of the time; on-board audio is good enough. The slightly degraded quality of the MP3s make it impossible to hear a difference between a onboard chip and a Sound Blaster Audigy, which we recently upgraded to. The difference is that the Audigy is capable of doing proper surround (which is not normally a concern at a disco, but we use it to separate speaker and headphone sound coming from the same computer, and thus reducing delay coming from using two separate soundcards).
The onboard sound is quite good enough, you have to have a heck of a stereo to think it is "unusable", which I've heard a few people say IRL. As long as you are playing MP3s/OGG/, this will be the degrading you hear, not the onboard chip.
Doesn't it seem counter-intuitive for them to offer this service? I mean, increasing the number of people on residential circuits without increasing the number of paying customers is just going to degrade the service for everyone. People are still going to do it behind the backs of ISP's, but they are actually promoting it. Also, what determines which house gets the access point if the price is split 50-50 for everyone? Just a curiousity.
You are kinda missing the point, as far as I can see anyhow. It would (mostly) be uninteresting to share a broadband connection in most urban areas, and if connection sharing via WiFi is present, it is mostly between two households, not more.
What they are aiming at are long-range WiFi links that lets people in rural areas where DSL isn't available connect. I am myself one of those people, now surfing over a 802.11b-link spanning 10km. This is possible thanks to the Norwegian broadband company NextGenTel, however most other ISPs in Norway does not allow this without charging a fee (and then there is the 1GB max download pr. month limit on the major ISP). The connection will be shared between approximately 25-50 people when we are done setting it up, and then spanning 20 km with the help of parabolic antennas, all without passing the Norwegian limit of a maximum effect of 20mW for unlicensed radiowaves.
And, while I remember; the house that gets the access point is the house that can have DSL installed.
Anyhow, having the possibility to let interested souls connect to the internet in places the company won't have the possibility to connect them in other ways actually _increases_ their customer mass.
I've got it on my PEG-T665, which I bought a few months back (yes, I know it's an outdated model). The app is called Clie RMC, and can be downloaded somewhere (can't remember where, but I got an update pack for it a while back). It works marvelously with most of the devices I have at home.
Norway will in the near future have laws forced through by the EU, similar to the DMCA, even though Norway is not members of the EU. This will then make sure that similar "victories" won't happen in the future, and the Johansen case will not have legal precedence when the new laws step in.
Further, in Norway, laws actually permit taking backups of what you have bought licenses to, and it also permits copying "for personal use". What "personal use" is, is subject for discussion, but the most common interpretation is that if you don't distribute (or sell), you aren't doing anything illegal. Of course, this is a generalization, but you get the point.
A movie we won't see; Hackers 3 feat. DVD-Jon...:)
Opera 7 Beta 1 and 2 has a feature called "Open requested pop-up windows only". I don't think Load() in OnMouseOver counts as a requested pop-up window. I'm surfing with that feature right now, and haven't had a pop-up appear for a looong time.
It occurs to me that having trials where the judge, prosecution, or defense are so technologically behind, how is one to get a fair trial?
Well, there are two literates/commoners that will be deciding his penalty. These are actually mentioned in a few of the articles, and they have first been screened on experience and skills, then the prosecution and defense have settled on the two now chosen.
I read a quote from one of Norway's most prominent geeks, Jon Bing, earlier today; "Johansen is actually charged for breaking into his own property", which could describe the entire case. He has never actually distributed the movies, which is the only thing that Norwegian laws actually forbid. (You *can* copy whatever you want for your own personal use, but you *can't* distribute them)
Further, whatever the judgement will be, this will not set legal precendence in Norway, as the DMCA (or something very similar) probably will be enforced shortly, thus overriding the older laws.
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It also raises several questions on how this can be used in a war. E.g., the army has spread these little sensors on a bunch of roads around them, but someone on the other side have managed to jam the signals, and send false ones. So you could practically have the enemy think you are coming in from the east, while you are actually coming in from the west. Well, it might happen.
May I add Airbase ("Ionize", "Theme from the Rock"), Labworks ("All that I Want"), Yahel ("Waves of Sound", and most other songs he has made), Anjunabeats Records ("Anjunabeats volume 1 [radio]"), and a friend of mine's page, DJ Lefso ("Waiting for Dawn [Club mix - reedited]").
