I have had the pleasure of watching my PC Config & Repair class install Ubuntu Linux (I chose to use Slackware instead, since I was better at it, among other things). I'd say about half the class had problems just installing it, though since I didn't watch the errors or problems, I attribute it to user error (I assume it was because the video cards were connected to the monitors by DVI, and I remember having to add a line in xorg.conf explicitly stating this). After it was running, however, new programs were easy to install...that is, if you used Add/Remove programs (using whatever the graphical front-end is for apt-get, I guess). I can't speak for ease of install for downloading Ubuntu packages off the Internet (do they use deb?), but it shouldn't have been that hard from apt-get. The real pain, however, was figuring out how to install bzflag, since it's not in the default repository. Sure, you could apt-get it, but you had to enable some universal repository first. That was dug into a text file. Find an easy way to do that.
...we'l see performance that actually can exceed running on bare metal thanks to hypervisors on the x86 platform.
Maybe I'm just stuck in the old ways of thinking, but...how exactly are we going to get more performance out of something like this? Even if you use a hypervisor, you're still stuck with the overhead of an operating system to manage the (virtual) resources, not to mention the (albeit small) added overhead of the virtual machine software.
Parent has a point. These kinds of attacks are mitigated by user-created plug-ins. Once again, the problem is semi-contained before it's even released. There's still people that will be affected by it, but the simple and elegant plug-in system as well as plug-in writers (yes, they're simple and elegant, too) bring great tools to extend the usability of Firefox.
Last I checked, the "algorithm" for Windows XP could be crudely simplified as follows:
Any piece of hardware could be added or removed, sans network hardware, and reactivation wasn't necessary. Any change in network hardware would make Windows throw a red flag. Two pieces of hardware sans network hardware could be changed and it would throw a flag.
It's a bit more complex than this (it basically used a points system), but that's the gist of Windows XP's hardware hashing, IIRC.
At Sierra College, when doing research for a paper, you must explicitly not use any sites with.com or.org names. When asked, I found it was because they may contain bias information ("money" comes to mind as far as incentive for biasness). Unfortunately, Wikipedia falls under this category.
It sounds like the modern definition (copyright infringement) was added because people used it in that sense. Webster does it sometimes (although some regard Webster to be of lower quality).
With the official release finally here, I'll make my definitive comment on it:
Sure, it's got some new features, but...
...it still feels like the same old Firefox.
Sure, the idea is to keep it simple and not put too much shit in it, but like others have stated, it doesn't really feel like a 2.0 release. There's just not a whole lot all that new to me after a few days. The only thing I see different is that two of my extensions (Fasterfox and Tabbrowser Preferences) have been marked incompatable (although half of the behavior of the latter has been integrated, it seems). So, take away that, and we have...Firefox 1.6. Congratulations, guys.
P.S, I stand my by earlier comment that Firefox 2.0 be officially released two years to the day that 1.0 was. So close.;)
When I was in high school, (I left my senior year, which was two months shy of a whole year ago, in pursuit of a GED and early college), the student computers used DeepFreeze on top of Windows 98. DeepFreeze was great at keeping any changes from rolling over to the next reboot (a pain in the ass when Windows Update had a new update), but as parent said, didn't do shit for keeping anything off of it for the session.
Also, if you have tech-minded students (such as myself), they might discover that booting from a live CD will allow them to add and remove things from the disk. Since DeepFreeze checks changes on shut-down compared to those on start-up (as opposed to a static drive), files added or removed while the machine is "offline" stay added or removed. The solution is of course to lock the BIOS and keep the screws on the machine cases. Other than that, you just need some non-boneheaded staff to make sure the machines stay in one peice.
Windows XP Home Edition doesn't have gpedit.msc, IIRC. No cmpmgmt.msc either. I don't have a Windows XP Home Edition install handy (my laptop doesn't have the kind of space to keep virtual machines around), so I don't know for sure.
I'm guessing that cracks for legitcheck.dll function a lot like no-CD cracks for most commercial Windows games: replace the CMP A,B with JMP. I'd imagine the reverse is possible (jumping to the routine for a failed auth).
Some of the comments of this article mirror the GitS:SAC episode plotline last night on adult swim (yes, I watch it, if only for Futurama, Family Guy, Ghost in the Shell and others). Someone from some nanomachine company (didn't catch who he was and what he did) was kidnapped again by the laughing man and was questioned as to why he didn't keep his promise after 6 years (the promise was to issue a press release saying that the nanomachines didn't do what they outlined in the patent they submitted).
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Excuse my ignorance and lack of knowledge (I'm no astonomer), but if the moon was -made- of ice, wouldn't it have all/mostly vaporized by now? Wouldn't that also negate the theory that the moon was created from Earth due to a megacatastrophic impact?
Believe it or not, some of them do. I don't know my correctional facilities as much as some people do here, but some places are pretty damn nice places to be.
You can't go ordering companies that do business both within and outside the US to take arbitrary actions outside the US in response to civil suits within the US.
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Reminds me of a poster my father had at work:
This is your brain. (egg)
This is your brain on drugs. (egg in a pan)
This is your brain on drugs with a side of bacon. (egg in pan with some bacon)
I have had the pleasure of watching my PC Config & Repair class install Ubuntu Linux (I chose to use Slackware instead, since I was better at it, among other things). I'd say about half the class had problems just installing it, though since I didn't watch the errors or problems, I attribute it to user error (I assume it was because the video cards were connected to the monitors by DVI, and I remember having to add a line in xorg.conf explicitly stating this). After it was running, however, new programs were easy to install...that is, if you used Add/Remove programs (using whatever the graphical front-end is for apt-get, I guess). I can't speak for ease of install for downloading Ubuntu packages off the Internet (do they use deb?), but it shouldn't have been that hard from apt-get. The real pain, however, was figuring out how to install bzflag, since it's not in the default repository. Sure, you could apt-get it, but you had to enable some universal repository first. That was dug into a text file. Find an easy way to do that.
