Let's complain about how easy it is for you to navigate to a malicious page in IE and get malware on your PC.
Seriously people, this isn't a huge deal. Err on the side of security rather than the other side, I would say.
I think Firefox's solution is the best we can hope for. If you or me can get a self-signed cert, a phishing site author certainly can. Then all of a sudden if Firefox were to accept self-signed certs, phishing sites over HTTPS look legitimate, and they look the same as every other HTTPS site that shelled out $$$ to get their certs signed by a trusted root authority. Hell it doesn't even cost $$$, there are a few root authorities that'll sign certs for free, and one is accepted by Firefox (I forget the name). So that's always an option. If you don't like adding exceptions to your own pages, get on Google and figure out how to fix it!
You DO know you can push out ActiveX plugins to IE users when they visit your site, right? It would be a one click install dealie in this case. It's like saying you can't rely on users to have Flash installed... for IE once you navigate to a page with Flash the plugin installs itself.
I loved RtCW and there are damned few servers left whenever I reinstall.
Wasn't Enemy Territory supposed to be a RtCW multiplayer v2.0, in a manner of speaking? Maybe you might find a few more people playing that. It also happens to be free.
Except this means the server can't store your password as a hash... it has to store your actual password, which means if someone gets access to that server they can steal all the passwords.
The server can encrypt the passwords, but it has to be able to decrypt them, so it needs to know the decryption key too. Which can also be stolen the same way.
That only works if you have terabytes of free disk space and you don't know how to use it all.
Most games just copy all the disc contents to the hard drive when you install the game anyway, so why keep a SECOND copy of that data in an iso? You have the original CD anyway if you ever need to reinstall. Better to just use a small crack.
The DOS that comes with Windows 9x (MS-DOS 7.x) is a pain in the arse to get working with DOS software and drivers designed for 6.22. Plus you have extra long file name drivers and such to worry about loading. I recall a ton more headaches when I tried to get MS-DOS 7.10 working on a virtual machine to play old games. MS-DOS 6.22 was far easier to get working. It could likely be because I was more familiar with 6.22 and there wasn't any new, mysterious stuff... but still... I recall having problems with getting sound drivers working properly, at least.
No because the logical explanation is files were there that were deleted. Plus if you think about it, leveling means physical sectors and disk addresses don't match the virtual ones the OS sees... the drive is constantly shuffling the physical data around (or rather just moving it every write) while it maintains the same virtual position unless it would otherwise change... that's how I understand it at least. It seems a bit messy but the only way to optimize it would be to create a dedicated file system type and driver for it.
So if you look at any spot on a flash drive and it's unused but written to a lot, it doesn't mean anything, since it could have been used for this file over here, but the file was rewritten to a less-used place on the flash drive when you updated it. The old copy was then marked as empty space, in effect.
Also if you check the option in TrueCrypt to mount encrypted partitions as removable drives, most indexing software will skip them, since it sees them as removable (ie a floppy or zip disk) and there's no point in indexing those unless you have specific removable media indexing software for that specific task.
I assumed Dell preinstalled Firefox 2 on someone's computer I was cleaning up for them, since 1) it was Dell and 2) it had Firefox 2.0.0.1 instead of the then-latest 2.0.0.14 and 3) it looked like it had never been run.
That's not a problem for them, since their EULAs probably say something to the tune of "software or hardware mod this console or exploit a bug to run unauthorized code and your warranty is void."
Didn't happen to me when I downloaded it with 3 RC3 which supports Windows' Parental Controls, automatic anti-virus scanning, and has the ability to mark files downloaded from the internet. Usually I just get a popup when I run it asking me if I'm sure I want to run a program I downloaded from the internet.
You can try going to the file properties and seeing if there's a thing at the bottom of the main tab that lets you unblock it. That's how the security popup I described works, although yours seems a little different.
Firefox 2 will not auto-update to 3 for some time, also 3 RC3 probably won't update since 3 final IS RC3. So this is only an issue if you ignored the auto-updater until yesterday anyway.
Unfortunately, direct FTP links that would not have counted the downloads were floating around over an hour before then.:( I imagine many clicked on them thinking they would be counted.
I read on a Hlash guy's blog who was blogging about this that Flash gets 12 million downloads a day sometimes, and that's just normal days, not launches. I don't think Mozilla is going to break any records... unless the record counts for manual downloads (most Flash downloads are automatic updates as I understand it).
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Well I'm covered then.
1) I'll happily inform them I voided the check and so saved us all a lot of trouble.
2) There are no gas lines on my street. So I'd ask them to wait outside while I got my bill, and then I'd go inside and call 911.
Let's complain about how easy it is for you to navigate to a malicious page in IE and get malware on your PC.
Seriously people, this isn't a huge deal. Err on the side of security rather than the other side, I would say.
I think Firefox's solution is the best we can hope for. If you or me can get a self-signed cert, a phishing site author certainly can. Then all of a sudden if Firefox were to accept self-signed certs, phishing sites over HTTPS look legitimate, and they look the same as every other HTTPS site that shelled out $$$ to get their certs signed by a trusted root authority. Hell it doesn't even cost $$$, there are a few root authorities that'll sign certs for free, and one is accepted by Firefox (I forget the name). So that's always an option. If you don't like adding exceptions to your own pages, get on Google and figure out how to fix it!