Song recommendations in brackets. If you search around mp3.com a bit, you'll find all the music you'll ever need, for free. If you want them on CD, you can buy those as well...
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I wouldn't be surprised if LG ran into a COM issue with Windows and decided to make the program for reliable for the user by disabling UAC instead of resolving the problem in a different way.
There really isn't any reason they needed to do this, besides incompetence or malice. I know, I develop commercial software that does much the same thing as their software.
I commented further down with more details regarding why.
There are ways to work around UAC without disabling it in this case. I know, because I wrote MaxTo, which does much the same things, and works with software running under UAC.
If you want MaxTo to work with UAC, you'll need to run MaxTo elevated. If you say deny elevation, it simply won't work with elevated software.
I'm pretty sure LG just took the "easy way" out (or they may have nefarious purposes, but I won't speculate), instead of figuring out how to communicate between elevated and non-elevated processes.
To do this sort of thing, you'll need to divide your software into a few parts. First and foremost, you'll need to install a global system hook. That hook has to be written in unmanaged code (meaning C/C++). You'll need software that controls the hook (but it can be written in a managed language). Now, both the controlling software and the hook has to be compiled as both x64 and x86 code. They will probably also have to communicate with eachother across the x86/x64 platform boundary.
Now, to get the software to communicate (using window messages) across the UAC boundary, you have to specifically let Windows know which window messages your app will accept from the other side. This is probably the step they missed. You do this by using ChangeWindowMessageFilter or ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx .
Here's a link to the Swedish University Network (SUNet), who mirrors the files from Opera.com.
I interviewed Ole André today, for the Norwegian software news site Programmer.no. In the interview, he clears up some confusion about videoconferences vs. webcams, and tells us about how it was done. The interview is available as an English translation and the original in Norwegian.
Actually, this law is a byproduct of the European Union. As far as I can tell, it is being forced upon us by the EU. Norway is not a member of the European Union, but are still forced to adopt many of the same laws, this just being the most recent of many.
I get a bit tired of paying again just to get a browser that crashes less.
Actually, this update is free for paying Opera 7 customers, and the final version will be too. See this article.
Programmer.no
ZDNet
News.com.com.com.com
Original Opera press release
Changelog
In the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, you can choose to download "Extended databases", which not only detects viruses, but also malware, spyware, adware and the likes. Since it is a realtime scanner, it should prevent those programs from running.
Well, SG: Atlantis is a spin-off of SG-1. As far as I know, there will be another season of SG-1 as well.
However, Atlantis fits very nicely into the story set forth in SG-1, and my guess is that it will be a decent show.
Looking forward to seeing this in Norway.
According to this article at The Guardian, NASA is actually thinking of creating earth-like conditions on Mars. Will I get to visit Mars in my lifetime? My expiration date is sometime in the years around 2070.
BTW, has anyone seen Red Planet?
5. Keanu Reeves performance was subpar, even for him. In the climactic battle with Smith at the end, he looked drugged and was not convincing as the leader of the free world. He had no fire, and it was the machines and the Oracle that actually spurred him on to defeat Smith (esp. the machines, as they revived him after being consumed by Smith).
I agree to everything you said, except this. I myself just got back from viewing it; he had no reason to have a "fire" driving him through this. He had just lost Trinity, and was to sad to be hateful nor especially intent on killing Smith.
But, overall, I agree with most of the others here; this is the worst of the 3 movies. The Matrix was brilliant, Matrix Reloaded was not as great as the original, while Matrix Revolutions was downright disappointing.
MS will give Australia higher license fees when they decide that OSS should be adopted someplaces. MS can do that, since they know that the government won't be able to switch to OSS just like that.
This happened in Norway some time ago, when the government figured out that the MS license they hade made on behalf of all the schools in Norway, actually prohibited all use of software that had MS equivalents, which excludes a lot of software, Linux included.
When the government terminated the license, MS then proceeded to charge more for each school that wanted to use MS software, a number which probably didn't change much, and MS got paid more money for the same number of licenses.
...why can't he just e-mail me the entire database, and I'll look into it... ;)
This. One of the funnier 404 messages I've seen. Take a look at the source for the page so you won't have to wait for the slow version of the text. :)
As a part-time DJ, running audio through computers and MP3 most of the time; on-board audio is good enough. The slightly degraded quality of the MP3s make it impossible to hear a difference between a onboard chip and a Sound Blaster Audigy, which we recently upgraded to. The difference is that the Audigy is capable of doing proper surround (which is not normally a concern at a disco, but we use it to separate speaker and headphone sound coming from the same computer, and thus reducing delay coming from using two separate soundcards).
