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Microsoft security
Sheesh!
It is of course a well-known fact that Microsoft cares a great deal about security. I mean, there are so very few bugs in Internet Explorer, Windows is renowned for its stability, Microsoft always realeses security updates and patches (for the few bugs that might perhaps sometimes occur) very quickly. It’s just… perfect!
But just as the “solution” to an earlier problem, I wrote about, they have again come up with a great idea: they will give the standard user in Longhorn more rights, in the hope that people will less often log in as Administrator.
Oookay… so you give the users more rights, so that they will have less rights… But at least, even normal users will now have enough rights to f*ck up the system!
Oh well, as if Microsoft ever really got an idea about user rights and permissions.
I mean, “registry” — need I say more? OK, how about “Windows\System” directory?
source: WebWereld (in Dutch)
#pragma warning(disable: 4786)
WOOHOO!
I have successfully ported my Linux code to Windows.
My application (for time-dependent isosurface extraction and rendering) uses VTK for the visualisation, FLTK for the user-interface, and pthreads for multi-threading.
Well, the first two are cross-platform toolkits, so no problem getting them compiled under Windows. But POSIX threads… nope… So I had to try something else.
DHCP server has died?
Two weeks ago, I wrote that I couldn’t get DHCP to work in Debian. I am convinced by now, that it’s not me, nor Debian, nor my configuration of Debian, it’s just the modem/router.
I tried to connect my laptop, running Windows XP, and I did not get an IP address. Yes, I did check the “Obtain IP address automatically”-checkbox! Can it be any easier than that?
The built-in DHCP server of the SMC 7204BRA router just seems to have died after handing out 2 IP addresses. I cannot think of any other explanation…
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