I've had a couple of occasions where the most rapid method to get a security application [antivirus / antispyware] to a geographically distant user has been file transfer over IM. The alternative is e-mailing multiple 1-2MB chunks and trying to guide the user through rebuilding the archive.
I'm only happy for the blocking of file transfer and executable code as has been discussed elsewhere in the post if the ability to transfer apps/patches between trusted pairs of users is still possible. However I'm not certain that this pair of objectives can be reconciled.
Agree with your comments regarding levelling. I played with a character class that matched my game preferences and got up to level 20, although any fighting was extremely difficult due to the NPCs levelling up alongside my character.
I've created a new character, with a custom class, with all my frequently used skills in the Minor class, and have found that it balances the game quite a bit better.
Had a couple of saved games go corrupt, and frequently experience the crash on exit but otherwise quite happy with the game.
It's not Morrowind, but that's not necessarily a criticism. There seems much more variety in Oblivion with regard to the creatures you encounter (admittedly, there are several skins applied to standard models) but at least you're not having to batter cliff racers every two minutes.
And, I laughed like a drain on finding the exploded Alchemist's shop.
As a Fuji owner I have to say their support for non-Windows drivers is sketchy at best. I had no end of problems getting my Amilo 7850 to run SuSE 8, which included the partition table getting hosed (a 60GB HDD being detected as 400GB!)
In fact I was wanting to downgrade WinXP to Win2k as 2k seemed to be slightly less of a resource hog. However at the time there wasn't Windows 2000 drivers for the chipset (and the XP ones wouldn't sit right). The situation has improved, but you still have to accept a disclaimer (this may not work, yada yada yada) if you try to download drivers for any unsupported OS - on the 7850 this is anything except WinXP Home.
Yeah - it made me wonder what possible advantages were seen in the actual corridor lighting which was less reliable than the torches. How come UAC didn't duct-tape torches to the walls every couple of meters? Would have been better uptime.
The HSTs do not have a pair of DVTs, DVT being a shorthand term for Driving Van Trailer - they are 2 x 2,250HP Driving Motor Brakes (DMB).
As for two driving cabs on either end, the technology was already well used on various multiple units. It was unusual to have two diesel-electric power units used in this fashion, although the "Tadpole" DEMUs in use in the South-East of England had been around for about 20-30 years beforehand.
Remember Lenslok? Protection that was used for Elite back in the day when. A horrible, cheap, plastic lens that you briefly adhered to your screen (actually a 14" TV at the time) in order to decode a couple of alphabet characters.
The crowning irony is that this was used for Elite on the Spectrum, which had incompatibilities between the 48k and 128k version. It took me _ages_ to twig that sometimes my machine would reset after one entry (i.e. when I'd got the characters correct, and the game would crash immediately afterwards) rather than two entries (when Lenslok would force a RST 0 and restart the machine).
All together then... "We bought it to help with your homework". Great days.
Firstly, I have had a number of experiences where webpages have been either taken down through the loss of the originating server or occasionally due to legal threats (in particular, Charlie Brooker's rant in the Guardian a year or so back was saved by Googlecache prior to a number of fansites carrying the piece). From this aspect I have to agree that the cache has proven useful in providing access to content that is no longer accessible.
My second reason for being particularly happy with caching from search engines is that it's proven handy in bypassing the web-filtering applied within my current organisation. There are fairly heavy restrictions on anything even slightly related to IT Security (for reasons of bureaucracy rather than any informed decision about content) and without the cache, Secunia and Whitedust would be unavailable to me.
Agreed - MOO2 was my favourite of the space-based Godsim/Strategy games, with Imperium Galactica and Alpha Centauri getting honourable mentions.
I'd happily pay for a revamped version of MOO2 with support for truly massive galaxies and TCP/IP support.
Never got round to MOO3 but the consensus seems to be it was a bit of a turkey. Too bad.
Have recently cobbled together a Windows 98 box from some old components too elderly to be worth reselling. After going through another of my personal favourites, Settlers 2, I suspect an install of MOO2 is on the cards.
Using for-next loops to create sound was not one I'd heard of before, although it was possible to get sound of a kind out of the RF out (via the TV) by turning the volume up, enabling Fast mode (remember that? Turned off the display to improve running speed!) and using RAND USR in the range of 821 to 829 (IIRC).
Also loved its sequel, the Speccy (wonder how many times the Hey Hey 16k flash will be posted here). Here's a little nostalgia for the speccy owners here:
LD HL, &4000 LD DE, &4001 LD BC, &1100 LD (HL), 0 LDIR RET
The limits of empiricism - the extent to which one can deduce things from rationality without recourse to assumption - were quite heavily debated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries following Descartes.
