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Beer28 wrote:

You know what would be even cooler though, than eating up resources hooking buttons, and having to hook stuff every time you want to interject on windows functionality????

just modifying the source and handling the actual events instead, then recompiling that component of the shell and redistributing it.

What, so every time somebody else released an update to the shell I had to spend time messing around re-integrating my custom patches? Sounds messy to me...

What would be good is if every single component of the UI was an Object and I could just inherit the behaviour and override it in a subclass. I could customise everything without ever having to look at someone else's sourcecode.

Hmm, I do 40 hours a week and that's enough for me. I'll quite happily do a few extra here and then when necessary, but I'd balk at an additional 20 if I weren't be paid serious overtime for it.

80 hours a week? Seriously, what's that all about. Life is way too short for that.

Try running rsop.msc to see if your machine is correctly recieving the group policy.

W3bbo wrote:

And my DNS MMC still looks like this

That explains it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;300684

Check that your DC is using itself for DNS and NOTHING ELSE. Your DC should forward all other DNS requests to your ISPs server. Your clients should all be using your DC for DNS.

Then try "ipconfig /registerdns" from the command line, that should recreate the appropriate DNS records.

Manip wrote:

I have no intention of doing any upgrading plus those
prices are intentionally inflated... A lot of iMacs
come with 10.2.8; ram is dirt cheap. And a new HDD
is completely unrequired.

Er, at the top of this thread you talked about getting an OS 8 box and then installing Mac OS X. How is that not upgrading?

The prices I quoted weren't inflated, the OS X price was from the Apple Store, Ram was for a 400MHz G3 iMac from Crucial. The HD was a best guess, based on the fact that OS8 will run on tiny little hard drives and so might have needed upgrading (you never posted clear specs).

Obviously the point is moot if you've now bought one cheap off ebay.

Manip wrote:

I wouldn't call <£200 for a iMac expensive. If you
include the cost of a base unit, monitor, mouse and
keyboard then you're talking well over £400 for a Pc.

But it's not going to cost <£200. You're going to have to get an OS update (~£99), more Ram (~£50), perhaps a bigger HD (~£70)

At that point, you're into the same territory as a brand new budget PC.

Beer28 wrote:

So you have to do a full dependancy import check against all imports and their imports all the way down the line unless you use the .NET security in which case you still can't protect against other types of hacks.

You don't have to do that for a .NET dll, you can determine exactly what it does with reflection. There is no way the sandbox is going to be allowing unsafe code.
 
Run them under a limited user account with appropriate .NET permissions (probably similar to those that normally apply to an applet running in the Internet Zone) and it isn't going to be able to do any damage.

It would be far easier to deface the site by doing a hello_wtf or by just uploading junk to the wiki.

Macs aren't cheap. They never have been and never will be.

There are companies like Novatech or Tiny.com selling new PCs with XP Home for as little as £250 which would probably suit your mother down to the ground. Mac OS X on its own is going to cost you an extra £100

What's more, if you aren't a Mac user you aren't going to be able to help her out much. If she's anything like my mum she'll ring you up and expect answers to obscure questions at all hours and you'll find it a lot easier to explain something you're familiar with.


Disclaimer: I've never used Novatech or Tiny.com, I don't know whether they're any good or not. Don't come crying to me if you buy something from them that sucks.

Beer28 wrote:

As far as not providing file IO inside the sandbox, that would severely limit the functionality of alot of applications, even if sql access was provided, and that in itself would be an extra layer of complexity.

You don't necessarily need FileIOPermission to access files. YOu can use Isolated Storage (in which case .NET handles the specifics of the file locations and names), you can download files via HTTP or if you have FileDialogPermission you can access any file selected by a user in one of the common file dialogs (although you can't determine its name or path).