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I just don't understand why we need to download and install a 200mb library of 'possibilities' to use a program that is 4mb in size....Because it gives developers at crapload of functionality that they don't have to re-invent, and by having the users download the runtimes you don't have to distribute multi-megabyte executables.-SchoolDaGeek (March 08, 2010, 10:43 PM)
I use CS-RCS for my product development. Since I am a single developer, I can use the free version. Check it out.People still using RCS in 2010? Unbelievable
http://www.component...re.com/products/rcs/-drich291 (March 08, 2010, 05:18 PM)
Then Phillipe Kahn came along with Turbo Pascal and I'm pretty sure I paid $69 for it!!That sounds almost as if Philippe wrote it - whereas Turbo Pascal was actually written by the (Danish-cranioscopical (March 08, 2010, 03:31 PM)
) [urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg]Anders Hejlsberg[/url] (yes, the guy who went on to create C#). Oh, I don't really think so - you're working at the .obj level, not modifying the compiler. A friend of mine has a software protection product that works on the .obj levelSPO actually optimized the intermediate code in TPU files@f0dder - Amazing. Can you imagine somebody doing something like that today? They'd get their butts sued off before they could hit the save key on their compiler. How times have changed...-f0dder (March 08, 2010, 03:27 PM)-40hz (March 08, 2010, 03:50 PM)
I do have git there (as well as gitosis - seems pretty nice), but apparently not the git svn extensions... they don't seem to be in gentoo's portage, and I'm too lazy to figure out where to find them at the moment - other than that, yeah, it'd probably workCould I copy the repository from my linux server and do git-svn locally with a file:// reference?-f0dder (March 08, 2010, 01:20 PM)
Why not make the git clone of the svn repo on the server? Though git needs to be installed there of course. It's only a once off process though anyway, it'd probably finish in the time you'd spend looking for a faster solution-Eóin (March 08, 2010, 01:30 PM)
. If it can do file:// urls, copying the repos to my workstation and doing it from here would work too... guess I'll end up testing that before too long Much as I admire (and owe) Linus Torvalds, I'm slowly coming to the realization that the more I get to "know" him, the less and less I seem to like him.Amen to that.-40hz (December 02, 2008, 09:34 PM)
UbiSoft lied about DRM Servers - http://bit.ly/aKEbCgYup - and before anybody else posts anything about that event in this thread, take it here instead-wraith808 (March 08, 2010, 12:02 PM)
If the demo is already nearly full version, then the fullversion will be released next day or something?There's a lot of ways to go about this. If the game isn't entirely done, then "all the available content" could be preloaded, requiring perhaps just a few hundred megabytes being downloaded once the game is entirely done.-RedPillow (March 08, 2010, 02:19 AM)
Nuts & Bolts had the best defragger I have ever used. It was lightning fast and quite thorough, unless you chose the option to 0 the free space, which then it was just thorough. I really wish they would have continued the development of that. I really miss it.Amen to that! - it did some pretty hefty pre-planning, which enabled it to be very smart about how it moved data around... it defragged properly, and it did it fast. Dunno if it's possible to do it this well today; will probably require an offline filesystem defrag at any rate.-app103 (March 07, 2010, 04:31 AM)
Faked multitasking from back in the days of DOS. "When men were real men; women were real women; and those little fuzzy creatures from Sirius were real little fuzzy creatures from Sirius."...and 16-year-old girls weren't FBI agents.-40hz (March 07, 2010, 01:16 PM)
, Another World (aka. Out Of This World), flashback, Hunter and a LOT more. Lots of fond memories!Lawl, just think about checking your ping when playing Assassin`s Creed - so you wont lag out and quit without saving your game to the serverSaves are still stored locally - you can put them "in the cloud" as well, but saves being cloud-only i FUD.-RedPillow (March 08, 2010, 01:00 AM)
The only problem is that neither of them will run on 64-bit Win7 no matter what you do. Might just be some sloppy coding since they work just fine under 32-bit Win7.In which way do the apps fail on 64bit Windows?-40hz (March 05, 2010, 07:11 PM)
How do you propose to secure things with CA?I'm not proposing to "secure things with CA" - but SSL certs (and code signing certs) need the CA system unless you want to rely on self-signed certs (and how do you verify the validity of those, then?).-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 05:53 AM)
In case of SSL certificates, you know, there's no bigass warning for real spoof site. The only warning you have for real spoof is lack of tiny yellow lock icon.Which is enough for power users (the ones that be keeping their software up todate, unlike regular users). Authentication isn't the only thing SSL does, though, confidentality and tamper-resistance are just as important.-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 05:53 AM)
The bigass warning is mostly shown to customers of legitimate businesses whom forgot to pay racket money (forgot to renew certificate).And I do believe this is a problem. SSL certs and code signing certs are a bit on the expensive side. Code signing certs are slightly difficult to obtain, but that's mostly a positive thing, though.-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 05:53 AM)
Use firefox, keep it up to date, its usually fixed for exploits sooner than any use of exploit appears in the wild (which is also sooner than antivirus responds). Geez.The browser is only one part of the exploit vector equation - you're forgetting flash and java, which aren't always fixed in a timely fashion.-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 04:50 AM)
Fixing security holes with a third party code blacklist for known uses of that security hole in the wild, that's just wrong. It's like you have a digital lock on your door, with password code, and instead of updating lock's firmware you also install second lock that has camera that blocks entry for people whom look like known criminals.A decent anti-malware product wouldn't just be blacklisting static code sequences, though, so this comparison doesn't really work. A better one would be a cop stopping a guy pulling a gun before he pulls the trigger.-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 04:50 AM)
Ditto by the way for digital certificates and 'certificate authorities'. Extortion scheme, pure and simple, not very effective for protection because it is possible to steal certificate, but extremely effective for having various people make billions by doing very little. Everyone who doesn't pay up is subject to plain libel delivered when user tries to run the application* The libel also devalues genuinely useful warnings.Unfortunately there's too many CAs and some have been way too lax on security... but how do you propose to secure things without a CA?-Dmytry (March 04, 2010, 05:07 AM)
As I'm sure you know, it's quite common in C to store pointers in int variables. While this might not be a good practice in general there are times when it makes sense, such as for SetWindowLongPtr() where all the API is interested in is storing a small blob of data - it doesn't care what that data is (the user of the API gets to decide what the data means).A void* is a better choice - it's opaque ("don't go around manipulating this like you woudl an int"), you don't run into trouble on platforms where sizeof(int) != sizeof(T*) (16- and 64-bit x86 platforms), et cetera. 8 of the 10 documented indices for Get/SetWindowLongPtr are pointer types.-mwb1100 (March 03, 2010, 08:05 PM)
On the other hand, Microsoft should have made it so that passing a LONG_PTR type (whether by casting or not) to SetWindowLongPtr() should not have caused a warning whether the build was for 32 or 64 bit. That's really where something fell down here. The whole point of a type like LONG_PTR is so that the conditional code that Stoic Joker ended up using wouldn't be necessary.And, at least on VC2008, there is no warning when doing the single cast. Can't see why there would be with other versions of the compiler, either, really - but mistakingly using SetWindowLong (instead of SetWindowLongPtr) at 4am because you haven't had enough coffee... then yeah-mwb1100 (March 03, 2010, 08:05 PM)
(or perhaps some flaky old PlatformSDK version - but I kinda doubt that as well).