The onboard sound is quite good enough, you have to have a heck of a stereo to think it is "unusable", which I've heard a few people say IRL. As long as you are playing MP3s/OGG/, this will be the degrading you hear, not the onboard chip.
Doesn't it seem counter-intuitive for them to offer this service? I mean, increasing the number of people on residential circuits without increasing the number of paying customers is just going to degrade the service for everyone. People are still going to do it behind the backs of ISP's, but they are actually promoting it. Also, what determines which house gets the access point if the price is split 50-50 for everyone? Just a curiousity.
You are kinda missing the point, as far as I can see anyhow. It would (mostly) be uninteresting to share a broadband connection in most urban areas, and if connection sharing via WiFi is present, it is mostly between two households, not more.
What they are aiming at are long-range WiFi links that lets people in rural areas where DSL isn't available connect. I am myself one of those people, now surfing over a 802.11b-link spanning 10km. This is possible thanks to the Norwegian broadband company NextGenTel, however most other ISPs in Norway does not allow this without charging a fee (and then there is the 1GB max download pr. month limit on the major ISP). The connection will be shared between approximately 25-50 people when we are done setting it up, and then spanning 20 km with the help of parabolic antennas, all without passing the Norwegian limit of a maximum effect of 20mW for unlicensed radiowaves.
And, while I remember; the house that gets the access point is the house that can have DSL installed.
Anyhow, having the possibility to let interested souls connect to the internet in places the company won't have the possibility to connect them in other ways actually _increases_ their customer mass.
Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program
Actually, Kazaa Stays On Track...
I've got it on my PEG-T665, which I bought a few months back (yes, I know it's an outdated model). The app is called Clie RMC, and can be downloaded somewhere (can't remember where, but I got an update pack for it a while back). It works marvelously with most of the devices I have at home.
Norway will in the near future have laws forced through by the EU, similar to the DMCA, even though Norway is not members of the EU. This will then make sure that similar "victories" won't happen in the future, and the Johansen case will not have legal precedence when the new laws step in.
:)
Further, in Norway, laws actually permit taking backups of what you have bought licenses to, and it also permits copying "for personal use". What "personal use" is, is subject for discussion, but the most common interpretation is that if you don't distribute (or sell), you aren't doing anything illegal. Of course, this is a generalization, but you get the point.
A movie we won't see; Hackers 3 feat. DVD-Jon...
Opera 7 Beta 1 and 2 has a feature called "Open requested pop-up windows only". I don't think Load() in OnMouseOver counts as a requested pop-up window. I'm surfing with that feature right now, and haven't had a pop-up appear for a looong time.
It occurs to me that having trials where the judge, prosecution, or defense are so technologically behind, how is one to get a fair trial?
Well, there are two literates/commoners that will be deciding his penalty. These are actually mentioned in a few of the articles, and they have first been screened on experience and skills, then the prosecution and defense have settled on the two now chosen.
I read a quote from one of Norway's most prominent geeks, Jon Bing, earlier today; "Johansen is actually charged for breaking into his own property", which could describe the entire case. He has never actually distributed the movies, which is the only thing that Norwegian laws actually forbid. (You *can* copy whatever you want for your own personal use, but you *can't* distribute them)
Further, whatever the judgement will be, this will not set legal precendence in Norway, as the DMCA (or something very similar) probably will be enforced shortly, thus overriding the older laws.
It also raises several questions on how this can be used in a war. E.g., the army has spread these little sensors on a bunch of roads around them, but someone on the other side have managed to jam the signals, and send false ones. So you could practically have the enemy think you are coming in from the east, while you are actually coming in from the west. Well, it might happen.
It's the normal problem; To define recursion, we must first define recursion
May I add Airbase ("Ionize", "Theme from the Rock"), Labworks ("All that I Want"), Yahel ("Waves of Sound", and most other songs he has made), Anjunabeats Records ("Anjunabeats volume 1 [radio]"), and a friend of mine's page, DJ Lefso ("Waiting for Dawn [Club mix - reedited]").
Song recommendations in brackets. If you search around mp3.com a bit, you'll find all the music you'll ever need, for free. If you want them on CD, you can buy those as well...