Ok. Time for a question. So you've programmed a screen to mimic UAC. Good job. Now, to do any damage, your app must request elevation from Vista. Uh oh, guess what. Time for a REAL UAC prompt. Now what?
If you read the article, you would have seen that they are not mimicing the UAC screen but actually causing Vista to prompt the user a real UAC dialog that grants Admin priveledges.
From the Article:
Finally, the malicious code would call the "RunLegacyCPLElevated.exe" -- the Vista executable that provides backward compatibility to older Windows Control Panel plug-ins -- which in turn runs the.dll. That pops up a UAC dialog, but because RunLegacyCPLElevated.exe is set to run those Control Panel plug-ins with full administrative privileges, the dialog is bordered by Vista's own greenish color to signify the file is part of the operating system. As soon as the user clicks the "Confirm" button, the malicious code is granted administrative privileges, giving the code -- and thus the attacker -- full access to and complete control of the machine.
where are your friends getting married where there's people walking by with boomboxes during the vows? One couple I know was married on a public beach. The city didn't allow them to block anything off so there were lots of people walking and jogging by within 10 feet of them.
At first I was outraged by the the fact it was going to be a closed system. I'm still mad, and if there is a petition to sign, I'd sign it, but in the end it's not so surprising given how Apple has treated the IPod. http://www.petitiononline.com/iphone/
Having children is most often a selfish indulgence of the parents. They have children to satisfy their own egos and lifestyle. And it's nothing like slavery, as an embryo is not a sentient individual that can survive outside of the womb.
Yes, because waking up 6 times a night to feed a screaming baby suits my ego and lifestyle.
Add methods to a class, even if it's part of the standard library and I don't have the source code
This is a clever trick, and sounds like nice syntactic sugar... but in practice, is it anything MORE than sugar? I can't imagine this being a make-or-break language design feature (and actually sounds a little scary)
Ruby supports this through Mixins and it's how a lot of the snazzy Rails features are implemented. C# 3.0 will be adding support for Extension methods which do pretty much the same thing.
I think the feature may have originated with Eiffel as a way of doing Multiple Inheritance without the pitfalls of the C++ way of doing it. (Don't quote me on that though.)
...but machines will evolve self-protection (including the ability to protest, invoke sympathy, etc) for the same reason biological species have. To economize and sustain itself. Whether or not this is "real" emotion, pain, etc is a moot point, when you consider the personal mythology most people have built up about relatively unsophisticated tools. We all talk to our cars.
A machine could only evolve in such a way if programmed to do so. The insurance application processing system I wrote isn't going to evolve to the point where it refuses to process another application. It simply isn't possible.
A machine cannot evolve without specifically being granted that ability by it's programming.
For the most part SSIS is a huge improvement over DTS, it is also much more scalable, and now has it's own dedicated runtime. Components for SSIS are also C# components as opposed to com components under DTS. Theoretically if you code is written well, you can reuse parts of it inside a 2005 DB with the CLR enabled.
While all the API's for extending SSIS are exposed as managed API, the internals of SSIS are NOT written in C# for the most part. The engine and most of the built in tasks are C++ COM Components exposed through a managed wrapper. This was done for performance reasons.
SQL 2005 Express is not merely intended for development, it is a replacement for MSDE which in turn is geared as the replacement for Access as a database for local applications.
I run SQL 2005 Developer edition on my XP machine which comes with all the other SQL tools such as Analyis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services among other features.
(Yes, I know iPods use USB. But they require a dock and aren't mass storage devices out of the box. They also can't be connected to other USB storage devices for file transfers. And stop looking at me like that- I like my iPod)
Uh, I have a 30GB black video iPod that I got for Christmas last year. It DOES NOT require a dock and it pops up in Windows AND Mac OS X as a removable drive. You just have to use iTunes to sync music and videos, but you can use it as a USB drive for anything you want.
I'm confused--when Microsoft does something good, do we just ignore it? You know, I'm all for criticizing their evil plans for world domination in the software market but shouldn't news be subjective not objective even if it is only for nerds?
You got those backwards. Objective means without bias while the news you are complaining about is subjective, it is biased towards downplaying the good things Microsoft does.
To all you who say "Ya, but you were using a pre-SP2 Windows CD! How silly!"
You have NO CHOICE. Microsoft makes it impossible to obtain a newer ISO image of ANY of their OS installers, even though you have the license (and therefore the right) to install it.
That's not true. The retail versions of XP now come with SP2 slipstreamed into them. You can also do it your self. The Service Pack installers provides the ability to slipstream it to an XP cd that you've copied to disc. You then burn this back to disc and viola, you have an XP install disc with SP2 already applied. Just Google for 'SP2 slipstream'. Here, I did it for you, http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2 _slipstream.asp.
Also, if you are a Volumne license customer or have an MSDN subscription, you will get media and ISO downloads for XP with SP2 already applied. Where do you think those ISOs you're downloading come from?
