Look at what the ACs pointed out... An admin still needs to start the process... however in AD with a Computer install, software is installed in the system context because no admin in logged in. And considering that an admin assigns the software to be installed i do not think that is security issue in the design.
Any normal user account in windows cannot write into the Windows folder where.Net resides, and therefore a normal user will be not be able install.Net unless they increase their previledges...
Trademarks work that way. Patents can be used to sue people no matter how long they may have violated it with or without the knowledge of patent holder. and IANAL
Service Pack is exactly like a major update, however a service pack has other updates that microsoft has released that do are not security updates. For instance it might have updates to nslookup.
Typically SP do not have feature enhancements, but MS broke its rule so that they could secure up XP. So SP2 has a popup blocker, enhanced firewall, DEP etc.
I realize MS does not force people to run as non admins. However I do configure machines at my work to allow users only priviledges as user, and it works very well. Just about most applications run fine. Ofcourse there are a few like PageMaker 6.5, Meeting maker, and other apps that have problems with it. But all of them can be solved with a few GPO based ACL modifications.
There is also GPO settings that allow admins to block/restrict certain applications from running.
Software restriction, not for home use ofcourse.
Also look at this article on msdn, it gives lot more information on how to use software restriction.
Well for web service not exactly. IF you configre the web service you want to debug to run under your credentials(ie app pool as you) you do not need Admin acces. (remote debugging still does though). I have never had to debug a service, so i do not know about that.
Active X used to show upas a Yes no text box, now it shows up as a yellow bar... Take a look here...
http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2004/03/21/ 93551.aspx
support proper file-locking and implement unix-style permissions
What are you talking about, windows has a better permission structure with ACLs than any unix system did. Most modren unix systems have been adopting Windows style ACLs lately. File locking also exists in windows, and also part of ntfs. Ofcourse you would not have these features in FAT.
If anything is the problem is that people are administrators on their computers and this would be solved if they went the apple sudo model, which I prefer the most.
Although there are people that do expect fame/ power from open source, a lot of them do the work because they like to do it. But do not blame EA employees, I would never do such work any any For profit company in my life unless they paid me more.
The first one is giving, the second one is being moronic....
And what does it have to do with MS and Lindows, maybe MS and wine....
As people complain on slashdot the only thing MS is not doing is developing for IE (yes i know they started again), and i am sure they were not doing it so that no one else can emulate. Mozilla chooses not to for a good reason.
Read up on RISC and CISC before you post on mac emulation, a lot of it has to do iwht processor architecture and not "Apples".
No.... This happened to me to, barely a year after my XBOX started giving me the disc is dirty erorrs on new video games. What what pissed me offf the most was that there were a ton of people this happened to, and MS charges a 130$ to fix a problem that really is a hardware fault.
This is not one of those McDonalds Hot coffee lawsuits
Well, all those people that did have computers out of that 50mil had illegal copies of windows. I grew up in india, and 10$ will change someones mind as to whether to get something legal or off the blackmarket.
Hence they came up with that really cheap version of windows for some parts of the world. I think he wants cheaper computers with the cheaper windows in all the homes.
Lets say out of the 250Mil or so middle class in india, 50mil get a computer because of cheap computers and OSes that is an extra 15billion in MS pocket...
I have not seen this being solved very well outside of sticky sessions in java app servers either, most of them also hit a point when performance degrades considerably when the cluster reaches a certain size. Also replicating sessions also causes a great performance degradation.
We use sticky sessions with Application Center 2000, and the solution has worked out very well.
You do realize in the Windows world with ASP.NET all you do is drop a set of files, and maybe the bin folder into the target directory. There is nothing else to it.
For ASP.NEt Session management does have a variety of options, in-proc, out of process in a state server, or in a SQL database (which includes the free MSDE).
I did not take PHP 5 in consideration because even most developers at PHP would tell you it is not considered a production quality engine... yet.
Dont get me wrong I use php too, my website uses mambo running PHP 4.3 and mysql on Windows 2003 and IIS 6. I personally like most technologies out there, just different ones for different things
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Look at what the ACs pointed out... An admin still needs to start the process... however in AD with a Computer install, software is installed in the system context because no admin in logged in. And considering that an admin assigns the software to be installed i do not think that is security issue in the design.
.Net resides, and therefore a normal user will be not be able install .Net unless they increase their previledges...
Any normal user account in windows cannot write into the Windows folder where
duh.... The point was there was an exploit out for 1.0 and had been fixed in 1.0.1
firescrolling exploit example.... caution exploit code
been out for atleast 2 weeks..... just because the media does not cover something does not mean it doesn't exist.
well, IANAL is true, and thanks for the info....
