I just tried and it didn't seem to, but I'm not sure it ever did for me. It might be dependent on the OS or maybe the specific program and the method it uses to open a URL.
If you're trying out the beta and you're wondering why your back/forward buttons don't match the article's screenshots, right click, customize, uncheck small icons. There ya go.
On an unrelated note, this story seems to be dredging up all the trolls and fanboys... check out the first few comments, and the tags...
FF3 is loads faster than FF2. I find that most slowdowns in FF2 were caused by extensions, but FF3 loaded with extensions is just as fast as FF2 in safe-mode. Which is fast.
Not that box, apparently there was a notice that appeared when you clicked the star to let you know what the star did (that the page had been bookmarked)... however the notice was both added and removed in nightlies between b2 and b3 (guess it ended up being more annoying than helpful).
From: fraud-dept@interbankcorp.com
To: joe.smith@someplace.somewhere
Reply-To: fraud-dept.interbankcorp.com@freewebmailplace.bleh
Hello, we at InterBankCorp have been having a problem with other people accessing your account, and transferring funds out of it. We are working to rectify this problem, and all we need from you is your username, password, and pin number to confirm that you are the legitimate holder of the account.
You may note that this e-mail is not signed digitally, as we assured you all our communications with you would be. We are having problems with our e-mail servers, rest assured this message is legitimate as it contains our official logo. Our e-mail problems will be resolved shortly and we will go back to using digital signing to verify our authenticity with you.
Thank you again for helping us resolve this problem with your account.
I hate Vista too, but some of this review's points need a bit of correction (in Vista's favor, even) although I also have some things to say too.
Vista really shouldn't have IPv6 enabled by default. I encountered massive network slowdown because of it. If you use an IPv4 only network, save yourself some grief and disable IPv6 support now. What happens when it's enabled is Vista tries using IPv6 for every network connection. If a connection fails in IPv6, it tries again in IPv4. This is why Vista takes so long to connect to anything. Disable IPv6 and it speeds up to be in line with XP. Vista should ship with IPv6 disabled out of the box since I don't believe network support for it is quite ubiquitous yet. If you set up a network to use IPv6, chances are you know enough to install IPv6 drivers too. Of course I'm assuming it's impossible to automatically detect whether a network supports IPv6 or not and enable or disable protocols accordingly, which is probably isn't.
I've tried to use find too. It's a bit too complicated for a simple file name search. I find using "where" easier. Anyone on Slashdot will tell you that right now, Ubuntu is the closest thing to a practical Linux on the desktop, although in my personal experience I've had to do some console voodoo including editing config files to get everything working quite right (example: mice with more than three buttons require xorg.conf editing to get the extra buttons working).
I personally like the lack of a menu bar since most of the functions I need are on the toolbar anyways, which is the whole point as I understand it. However I can see where less experienced users could become confused, especially users not comfortable with poking around UIs like I am. New versions of Windows should come with tutorials, like 3.1 did, which would explain new features in the Windows UI and allow users to interact with them in a sandbox to learn them. I should also mention there's a right click option on the explorer toolbars which allows you to show the menu bar permanently like in XP. Also an extra dialog when you click a menu item is a bad idea... you said the whole point is to have any function two clicks away, and you added an extra click.
If I wanted to name folders like you, I'd do away with the date. All file system objects (ie files and folders) have a "created time" and "last modified time" property. Also there is an overflow button on the breadcrumb bar that does the same thing as overflow buttons on toolbars... shows you what is hidden. Also for the more keyboard-oriented, backspace always takes you a level up.
ClearType settings haven't changed form XP to Vista, unless you count MS ripping apart the Display control panel. The setting is in the same place in Vista as in XP. It actually makes sense that, since the ClearType OS setting affects EVERY PROGRAM it would also affect IE7. Although they really shouldn't have had a program-specific setting since that IS confusing.
With regards to Virtual PC, "not supported" and "won't install/run" are two different things. Virtual PC 2004 and 2007 final install on any XP and Vista edition. I can verify they both work fine in XP Home. The only time I couldn't get Virtual PC to install was with the 2007 RC... in which "not supported" and "won't install/run" were the same thing. Even still I found a blog post with a workaround (basically you edit the installer or skip the part that checks the OS).
