This is part of the reason TF2 is largely unpatched on the Xbox... Valve was going to wait to make one big content update, but then they exceeded the Xbox's memory limitations. Whoops.
You cannot customize the installation directory, it must be installed to the same drive as Windows.
The root\vfs directory must be on that volume, otherwise Office will refuse to start (something about how it does its Virtual File System stuff... there are overrides in there for common Windows directories.
You can use NTFS junctions to redirect root\office15 though, which contains about 50% of the used bytes. root\vfs still requires about 1.3gb though.
One more thing: the fallacy you've accidentally found yourself in, where you're comparing hacking while already having root access to hacking a device where you have minimal access (with the goal of getting root access) is rather common.
Game hacks are different from hacking a device where you DON'T already have root access. Typically with game hacks you are tweaking the existing behavior of an app and you have full write access to its memory to do so. With hacking a device or app you DON'T have this access, you need to get creative and exploit bugs in the app to write to memory you wouldn't normally be able to.
One example of an attack ASLR may be effective against is a stack smash. Without ASLR, if I run a program in a specific way and say, load a data file of my choosing, I may be able to assume it will get loaded into the same place in memory every time. So I can record that address, and then I can use a buffer overflow attack (perhaps using a field loaded from the same data file) to write to my stack and place the address on there. The OS then thinks my data file should be run next as code and then I can do whatever I want with the permissions of the current app.
With ASLR the location of my data file may change each run, so I can no longer hardcode an address, so now I either have to find some way to get code in a place in memory that doesn't move or find some other avenue of attack and give up on the stack smash.
(I don't do this sort of stuff so I might have gotten some details wrong but I think that's the gist of it.)
Oh yeah, and apparently an official statement by Blizzard has claimed Wine users have not been banned and will not be banned, it is merely unsupported. They tested reported configurations and could not reproduce a ban.
All software has bugs, it's inevitable. The variables are simply how frequent and how severe these bugs are, based on who programmed the code and how well the QA did their job.
Chrome Web Store forbids extensions that download YouTube videos. The one I use has a special Web Store version that cuts out that feature but the site where you can get the "Full" edition of the extension is listed IIRC.
That tool just figures out the url of the media files backing the YouTube video though, you still have to do all the conversion work yourself if you want it in a different format or just want the audio from it.
Of course I only use it to save perfectly legal bits of sound bites and so forth. Yup.
Worked for me. Got a few "free" cruises on my work phone. Added my number to DNC, haven't gotten another one in the year-plus since. Co-worker complained about getting one a month or so back so I know they're still doing it.
I don't know how well it transfers to film, but in video games the difference between 30fps and 60fps is quite noticeable and 60 is definitely preferable.
Thanks to efforts like the Humble Indie Bundle, there are already a bunch of games on Steam that have Linux ports, in addition to whatever Valve ports.
As a consultant who works on projects for govt, I hate Office 2007 and it's "collaboration" features which are pretty much non-existant. I would love to use Google Docs but we cannot due to the proprietary nature of our work. I'm pretty sure there's an Enterprise edition of Docs that can run more locally but I work for a Big Company (TM) so getting such software is probably impossible. I'm just waiting for Office 2011, which I THINK they're rolling out on the new Win 7 machines. Still running XP personally.
They probably figured out his search history by using his local browser history when they would have confiscated his PC as evidence. So that wouldn't have helped. Also... "recallroque log-in"? Ha, I guess some people really do think Google is magic and can pull answers out of thin air. And "html hacking tutorial"? That's almost cute.
Key signing is only a concern if you install addons from sources other than the Chrome Web Store. If you upload an app to the Chrome Web Store Google takes care of the key signing for you (you upload in a simple ZIP file and Google generates the signed CRX file for you).
I THINK the purpose key signing is to ensure that updates to an extension are signed with the same key, but I'm not sure. Users are normally never notified about anything concerning the key used to sign any extension. At any rate whenever you install a new extension OR an update to an extension asks for new security permissions there's always a prompt you must agree to.
So it's probably safe enough to NEVER install Axis until Yahoo releases a version that's signed with a new key. I think other extensions should be unaffected.
You most certainly do have a choice... simply don't use the OS. Buy a PC with another OS.
I don't think you understand what Chrome OS is supposed to be... a MINIMAL OS where the browser is the ONLY application, and system updates consist of downloading a full image that is mounted read-only and checksummed to ensure it is not tampered with by malware. Traditional OSs are made to run third party applications. Even "walled garden" smartphone OSs are designed to run at least a subset of third party apps. Chrome OS is not.
It's not designed for people who aren't willing to use the web for everything.
And for the record, there is a documented method to disable the safety checks on the partition checksums and install other OSs, as well as gain root terminal access under Chrome OS to mess around with whatever you want there, too. Google has made it clear they support user choice. I installed Ubuntu on my Cr-48 Chromebook and I have Chrome and Firefox on it, and I can dual boot between that and Chrome OS, if it makes you feel better.
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I swallowed a dime once when I was a kid.
I died.
j/k, I never even noticed when I passed it.
This is part of the reason TF2 is largely unpatched on the Xbox... Valve was going to wait to make one big content update, but then they exceeded the Xbox's memory limitations. Whoops.
No. This sounds like a structured API, not full system access.
You cannot customize the installation directory, it must be installed to the same drive as Windows.