Trademarks work that way. Patents can be used to sue people no matter how long they may have violated it with or without the knowledge of patent holder. and IANAL
Ofcourse it is from dictionary.com... :)
There are alternative definitions to obsolete:
Obsolete: Outmoded in design, style, or construction
outmoded: No longer usable or practical;
So in this case it means the highschools are not practical, does not mean they have a better alternative
Service Pack is exactly like a major update, however a service pack has other updates that microsoft has released that do are not security updates. For instance it might have updates to nslookup.
Typically SP do not have feature enhancements, but MS broke its rule so that they could secure up XP. So SP2 has a popup blocker, enhanced firewall, DEP etc.
I realize MS does not force people to run as non admins. However I do configure machines at my work to allow users only priviledges as user, and it works very well. Just about most applications run fine. Ofcourse there are a few like PageMaker 6.5, Meeting maker, and other apps that have problems with it. But all of them can be solved with a few GPO based ACL modifications.
There is also GPO settings that allow admins to block/restrict certain applications from running. Software restriction, not for home use ofcourse.
Also look at this article on msdn, it gives lot more information on how to use software restriction.
Well for web service not exactly. IF you configre the web service you want to debug to run under your credentials(ie app pool as you) you do not need Admin acces. (remote debugging still does though). I have never had to debug a service, so i do not know about that.
Active X used to show upas a Yes no text box, now it shows up as a yellow bar... Take a look here... http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2004/03/21/ 93551.aspx
By the that yellow bar you talk about is actually how the activex stuff comes up in IE w/ XPSP2 which moz devs liked and copied...
support proper file-locking and implement unix-style permissions
What are you talking about, windows has a better permission structure with ACLs than any unix system did. Most modren unix systems have been adopting Windows style ACLs lately. File locking also exists in windows, and also part of ntfs. Ofcourse you would not have these features in FAT.
If anything is the problem is that people are administrators on their computers and this would be solved if they went the apple sudo model, which I prefer the most.
Yup you see it everyday... Open Source.
Although there are people that do expect fame/ power from open source, a lot of them do the work because they like to do it. But do not blame EA employees, I would never do such work any any For profit company in my life unless they paid me more.
The first one is giving, the second one is being moronic....
And what does it have to do with MS and Lindows, maybe MS and wine....
As people complain on slashdot the only thing MS is not doing is developing for IE (yes i know they started again), and i am sure they were not doing it so that no one else can emulate.
Mozilla chooses not to for a good reason.
Read up on RISC and CISC before you post on mac emulation, a lot of it has to do iwht processor architecture and not "Apples".
Sorry to burst your bubble but WMV has been approved.
Seems like MS we will be seeing a lot of VC1 in the future....
No.... This happened to me to, barely a year after my XBOX started giving me the disc is dirty erorrs on new video games. What what pissed me offf the most was that there were a ton of people this happened to, and MS charges a 130$ to fix a problem that really is a hardware fault.
This is not one of those McDonalds Hot coffee lawsuits
Well, all those people that did have computers out of that 50mil had illegal copies of windows. I grew up in india, and 10$ will change someones mind as to whether to get something legal or off the blackmarket.
whoops... math error, that would be 1.5Billion... my point still stands, it is still extra money
Hence they came up with that really cheap version of windows for some parts of the world. I think he wants cheaper computers with the cheaper windows in all the homes.
Lets say out of the 250Mil or so middle class in india, 50mil get a computer because of cheap computers and OSes that is an extra 15billion in MS pocket...
I have not seen this being solved very well outside of sticky sessions in java app servers either, most of them also hit a point when performance degrades considerably when the cluster reaches a certain size. Also replicating sessions also causes a great performance degradation.
We use sticky sessions with Application Center 2000, and the solution has worked out very well.
You do realize in the Windows world with ASP.NET all you do is drop a set of files, and maybe the bin folder into the target directory. There is nothing else to it.
For ASP.NEt Session management does have a variety of options, in-proc, out of process in a state server, or in a SQL database (which includes the free MSDE).
Oh dont forget that quicktime cannot do a fullscreen video easily on Windows
I did not take PHP 5 in consideration because even most developers at PHP would tell you it is not considered a production quality engine... yet.
Dont get me wrong I use php too, my website uses mambo running PHP 4.3 and mysql on Windows 2003 and IIS 6. I personally like most technologies out there, just different ones for different things
you did read the pages i linked didnt you. cause if you did you would notice a similar vulnerability on there that has not been fixed.