And, who is going to bet me $10 that you won't be allowed to know what data gets on your ID card? I'll bet against that. Since the data is unencrypted, some hacker will figure it out 10 minutes after he gets his card. It'll be public knowledge within half an hour.
Don't forget the monitor's refresh rate will limit the frame rate even with vertical sync options off (so might as well keep it on to prevent "tearing"). If your refresh rate is at 60Hz it doesn't matter how fast the game goes... you'll only see 60 individual frames (with tearing if it doesn't happen to be an even multiple of 60). So don't forget about this, since you can probably up it to 75 or something and squeeze a few frames out (some older monitors might... um... break if you accidentally set them to refresh rates they don't support, so RTFM).
Well, you seem to be forgetting that IT WILL ONLY WORK FOR YOUR COMPUTER. Domain name registrars exist to allow you to purchase a name for ALL COMPUTERS to recognize.
The only way your method could be used successfully for phishing is if the attacker can modify/etc/hosts or %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. But if they can do that, it's already game over, so to speak, for the victim, because that implies the attacker has to have other levels of access through which they can probably do more damage than a simple phishing attack could do...
Linux users have another option not mentioned that isn't available to Windows or Mac-OS users... they can quietly/publicly vent, and then write a patch to fix the problem.
Just be warned if you decide to abort partway through the process (I was desperate for free internet access, but not enough to give up my CC info) they will STILL KEEP THE INFORMATION YOU ENTER. I got a phone call several days later from a rep with a sales pitch.
Although this was 3 years ago I don't think they'll have changed it...
I agree; but an interesting caveat is that the gov't reuses old SSNs eventually after the owner dies, so if you keep records long enough and if you have enough of them eventually you might end up with a duplicate key...
It's called RFID chips. Of course it doesn't have the long range abilities the summary seems to suggest, but it's still pretty close. And they are cheap.
There usually is no direct unit correlation, what is best to do usually is take the height of the main character object, make a guess at his "real world" height (or find a bio somewhere) and then use the two values to scale all the other measurements.
That's not a bad strategy in points games, unless you have limited lives of course. I myself tend to find dying while taking out another guy a fair trade.
This reminds me of Intel trying to trademark "386" and "486". It was ruled they could not trademark a number, so they switched to using "Pentium(TM)". I think this ruling applies here as well.
It's not just 512 bytes, it's MULTIPLES of it. For example, on a usb flash drive, low cluster size is important to avoid wasting space and fitting as much data as possible.
Which brings up the question, what's the difference between sector size and allocation cluster size? I assume the former is hardware while the latter is software, but anything else? Does the sector size limit the minimum allocation cluster size?
As an example of the reason why you might want to keep cluster/sector size low, this one portable game I just downloaded the other day has 100 or so 1 byte files (don't ask me why). That's 51.1kb total wasted with 512 bytes per sector/cluster. Bump it up to 4096 and now it wastes 409.5kb total. Another example: A 513 byte file wastes as much space as a 1 byte file in 512 byte clusters.
You can see how much space is wasted in Windows by viewing a file's properties. The "Size" is the actual file size. "Size on disk" includes the unused space in the last cluster (or however it's laid out... fragmentation and all that), although keep in mind "Size on disk" also takes NTFS compression into account if it's turned on, so it'll probably be SMALLER than "Size" for those files...
I tried it, and it compiled correctly, but it failed to run because it was missing some library that I couldn't find anywhere. Plus, it overwrites WINE. >:(
I talked it over with some more experienced linux users and they are of the opinion the CVS version is intentionally hard to use, and even lacking in features, in order to force people to buy the commercial version.
When I was in HS I knew more about computers than my computer teacher did. I should've realized than that spelled trouble.
At one point she recognized my skills and asked me to set up a computer for her... basically just plug the monitor, keyboard, mouse in and turn it on. The only problem is, she said "set up" so I assumed she wanted me to make sure it was booting and working OK in software too. She wasn't happy when she found out I had modified the boot files to get the mouse working. What is puzzling though is that she could see me the entire time and I can't imagine why she didn't come back to check on me after I had obviously plugged it all in and turned it on.
