Google seems to do their page preview rendering with a modified version of Chrome (plugins are rendered with Chrome's "blocked plugin" image). So they're using a REAL web browser (even if automated) to check these pages so they can't just use JavaScript to trick Google because the JavaScript is likely being parsed and taken into account.
I would skip GOTO in favor of putting some of that logic into a function. Then I can simply return; from it instead of using a GOTO to break out of as many levels of logic as I need, back to the calling function.
Steam will not let you purchase a game you already own. Occasionally it screws up and does not display "You already own this game" in the cart, but even then it will let you know it screwed up and you actually do own something in your cart if you try to continue.
The only way it will give it to you if you own it is if you explicitly tell it you want it as a gift. And then it will ask you how you want the gift deliverted (to a Steam account, an e-mail address, or your Steam inventory to gift later). Otherwise the purchase only goes through if you don't own the games.
Methinks you clicked through too fast without reading or thinking.:( I personally bought a ton of games over the winter sale and Steam politely informed me when I added games I forgot I owned to my cart, and would not let me purchase them. When I bought gifts I was given an extra screen that let me decide to save them for later and deliver them at my leisure (a feature I have wanted for a long time).
Yup. I keep my webpage loaded in Chrome and just refresh whenever I make changes. That is my WYSIWYG.
And I can always use the Chrome Developer Tools to quickly see what a CSS or HTML tweak will do to my page before I go into my code and change it for real to test it.
Tor has to connect to so-called "dictionary servers" periodically to refresh its list of tor nodes to try to use. If you block those servers, tor breaks.
At least, that's how it worked when they finally figured out how to block it after 3 years. Maybe tor has improved since then.
That will not work with Vista/7 due to the usage of NTFS junctions and such. So beware if you want to do this with a newer Windows. Fortunately those OSs introduced the.WIM file format which is mid-way between an archive format like ZIP and a disk image format like VHD or VMDK etc. AFAIK.WIM is a special archive format that allows for keeping track of all NTFS metadata but it's not in a rigid layout like a disk image. You can get tools to make a WIM image easy enough, "imagex" is downloadable from MS. And I believe what you can do with the image is burn a Windows Install DVD that will work like a normal Windows installer but will restore the image you made (which is essentially what the stock installer does anyway starting with Vista).
As I stated elsewhere this is already possible with System Restore, except ACLs block it for at least minimal protection. Of course refresh/reset is NOT a security feature, it strikes me more as a maintenance feature, for when various registry settings get messed up or otherwise things break mysteriously in Windows, you can just go back and have it fixed. It sounds like System Restore but it would avoid trouncing user data (unless you tell it to) and it would backup more than just program binaries and the registry.
The current solution to this is to deny all users access to the System Restore files and only allow the SYSTEM "user" access. The same methods will likely be used for the reset/refresh functionality.
The best dates will be the 22-24th, and the best places will be shopping malls all over the world. I mean, I figure these people aren't going to be doing Christmas shopping until the last minute!
Nah, you can just sandbox the I/O and only give the app access to it's own little space. All phones must do this already. You gotta have it for high scores or saved games or whatever.
But I have gotten the impression Apple keeps iOS locked down and that even with open-source Android carriers try and restrict how you can load apps. A BASIC interpreter would either be powerful enough to work around this restriction (and thus rejected from app stores) or useless enough that no-one would want to use it. Of course, a sandboxed-type BASIC (IE for making local-only games, for instance, and not allowed to use any phone functionality) or something could strike a balance between the two. It's not like the DOS versions of BASIC I used to play around with were very powerful (unless the POKE command counts).
Back up a few steps. He's asking for suggestions on apps and configurations... how is that an "everybody else is wrong" mentality? You, on the other hand, are immediately leaping to the conclusion that HE is wrong.
It also sounds like he is experimenting just for his own personal use, not for creating a distro. His own personal configuration would hardly affect public perception of Linux.
