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Sure , the wheel also is very old, simple technology, just as an example traveling on an air cushion is definitely superior, yet the number of hovercrafts around is surprisingly low. "Old" not necessarily means "outdated", and as a matter of fact the most recent (new, updated) technologies, which are EFI/UEFI and GPT, strangely enough make use of a FAT filesystem in order to actually boot a PC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_partition No, I am unaware of these other filesystems. Which other options do we have? jaclaz

Sure , but if you go to *any* PC servicing shop, if you ask nicely you can have a "good enough spare for tests" for a few bucks or even for free, and of course you can ask friends for any PC they are going to throw away, a "bare" motherboard should be able to power on (and beep) with *any* sized PSU, considering that the smallest one you can find in a desktop which is not really ancient is 250 W or more. jaclaz

So, something that has worked for at least 15 years (within it's limitations) is to be replaced by NTFS even when there is no need whatsoever of the NTFS features? Isn't it surprising that exFAT is still FAT (and not MFT) based? jaclaz

NO. Meaning that a number of so-called ISO editing tools may botch a "delicate" .iso such as the Windows install one. The idea is to create the .iso "properly" and only once and then leave it alone. Mind you, this does not mean that the whatever ISO editor you used necessarily did that, only that editing a bootable Windows .iso is re-known to cause issues. Using a .iso editor with bootable Windows discs is a sort of shortcut that usually resolves as being longer than the "main road". Additionally the actual CD burner software that you used to burn the .iso 8if you have burned it to actual physical disc) may have created a coaster. The usual recommendation is to use IMGBURN (and nothing else) as it has proved to be very reliable, example: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24562 What you should do is to start from fresh, add/integrate through nlite just one or two things, and test the resulting .iso (without doing ANY manual modification to anything). This way we are sure that the source and that the building procedure is valid. Then, once it hopefully works, re-do still from the original source adding (or removing) more things. jaclaz

Sure , the point was exactly that. What I would expect from an OS is that it does the whatever it is supposed to do. A "better" OS is something that allows me to do more things but do the same things above in less time (faster). We have now (almost 13 years later) replacement OS's that take advantage of the very substantially increased power of modern hardware to do (limited) more things but that takes the same or more time to do the same things that the previous (actually two previous) generation of OS can do in the same time or even take more time. If I put on the hat of the "technical savvy user" I can understand fine how a number of features (not all of them IMHO) that were added are either "more elegant" or "more efficient" or "more handy", but when I take that hat off and put on my "plain layman" one, I cannot but notice how the global result (in it's entirety) provides no or very little advantage. jaclaz

The downside is that (statistically) you end up with 1/3 of the free space in each partition and that can potentially be an annoyance when your drive fills up and you need to shift big amounts of data.Nahh, that cousin of mine is a yute : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes?item=qt0404568 that uses the stick just to avoid loosing his keys, all partitions on it are empty. If it was not clear , that cousin is a fictional character that I invented only to reply to the purely anecdotal contribution by NixFix. jaclaz

http://www.jucs.org/jucs_18_2/performance_evaluation_of_recent http://www.jucs.org/jucs_18_2/performance_evaluation_of_recent/jucs_18_02_0218_0263_martinovic.pdf BUT (still in the Conclusion): Whether 64 bits OS's are actually "better" than 32 bit ones (and which among the 64 bit versions of windows OS's is actually "better" among them) is still an open question.... jaclaz

...and you can select different voices: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/narrator-in-windows-8-7 besides changing spped, volume and pitch... jaclaz

Why in my day I managed to put together a floppy interface for the Spectrum (which got rid of the cassette tape player) and I actually liked it. http://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html ...kids today. Yep, but, accordingly to what I have read the difference is that in Maryland they will use waste water, whilst in Utah they will be using "good" water, of which 1/3 only will seemingly be re-used by the municipality: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=25978926&nid=148 Are you really 100% sure that anything gathered through the massive surveillance program cannot and will not "leak" to a few selected US based multi-nationals? Information is a product, and usually a very valuable one. jaclaz

Have you also checked the "other" point in the mentioned thread? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/144776-unable-to-open-an-elevated-windows-explorer-window/?p=1013641 http://technet.microsoft.com/it-it/library/ee844140(v=ws.10).aspx http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/a31e2c3d-4e35-4c33-8208-0a0e3b6964c1/mapnetworkdrive-and-enablelinkedconnections jaclaz

