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Videolan vlc media player safe4/1/2024 Does this mean the later version 100% safe from any malware/spyware or virus when it comes to play, convert, download or stream video files? Scarcely possible. Of course, the latter newer version of VLC has fixed these bugs and cleared the potential malware/risk out of VLC. The report explains the potential malware scenario using an example: you'll become a victim only when you download a video file named as some hit TV series from some torrent sites and open it using VLC player, because the video source has already been contaminated before attrackers upload it to online sites. Go back to 2 years ago, and there was a report saying that VLC media player allows desktop takeover via malicious video files. Hence, how could it possible for VLC to be perfect? Some demerits shows that VLC is not that safe. That being said, VLC media player is developed by imperfect human. Very shocking & really pisses me off about Apple. It plays good but very few controls to mess with it really is like the old days. This app is like Dinosaur Windows Media Player. I have 2.86GB of free space I mean come on… to cheap to give me 64GB? Or want me to buy iCloud by building less storage? Idk I’m tired of this crap. So a few days ago this app just stops working. Like $1000 for my phone & $500 for the pad wasnt enough? Or having the glory of being a $3-trillion company to smear it in bill gates face wasn’t enough ya gotta try to force new customers to buy storage? I have my own storage stop harassing me it gets old & it’s rude, very rude. It or the iPad or iPhone corrupted half my files on a separate disc after I discovered a way into not being forced to upload them to iCloud for a price. I mean after transferring all my mp4s it couldn’t find them. 2 years ago this was the only player that I could figure out to work & the highest rated. I’m new to Apple & quite frankly the resolution & camera is all it’s got. How they managed to do that is worth 5 stars alone. Also it is the only player that plays clips CONTINUOUSLY on any Apple product. This is the most advanced & compatible video player Apple has when it comes to playing other companies formats. That being said, some fixes/changes to the previously mentioned issues would make it even better. Overall, this is a reliable app, and has been very useful as I have moved away from streaming services and towards buying music. As a result, adding a song to the front of the queue with shuffle on does not result in the track actually being played next. Shuffle also appears to include tracks that are added to the queue via the “Play next in queue” option when shuffling. It just shows the queue as if the shuffle option were not toggled on. Playing audio through my phone speaker doesn’t have this problem, so I know it’s not my bluetooth headphones.Īdditionally, from my understanding, the queue does not show the next actual song when using shuffle play. Rewinding doesn’t make it play that part it’s just silence. Sometimes there’s a split second of sound, followed by another moment of no sound, and then the rest of the track plays normally. When I listen to tracks with a bluetooth device connected, some songs have a second of silence at the very beginning. The different categories that tracks are sorted into are very helpful (album, genre, etc.), and the network section is easy to use while also providing several ways to download/add music. I use this mainly for music so my review will focus on that. If you think this could interfere with the watching experience there’d always be the lock interface option for anyone having trouble. + the ability to zoom in by pinching your fingers on the screen, I know there’s the resize button but if I wanna see a minute detail on the screen this just doesn’t cut it. :/ Furthermore, two great additions to the app I’d like to see is custom presets, such as audio equalizer presets and video filter presets, etc. Second serious app breaking bug, when accessing my FTP server and tapping too many times I guess? it just crashes the app. Aside from that, the serious bugs are the ones like for some reason if you try to open videos too much it’ll just give you a black image even though you can see every UI aspect fine, through my 1 week of experience the only way to fix it is to just restart your device. Also I made a playlist by accident and now I can’t delete it. This one isn’t that big a deal but it’d be nice to give it a minor tweak, when I try to add subtitles from Opensubs I have to scroll up when trying to click it because it doesn’t let me otherwise, despite it being in plain view, maybe it thinks it’s under the screen or something idk. I don’t like that the settings I make like equalizer and video filters and playback delay are reset every time I reopen the app.
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Ddos simulation testing tools4/1/2024 The severity of the risk will, of course, depend on how much that business relies on its online systems for revenue, a matter discussed previously in the earlier risk assessment white paper. In the spectrum of threats to simulate – DDoS has traditionally been lower on the agenda than vulnerability assessments or penetration tests.ĭDoS creates a risk for businesses that conduct any transactions using public Internet services. Regardless of the possible severity of the consequences, testing systems are nowhere near ubiquitous – there always seems to be something higher on the IT agenda and in greater need of spend from the limited IT budget. However, a lot of the time, the process of testing the security of IT systems that support a business is not second nature. Some of the time it seems automatic, almost second nature many of us test our house door handle after we have just locked the door, for example. Testing your security makes sense when we think about our homes. In this article, I will discuss various aspects of DDoS testing – starting at the decision whether to test your company’s ability to withstand DDoS attacks, the business case for testing, how to scale a test, what a DDoS should include and more.ĭDoS testing is relatively unknown compared to more ubiquitous testing services, such as penetration testing and server vulnerability assessments, and this guide tries to collate information specific to DDoS testing to inform businesses of all sizes about this kind of security testing and how it can help protect your business from attackers making use of DDoS attack tools. In the first two papers, I discussed the DDoS threat landscape, DDoS mitigation techniques and conducting risk assessments specifically for the threat of DDoS attacks against business. This is the third part of the activereach 2016/2017 guide to DDoS, DDoS mitigation and DDoS mitigation testing. Section 3 – Testing Distributed Denial of Service mitigation Section 2 – Assessing the business risk posed by Distributed Denial of Service attacks Section 1 – An introduction to Distributed Denial of Service attacks and mitigating them The guide is split into the following sections: This guide is aimed at technically aware business people who do not necessarily have a background in data networking or security. Welcome to the activereach 2016/2017 guide to DDoS, DDoS mitigation, and DDoS mitigation testing. By Max Pritchard, pre-sales consultant, activereach