What's even more puzzling is that, according to her, I somehow managed to turn a perfectly working copy of Windows 98 into a broken copy of Windows 95 without an installation CD. Never mind that I insisted Windows 95 had been on there already and that i had turned a broken '95 into a slightly less broken '95.
My dad (who is more skilled in computers than me, and thus her) offered to help her fix it, but when he showed up at the designated time she was nowhere to be found... she had left her son who had no idea what my dad was supposed to do exactly. So dad just left.
Oh, and this teacher promised every student who got 50+WAM on the typing program a t-shirt, but she disappeared at the end of the semester instead. We were all sorta annoyed at that. She didn't even give out the honor roll certificates all teachers were required to at the awards ceremony thing...
Oooh and this story is the best. The students at the school in the web design class worked on the school website. Apparently one of them set the IE homepage to the NETWORK location of the website source (it's supposed to be set to the internet location). So when I logged on and opened IE (this was before anyone had heard of Firefox, called Phoenix then) it loaded the file from the network share. I noticed this and, curious went a level up to the directory index and checked out a couple other pages, and then fixed the IE homepage to point to the online version and went back to work.
The teacher later confronted me with charges of "hacking into the school's computer systems". Naturally I had no idea what the hell she was talking about. She then went into Windows Explorer and navigated through network shares back to the website source files. (It's worth noting not once when either of us viewed these files were we prompted for a password. The computers ran on Windows NT/2000 and every student had a roaming user account so it's not like it would've been hard.) I tried to explain that IE had opened the page automatically but she didn't buy it, and then went on into a lecture about how hacking is bad blah blah blah blah. I, being a shy introvert, couldn't really talk back to a teacher.:(
You DO know that www. is just another subdomain, right? The only reason it's special is because most/all websites mirror <hostname> onto www.<hostname>. But it doesn't HAVE to be like that. Slashdot doesn't do it like that, for instance.
It doesn't matter if the DNS entry has www. on it or not, the address is still owned by the same person and will get directed to a machine they specified (or nowhere).
It doesn't run as root, it can run in any security context. This exploit just crashes explorer, it doesn't crash Vista. However this is still a problem for Joe Average, who won't know what to do when explorer goes into a crash-restart-crash loop.
IANAL, but the students knew that when they turned in their papers that they would be submitted to Turnitin. By turning in their papers it was an implicit agreement; they could have easily turned down the submission to Turnitin by not... turning it in! It seems like a simple, implicit terms of use by the school/college/whatever it is.
Not sure if any of that has any basis in legal reality, but surely I'm at least close to something?
It's easy to tell Vista's Explorer is slow at copying/deleting files... the command line tool robocopy, included with Vista, is so much faster it isn't even funny.
Use the breadcrumb bar (IE the address bar). Click on the folder name you want to go to, usually the one to the left of the current one. It's more useful than just a simple up button.
Doesn't for me... you might want to look at your network settings or the settings of the remote computer. Make sure that it's isn't slow in XP or Linux either!
Not for me, check the Internet Options dialog carefully. My only problem is every time I enter a new URL, it opens it in a NEW tab. What if I want it in the current tab? Too bad.
There are dozens of third-party tools to do this, and some are Vista-compatible. MS simply doesn't consider it a feature they should implement, but there's nothing preventing you from looking for a third-party solution. Granted MS knows their own OS inside and out thus an official one would be better quality, but still there are plenty of choices, an adequate one must exist.
It's called NTFS, and some of these attributes, such as file access permissions, are quite useful. There are copy options for stripping attributes on file copy or move (though you must use robocopy on the command line, which beats drag and drop for copy speed any day). I have no clue what your problem is here but it probably isn't related to attributes on files...
Defragging a NTFS drive is done automatically while your computer idles. It has been since NT or 2000. There is no reason to really run a manual defrag tool anymore unless you're preparing to shrink or move a partition. Which the built-in tool isn't really good for anymore anyways.
