With Windows Vista, Microsoft shifted from the development path of Windows XP wide open to tampering with zero reaction, and has integrated an anti-piracy infrastructure into the platform. In direct correlation with the Windows Genuine Advantage and the Activation mechanisms, Windows Vista will be able to detect and blacklist non-genuine product keys, crack attempts, and identify the expiration of the initial 30-day grace period. The operating system will react to all by moving first into a non-genuine state and then into Reduced Functionality Mode.
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There are many distinct pleasures associated with computer programming. Craftsman-ship has its quiet rewards, the satisfaction that comes from building a useful object and making it work. Excitement arrives with the flash of insight that cracks a previously intractable problem. The spiritual quest for elegance can turn the hacker into an artist. There are pleasures in parsimony, in squeezing the last drop of performance out of clever algorithms and tight coding.
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This tutorial is intended to give a very basic introduction to using the Zend Framework to write a basic database driven application.
NOTE: This tutorial has been tested on versions 1.0.0 of the Zend Framework. It stands a very good chance of working with later versions, but it’s unlikely to work on versions prior to version 1.0.0
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T his tutorial will explain how to export static textured models (meaning no animation yet) from Maya into Crysis. I’ll update this tutorial as I learn more about the process and more tools become available. Big thanks to Psychojohno and Spiderdan for their tutorials which taught me a lot!
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A guide for flashing your drive firmware to read backup games. 2007 Edition. The Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drive firmware hack is currently the only modification or hack available for the Xbox 360 that allows you to play properly created backup copies of Xbox 360 games. The firmware hack does NOT allow homebrew programs to run and does NOT bypass region protection. If a video game is locked to a particular region, then it will only play on an Xbox 360 of that same region. Before jumping into this modification, it is a good idea to learn how this hack works. In the most basic form, an Xbox 360’s game protection comes from two security measures.
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Backing Up, Modifying & Flashing the Hitachi/LG Drive Now read this tutorial, twice. If you don’t understand any terms, think twice about doing this. This tutorial will explain every step in backing up your original firmware, creating a working hacked firmware for your Hitachi v47 DVD-Drive and flashing it back to the DVD-Drive. It will also explain how to burn successful game back-ups. It is really important to keep in mind that the complete process can be risky if you don’t know what you are doing. AFAIK You CANNOT make SS files with the Hitachi…stay tuned for more info.
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This paper is part of a series of educational pieces, to illuminate the importance of a secure environment on the Internet. Too often we hear or see “solutions” to the security problem, promising a silver bullet to stop hackers in their tracks. The scary part is, many IS managers take these promises as truth, and forget about security as soon as they have their firewall in place. Security is a work in progress, it is a job that is never done, an evolving ever changing landscape of problems, and it is easy to see why many people find the task so daunting, that it is swept under the carpet.
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Some Basic Rules No memory protection If you corrupt memory, whether in user context or interrupt context, the whole machine will crash. Are you sure you cant do what you want in userspace? No floating point or MMX The FPU context is not saved; even in user context the FPU state probably wont correspond with the current process: you would mess with some user process FPU state. If you really want to do this, you would have to explicitly save/restore the full FPU state (and avoid context switches). It is generally a bad idea; use fixed point arithmetic first. A rigid stack limit The kernel stack is about 6K in 2.2 (for most architectures: its about 14K on the Alpha), and shared with interrupts so you cant use it all. Avoid deep recursion and huge local arrays on the stack (allocate them dynamically instead). The Linux kernel is portable Lets keep it that way.
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