Immanuel Kant published the Critique of Pure reason, which goes so far as to state that certain concepts, including Time and Substance, require an assumption on the part of the observer and cannot be deduced from a priori concepts.
Hence absolute skepticism does not work - according to Kant anyway.
Agreed 100%. I've never seen Norton Antivirus used in any form of enterprise setting, only on SOHO type affairs. Given its relatively poor performance, the amount of additional cruft that installs with it and the occasional problems that are exhibited when trying to uninstall it, I'd be extremely surprised to see any large enterprise that chooses to use NAV.
I've heard some poor reports of Symantec Antivirus (which uses the same engine anyway) but it seems to be reliable, and relatively compact, on my Windows boxen. In a corporate environmant the Symantec Client, or perhaps the Sophos corporate offering, seem to be superior AV offerings.
Don't get me started on the McAfee enterprise AV product though - in use at my current place of work. How many other AV products out there will abort a scan because it has taken too long? It seems to be unresponsive and unreliable, and consumes an inordinate amount of desktop resource.
Partially correct - it's the call to SHIMGVW.DLL which handles the display functionality for the.WMF file. This is bundled with Windows and has been since 16-bit days, IIRC. Although it's not integral to the system and can be disabled (look at earlier articles for using regsvr -u to disable the functionality) it is considered part of the OS in a vanilla install of Windows. It is considered a system process in the same way that gdi is.
As I understand it, any attempt to read an affected.wmf that results in a call to shimgvw.dll, will expose a machine to the risk of compromise; this includes google desktop on a Windows box.
"The issue may be exploited remotely or by a local attacker. Any code execution that occurs will be with SYSTEM privileges due to the nature of the affected engine."
Under this circumstance I would expect that having a limited user account will not offer you any degree of protection, as the malware is running at system level.
Plus ever heard of a little device, quite a fad really, that developed not too long back? The catalytic converter? Part of the logos, AFAIK, was to reduce the amount of airborne nitric acid caused by vehicle engines.
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I've had a couple of occasions where the most rapid method to get a security application [antivirus / antispyware] to a geographically distant user has been file transfer over IM. The alternative is e-mailing multiple 1-2MB chunks and trying to guide the user through rebuilding the archive.
I'm only happy for the blocking of file transfer and executable code as has been discussed elsewhere in the post if the ability to transfer apps/patches between trusted pairs of users is still possible. However I'm not certain that this pair of objectives can be reconciled.
F_T
Hack... Slash[dot]... Repeat?
I think you just described my career.
Agree with your comments regarding levelling. I played with a character class that matched my game preferences and got up to level 20, although any fighting was extremely difficult due to the NPCs levelling up alongside my character.
I've created a new character, with a custom class, with all my frequently used skills in the Minor class, and have found that it balances the game quite a bit better.
Had a couple of saved games go corrupt, and frequently experience the crash on exit but otherwise quite happy with the game.
It's not Morrowind, but that's not necessarily a criticism. There seems much more variety in Oblivion with regard to the creatures you encounter (admittedly, there are several skins applied to standard models) but at least you're not having to batter cliff racers every two minutes.
And, I laughed like a drain on finding the exploded Alchemist's shop.
As a Fuji owner I have to say their support for non-Windows drivers is sketchy at best. I had no end of problems getting my Amilo 7850 to run SuSE 8, which included the partition table getting hosed (a 60GB HDD being detected as 400GB!)
In fact I was wanting to downgrade WinXP to Win2k as 2k seemed to be slightly less of a resource hog. However at the time there wasn't Windows 2000 drivers for the chipset (and the XP ones wouldn't sit right). The situation has improved, but you still have to accept a disclaimer (this may not work, yada yada yada) if you try to download drivers for any unsupported OS - on the 7850 this is anything except WinXP Home.
Yeah - it made me wonder what possible advantages were seen in the actual corridor lighting which was less reliable than the torches. How come UAC didn't duct-tape torches to the walls every couple of meters? Would have been better uptime.
given the recent bashing that was offered to the chap who managed to get Windows running on the Mac.
I'm not saying I'm 100% convinced, just that saying that there could be a second machine plugged into the TV doesn't mean that it _has_ been faked.
F_T
Last time I heard they were still trying to get Bonsai Kitten shut down.
F_T
The HSTs do not have a pair of DVTs, DVT being a shorthand term for Driving Van Trailer - they are 2 x 2,250HP Driving Motor Brakes (DMB).
As for two driving cabs on either end, the technology was already well used on various multiple units. It was unusual to have two diesel-electric power units used in this fashion, although the "Tadpole" DEMUs in use in the South-East of England had been around for about 20-30 years beforehand.
I really must get out more.