Addendum: <iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD by the Windows kernel so it is certainly a Windows bug. It would be trivial of Apple to hotfix it to prevent exploitation via Safari but any other application could theoretically exploit it and elevate their code. Of course it doesn't appear anyone else has actually gotten it to execute arbitrary code yet, despite the summary claim...
TFA suggests it allows kernel privileges, so it is certainly a Windows exploit. But it may also be a Safari bug too, it depends whether or not the data it is passing to the Windows API calls that are causing the exploit would be considered reasonable or not.
My mom had a horrible experience with OpenOffice recently. She just wants to print out some address labels and the only way I could figure out how to do this involved making a database. You shouldn't have to make a database to print address labels.
Plus the crash dialog when it crashed in the middle of her work was too wordy for her (it was trying to get her to submit a crash report, something she wouldn't have cared about at all) and didn't even restore any of her work when it claimed to.
It didn't help that she expected me to know everything, despite me repeatedly telling her that I did not know how to do labels with OpenOffice any more than she did. So it ended up being a horrible experience for me, too.
In the end, it would have been quicker for her to make the labels using a typewriter.
Of course I blame Dad for not installing LibreOffice in the first place (he thinks OpenOffice is the same OpenOffice) but I can't claim I know it would be any better.
Best to inform whoever gave you the restrictions that with those restrictions you would fully expect students to work around any solutions you put in place. The restrictions themselves will give the students loopholes.
Don't try to block internet access at the local level, they'll work around it. At the firewall level whitelist specific sites and block everything else. Then even if they fire up a web browser it'll be useless.
And simply uninstall or use user permissions to block access to unwanted applications.
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Google seems to do their page preview rendering with a modified version of Chrome (plugins are rendered with Chrome's "blocked plugin" image). So they're using a REAL web browser (even if automated) to check these pages so they can't just use JavaScript to trick Google because the JavaScript is likely being parsed and taken into account.
I would skip GOTO in favor of putting some of that logic into a function. Then I can simply return; from it instead of using a GOTO to break out of as many levels of logic as I need, back to the calling function.
Steam will not let you purchase a game you already own. Occasionally it screws up and does not display "You already own this game" in the cart, but even then it will let you know it screwed up and you actually do own something in your cart if you try to continue.
The only way it will give it to you if you own it is if you explicitly tell it you want it as a gift. And then it will ask you how you want the gift deliverted (to a Steam account, an e-mail address, or your Steam inventory to gift later). Otherwise the purchase only goes through if you don't own the games.
Methinks you clicked through too fast without reading or thinking. :( I personally bought a ton of games over the winter sale and Steam politely informed me when I added games I forgot I owned to my cart, and would not let me purchase them. When I bought gifts I was given an extra screen that let me decide to save them for later and deliver them at my leisure (a feature I have wanted for a long time).
Yup. I keep my webpage loaded in Chrome and just refresh whenever I make changes. That is my WYSIWYG.
And I can always use the Chrome Developer Tools to quickly see what a CSS or HTML tweak will do to my page before I go into my code and change it for real to test it.
Didn't they auction off beta boards on eBay?
Whoops, looks like they're called "directory servers". Not sure if I remember it wrong or if I really did think they were called "dictionary servers".
Tor has to connect to so-called "dictionary servers" periodically to refresh its list of tor nodes to try to use. If you block those servers, tor breaks.
At least, that's how it worked when they finally figured out how to block it after 3 years. Maybe tor has improved since then.
That will not work with Vista/7 due to the usage of NTFS junctions and such. So beware if you want to do this with a newer Windows. Fortunately those OSs introduced the .WIM file format which is mid-way between an archive format like ZIP and a disk image format like VHD or VMDK etc. AFAIK .WIM is a special archive format that allows for keeping track of all NTFS metadata but it's not in a rigid layout like a disk image. You can get tools to make a WIM image easy enough, "imagex" is downloadable from MS. And I believe what you can do with the image is burn a Windows Install DVD that will work like a normal Windows installer but will restore the image you made (which is essentially what the stock installer does anyway starting with Vista).
