jaclaz

Yep, thanks , very funny (though still sad ). And now, on other news: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/24/we-need-geneva-convention-for-the-internet-says-new-un-privacy-chief and: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theopriestley/2015/08/24/did-apple-lie-about-your-privacy/ (just to show how the main issue is ubiquitous and not necessarily related to the good MS guys) On top of all this, we have now an IMHO interesting article that confirms most of my suspects about ads and their effectiveness (or lack thereof): Separating advertising’s wheat and chaff https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/08/12/separating-advertisings-wheat-and-chaff/ jaclaz

And, though these info need to be verified the above list is seemingly not exhaustive: https://freedomhacker.net/latest-windows-7-8-81-update-spy-windows-10-4568/ Let us not fall in the same "philosophical" issue as in the Windows 10 thread, please : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174295-oo-shutup10-free-antispy-tool-for-windows-10/#entry1106470 jaclaz

...meanwhile in California ... http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_XGR_CALIFORNIA_DRONES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-24-21-06-16 jaclaz

... meanwhile on Facebook .... http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/mo-friends-mo-problems-might-have-to-defriend-joey-with-the-jet-ski-bankruptcy http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/04/facebook-patents-technology-to-help-lenders-discriminate-against-borrowers-based-on-social-connections/ You'd better make sure that "friends" (on Facebook) are "solid" when it comes to credit, hmmm , wait, if all my friends (in real life) are well off, maybe I don't really need to apply for credit at the bank and I could have them lend me the money I need instead ... jaclaz

Yeah, sure: it's just like the UN intern that lived in a tent in Geneva: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/un-intern-tent-david-hyde-unpaid-stunt-geneva-10457021.html One way like another to gain some publicity (no matter if personally or for a - good or bad - cause). I particularly like the bull§hit about washing her hairs on the train (including the relative selfie), however I will however point out: how typing at a laptop with a noise reducing headset on is exactly what usually prevents to meet people and have conversations with them, while traveling mostly at night is not making what you see when you look out of the window particularly interesting most of the time: The real sad thing is however that the article is not on "a" blog, but on the Washington Post jaclaz

The "original" article is extremely interesting: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2012/04/22/how-to-build-an-app-empire-can-you-create-the-next-instagram/ and clearly shows how (though perfectly understandable from the singular point of view of Mr. Chad Mureta) the business work, I have never seen all together in a same article so much advice (as said most probably very valid from the single "appreneur" point of view) clashing with - well - in one word, decency. Even when let alone any moral standpoint, it is obvious how the whole app environment (if a sufficient number of people follow those advices) is doomed to some point at the end of a converging spiral, as nothing "new" is ever invented, everything is copied or "inspired" by something else, quality of the product is in the hands of third party (low cost) developers, and all apps look like the other ones (and also do exactly the same things, only very slightly differently) jaclaz

Good. Well, in Windows it may become tricky., in the sense that the most you can do is to change the partition entry but then you will have the need to disconnect and reconnect the device (or however use - I believe it depends on the actual Windows NT version that behave slightly differently - some diskpart or maybe even devcon commands to "refresh" the "read" MBR). What happens to the booted OS (if booted from the stick) when you basically "pull the carpet from under its feet" is to be seen. Of course, depending on the situation you could integrate into the booted from stick OS or PE a filter driver like cfadisk.sys or dummydisk.sys and have all the volumes visible/mappable to drive letters. If instead you want to change the partition entries from a "main" installed windows (not booted from the stick), it is just a matter of a set of dsfo/dsfi (or dd for windows) commands, the only issue is that you will need to get a copy of the whole 512 byte sector and modify it, then re-write it "as a whole". Since very likely you will have 4096 bytes clusters you can even have a single file, let's call it pepperbox.mbr with as much as 8 copies of the MBR and then deploy/write the one you choose (using the dsfo/dsfi you will need a temp file, using dd for windows you can use it directly). More or less you can take inspiration by the Windows NT batch corresponding to mbrview.g4b, mbrbatch.cmd if you want to actually write/change the partition entries: http://reboot.pro/topic/3191-mbrbatch-001-alpha/ or from the CHPTNORD.CMD: http://reboot.pro/topic/18610-grub4dos-setptn1g4b-batch-file-sets-a-primary-partition-as-1st-entry/ but basically you need just a few commands: dsfo \\.\Physicaldriven 0 512 C:\myniceMBR1.mbr change the MBR with grub4dos dsfo \\.\Physicaldriven 0 512 C:\myniceMBR2.mbr change the MBR with grub4dos dsfo \\.\Physicaldriven 0 512 C:\myniceMBR3.mbr ... And then write back: dsfi \\.\Physicaldriven 0 512 C:\myniceMBR1.mbr etc. or: dd if=\\.\Physicaldriven of=C:\pepperbox.mbr count=1 change the MBR with grub4dos dd if=\\.\Physicaldriven of=C:\pepperbox.mbr count=1 seek=1 change the MBR with grub4dos dd if=\\.\Physicaldriven of=C:\pepperbox.mbr count=1 seek=2 change the MBR with grub4dos dd if=\\.\Physicaldriven of=C:\pepperbox.mbr count=1 seek=3 ... and then write back (as an example the third copy)_ dd of=\\.\Physicaldriven if=C:\pepperbox.mbr count=1 skip=2 You should get the idea. , of course you need to be d@mn sure to get the right \\.Physicaldriven .... jaclaz