It is annoying, but it is also disable-able if you think you can do without it. After a few tweaks--modifiying the All Users Start Menu to full control for Users, turning off the hidden desktop for UAC prompts, giving my specific user account full control access to all files everywhere--it is quite bearable now for me.
My personal annoyances are mostly due to slowness of games and program incompatibilities.
Ctrl + Alt + Del doesn't open the Task Manager on all versions of Windows, just "Home" versions. "Pro" or "Business/Enterprise/Ultimate" versions instead have a menu which allows you to launch the task manager, log off, switch user, lock the computer, or change your password.
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Don't forget the monitor's refresh rate will limit the frame rate even with vertical sync options off (so might as well keep it on to prevent "tearing"). If your refresh rate is at 60Hz it doesn't matter how fast the game goes... you'll only see 60 individual frames (with tearing if it doesn't happen to be an even multiple of 60). So don't forget about this, since you can probably up it to 75 or something and squeeze a few frames out (some older monitors might... um... break if you accidentally set them to refresh rates they don't support, so RTFM).
Well, you seem to be forgetting that IT WILL ONLY WORK FOR YOUR COMPUTER. Domain name registrars exist to allow you to purchase a name for ALL COMPUTERS to recognize.
The only way your method could be used successfully for phishing is if the attacker can modify /etc/hosts or %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. But if they can do that, it's already game over, so to speak, for the victim, because that implies the attacker has to have other levels of access through which they can probably do more damage than a simple phishing attack could do...
Linux users have another option not mentioned that isn't available to Windows or Mac-OS users... they can quietly/publicly vent, and then write a patch to fix the problem.
I'm an American, and I've never heard of "Camerone Day"...
Just be warned if you decide to abort partway through the process (I was desperate for free internet access, but not enough to give up my CC info) they will STILL KEEP THE INFORMATION YOU ENTER. I got a phone call several days later from a rep with a sales pitch.
Although this was 3 years ago I don't think they'll have changed it...
I agree; but an interesting caveat is that the gov't reuses old SSNs eventually after the owner dies, so if you keep records long enough and if you have enough of them eventually you might end up with a duplicate key...
It's called RFID chips. Of course it doesn't have the long range abilities the summary seems to suggest, but it's still pretty close. And they are cheap.
There usually is no direct unit correlation, what is best to do usually is take the height of the main character object, make a guess at his "real world" height (or find a bio somewhere) and then use the two values to scale all the other measurements.
That's not a bad strategy in points games, unless you have limited lives of course. I myself tend to find dying while taking out another guy a fair trade.
This reminds me of Intel trying to trademark "386" and "486". It was ruled they could not trademark a number, so they switched to using "Pentium(TM)". I think this ruling applies here as well.
That's called "dawn".
It's not just 512 bytes, it's MULTIPLES of it. For example, on a usb flash drive, low cluster size is important to avoid wasting space and fitting as much data as possible.
Which brings up the question, what's the difference between sector size and allocation cluster size? I assume the former is hardware while the latter is software, but anything else? Does the sector size limit the minimum allocation cluster size?
As an example of the reason why you might want to keep cluster/sector size low, this one portable game I just downloaded the other day has 100 or so 1 byte files (don't ask me why). That's 51.1kb total wasted with 512 bytes per sector/cluster. Bump it up to 4096 and now it wastes 409.5kb total. Another example: A 513 byte file wastes as much space as a 1 byte file in 512 byte clusters.
You can see how much space is wasted in Windows by viewing a file's properties. The "Size" is the actual file size. "Size on disk" includes the unused space in the last cluster (or however it's laid out... fragmentation and all that), although keep in mind "Size on disk" also takes NTFS compression into account if it's turned on, so it'll probably be SMALLER than "Size" for those files...
01000010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100 10000001100101011110000111000001100001011011100111 00110110100101101111011011100010000001110111011000 01011100110111010001100101011100110010000001111001 01101111011101010111001000100000011100110110000101 11011001100101011001000010000001110011011100000110 00010110001101100101001000010010000001000110010101 000101011100100001
What good is the CVS if it doesn't run?
