meets2tarun

// Policy template for Linux.
// Uncomment the policies you wish to activate and change their values to
// something useful for your case. The provided values are for reference only
// and do not provide meaningful defaults!
{
  // Cross-origin HTTP Basic Auth prompts
  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  // Controls whether third-party sub-content on a page is allowed to pop-up an
  // HTTP Basic Auth dialog box.  Typically this is disabled as a phishing
  // defense. If this policy is not set, this is disabled and third-party sub-

IntergalacticApps

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

ver | find "10." > nul
if errorlevel 1 (
	echo Your Windows version is not Windows 10... yet. Brace yourself, Windows 10 is coming^^!
	pause
	exit
)

atoponce

Cryptographic Best Practices

Putting cryptographic primitives together is a lot like putting a jigsaw puzzle together, where all the pieces are cut exactly the same way, but there is only one correct solution. Thankfully, there are some projects out there that are working hard to make sure developers are getting it right.

The following advice comes from years of research from leading security researchers, developers, and cryptographers. This Gist was [forked from Thomas Ptacek's Gist][1] to be more readable. Additions have been added from

stonehippo

jirutka

###############################################################################
# The MIT License
#
# Copyright 2012-2014 Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz>.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

kirkegaard

The Tale of OpenGL vs. Direct3D

Many of the answers here are really, really good. But the OpenGL and D3D issue should probably be addressed. And that requires... a history lesson.

And before we begin, I know far more about OpenGL than I do about Direct3D. I've never written a line of D3D code in my life, and I've written tutorials on OpenGL. So what I'm about to say isn't a question of bias. It is simply a matter of history.

Birth of Conflict

One day, sometime in the early 90's, Microsoft looked around. They saw the SNES and Sega Genesis being awesome, running lots of action games and such. And they saw DOS. Developers coded DOS games like console games: direct to the metal. Unlike consoles however, where a developer who made an SNES game knew what hardware the user would have, DOS developers had to write for multiple possible configurations. And this is rather harder than it sounds.