You named your penis "problem?"
...we'l see performance that actually can exceed running on bare metal thanks to hypervisors on the x86 platform.
Maybe I'm just stuck in the old ways of thinking, but...how exactly are we going to get more performance out of something like this? Even if you use a hypervisor, you're still stuck with the overhead of an operating system to manage the (virtual) resources, not to mention the (albeit small) added overhead of the virtual machine software.
Parent has a point. These kinds of attacks are mitigated by user-created plug-ins. Once again, the problem is semi-contained before it's even released. There's still people that will be affected by it, but the simple and elegant plug-in system as well as plug-in writers (yes, they're simple and elegant, too) bring great tools to extend the usability of Firefox.
End marketing rant.
Last I checked, the "algorithm" for Windows XP could be crudely simplified as follows:
Any piece of hardware could be added or removed, sans network hardware, and reactivation wasn't necessary. Any change in network hardware would make Windows throw a red flag. Two pieces of hardware sans network hardware could be changed and it would throw a flag.
It's a bit more complex than this (it basically used a points system), but that's the gist of Windows XP's hardware hashing, IIRC.
I recall IBM Thinkpad drives being the same way.
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(Disclaimer: I did not put the "no" tag on.)
At Sierra College, when doing research for a paper, you must explicitly not use any sites with .com or .org names. When asked, I found it was because they may contain bias information ("money" comes to mind as far as incentive for biasness). Unfortunately, Wikipedia falls under this category.
It sounds like the modern definition (copyright infringement) was added because people used it in that sense. Webster does it sometimes (although some regard Webster to be of lower quality).
Someone was killed with a name of 192939495969798999?
...someone had a name of 192939495969798999?
So, did he throw party chairs?
With the official release finally here, I'll make my definitive comment on it:
;)
Sure, it's got some new features, but...
...it still feels like the same old Firefox.
Sure, the idea is to keep it simple and not put too much shit in it, but like others have stated, it doesn't really feel like a 2.0 release. There's just not a whole lot all that new to me after a few days. The only thing I see different is that two of my extensions (Fasterfox and Tabbrowser Preferences) have been marked incompatable (although half of the behavior of the latter has been integrated, it seems). So, take away that, and we have...Firefox 1.6. Congratulations, guys.
P.S, I stand my by earlier comment that Firefox 2.0 be officially released two years to the day that 1.0 was. So close.
IE7 seems to be just half a step in the right direction for Microsoft.
A half step, eh?
I have to comment on this.
When I was in high school, (I left my senior year, which was two months shy of a whole year ago, in pursuit of a GED and early college), the student computers used DeepFreeze on top of Windows 98. DeepFreeze was great at keeping any changes from rolling over to the next reboot (a pain in the ass when Windows Update had a new update), but as parent said, didn't do shit for keeping anything off of it for the session.
Also, if you have tech-minded students (such as myself), they might discover that booting from a live CD will allow them to add and remove things from the disk. Since DeepFreeze checks changes on shut-down compared to those on start-up (as opposed to a static drive), files added or removed while the machine is "offline" stay added or removed. The solution is of course to lock the BIOS and keep the screws on the machine cases. Other than that, you just need some non-boneheaded staff to make sure the machines stay in one peice.
Windows XP Home Edition doesn't have gpedit.msc, IIRC. No cmpmgmt.msc either. I don't have a Windows XP Home Edition install handy (my laptop doesn't have the kind of space to keep virtual machines around), so I don't know for sure.
now I really like the Linux idea of putting program files in /bin
"Linux" doesn't do this, your package manager (or some other program) does this.
which is also in the path env... ooh Linux has Windows beat on this!
Run "echo %path%" in a command window on a Windows box. Gee, it seems to be a $PATH equivalent.
You sound like my PC Config & Repair professor: a Linux zealot.
Thisis not your father's MIPS R4000.
Oh, it must be mine then.
I'm guessing that cracks for legitcheck.dll function a lot like no-CD cracks for most commercial Windows games: replace the CMP A,B with JMP. I'd imagine the reverse is possible (jumping to the routine for a failed auth).
Or zombines?
Sorry, I just started playing Half-Life 2 Episode One.
Some of the comments of this article mirror the GitS:SAC episode plotline last night on adult swim (yes, I watch it, if only for Futurama, Family Guy, Ghost in the Shell and others). Someone from some nanomachine company (didn't catch who he was and what he did) was kidnapped again by the laughing man and was questioned as to why he didn't keep his promise after 6 years (the promise was to issue a press release saying that the nanomachines didn't do what they outlined in the patent they submitted).
Excuse my ignorance and lack of knowledge (I'm no astonomer), but if the moon was -made- of ice, wouldn't it have all/mostly vaporized by now? Wouldn't that also negate the theory that the moon was created from Earth due to a megacatastrophic impact?
Believe it or not, some of them do. I don't know my correctional facilities as much as some people do here, but some places are pretty damn nice places to be.
You can't go ordering companies that do business both within and outside the US to take arbitrary actions outside the US in response to civil suits within the US.
Oh?
This sounds great! You can play...play, uh...what can you play on an Atari?