Given the link you provide, it's pretty clear that telnet isn't installed because most people simply aren't going to need it... although the problem with this is that it's a 206kb EXE, and you could easily find more useless, bigger things to remove that the average user wouldn't care about.
I can watch TV just fine in XP, although it's half-broken, and the client that works for me in XP is broken in Vista, and visa versa. I should mention the process was actually far more pleasant and works 100% in Ubuntu.
Virtual PC allows you to alter the MAC address of a VM by editing the VMC file by hand. I recall that it's needed if you want to duplicate a VM and run them both side by side (since they can't use the same MAC address, obviously).
Not sure about other VM offerings.
The only other relevant thing I can think of is that some (all?) linux distros randomize MAC addresses of network cards on boot... woe to the user who tries to use the software you're referring to through wine!
I broke my GB Advance when I dropped it (the original, not the SP that you're talking about). Oddly enough Mario Kart DS was the only game that broke... I could play my brother's copy, and he could play my copy in his GBA, but my copy wouldn't work in my GBA. Sent both into Nintendo's Repair center and they sent me back new copies of each I think, even though I technically invalidated my warranty with a GameShark (although I guess they'd get customers yelling at them if they took advantage of that).
Sold my original GB at a yard sale some years ago, since I had a GBC then. Kept dropping the darn thing when I was a kid, only thing wrong with it when I sold it was one vertical column of pixels was out.
Is it possible to have negative money? If not it would be a simple hack to double the limit by making the gold counter unsigned. Well... you' d have to change every variable that stores gold but it would be easier or at least as easy as changing it to a longlong or something.
An alternative is to purposely let it roll over. Blizzard would be doing those players a FAVOR.;)
Adobe Reader will no longer print PDFs. I have no idea why. It claims I need to install a printer, but I already have plenty installed, thanks. I do turn the print spooler service off when I'm not using it, which CAN result in that message, but it's not a Windows message but a Adobe Reader one. Not to mention that I do turn the service on even before running Adobe Reader.
Also, GMail and Yahoo Mail now block PDFs apparently (I tried to send it to someone else to print it for me).
As of now, I still haven't gotten the stupid thing to print.
IIRC charities have to go through a LOT of @#$% when they have to refund money for reasons like this. Worst case scenario they LOSE a bit of money handling the fake donation and then refund... I don't know too much of the specifics but at any rate it's mean.
When someone does this, they're not hurting just the person they're stealing from, they're also hurting the charity.
It sounds like the user needs to be using Internet Explorer in order to be vulnerable. I doubt anything happens on Firefox or other browser since there is purposely no ActiveX support there.
Also I note that the exploit description itself never uses the inaccurate word "brick".
It would take a really bad OS to make memory fragmentation a problem, since memory address pointers are virtualized (IE I'm talking about how process A can't access process B's memory and how the same numerical pointers in each point to different memory locations). Even Windows isn't that bad. Besides, the only performance metric any kind of fragmentation can really affect is speed, never size.
Or is this some misnomer or am I misunderstanding this?
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I just tried and it didn't seem to, but I'm not sure it ever did for me. It might be dependent on the OS or maybe the specific program and the method it uses to open a URL.
If you're trying out the beta and you're wondering why your back/forward buttons don't match the article's screenshots, right click, customize, uncheck small icons. There ya go.
On an unrelated note, this story seems to be dredging up all the trolls and fanboys... check out the first few comments, and the tags...
FF3 is loads faster than FF2. I find that most slowdowns in FF2 were caused by extensions, but FF3 loaded with extensions is just as fast as FF2 in safe-mode. Which is fast.
Not that box, apparently there was a notice that appeared when you clicked the star to let you know what the star did (that the page had been bookmarked)... however the notice was both added and removed in nightlies between b2 and b3 (guess it ended up being more annoying than helpful).
And Windows Vista was originally targeted for... when? THAT OS sure feels rushed to me...
Ir hasn't been legitimately released to the public. It's more of a leak than pirating, I suppose.