As a side note, if a "team" in charge of support/maintenance of 14,000 PC's cannot manage to: find about (documented) cmdkeyfind about (documented) Group Policiesdo any of the above (or be authorized to do that)I have difficulties in calling it a "support team" (particularly for such a large userbase). Reality check. When you "telnet" manually into a remote computer, and run the Control Panel/Users thingy (which BTW you can access more directly through "rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr") what you are actually doing is to use a GUI tool to write (or modify) a binary file "Credentials" residing in \Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Credentials\<User SID>, see: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_password_recovery.html so it is not in any way different from changing a binary file (one of the Registry hives) BEFORE, to avoid the need to connect to the PC at all. As a matter of fact every time anyone accesses a remote computer via "telnet" or other remote administration tool, this represents a serious security (and/or privacy) matter. jaclaz

And you see , that was exactly the point . Yet another item that someone else created, that will (in this case very marginally) occupy your hard disk space. BTW, the author of that post is someone that still has *somewhere* the following hardware (and it's related software). Sinclair ZX81 <- 1981 Sinclair Spectrum <- 1983 Sinclair QL <- 1985 Toshiba T3100e <-1987 Macintosh Powerbook 140 <- 1992 Acer Extensa 355 <- 1996 and *any* amount of partially or fully broken (and even some working) PC's dating back up to 1994 or so, to which you add an incredible amount of "burned" CD's containing software, and a correspondent if not bigger amount of data stored in old hard disk drives. In other words, ponder on his words, but DO NOT take him as an example of "efficiency by throwing away things you don't need anymore" . jaclaz

I would like to have a current definition of "advanced". The far more definitely does not apply, IMHO. I see essentially the exact same codebase with a bunch of minor adjustment/changes, 2 or 3 of which either make no sense or are of no use. jaclaz

Strangely enough, Utah residents are seemingly among the most thirsty people around, with a per-capita use of water above anyone else (except possibly Nevada and Idaho - data is strangely contrasting in different sources): http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13750549 http://le.utah.gov/interim/2012/pdf/00002706.pdf around 200-250 or maybe even 308 gallons (that is up to over 1,000 liters ). http://humanistsofutah.org/wordpress/sample-page/2012-2/april-2012/water-waste-in-utah/ As a reference, currently used international norms when designing a water supply are usually between 150 and 250 liters/person/day, whilst US are AFAIK more oriented towards the 100 gallons or 400 liters (these are norms used to dimension pipes/pumps/etc. not the actual consumption). Point at hand being that water price in Utah is strongly subsidized by property taxes (depending on exact location), so knowing how much water the NSA uses and how much it pays it may be of public interest, at least for the local residents. On another installment the NSA will use WASTE water (which makes matter quite a bit different): http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/07/wastewater-will-cool-new-nsa-computing-center/ jaclaz

Good Then most probably it was just a "false alarm". JFYI, the "showmypc" in itself is a "legitimate" software, nothing but one among the n "remote administration" tools for Windows, but since you were tricked into the scam, it is well possible that it was used as "vector" for some malware. jaclaz

Question of the day being: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/03/nsa-water/ jaclaz

Are you sure that 8.1 behaviour is the same? Have a look here: http://superuser.com/questions/532385/how-to-get-update-and-shutdown-instead-of-update-and-restart-on-windows-8 jaclaz

Actually I consider them boons (the boobs, not the noobs). jaclaz

Well, anyway peeps are all behind the green glass door.... together with larryb123456 and the flock of floored Raphus cucullatus .... http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/149540-what-is-behind-the-green-glass-door/ where you are allowed to stutter alright jalcaz

a floored floured flock, you mean, , floundering amidst floccules. jaclaz

Yep , and what about invisible (if not in infrared) deep space critters amoeba like? http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/02files/Critters.html jaclaz

No. The tool is included in Server 2003 or later (but the server 2003 version works in XP). Psexec is free use. But now that the problem is clearer: there could be other solutions/workarounds. Maybe you can edit that dialog box/msg window/whatever, removing in there the possibility to save the password. Or (maybe) you can deny access to the key (in the Registry) to which that information is saved. Or more simply you could take advantage of provisions of the OS. What happens with this? Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Lsa]"disabledomaincreds"=dword:00000001And/or with this: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/?pi101072=2&PostSortBy=MostViewed&pi136163=1&pi136234=57#dfsvpn http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj852185.aspx jaclaz

... OR the scientists failed to calibrate correctly the magnifying effect of the lens of the remotely controlled camera. You know what happened with the diamonds supposed to be the oldest on earth, don't you? http://www.livescience.com/42192-earths-oldest-diamonds-scientific-error.html jaclaz

Possibly it is not in one of the malfunctioning cases we are talking about (LBA0 or BSY). A "normally working" 7200.11 terminal is accessible with the PCB connected to the disk (obviously), cannot say if a "normally working" one is also accessible when the PCB (powered) is detached from the actual disk (and/or one of the two sets of contacts are insulated), but I think it should as well. ;unsure: jaclaz

Alternatively : http://bbhc.com/samsblog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cut-phone-wire.jpeg jaclaz