You DO know you can push out ActiveX plugins to IE users when they visit your site, right? It would be a one click install dealie in this case. It's like saying you can't rely on users to have Flash installed... for IE once you navigate to a page with Flash the plugin installs itself.
I loved RtCW and there are damned few servers left whenever I reinstall.
Wasn't Enemy Territory supposed to be a RtCW multiplayer v2.0, in a manner of speaking? Maybe you might find a few more people playing that. It also happens to be free.
I forgot the "Post Reply" standalone page:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain(slashdot.org) {
.inline_comment .generalbody {
.inline_comment .generalbody textarea, #postercomment {
padding-right: 30px !important;
}
width: 100% !important;
}
}
*cough* @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain(slashdot.org) {
.inline_comment .generalbody {
.inline_comment .generalbody textarea {
padding-right: 30px !important;
}
width: 100% !important;
}
} *cough*
Whew, gotta do something about that cough. You know it's getting bad when you cough up Stylish sheets.
I should probably write another one to fix the lack of proper line spacing in the preview when using <p>s...
Ubutnu hangs whenever I try to force the mounting of a "dirty" ntfs volume (ie window didn't shut down correctly) with ntfs-3g through truecrypt.
Except this means the server can't store your password as a hash... it has to store your actual password, which means if someone gets access to that server they can steal all the passwords.
The server can encrypt the passwords, but it has to be able to decrypt them, so it needs to know the decryption key too. Which can also be stolen the same way.
Didn't they say they were going to spy on visitors' traffic too? Nothing about that here, maybe they're hoping we'll forget.
If I was going, I'd take tor with me on my laptop. Also I'd buy a laptop first.
Can I watch you insert and sort and group 45000 rows of data? That's gotta be a sight to behold.
But then it'll be embarrassing when the FBI ask him how he knew this guy was accessing that site.
That only works if you have terabytes of free disk space and you don't know how to use it all.
Most games just copy all the disc contents to the hard drive when you install the game anyway, so why keep a SECOND copy of that data in an iso? You have the original CD anyway if you ever need to reinstall. Better to just use a small crack.
The DOS that comes with Windows 9x (MS-DOS 7.x) is a pain in the arse to get working with DOS software and drivers designed for 6.22. Plus you have extra long file name drivers and such to worry about loading. I recall a ton more headaches when I tried to get MS-DOS 7.10 working on a virtual machine to play old games. MS-DOS 6.22 was far easier to get working. It could likely be because I was more familiar with 6.22 and there wasn't any new, mysterious stuff... but still... I recall having problems with getting sound drivers working properly, at least.
No because the logical explanation is files were there that were deleted. Plus if you think about it, leveling means physical sectors and disk addresses don't match the virtual ones the OS sees... the drive is constantly shuffling the physical data around (or rather just moving it every write) while it maintains the same virtual position unless it would otherwise change... that's how I understand it at least. It seems a bit messy but the only way to optimize it would be to create a dedicated file system type and driver for it.
So if you look at any spot on a flash drive and it's unused but written to a lot, it doesn't mean anything, since it could have been used for this file over here, but the file was rewritten to a less-used place on the flash drive when you updated it. The old copy was then marked as empty space, in effect.
Also if you check the option in TrueCrypt to mount encrypted partitions as removable drives, most indexing software will skip them, since it sees them as removable (ie a floppy or zip disk) and there's no point in indexing those unless you have specific removable media indexing software for that specific task.
I assumed Dell preinstalled Firefox 2 on someone's computer I was cleaning up for them, since 1) it was Dell and 2) it had Firefox 2.0.0.1 instead of the then-latest 2.0.0.14 and 3) it looked like it had never been run.
He probably is. Gotta wonder if he's been living under a rock for the whole Download Day thing.
Gabe knows all about that.
It's a good thing that internet articles don't need to be loaned from another library, then.
On the other hand, Tengen's unauthorized Tetris is regarded to be better than Nintendo's own Tetris.
That's not a problem for them, since their EULAs probably say something to the tune of "software or hardware mod this console or exploit a bug to run unauthorized code and your warranty is void."
Didn't happen to me when I downloaded it with 3 RC3 which supports Windows' Parental Controls, automatic anti-virus scanning, and has the ability to mark files downloaded from the internet. Usually I just get a popup when I run it asking me if I'm sure I want to run a program I downloaded from the internet.
You can try going to the file properties and seeing if there's a thing at the bottom of the main tab that lets you unblock it. That's how the security popup I described works, although yours seems a little different.
Firefox 2 will not auto-update to 3 for some time, also 3 RC3 probably won't update since 3 final IS RC3. So this is only an issue if you ignored the auto-updater until yesterday anyway.
Unfortunately, direct FTP links that would not have counted the downloads were floating around over an hour before then. :( I imagine many clicked on them thinking they would be counted.
I read on a Hlash guy's blog who was blogging about this that Flash gets 12 million downloads a day sometimes, and that's just normal days, not launches. I don't think Mozilla is going to break any records... unless the record counts for manual downloads (most Flash downloads are automatic updates as I understand it).
Still good PR though.