ehi come on! every self respeting geek has already read it 10 years ago,
Well, did kdawson and narramissic read it?
The summary makes me wonder if neither the submitter nor the editor knew of Tanenbaum and Minix: "a Unix-type operating system, called Minix" "Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit"
Because *this particular* US law doesn't apply in Germany. There, fixed that for you:o)
The question was: "Doesn't Europe have the equivalent of the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act [wikipedia.org]?"
The person who asked was obviously very well aware that the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act does not apply in Europe. He asked if we don't have some European law with the same effect.
And for this you think he should be modded off topic?
As it should be. The system administrator should be responsible for updating software, especially if the user can't do it themselves.
Oh, you think that those are two different persons?
No, the unprivileged user is just a sane system administrator doing stuff which doesn't require admin privileges. This user would very much like to be informed that it may be time to login as admin to receive a Firefox update.
2. NAT negotiation. For users outside the United States in particular using DSL, this is a problem. This is a case where player A can't see player B and thus they can't play together. This is something we will be aggressively looking at next week. If we hadn't had the server overload, we likely would have this addressed already.
Please tell me that GPG did not reuse the faulty network protocol from Supreme Commander. There were two of us in their forums trying to explain them in detail why it didn't work and what they would need to change to make it work. And they have had two years to fix it.
The problem back then was that they tried to penetrate NAT routers by letting client A connect to client B on the same port as client B had used as source port when contacting the server. With a little luck, client B's router would treat the packet from client A as a response from the server and forward it to client B.
On the surface this seems very clever, but there are pitfalls and the developers simply did not understand how to avoid them. If client B's router was only accepting inbound responses from the destination ip address of an outbound connection, it would obviously not work. This means that any decent stateful inspection firewall implementation in the router would block the traffic from client A.
This would not be much of a problem, if the players could just setup port forwarding in the router. But to make that work, you will need to know which port to forward. Unfortunately, the game ignored the fixed listening port announced by the clients and only tried to connect to the above mentioned source port used for the connection to the server. This source port was fixed on the game PC, but some NAT routers use dynamically allocated source port numbers when rewriting the packets.
In short: The network protocol in Supreme Commander - and perhaps now in Demigod - was build on several assumptions about router behaviour. If your router behaves as GPG assumes, you are lucky. Otherwise not.
If you break into my house for whatever reasonwithout a court warrant, the only 'evidence' will be your sorry, dumb ass will provide is you in a body bag, as 'evidence' of a forcible entry, with me defending myself, family, and property. END OF STORY!
We need a "-1 Gun-obsessed nonsense" moderation option.
Adobe seems to have got it right with its latest version of Adobe Updater - only launch when an Adobe product is launched and in addition allow the user to modify the schedule. I can set Adobe Updater to never check for updates (do it manually) only once a month, or every time, but the crucial part is that it only runs when I run Photoshop (or whatever).
A standard installation of most software, including Adobe software, needs administrative privileges for updating. On a correctly configured computer, Photoshop will be run - and started - by unprivileged users.
So how does the updater start together with Photoshop?
If the updater is launched by Photoshop, it will only be run with the same privileges as Photoshop which will be inadequate for updating.
If not, a service will have to listen in the background and wait for someone to start Photoshop. But we did not want a constantly running background service...
If Microsoft only supporting patented filesystems is a real issue, camera makers can include Windows [fs-driver.org] drivers [sourceforge.net] for unpatented file systems.
So we are expected to install drivers for our camera?
I try to avoid cameras which cannot be accessed without drivers.
85% opened and ran the attachment. we used this as a part of our It education to our users.
after the classes that month we repeated it 45 days later. we had a 90% opening rate this time.
you really can not teach the users.
Yes you can. You taught one third of the remaining 15% that these messages are harmless service bulletins from the IT department - not the dangerous mails they originally thought.
Seriously, if you provide a consumer service of any kind, and you expect the consumers to do anything more than just use the service, you are seriously deluded. People - including, I suspect, many techies - will never do anything more than chat/download/email/surf/whatever./
I messed up my first attempt, so here we go again:
The technical problems in backup may not be a consumer problem.
However, the keeping-control-of-your-collected-data problems certainly are.
These problems will be an important consumer issue in the future as online services grow, so consumers will have to know how to handle them. Consumers who choose to store their data in an online service will need to find answers for questions like these:
1. Will it be technically and practically possible for me to extract my data and move them to another service or move them home if I no longer want to use the service?
2. Will it be technically and practically possible for me to keep a local mirror of my data?
3. As 1 and 2, but s/technically\ and\ practically/legally/ .
Seriously, if you provide a consumer service of any kind, and you expect the consumers to do anything more than just use the service, you are seriously deluded. People - including, I suspect, many techies - will never do anything more than chat/download/email/surf/whatever./blockquote
The technical problems in backup may not be a consumer problem.
However, the keeping-control-of-your-collected-data problems certainly are.
These problems will be an important consumer issue in the future as online services grow, so consumers will have to know how to handle them. Consumers who choose to store their data in an online service will need to find answers for questions like these:
1. Will it be technically and practically possible for me to extract my data and move them to another service or move them home if I no longer want to use the service?
2. Will it be technically and practically possible for me to keep a local mirror of my data?
3. As 1 and 2, but s/technically\ and\ practically/legally/ .
This is why I like my Logitech G9. You install the software once to configure it, and all of your settings are stored on the mouse itself. So it works the same no matter what computer you're plugging it into, and requires no software running.
The downside is that the software is really, really terrible. So even when I only install it for a few minutes to configure a G9 mouse, I feel dirty.
Where I work, we are strongly advised not to install Logitech mouse drivers as it messes with the PCs. I did it anyway, and my keyboard would no longer type dead key letters (like ä where you press followed by a to get the combined letter).
