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Oct 24, 2004, 9:52am

Hello,

Small wish, but something that would be useful.

ActiveWorlds supports Windows XP to a minimum. For instance, I can't run
ActiveWorlds on two Windows user accounts at the same time (unless of
course I install two different instances of the ActiveWorlds browser;
but who really wants to bother with that?).

Also, a users settings is not remembers per account, instead, it is
remembered on the browser under one profile.
For example, my girlfriend also uses the ActiveWorlds browser on her own
Windows XP Account, problem is, when I go back to use ActiveWorlds on my
own account, instead of being in my Domingo Avatar in AWGate, I am faced
with a genie female avatar!

Perhaps have different profiles/settings per Windows XP account, instead
of relying to load ActiveWorlds on one .ini file for every user of a
Windows system.

I found this to also be a problem when having *remember password*
enabled. A user on another account would automatically sign in as me ;o)


Yours Sincerely,
Samuël ML Lison

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Oct 24, 2004, 1:02pm

2 diff installs, hex the first 'alphaworld' string in aworld.exe to
'alphawld01', save and you can run 2.

PS: AWI will kick your ass if you abuse this

- MR

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Oct 24, 2004, 1:04pm

After several invalid attempts you get locked out of trying it from your
current IP I believe (too many errors rc?) so it would take eon's to brute
force it.

- MR

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Oct 24, 2004, 7:29pm

[View Quote] "(unless of course I install two different instances of the ActiveWorlds
browser; but who really wants to bother with that?)."



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Samuël ML Lison

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Oct 24, 2004, 9:12pm

Well... you if you actually wanna use 2 at once, lol.. its not a 'well this
is 1 way of doing it' its a case of 'this is the only workaround there is if
you want this'

- MR

Oct 25, 2004, 5:45am

[View Quote] Fair enough, although, this is why I posted it in the wishlist group;
hoping that they would add a feature to allow us to load ActiveWorlds
twice on different Windows XP Accounts and keep our own settings ;o)




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Oct 25, 2004, 2:57pm

I suppose it is a little bit dodgy, however its the mechanics of finding a
previous instance via API, it doesnt actually tell you what user id it is
on.

- MR

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Oct 25, 2004, 8:24pm

ummm... this should go in the thread below.

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Oct 25, 2004, 11:34pm

Ok... just before someone corrects me...

You can tell what user each process (aworld.exe each is running on) however
without 2 installations they are going to attempt to access files each has
locked (when running the AW browser opens (and 'locks') certain files in the
aworld folder for its own use... Hence why you can't run 2 at once from the
same.

- MR

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Oct 29, 2004, 5:53pm

Not unless your using a proxy list or something.

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Nov 1, 2004, 2:11am

Would still take you thousands of years to keep reconnecting, flipping
through, connecting, flipping through etc.

If you had a proxy list of 10,000, about 5 tries before IP lockout, and your
password was 10 characters long, using 40 characters to make it easy.

-- Total possibilities for 10 char pass --
40 ^ 10 = 10,485,760,000,000,000

-- Lockout's for that number --
40 ^ 10 / 5 = 2,097,152,000,000,000

-- TCP/IP Transport on V. High Speed --
0.1 * Total Possibilities = 1,048,576,000,000,000
Minutes: 17,476,266,666,666
Hours: 291,271,111,111
Days: 12,136,296,296
Years: 33,250,126

I think thats right, it is almost 5am

- MR

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Nov 1, 2004, 2:57pm

[View Quote] That's assuming it's the very last in the list to be tried. It'd more
likely be 1/2-2/3 that number.

Nov 1, 2004, 6:49pm

0_0 nah use one that uses dictionary words...you know enzos password is
something like cheesedoodle...i mean cmon!
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Nov 1, 2004, 9:05pm

Of course,

But add 1 more character its still going to take about 12x as long again.

I think its pretty secure because of that, the worst prob is things like
trojans, keyloggers etc going after plain text passwords, chances are AW
would crash before you got the PW.

- MR

"bowen" <bowen at andras.net> wrote;
> That's assuming it's the very last in the list to be tried. It'd more
> likely be 1/2-2/3 that number.

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