As I stated elsewhere this is already possible with System Restore, except ACLs block it for at least minimal protection. Of course refresh/reset is NOT a security feature, it strikes me more as a maintenance feature, for when various registry settings get messed up or otherwise things break mysteriously in Windows, you can just go back and have it fixed. It sounds like System Restore but it would avoid trouncing user data (unless you tell it to) and it would backup more than just program binaries and the registry.
This is already possible with System Restore.
The current solution to this is to deny all users access to the System Restore files and only allow the SYSTEM "user" access. The same methods will likely be used for the reset/refresh functionality.
Yeah. I don't have figures on hand but apparently Team Fortress 2 has been making wheel-barrels full of money for Valve since going F2P.
Then the camera won't be able to see the lines, now will it?
The best dates will be the 22-24th, and the best places will be shopping malls all over the world. I mean, I figure these people aren't going to be doing Christmas shopping until the last minute!
Nah, you can just sandbox the I/O and only give the app access to it's own little space. All phones must do this already. You gotta have it for high scores or saved games or whatever.
But I have gotten the impression Apple keeps iOS locked down and that even with open-source Android carriers try and restrict how you can load apps. A BASIC interpreter would either be powerful enough to work around this restriction (and thus rejected from app stores) or useless enough that no-one would want to use it. Of course, a sandboxed-type BASIC (IE for making local-only games, for instance, and not allowed to use any phone functionality) or something could strike a balance between the two. It's not like the DOS versions of BASIC I used to play around with were very powerful (unless the POKE command counts).
Back up a few steps. He's asking for suggestions on apps and configurations... how is that an "everybody else is wrong" mentality? You, on the other hand, are immediately leaping to the conclusion that HE is wrong.
It also sounds like he is experimenting just for his own personal use, not for creating a distro. His own personal configuration would hardly affect public perception of Linux.
Addendum: <iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD by the Windows kernel so it is certainly a Windows bug. It would be trivial of Apple to hotfix it to prevent exploitation via Safari but any other application could theoretically exploit it and elevate their code. Of course it doesn't appear anyone else has actually gotten it to execute arbitrary code yet, despite the summary claim...
TFA suggests it allows kernel privileges, so it is certainly a Windows exploit. But it may also be a Safari bug too, it depends whether or not the data it is passing to the Windows API calls that are causing the exploit would be considered reasonable or not.
Don't miss Iran... going to take full advantage of the drone, but wanting an apology for it being there in the first place.
My mom had a horrible experience with OpenOffice recently. She just wants to print out some address labels and the only way I could figure out how to do this involved making a database. You shouldn't have to make a database to print address labels.
Plus the crash dialog when it crashed in the middle of her work was too wordy for her (it was trying to get her to submit a crash report, something she wouldn't have cared about at all) and didn't even restore any of her work when it claimed to.
It didn't help that she expected me to know everything, despite me repeatedly telling her that I did not know how to do labels with OpenOffice any more than she did. So it ended up being a horrible experience for me, too.
In the end, it would have been quicker for her to make the labels using a typewriter.
Of course I blame Dad for not installing LibreOffice in the first place (he thinks OpenOffice is the same OpenOffice) but I can't claim I know it would be any better.
Yup, HTML cares not for your silly whitespace, it only respects tags!
Whoops, never mind.
Best to inform whoever gave you the restrictions that with those restrictions you would fully expect students to work around any solutions you put in place. The restrictions themselves will give the students loopholes.
Don't try to block internet access at the local level, they'll work around it. At the firewall level whitelist specific sites and block everything else. Then even if they fire up a web browser it'll be useless.
And simply uninstall or use user permissions to block access to unwanted applications.
TFA says they think this is unlikely due to the type of malware they found.
... is to rip everything to a large hard disk and set up some sort of media center.