Remember Lenslok? Protection that was used for Elite back in the day when. A horrible, cheap, plastic lens that you briefly adhered to your screen (actually a 14" TV at the time) in order to decode a couple of alphabet characters.
The crowning irony is that this was used for Elite on the Spectrum, which had incompatibilities between the 48k and 128k version. It took me _ages_ to twig that sometimes my machine would reset after one entry (i.e. when I'd got the characters correct, and the game would crash immediately afterwards) rather than two entries (when Lenslok would force a RST 0 and restart the machine).
All together then... "We bought it to help with your homework". Great days.
Intel demonstrate their new processor line, named Conroe...
Firstly, I have had a number of experiences where webpages have been either taken down through the loss of the originating server or occasionally due to legal threats (in particular, Charlie Brooker's rant in the Guardian a year or so back was saved by Googlecache prior to a number of fansites carrying the piece). From this aspect I have to agree that the cache has proven useful in providing access to content that is no longer accessible.
My second reason for being particularly happy with caching from search engines is that it's proven handy in bypassing the web-filtering applied within my current organisation. There are fairly heavy restrictions on anything even slightly related to IT Security (for reasons of bureaucracy rather than any informed decision about content) and without the cache, Secunia and Whitedust would be unavailable to me.
Agreed - MOO2 was my favourite of the space-based Godsim/Strategy games, with Imperium Galactica and Alpha Centauri getting honourable mentions.
I'd happily pay for a revamped version of MOO2 with support for truly massive galaxies and TCP/IP support.
Never got round to MOO3 but the consensus seems to be it was a bit of a turkey. Too bad.
Have recently cobbled together a Windows 98 box from some old components too elderly to be worth reselling. After going through another of my personal favourites, Settlers 2, I suspect an install of MOO2 is on the cards.
Aye, the ZX81. Beautiful days.
Using for-next loops to create sound was not one I'd heard of before, although it was possible to get sound of a kind out of the RF out (via the TV) by turning the volume up, enabling Fast mode (remember that? Turned off the display to improve running speed!) and using RAND USR in the range of 821 to 829 (IIRC).
Also loved its sequel, the Speccy (wonder how many times the Hey Hey 16k flash will be posted here). Here's a little nostalgia for the speccy owners here:
LD HL, &4000
LD DE, &4001
LD BC, &1100
LD (HL), 0
LDIR
RET
The limits of empiricism - the extent to which one can deduce things from rationality without recourse to assumption - were quite heavily debated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries following Descartes.
Immanuel Kant published the Critique of Pure reason, which goes so far as to state that certain concepts, including Time and Substance, require an assumption on the part of the observer and cannot be deduced from a priori concepts.
Hence absolute skepticism does not work - according to Kant anyway.
Agreed 100%. I've never seen Norton Antivirus used in any form of enterprise setting, only on SOHO type affairs. Given its relatively poor performance, the amount of additional cruft that installs with it and the occasional problems that are exhibited when trying to uninstall it, I'd be extremely surprised to see any large enterprise that chooses to use NAV.
I've heard some poor reports of Symantec Antivirus (which uses the same engine anyway) but it seems to be reliable, and relatively compact, on my Windows boxen. In a corporate environmant the Symantec Client, or perhaps the Sophos corporate offering, seem to be superior AV offerings.
Don't get me started on the McAfee enterprise AV product though - in use at my current place of work. How many other AV products out there will abort a scan because it has taken too long? It seems to be unresponsive and unreliable, and consumes an inordinate amount of desktop resource.
F_T
Partially correct - it's the call to SHIMGVW.DLL which handles the display functionality for the .WMF file. This is bundled with Windows and has been since 16-bit days, IIRC. Although it's not integral to the system and can be disabled (look at earlier articles for using regsvr -u to disable the functionality) it is considered part of the OS in a vanilla install of Windows. It is considered a system process in the same way that gdi is.
.wmf that results in a call to shimgvw.dll, will expose a machine to the risk of compromise; this includes google desktop on a Windows box.
As I understand it, any attempt to read an affected
From the security focus posting (http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16074/discuss):
"The issue may be exploited remotely or by a local attacker. Any code execution that occurs will be with SYSTEM privileges due to the nature of the affected engine."
Under this circumstance I would expect that having a limited user account will not offer you any degree of protection, as the malware is running at system level.
F_T
given the amount of /.ers who were stating quite vehemently their intent to never buy any Sony products ever a couple of weeks back [Slashdot, passim].
But where is the prize for the PUSHER ROBOT?
Plus ever heard of a little device, quite a fad really, that developed not too long back? The catalytic converter? Part of the logos, AFAIK, was to reduce the amount of airborne nitric acid caused by vehicle engines.
They'll be able to dig out all their old adverts. The ones that run with the byline "Put a tiger in your tank".