XP SP2 doesn't include SATA nor does Windows 2003. No, you CANNOT load them from a CD, you MUST use a floppy and hit F6 at the start of the installer to tell it you want to load the drivers from a disk. The best part of that is that the prompt asks if you want to load third party SCSI or RAID drivers so even a user that might normally be able to install Windows could get thrown off by that. There is no way to load them from a CD unless you slipstream them into the Windows XP disc which is really a PITA.
No, we didn't pay for the development setup. But at the same time as offering the application to big health care organizations, we were also offering it as a service model to smaller orgs suchs as TPAs (third party administrators) thus requiring us to run Oracle in a Production environment.
Back in 02-03 I worked for a small startup. We were running Oracle on Linux doing dev work. We called them up to inquire about licenses. I think we were quoted $32k for our setup. We naturally told them, nevermind, we'll port it to MySQL and they eventually came back and offered us a deal at $4k. Of course, our app was meant to be installed at several high profile insurance companies so that meant more Oracle Licenses for them in the future.
BTW, all those numbers are from my rather fragile memory. YMMV.
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I never finished my AA. Took all the major requirements I could (the fun stuff), and then dropped out.
Currently, I'm a Sr. Software Engineer. Been in the business for 10 years.
Just means you have to try harder, but you can do it.
I played the hell out of the NES version.
If you read the article, you would have seen that they are not mimicing the UAC screen but actually causing Vista to prompt the user a real UAC dialog that grants Admin priveledges.
From the Article:
How about http://www.openmoko.com/.
Yes, because waking up 6 times a night to feed a screaming baby suits my ego and lifestyle.
Ruby supports this through Mixins and it's how a lot of the snazzy Rails features are implemented. C# 3.0 will be adding support for Extension methods which do pretty much the same thing.
I think the feature may have originated with Eiffel as a way of doing Multiple Inheritance without the pitfalls of the C++ way of doing it. (Don't quote me on that though.)
The problem with breathalyzers, as shown in the movie 40 Year Old Virgin, is that you can just have someone else breath into it.
A machine could only evolve in such a way if programmed to do so. The insurance application processing system I wrote isn't going to evolve to the point where it refuses to process another application. It simply isn't possible.
A machine cannot evolve without specifically being granted that ability by it's programming.
Except that Video is much more accurate than eye-witness testimony so it's doubleplus good!
He died last March... http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/29/cochran.obit/
You also need 1.21 gigawatts of power.
While all the API's for extending SSIS are exposed as managed API, the internals of SSIS are NOT written in C# for the most part. The engine and most of the built in tasks are C++ COM Components exposed through a managed wrapper. This was done for performance reasons.
SQL 2005 Express is not merely intended for development, it is a replacement for MSDE which in turn is geared as the replacement for Access as a database for local applications.
I run SQL 2005 Developer edition on my XP machine which comes with all the other SQL tools such as Analyis Services, Integration Services, and Reporting Services among other features.
You forgot registered independent.
Uh, I have a 30GB black video iPod that I got for Christmas last year. It DOES NOT require a dock and it pops up in Windows AND Mac OS X as a removable drive. You just have to use iTunes to sync music and videos, but you can use it as a USB drive for anything you want.
You got those backwards. Objective means without bias while the news you are complaining about is subjective, it is biased towards downplaying the good things Microsoft does.
Semantics, they'll get you everytime.
Well, maybe he'd like to pay more for an airline that didn't allows Jews. They can fly El Al and he can fly Air Hitler.
That's not true. The retail versions of XP now come with SP2 slipstreamed into them. You can also do it your self. The Service Pack installers provides the ability to slipstream it to an XP cd that you've copied to disc. You then burn this back to disc and viola, you have an XP install disc with SP2 already applied. Just Google for 'SP2 slipstream'. Here, I did it for you, http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp
Also, if you are a Volumne license customer or have an MSDN subscription, you will get media and ISO downloads for XP with SP2 already applied. Where do you think those ISOs you're downloading come from?
XP SP2 doesn't include SATA nor does Windows 2003. No, you CANNOT load them from a CD, you MUST use a floppy and hit F6 at the start of the installer to tell it you want to load the drivers from a disk. The best part of that is that the prompt asks if you want to load third party SCSI or RAID drivers so even a user that might normally be able to install Windows could get thrown off by that. There is no way to load them from a CD unless you slipstream them into the Windows XP disc which is really a PITA.
No, we didn't pay for the development setup. But at the same time as offering the application to big health care organizations, we were also offering it as a service model to smaller orgs suchs as TPAs (third party administrators) thus requiring us to run Oracle in a Production environment.
Back in 02-03 I worked for a small startup. We were running Oracle on Linux doing dev work. We called them up to inquire about licenses. I think we were quoted $32k for our setup. We naturally told them, nevermind, we'll port it to MySQL and they eventually came back and offered us a deal at $4k. Of course, our app was meant to be installed at several high profile insurance companies so that meant more Oracle Licenses for them in the future.
BTW, all those numbers are from my rather fragile memory. YMMV.
Linux, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Neither does he. MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops only have the Core Duo, not the Core 2 Duo.
Dude, that's freaking hilarious.