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Unfortunately, Facebook has no plans to fix this critical vulnerability, “In the end, the conclusion is that there’s no real way to us fix this that would stop “attacks” against small consumer grade sites without also significantly degrading the overall functionality,” Facebook replied to the researcher.
With max. 2 accounts? That's not "free" for a typical "power user", I guess. But hey, some *ix clients can only handle one...-Tuxman (April 22, 2014, 10:20 AM)
eM Client is not free.-Tuxman (April 22, 2014, 09:31 AM)
If the makers of MMO RPGs (Massive Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games) aren’t quite the worst database application developers in the world, they’re at least on the short list for consideration. The makers of Guild Wars didn’t even try to have decent database functionality. A decade later, when they introduced Guild Wars 2, the database-oriented functionality (auction house, real-money store, etc.) would crash for days at a time. Lord of the Rings Online evidently had multiple issues with database functionality. Now I’m playing Elder Scrolls Online, which on the whole is a great game, but which may have the most database screw-ups of all.
ESO has been live for less than 3 weeks, and in that time:
1. There’s been a major bug in which players’ “banks” shrank, losing items and so on. Days later, the data still hasn’t been recovered. After a patch, the problem if anything worsened.
2. Guild functionality has at times been taken down while the rest of the game functioned.
3. Those problems aside, bank and guild bank functionality are broken, via what might be considered performance bugs. Problems I repeatedly encounter include:
If you deposit a few items, the bank soon goes into a wait state where you can’t use it for a minute or more.
Similarly, when you try to access a guild — i.e. group — bank, you often find it in an unresponsive state.
If you make a series of updates a second apart, the game tells you you’re doing things too quickly, and insists that you slow down a lot.
Items that are supposed to “stack” appear in 2 or more stacks; i.e., a very simple kind of aggregation is failing. There are also several other related recurring errors, which I conjecture have the same underlying cause.
In general, it seems like that what should be a collection of database records is really just a list, parsed each time an update occurs, periodically flushed in its entirety to disk, with all the performance problems you’d expect from that kind of choice.
4. Even stupider are the in-game stores, where fictional items are sold for fictional money. They have an e-commerce interface that is literally 15+ years out of date — items are listed with VERY few filtering options, and there is no way to change the sort. But even that super-primitive interface doesn’t work; in particular, filter queries frequently return incorrect empty-set responses.
5. Much as in other games, over 10 minutes of state changes can be lost.
Except perhaps for #5, these are all functions that surely are only loosely coupled to the rest of the game. Hence the other difficulties of game scaling and performance should have no bearing on them. Hence there’s no excuse for doing such a terrible job of development on large portions of gameplay functionality.
Based on job listings, ESO developer Zenimax doesn’t see database functionality as a major area to fix. This makes me sad.
OK, so maybe I mis-interpreted what was said; throw me a bone here:... those users who have elected to install updates manually will have 30 days to install Windows 8.1 Update on Windows 8.1 devices; after this 30-day window - and beginning with the May Patch Tuesday, Windows 8.1 user's devices without the update installed will no longer receive security updates.
Ok, here's how I understand it. It seems to be saying that if you have updated to 8.1, there is a 30-day time window in which you will need to upgrade to 8.1 Update 1, and if you don't, you will no longer be able to receive any updates including the all-important Update 1. In other words, if you somehow miss the deadline, your 8.1 is and will always be dead to future updates. Or did I err?-Edvard (April 15, 2014, 11:11 PM)
And if you want to see what the future of XP holds, ask the 2k users that didn't upgrade, what their main issues are:
1) trying to run an older OS on newer hardware and trying to find drivers that work, or
2) trying to run newer software on the older OS, or
3) being restricted to older browsers which do not support newer features so accessing things like Flash or YouTube no longer work.
They are not crying about security problems. #2 & #3 were my main issues with running WinME, back in 2008, and would most likely still be my main issues if I were to take that PC out of retirement, with an entirely different issue not even on that list, if I were to try to get it online via anything but dialup. (same issue I had back in 2008, having to replace a combo modem & soundcard with both a NIC & soundcard via a bridge board soldered into an ISA slot, for which the PCI slots on it are disabled at the hardware level, by the manufacturer, leaving only 1 working ISA slot on the board to work with. If I could get past that, I'd likely then have to deal with issue #1)-app103 (April 08, 2014, 05:25 PM)
"Sorry, wraith808, I must have misunderstood you then. smiley"
No, please, it's the other way round: Your mentioning of "VUE (which I prefer) and CmapTools" was more than adequate since Scapple-peter.s (April 05, 2014, 01:00 PM)
| App Name | GS-Base |
| App URL | http://www.citadel5.com/gs-base.htm |
| App Version Reviewed | 12.1.5 |
| Test System Specs | Windows 7 64-bit/32-bit |
| Supported OSes | XP/Vista/7/8 32-bit/64-bit |
| Support Methods | Forums - http://forum-eng.citadel5.com/ and e-mail. |
| Upgrade Policy | Free upgrades for 12 months - not sure if upgrade after that is full price. Update from the Author: Upgrading: After 12 months current users can purchase a newer version at any time @ 50% off. |
| Trial Version Available? | Limited Trial version is available - Limitations listed: http://www.citadel5.com/trial.htm |
| Pricing Scheme | $19.95 (bulk pricing available) - http://www.citadel5.com/ordering.htm |
| Author Donation Link | wraith808 |
You're giving them too much credit for the effort they would be willing to put in.-mouser (April 03, 2014, 09:34 AM)
For the respective user that would be too late though as once your installer runs, all the crap has already been installed.
Edit: Well, I guess you assume that if you do this your SW wouldn't be wrapped like this in the first place.
the first hope would be that the site would not be able to use their wrapper if my installer made the result unusable.
the second hope would be that the really lazy sites that don't check their wrapper success, would get penalized after the fact because my installer would tell the user the reason the installer has failed and blame it on where they got the download.-mouser (April 01, 2014, 11:24 AM)