Not really, but almost , you are missing a tiny detail (which actually could become a point of strength in the solution ), there are ONLY 4 partition entries in a MBR, #0 to #3, i.e. you cannot have more than 4 (four) primary partitions or 3 primary partitions + 1 extended partition. As a matter of fact what you created (your screenshot) are: 3 primary partitions (whose data is in slots #0 to #2) 1 Extended partition (whose data is in slot #3) containing two volumes (whose data is in the EPBR chain or "virtual slots" #4 and #5) So what you can have is: 0 1 grub 2 EXTENDED part containing: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 and: 0 Volume 1 re-mapped as first partition 1 grub 2 EXTENDED part containing: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 or: 0 Volume 2 re-mapped as first partition 1 grub 2 EXTENDED part containing: Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 ... and of course you can also have a "mixed" mode of primaries+logical volumes. The point here is that any (arbitrary) extent (by extent I mean an area of the hard disk identified by its first sector LBA and the amount of sectors) can be "indexed" in the MBR by the partnew command, which has also a specific function that will correct the "sectors before" or "hidden sectors" in the BPB of a logical volume so that it becomes bootable, see here for the details on the idea of correcting the number of sectors with the offset form the MBR (as opposed to the offset from the EPBR) http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptable.shtml My original proposal was about mapping on the fly some extents (not otherwise indexed *anywhere*) one at the time but nothing prevents to have the same extents indexed as logical volumes inside extended and index/map one of them at the time as first partition. As a side note even the volume containing the grub4dos could be a logical volume inside extended, as if I recall correctly the grldr.mbr (the part installed to the MBR+a few hidden sectors) looks for grldr in all volumes, including those in an extended partition. jaclaz

You have one partition entry that is "fixed", never changed, that is written to partition entry #1 and that allows to boot to grub4dos (because it contains grldr and menu.lst). Then you have the partition entry #0 to which NEW values are written each time you boot and select one of the (4) menu.lst entries, menu.lst choice "a" will write values related to partition "a", menu.lst choice "b" will write values related to partition "b", etc. No partition entry is "ordered" or "reordered", the second partition entry never changes, the values in the first one (i.e. the only one that Windows will see and mount on "removable" media) are written depending on your choice. What is the "difficult" part? jaclaz

Sure , that was not at all unexpected and actually it was EXACTLY the core of my previous post . Many "technical journalists" (or "shills" or "mindless jerks", choose the one you see more fit) go around publishing articles saying that a bunch of settings through the UI are "enough" to be not worried about the "phoning home" or that "it is normal". Some smarter users and software companies have developed tools/scripts/etc. to block more of the ways Windows 10 is phoning home and some (including the "Made in Germany" O&O) tout that the tool resolves the issue. BOTH are incorrect (of course to a different extent) Most people, even if suspecting that #1 is (grossly) inaccurate may well trust the tool maker(s) #2, since here we are talking about O&O (but it is not like they are better or worse than other peeps) this: may well induce people to believe that if you disable everything in the tool then nothing will got to MS (which is not the case). At the most one can say that the tool gives you more control (which is not full control), it's just about calling things with their name. jaclaz