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Volleyball referee signals sand4/1/2024 This is done in order to equalize the effect of the sun and wind on the outcome of the game. Teams change sides of the court at every multiple of seven points in sets 1 and 2, and every five points in set 3 until the match is over. This system, known as "rally scoring," makes a game go much faster. In line with past rules, whichever team wins a point will serve to start the next one. Now, both teams are able to earn a point, no matter who served. Prior to the 2004 Athens Games, only the serving team could record a point. Points are most often scored by a hard, un-returnable spike, or by a block that deflects a spike back into the attacking player's side of the court. Every time the ball hits the ground, or a team fails to return it, play is stopped and a point is awarded to the team who did not fail to put the ball back in play. Typically, a point ends when: the ball touches the court, the ball is hit out of bounds, a team makes more than three contacts with the ball, a player touches the ball twice consecutively (except in the case of a block), or a player touches the net. In each set, a team must win by at least a two-point margin there is no ceiling, so play continues until one team goes ahead by two points, thus winning the game. The third set, if necessary, is played to 15 points. The first two sets are played to 21 points by rally scoring. A player is not allowed to make contact with the ball two consecutive times, unless s/he blocks the ball at the net if a block occurs, the blocker may hit the ball again after his/her attempted block.Īll Olympic beach volleyball matches are best two-out-of-three sets. Each time a player touches the ball it counts as one contact for the team. Each team is allowed a maximum of three hits to return the ball to the opponent's side of the court. Players can make contact with the ball using any part of their body, except on the serve, which must be hit with only the hand. The objective in beach volleyball is for a player to hit the ball over the net such that it lands within the opponent's playing area, or is not legally returned to his/her own playing area.
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Rfactor 2 track folder4/1/2024 Anything which has a bumpy area and a smooth area gets bonus points! I'd quite like to be able to take a car out, stick it on a constant radius trajectory and start playing with roll bars, suspension settings and suchlike so that I can feel what the car is doing without adding much of my driving into the mix. Maybe it’s a justification for the high cost of Iracing if none of their competitors can put out a similar mp product for less.Has anyone made a circular skid pan, with indicated circumference lines marked on it? It’s pretty crazy that in 2024, in a game genre that is perfect for ranked mp, that Iracing is light years ahead of the competition despite being one of the oldest sims. I think any sim that can put out a robust ranked multiplayer will clean up because the simracing community is desperate for an Iracing alternative. I’ve always liked more niche series like the radical, fr2.0, star Mazda, indypro and the usf, these series always had engaged communities but they have all died off because of the constant influx of new cars. This has resulted in only a few series being well populated as everyone wants races with lots of splits to get good racing. I’ve been an Iracing diehard for the last 12 years but this is the first year that I haven’t renewed because they’ve over saturated the content and instead of having more choice of series there’s actually less because they’ve spread the player base too thin. I understand they want to use free content for rookies but I’m sure people would pay for a few newer tracks seeing as the ranked mp is free. I’ve really enjoyed racing the radical online in rf2, but the track selections aren’t great and it’s always the short layout of each track. An update to Spa and the Nürburgring would be a huge addition to the title. In terms of tracks, there is a possibility that rFactor 2 could receive updated versions of tracks already in the base game from Le Mans Ultimate. An expansion to the karting offerings or even something new like racing trucks or junior formula series would go a long way. More cars from series that have nothing to do with Motorsport Games would also go a long way with the community to build back that trust. But once Le Mans Ultimate releases, it isn’t out of the realm of possibility that rFactor 2 could get a sizable GT3 update. The re-establishment of lost licenses seems almost impossible at this point. A consistent update to the online mode and any bug fixes will surely be present. We hope rFactor 2 won’t be forgotten about, but new cars and tracks are unlikely in the first half of 2024. Image Credit: Studio 397 What Could We See From rFactor 2 in 2024?Don’t be fooled, Le Mans Ultimate will be Studio 397’s big push in 2024. The dedicated rFactor 2 player base will utilise the variety in their sim even when Le Mans Ultimate is released. Studio 397 won’t let their new mode die after just a few months. But this is far from the end for rFactor 2 Online. The lack of fresh base game content and repeated combinations has slowly declined users’ interest. Why have a separate name for the service and the tech, if the tech wasn’t going to be used elsewhere? The service is called ‘rFactor 2 Online’, but it’s powered by ‘RaceControl’. The goal of rFactor 2 Online was always to run a prolonged test to see if their format worked over a longer period. Le Mans Ultimate is just over a month away and the pressure is on to deliver. Studio 397 doesn’t appear to be releasing any more base game content, nor DLC packs, for rFactor 2. The loss of the BTCC and Ind圜ar licenses is a prime example – the BTCC races on the service have been hastily renamed ‘Touring Cars’. The Motorsport Games licensing fiasco had a sizable impact on rFactor 2’s game content. But the final goal of its ranking system is more than likely to see how its community would react to an iRacing style ranked mode. Studio 397 put a lot of effort into the rFactor 2 version, which is clear. Create a reliable and structured online mode and ranking system that could be implemented into Le Mans Ultimate when the title is released next month. Image Credit: Studio 397 What’s The Goal of rFactor 2 Online?I think the goal of rFactor 2 Online is simple. |