Posts by darklordsid

Re: WARNING: Executable code may execute code

The issue is the code is sneaked in due a fault in the way sfx "text and icon" data is assembled by WinRar.

I agree that no one is in error if distrusts any unknown executable from any unknown source, but the point is that the vulnerability allows to easily add executing code where it should not be.

In any case I would generally recommend Open Source software like 7-Zip, PeaZip (can open also RAR5 archives), p7zip... rather than closed source ones, as code audit is easier (not burdened neither by i.p. issues nor hampered from unavailability of the full code base) and security issues are usually found and fixed faster.

Re: Pebble...

Even best battery degrades with time/use, of course some months it is not a satisfactory lifespan if the darn thing is glued (or, in other devices, fixed with arcane proprietary screws).

About problem in hot water, IMHO fitness smartwatches are meant for dealing with some water drops (or swimming in cold water in best cases) without electrocuting the user, rather than taking long hot baths or sauna, and in any case the watch is subject to be constantly heated from 37°C body contact so it should resist to less-than-burning water.

Re: Peazip question

In PeaZip the encryption is featured and the function is called "enter password" (correct, but maybe quite unintuitive).

WinRar is probably still the best of the bunch, although not *technically* free, anyway PeaZip is a good companion as it performs a lot of other useful little things, like hashing and file shredding.

Re: I don't see the problem

I see what you are saying there.

As soon as most users will be on the "web of apps" rather the "web of websites", in site ads market will crumble and in apps ads market will skyrocket, much more invasive than any googleads-filled page or bundled installer.

I already see this happening on most free Andorid and iOS apps, and MS Store is heading this way... not too fast, it seems, but only as people don't really like what is happening, and consumerization is a big drawback for corporate users; anyway it is where IT is heading to.

But if it is not good news for traditional - legacy :P - websites, I think it is not a good thing for apps developers too, as Store-centic distribution effectively transform a indie developer in a marketing research drone for the Store owner.

Is your app successful? Does your app threaten one of my apps (Office, IE...)? Ok, now you can do business solely from MY store, so be ready to be flooded by one stars, being placed in second page, the key API you use to be deprecated, or your software to be outright banned.

Plain and simple.

This means software will be less free as in freedom, and less "business" to.

Do you understand that what you call crapware does exactly what BigG and Bing does?

Do you understand that in a Store-only model of distribution who control the store can preemptively kill any effort of enforcing user rights (i.e. Adblock) or even competition (i.e. will MS store be neutral on Office, IE and Skype competitors? will be Big G store be neutral on Chrome/GoogleApps competitors? will Apple store be neutral over iWorks competitors?)

Do you think a false sense of security (yes, false, you are going to be ad profiled and NSA spied, and it does not meet my definition of being secure!) worth your user rights AND the life of non-monopolistic capitalistic free market?

Re: Or

Oh, rly?

That's why over 50% of servers runs Linux.

That's why over 50% of embedded devices runs Linux.

That's why Google framework runs Linux and it even chose to based Android (that already have as many active machines as wintel ones) on Linux kernel.

Your Win+Office+somethinginMSandNSAcloud is not the whole world.

Re: Can't see the point if

Think about "Surface" and "Surface Pro" brands for incompatible platforms... how would average customer would react if iOS was called "OSX" and OSX re-branded in "OSX Pro", and find out that the platforms are incompatible?

MS utterly derided users ever more dropping "Surface RT" (already synonym of failure) and branding it "Surface" only.

PATHETIC!