From: fraud-dept@interbankcorp.com
To: joe.smith@someplace.somewhere
Reply-To: fraud-dept.interbankcorp.com@freewebmailplace.bleh
Hello, we at InterBankCorp have been having a problem with other people accessing your account, and transferring funds out of it. We are working to rectify this problem, and all we need from you is your username, password, and pin number to confirm that you are the legitimate holder of the account.
You may note that this e-mail is not signed digitally, as we assured you all our communications with you would be. We are having problems with our e-mail servers, rest assured this message is legitimate as it contains our official logo. Our e-mail problems will be resolved shortly and we will go back to using digital signing to verify our authenticity with you.
Thank you again for helping us resolve this problem with your account.
Hey, don't knock accidental discoveries. Both the slinky and silly putty were created by accident IIRC.
I hate Vista too, but some of this review's points need a bit of correction (in Vista's favor, even) although I also have some things to say too.
Virtual PC allows you to alter the MAC address of a VM by editing the VMC file by hand. I recall that it's needed if you want to duplicate a VM and run them both side by side (since they can't use the same MAC address, obviously).
Not sure about other VM offerings.
The only other relevant thing I can think of is that some (all?) linux distros randomize MAC addresses of network cards on boot... woe to the user who tries to use the software you're referring to through wine!
I broke my GB Advance when I dropped it (the original, not the SP that you're talking about). Oddly enough Mario Kart DS was the only game that broke... I could play my brother's copy, and he could play my copy in his GBA, but my copy wouldn't work in my GBA. Sent both into Nintendo's Repair center and they sent me back new copies of each I think, even though I technically invalidated my warranty with a GameShark (although I guess they'd get customers yelling at them if they took advantage of that).
Sold my original GB at a yard sale some years ago, since I had a GBC then. Kept dropping the darn thing when I was a kid, only thing wrong with it when I sold it was one vertical column of pixels was out.
But if it's different, it's not a dupe, now is it?
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Is it possible to have negative money? If not it would be a simple hack to double the limit by making the gold counter unsigned. Well... you' d have to change every variable that stores gold but it would be easier or at least as easy as changing it to a longlong or something.
An alternative is to purposely let it roll over. Blizzard would be doing those players a FAVOR. ;)
Adobe Reader will no longer print PDFs. I have no idea why. It claims I need to install a printer, but I already have plenty installed, thanks. I do turn the print spooler service off when I'm not using it, which CAN result in that message, but it's not a Windows message but a Adobe Reader one. Not to mention that I do turn the service on even before running Adobe Reader.
Also, GMail and Yahoo Mail now block PDFs apparently (I tried to send it to someone else to print it for me).
As of now, I still haven't gotten the stupid thing to print.
Final scores of course are subject to change on the final test:
* - script takes long enough to run that browser prompts you to kill it.
IIRC charities have to go through a LOT of @#$% when they have to refund money for reasons like this. Worst case scenario they LOSE a bit of money handling the fake donation and then refund... I don't know too much of the specifics but at any rate it's mean.
When someone does this, they're not hurting just the person they're stealing from, they're also hurting the charity.
Scanners can have bugs too. Maybe feeding the MySQL source code into it caused it to error or crash for whatever reason.
Or maybe licensing issues? Although I doubt it, IIRC MySQL is GPL or something.
I always thought it was written in lisp [url=http://xkcd.com/224/]until I learned otherwise[/url].
I think we're not allowed to do that for the same reason lynching isn't allowed...
Chuck Norris won his lawsuit before he even filed it!
It sounds like the user needs to be using Internet Explorer in order to be vulnerable. I doubt anything happens on Firefox or other browser since there is purposely no ActiveX support there.
Also I note that the exploit description itself never uses the inaccurate word "brick".
With NoScript, Firefox's performance easily soars above the rest?
It would take a really bad OS to make memory fragmentation a problem, since memory address pointers are virtualized (IE I'm talking about how process A can't access process B's memory and how the same numerical pointers in each point to different memory locations). Even Windows isn't that bad. Besides, the only performance metric any kind of fragmentation can really affect is speed, never size.
Or is this some misnomer or am I misunderstanding this?