I tried it, and it compiled correctly, but it failed to run because it was missing some library that I couldn't find anywhere. Plus, it overwrites WINE. >:(
I talked it over with some more experienced linux users and they are of the opinion the CVS version is intentionally hard to use, and even lacking in features, in order to force people to buy the commercial version.
When I was in HS I knew more about computers than my computer teacher did. I should've realized than that spelled trouble.
At one point she recognized my skills and asked me to set up a computer for her... basically just plug the monitor, keyboard, mouse in and turn it on. The only problem is, she said "set up" so I assumed she wanted me to make sure it was booting and working OK in software too. She wasn't happy when she found out I had modified the boot files to get the mouse working. What is puzzling though is that she could see me the entire time and I can't imagine why she didn't come back to check on me after I had obviously plugged it all in and turned it on.
What's even more puzzling is that, according to her, I somehow managed to turn a perfectly working copy of Windows 98 into a broken copy of Windows 95 without an installation CD. Never mind that I insisted Windows 95 had been on there already and that i had turned a broken '95 into a slightly less broken '95.
My dad (who is more skilled in computers than me, and thus her) offered to help her fix it, but when he showed up at the designated time she was nowhere to be found... she had left her son who had no idea what my dad was supposed to do exactly. So dad just left.
Oh, and this teacher promised every student who got 50+WAM on the typing program a t-shirt, but she disappeared at the end of the semester instead. We were all sorta annoyed at that. She didn't even give out the honor roll certificates all teachers were required to at the awards ceremony thing...
Oooh and this story is the best. The students at the school in the web design class worked on the school website. Apparently one of them set the IE homepage to the NETWORK location of the website source (it's supposed to be set to the internet location). So when I logged on and opened IE (this was before anyone had heard of Firefox, called Phoenix then) it loaded the file from the network share. I noticed this and, curious went a level up to the directory index and checked out a couple other pages, and then fixed the IE homepage to point to the online version and went back to work.
The teacher later confronted me with charges of "hacking into the school's computer systems". Naturally I had no idea what the hell she was talking about. She then went into Windows Explorer and navigated through network shares back to the website source files. (It's worth noting not once when either of us viewed these files were we prompted for a password. The computers ran on Windows NT/2000 and every student had a roaming user account so it's not like it would've been hard.) I tried to explain that IE had opened the page automatically but she didn't buy it, and then went on into a lecture about how hacking is bad blah blah blah blah. I, being a shy introvert, couldn't really talk back to a teacher. :(
Yup, it's all Pepsi at my college, not a Coca-Cola to be found anywhere for sale on the property.
You DO know that www. is just another subdomain, right? The only reason it's special is because most/all websites mirror <hostname> onto www.<hostname>. But it doesn't HAVE to be like that. Slashdot doesn't do it like that, for instance.
It doesn't matter if the DNS entry has www. on it or not, the address is still owned by the same person and will get directed to a machine they specified (or nowhere).
Oops, I meant...
C:\>dig'dig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file, you insensitive clod!
[blockquote]C:\>dig 'dig' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file, you insensitive clod![/blockquote]
It doesn't run as root, it can run in any security context. This exploit just crashes explorer, it doesn't crash Vista. However this is still a problem for Joe Average, who won't know what to do when explorer goes into a crash-restart-crash loop.
IANAL, but the students knew that when they turned in their papers that they would be submitted to Turnitin. By turning in their papers it was an implicit agreement; they could have easily turned down the submission to Turnitin by not... turning it in! It seems like a simple, implicit terms of use by the school/college/whatever it is.
Not sure if any of that has any basis in legal reality, but surely I'm at least close to something?
It's easy to tell Vista's Explorer is slow at copying/deleting files... the command line tool robocopy, included with Vista, is so much faster it isn't even funny.
My personal annoyances are mostly due to slowness of games and program incompatibilities.
Ctrl + Alt + Del doesn't open the Task Manager on all versions of Windows, just "Home" versions. "Pro" or "Business/Enterprise/Ultimate" versions instead have a menu which allows you to launch the task manager, log off, switch user, lock the computer, or change your password.