So a mouse driver screwed with my keyboard - not a Logitech keyboard, but a standard keyboard without any custom drivers. That should be illegal.
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Are you serious? You could ask the same question for any secure password handling:
"But... If my password is never sent to the server, then how is it used?"
I said "you could". On /., you should probably not.
Well, did kdawson and narramissic read it?
The summary makes me wonder if neither the submitter nor the editor knew of Tanenbaum and Minix:
"a Unix-type operating system, called Minix"
"Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor at Vrije Universiteit"
Sorry. I am a man. I have no experience in getting raped during pregnancy.
The question was:
"Doesn't Europe have the equivalent of the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act [wikipedia.org]?"
The person who asked was obviously very well aware that the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act does not apply in Europe. He asked if we don't have some European law with the same effect.
And for this you think he should be modded off topic?
Oh, you think that those are two different persons?
No, the unprivileged user is just a sane system administrator doing stuff which doesn't require admin privileges. This user would very much like to be informed that it may be time to login as admin to receive a Firefox update.
No one Kares.
Be very careful with that word. I don't think you understand when to use it.
In particular, you will look silly whooshing somebodys whoosh.
Or in other words:
I was pointing out that Skyshadow didn't get Hognoxious' joke.
Sorry if I was too subtle for you. Hey, that actually qualifies for this:
Whooooooosh!
Correct. Quartto transmissions are incredibly rare. But you could try using a Quattro transmission as a replacement
Please tell me that GPG did not reuse the faulty network protocol from Supreme Commander. There were two of us in their forums trying to explain them in detail why it didn't work and what they would need to change to make it work. And they have had two years to fix it.
The problem back then was that they tried to penetrate NAT routers by letting client A connect to client B on the same port as client B had used as source port when contacting the server. With a little luck, client B's router would treat the packet from client A as a response from the server and forward it to client B.
On the surface this seems very clever, but there are pitfalls and the developers simply did not understand how to avoid them. If client B's router was only accepting inbound responses from the destination ip address of an outbound connection, it would obviously not work. This means that any decent stateful inspection firewall implementation in the router would block the traffic from client A.
This would not be much of a problem, if the players could just setup port forwarding in the router. But to make that work, you will need to know which port to forward. Unfortunately, the game ignored the fixed listening port announced by the clients and only tried to connect to the above mentioned source port used for the connection to the server. This source port was fixed on the game PC, but some NAT routers use dynamically allocated source port numbers when rewriting the packets.
In short:
The network protocol in Supreme Commander - and perhaps now in Demigod - was build on several assumptions about router behaviour. If your router behaves as GPG assumes, you are lucky. Otherwise not.
We need a "-1 Gun-obsessed nonsense" moderation option.
This mechanical clock was completed 54 years ago. It has a 25,753 year cycle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Olsen's_World_Clock
(And it had to be completely renovated after 40 years...)
I want a "-1 Whoosh" moderation option.
Or perhaps it should be +1 so posts like yours are put on display for everyone to laugh at...
A standard installation of most software, including Adobe software, needs administrative privileges for updating. On a correctly configured computer, Photoshop will be run - and started - by unprivileged users.
So how does the updater start together with Photoshop?
If the updater is launched by Photoshop, it will only be run with the same privileges as Photoshop which will be inadequate for updating.
If not, a service will have to listen in the background and wait for someone to start Photoshop. But we did not want a constantly running background service...
So in order to protect the French language, they forced you to use English.
Does this indicate that the French language needed to be protected from your use of it?
To which continent does Greenland belong, if not Europe?
No, but the country is correct. Lars Bak, Kasper Lund and the drummer are all from Denmark.
I assume you were funny, but in case you were not:
Microsoft counts from the day they publicly confirm the existence of a bug.
Most others counts from the day the bug was publicly known.
So if Microsoft delay the confirmation of a publicly known bug, the numbers will work in their favour.
So we are expected to install drivers for our camera?
I try to avoid cameras which cannot be accessed without drivers.
Yes, transporting a device wrapped in duct tape onto an airplane is a real hit.
I don't know about Sweden, but in Denmark both the defendant and the prosecutor has the right to appeal without giving any reason.
Yes you can. You taught one third of the remaining 15% that these messages are harmless service bulletins from the IT department - not the dangerous mails they originally thought.
I messed up my first attempt, so here we go again:
The technical problems in backup may not be a consumer problem.
However, the keeping-control-of-your-collected-data problems certainly are.
These problems will be an important consumer issue in the future as online services grow, so consumers will have to know how to handle them. Consumers who choose to store their data in an online service will need to find answers for questions like these:
1. Will it be technically and practically possible for me to extract my data and move them to another service or move them home if I no longer want to use the service?
2. Will it be technically and practically possible for me to keep a local mirror of my data?
3. As 1 and 2, but s/technically\ and\ practically/legally/ .
Was this a contest of making the code as complicated as possible? And it would be even more complicated if the missing line was added.
To a hobby programmer like me, it seems that this code could be simplified considerably:
daysOfYear = 365 + IsLeapYear(year);
while (days > daysOfYear )
{
days -= daysOfYear;
year += 1;
daysOfYear = 365 + IsLeapYear(year);
}
The downside is that the software is really, really terrible. So even when I only install it for a few minutes to configure a G9 mouse, I feel dirty.
Where I work, we are strongly advised not to install Logitech mouse drivers as it messes with the PCs. I did it anyway, and my keyboard would no longer type dead key letters (like ä where you press followed by a to get the combined letter).
So a mouse driver screwed with my keyboard - not a Logitech keyboard, but a standard keyboard without any custom drivers. That should be illegal.