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Thanks grayman, they weren't fun at all, I even had an MRI which thankfully didn't find anything. This mission was wonderful, 6 hours 27 minutes on expert, 5972 loot which is a bit short of what's in there, sandman style, stealth score of 93 & I killed two AI, one by accident, one as I was pee'd off at them because they wouldn't KO after several attempts, so - room for improvement in my technique I think but not a bad start considering how rusty I am I noticed a few holes in the scenery but nothing major, the AI killed by accident was KO'd while lying on a bed & fell into the bed making a hell of a racket which somehow killed them, another sleeping AI was KO'd on a bed & also fell into it but didn't die so not sure what happened there, next playthrough I'll take some pictures & post them so you know where these bits are, all in all an incredible effort & a beautiful beautiful mission, definitely in my top 10. Thanks to everyone who contributed this was a blast.

I seem to have gone through a bit of a slump and not played anything for ages, probably because I had about 6 months of migraines and got out of the habit as I couldn't concentrate, haven't read a book for ages either, the headaches have passed and the doctors didn't find anything so it's being put down to age and my concentration is coming back yay. Anyway I thought it was time to get back on the horse, so I've picked up this one. And I have to say it's a beauty Thanks to the team for the incredible amount of work you put in.

if spaces in pathnames are a problem then on windows 7 at least the short, compatibility names for folders are still available "C:\Program Files" = "C:\Progra~1" "C:\Program Files (X86)" = "C:\Progra~2" Not sure if these are still active in later versions of windows

Also calls it analytics & compares it with Google's analytics There's crucial difference between analytics in the operating system & analytics built into Google, it's pretty easy for even a novice to use a different search engine like Duckduckgo which has no analytics or tracking but it's a not a trivial task* to use a different OS & for most novices it's impossible. (* - having said that I am very impressed with how easy Zorin was to install, minor teething problem with wifi which was easily sorted & it's been rock solid ever since, updates don't interfere with whatever else I'm doing & it's turned an old vista laptop that ran like a drugged slug into a fast, extremely usable & easy to use machine)

I would suggest asking a legal bod before looking too hard at merchandising, if you are giving it away free or just charging to cover costs you might be OK but any hint of profit or IP infringement could attract SE's attention. For example using "Taffer" on a T shirt would probably get their attention as it's recognisably Thief, you want something specific to TDM. Basically SE leave TDM alone because TDM isn't affecting SE's profits, if TDM starts making money, however little, that SE think should be theirs, you can expect a change in attitude.

oh FFS!

FUCK! Found this on TechTarget which is part of Computer Weekly Bloggers sound off on Windows 10 problems Looking at the WCCFTech link Well Microsoft can officially fuck right off with that, and when they've finished fucking off they can fuck off a bit more.

Bit more information http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/4500256515/Google-slams-Symantec-over-Certificate-Transparency-trouble Interesting quote First time we put one out there ? So HTTPS could have been compromised from day one and no one would know ? Verification of certificates should have been free, public domain and available from day one. if anyone wants me I'll be digging a fucking bunker in the garden.

As far as I'm aware they do that regularly to provide new certificates

I'm not understanding why this isn't all over the news, I'm not understanding why Google are waiting until June 1st 2016 before they are going to lift a finger to protect their users. Apparently there's a major, official, trusted, certificate authority that's been caught issuing fake certificates. which can be used to allow man in the middle attacks on HTTPS connections. OK it's only Google certificates that have been spotted, but how many sites check that the certificate they have on the site is the same as the one that is issued to computers that access it? Site owners check the site can be accessed because that's important to them, no point having a site that sells things if no one can see it. But who bothers to verify the client sees the same certificate as is actually on the site ? It's a pretty fundamental mechanic, talking to the site at all means you have a secure connection and as we can trust the CA's it means we're talking to the site we think we are and a man in the middle attack is not possible. Symantec have completely destroyed that mechanic. So that's any eCommerce site, bank, medical system, even wikipedia we can't trust that we are in direct communication with any of them, that little padlock symbol is meaningless thanks to Symantec.