The root\vfs directory must be on that volume, otherwise Office will refuse to start (something about how it does its Virtual File System stuff... there are overrides in there for common Windows directories.
You can use NTFS junctions to redirect root\office15 though, which contains about 50% of the used bytes. root\vfs still requires about 1.3gb though.
One more thing: the fallacy you've accidentally found yourself in, where you're comparing hacking while already having root access to hacking a device where you have minimal access (with the goal of getting root access) is rather common.
Game hacks are different from hacking a device where you DON'T already have root access. Typically with game hacks you are tweaking the existing behavior of an app and you have full write access to its memory to do so. With hacking a device or app you DON'T have this access, you need to get creative and exploit bugs in the app to write to memory you wouldn't normally be able to.
One example of an attack ASLR may be effective against is a stack smash. Without ASLR, if I run a program in a specific way and say, load a data file of my choosing, I may be able to assume it will get loaded into the same place in memory every time. So I can record that address, and then I can use a buffer overflow attack (perhaps using a field loaded from the same data file) to write to my stack and place the address on there. The OS then thinks my data file should be run next as code and then I can do whatever I want with the permissions of the current app.
With ASLR the location of my data file may change each run, so I can no longer hardcode an address, so now I either have to find some way to get code in a place in memory that doesn't move or find some other avenue of attack and give up on the stack smash.
(I don't do this sort of stuff so I might have gotten some details wrong but I think that's the gist of it.)
Oh yeah, and apparently an official statement by Blizzard has claimed Wine users have not been banned and will not be banned, it is merely unsupported. They tested reported configurations and could not reproduce a ban.
All software has bugs, it's inevitable. The variables are simply how frequent and how severe these bugs are, based on who programmed the code and how well the QA did their job.
The browser will, in fact, cache some of these on the disk so the user can pull them out of there if they want to.
Well for starters it's open source so you can see for yourself.
Chrome Web Store forbids extensions that download YouTube videos. The one I use has a special Web Store version that cuts out that feature but the site where you can get the "Full" edition of the extension is listed IIRC.
That tool just figures out the url of the media files backing the YouTube video though, you still have to do all the conversion work yourself if you want it in a different format or just want the audio from it.
Of course I only use it to save perfectly legal bits of sound bites and so forth. Yup.
Worked for me. Got a few "free" cruises on my work phone. Added my number to DNC, haven't gotten another one in the year-plus since. Co-worker complained about getting one a month or so back so I know they're still doing it.
I don't know how well it transfers to film, but in video games the difference between 30fps and 60fps is quite noticeable and 60 is definitely preferable.
Thanks to efforts like the Humble Indie Bundle, there are already a bunch of games on Steam that have Linux ports, in addition to whatever Valve ports.
So this time Microsoft is looking to copy the new Nintendo console BEFORE it comes out.
The story was submitted yesterday.
As a consultant who works on projects for govt, I hate Office 2007 and it's "collaboration" features which are pretty much non-existant. I would love to use Google Docs but we cannot due to the proprietary nature of our work. I'm pretty sure there's an Enterprise edition of Docs that can run more locally but I work for a Big Company (TM) so getting such software is probably impossible. I'm just waiting for Office 2011, which I THINK they're rolling out on the new Win 7 machines. Still running XP personally.
Microsoft has decided to never implement WelGL in IE (IIRC) and supposedly this is because they're trying to push 3D features in Silverlight.
Oh look, Flash has built-in 3D features now, and actually has a user base...
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If you check out some of the thumbnails, it looks like Googlebot is using a customized version of Chrome now. You can see it blocking plugins.
They probably figured out his search history by using his local browser history when they would have confiscated his PC as evidence. So that wouldn't have helped. Also... "recallroque log-in"? Ha, I guess some people really do think Google is magic and can pull answers out of thin air. And "html hacking tutorial"? That's almost cute.
Key signing is only a concern if you install addons from sources other than the Chrome Web Store. If you upload an app to the Chrome Web Store Google takes care of the key signing for you (you upload in a simple ZIP file and Google generates the signed CRX file for you).
I THINK the purpose key signing is to ensure that updates to an extension are signed with the same key, but I'm not sure. Users are normally never notified about anything concerning the key used to sign any extension. At any rate whenever you install a new extension OR an update to an extension asks for new security permissions there's always a prompt you must agree to.
So it's probably safe enough to NEVER install Axis until Yahoo releases a version that's signed with a new key. I think other extensions should be unaffected.
You do realize that GPS signals are completely passive, yes?
Ah, that's where he got you, this is the FUTURE.
You most certainly do have a choice... simply don't use the OS. Buy a PC with another OS.
I don't think you understand what Chrome OS is supposed to be... a MINIMAL OS where the browser is the ONLY application, and system updates consist of downloading a full image that is mounted read-only and checksummed to ensure it is not tampered with by malware. Traditional OSs are made to run third party applications. Even "walled garden" smartphone OSs are designed to run at least a subset of third party apps. Chrome OS is not.
It's not designed for people who aren't willing to use the web for everything.
And for the record, there is a documented method to disable the safety checks on the partition checksums and install other OSs, as well as gain root terminal access under Chrome OS to mess around with whatever you want there, too. Google has made it clear they support user choice. I installed Ubuntu on my Cr-48 Chromebook and I have Chrome and Firefox on it, and I can dual boot between that and Chrome OS, if it makes you feel better.