I guess that someone should arrange so that a ReallyTrustedInstaller has the adequate rights, removing those improperly given to the TrustedInstaller, which could be renamed to TrustedInstallerByMSButUntrustedByMeSoEatMyShortsMicrosoft (which would also be useful to see if there is any length limit in the name) . jaclaz

It's a nameless method But we can call it the "4 shot" or - maybe nicer - the "pepper box".(as you may use more than 4 partitions in such a setup) Basically the second partition entry (or partition entry #1) is never changed (and it contains the needed grldr and menu.lst file). Every time you boot and select one of the four menu.lst entry you effectively re-write first partition entry (aka the partition entry #0) with the chosen one. If you access the device without booting from it (or if you boot from it but you do not choose any of the 4 menu.lst items) you will be able to access the last written entry (i.e. the one corresponding to the menu.lst item you chose last time). jaclaz

Sure, the reference was to prematurely bumping this thread and hinting how probably you are still failing at describing properly the issue you are having. It also seems like (no offence intended, of course ) you are expecting to learn C ++ or C# programming from zero through the advice on the board, which is something that is IMHO unlikely to happen. jaclaz

Would answer #2.a here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules do? jaclaz

I see it coming right before or soon after threshold wave 2 release. jaclaz

Most probably unrelated http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/22/veterans-affairs-chat-network-major-security-risk ... but undoubtedly some interesting food for thought. jaclaz

For no apparent reason, and possibly OT someone found out that by blocking ads and related pages loading on "common" news sites decrease both the time loading and the bandwidth used very, very noticeably: http://murphyapps.co/blog/2015/8/22/crystal-benchmarks the fact that the results were published as a couple lousy charts on a javascript infested page that renders poorly with most browser is a side note . jaclaz

The "philosophical" issue about this (and all others BTW) tool is the "false security" feeling it may provide. Until someone will do a proper, documented, repeatable analysis of all the "phoning home" the stupid 10 does (and that may well be changed at the good MS guys' whim through an "undocumented" update) and of the effect that each and every Registry/tweak/hosts file/firewall actually produce I find it more than a bit "irresponsible" to state (like a lot of people does) that the tool (or the setting/whatever) "fixes" Windows 10 privacy issues, there are already tens of articles by the shills that suggest the disabling of a bunch of settings within the "normal" UI and advertise them as "solving privacy issues". Surely each and every disabled or intercepted/redirected feature decreases the number of possible issues , but this is far from representing any tool as a "solution". @dencorso As said elsewhere, the line has already been drawn (actually it has been carved in stone ) in Windows 2000 times, and anything starting from XP (please read as "online activation") onwards represents different shades of gray (though of course the leap from dark grey, aka Windows 8/8.1 to matte black aka Windows 10 is more noticeable) jaclaz

To be picky 64 Kb of it, at least the original zx81 had this third party "mempack", nowadays the difference between 32 kB and 64 kB is "nothing", but at the time it made a whole lot of difference: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36273/Memopak%2064K/ jaclaz

Naaah, jaclaz is only disappointed about the fact that CamTron completely failed to read what was posted before. jaclaz

Yep , week (work) days vs. saturday and sunday, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174201-windows-10-first-impressions/?p=1104596 More business seemingly use XP and 7. jaclaz

Cross-linking to new thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174322-i-need-some-help-on-binaural-beat-calculator/ jaclaz

Previous talks on the matter (only to keep things as together as possible). http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/173968-voice-recognition-brainwaves-software/ jaclaz

Yep , seemingly the current trend is not anywhere looking like a steep rate in adoption: http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-ww-daily-20150729-20150821 as expected more or less noone in his/her right mind (i.e. using XP or 7) is racing to get it , while a number of morons less experienced users are trading in their 8/8.1 for the new thing. jaclaz

...meanwhile in Russia ... : https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A//top.rbc.ru/politics/21/08/2015/55d7022b9a79472a7602e4e5 jaclaz