I used to play Descent at work during the lunch hour, we'd organise a deathmatch, networks are fun

Spotted an article on boingboing some of you may be interested in Chrome won't trust Symantec-backed SSL as of Jun 1 unless they account for bogus certs Apparently Symantec, a major issuer of site security certificates which are used on sites using https to ensure encryption of all data traffic between the site & your browser and allow you to trust the site you are visiting, has been issuing bogus certificates. I'll just repeat that for emphasis. SYMANTEC HAS BEEN ISSUING BOGUS SSL CERTIFICATES This was initially found by Google and it allows man in the middle attacks on google.com users, however So we can't trust any site that has a certificate issued by Symantec, so that's banks, shops, anywhere really. We need Mozilla & Microsoft and all the others to also reject Symantec certificates, so please raise awareness of this, if we can't trust that we are actually securely connected to the site we think we are looking at then eCommerce is dead in the water & several countries economies will stumble & fail. This could be accidental, but personally I think it was a deliberate effort to bypass https & allow data interception by various security services, (yes NSA I'm looking at you). This is fuckwittery of the highest order. Why Chrome are waiting until June 1st I have no fucking idea, this should be shouted from the fucking rooftops, and we should stop trusting Symantec approved sites immediately in my book

Too little too, too late I'm already looking at alternatives, why should I waste my time while M$ sorts itself out with no guarantee they will or that they won't fuck us about again in future. Showstoppers for me are Encrypted data being shipped off my site. Auditing my machine every 90 days. The presence of a killswitch. Advertising appearing on the taskbar, yes I know it can be disabled for now. Forced windows updates rather than allowing me to schedule them. This whole debacle of an 'accidental' ticked check box on the Win10 update, yeah right it was 'accidental'. Whole bundles of software that I'm never going to use being rolled out with the OS & being incredibly difficult to get rid of. The paradigm shift of my general purpose computing device being turned into a smartphone lookalike.i.e. Pretty much everything M$ consider a selling point I've been a M$ fangirl since DOS 2.0, but they have destroyed my trust with this crap Do they honestly think the likes of coca cola, smithkline beecham, glaxo, haliburton and so on are really going to sit idly by and allow any one of those showstoppers to happen on equipment they own ? Course they fucking don't, they're corporate multinationals M$ won't mess with them instead they are messing with us, so fuck 'em.

From another site I use Zorin is getting good reviews, anyone got any experience of it ?

Personally I want an OS that does what I tell it to and not what some random in a foreign country says, that's what I paid for. And just because they are giving it away free does not justify using extremely dodgy and aggressive tricks to replace the product I've paid for, if I don't want their advert ridden freebie then I shouldn't have to have it and further I shouldn't have to watch the updates like a fucking hawk to see if they are trying to sneak it on to my machine. Microsoft have forgotten what the purpose of an operating system is or at the very least think everyone else has. This has completely destroyed my trust in Microsoft and I will not be buying any of their crap again, hopefully the backlash will kill off this forced update & advertising nonsense, but as a lot of users aren't that computer literate and just see a PC as an extension of their smartphone that lets them see what's on at the pictures or for sale at amazon while playing a game now and then, I'm not going to hold my breath. So as it's been a while since I did anything Unix suggestions for a secure Unix OS would be gratefully received

I really must complete the combat section of the training one day

They are 'unifying' Win10 across all their platforms, which means everything matches the least capable device and the more capable general purpose computers are dumbed down to behave like mobile phones. Cory Doctorow has a good take on this dumbing down, he says it's an attack on general purpose computing, basically even though you bought and paid for it, it's not yours and you have little or no control over how to use it https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

I mean I'll take an image backup before running windows update. I take the point about updating hardware rendering backups that predate it a bit problematic, had that problem on my partners old XP laptop when the GPU failed & was replaced with a different type, the restoration failed to a vga mode, worked fine after installing the new driver though.

I think I'll go back to my old method of instead of just taking an image backup of the disk every few months, I'll take one before I do an upgrade.

I turn off auto updates & use windows update at a convenient time, mainly because when I want to use my PC I don't want to sit there for half an hour while updates are installed then a reboot & another half hour while it configures them and then finally the machine is ready to use, which is a bit crap if I'm sniping something on ebay. And now Microsoft have made me so paranoid that they're going to pull a fast one I'm wasting tons of time researching every fucking update before I install them which eats into my work schedule, maybe I should send them a bill for my time. And that idea can fuck right off too

I play it precisely because it's hard, because it's not running around with a BFG shooting everything that twitches, because I have to think & pay attention

Having looked at these I think I'd like to visit Prague

The Klementium, Prague

Ah never noticed that, ta

I don't think it was meant for public consumption more a quick team briefing on how they were going to or had solved the sound propogation issue so the level builders had a better idea of how to design levels and bear in mind this is really old, I believe it's a design doc from the Dark Project, possibly even Dark Camelot