jaclaz

Just for the record, and generally speaking, the real issue with closing a door is whether you will be able to re-open it at a later time... And yes, one way or the other driver integrating/slipstreaming has traditionally been solved, it is possible that not all the five drivers that you listed (in no specific order) may be slipstreamable/integrable, but I would bet that three (or more) out of five can alright, and/or you can probably use WPI (just an idea, example): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/159976-customize-install-window/ jaclaz

How many drives are they? Try with one at the time. Check that they are NOT on "cable select", verify the jumpers on them to be set correctly. jaclaz

It should (which not necessarily means that it will) work, but - depending on a numbers of factors - it may be not completely automatic (i.e. it is not a "bare-metal" solution). Also you could have backed up the "current install" partition(s) or the "recovery" partition (or both/all of them), as an example if you did as I presume backed up just the "current install" partition(s), if the disk drive needs to be replaced due to a failure, it is possible that you won' t be able to restore the system *exactly* as it is now. Yeah, sure, send a nice letter to the good MS guys that invented the "online" update system, failed to provide a Service Pack and made exceptionally difficult to build and implement/install (let alone slipstream) a "DIY service pack". JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158104-service-pack-2-for-w7/ jaclaz

--JorgeA Hmmm. To be fair, one should ask him/herself WHY exactly London is a world financial capital, choose three from the following: -5. Because of the nice weather. 0. Because the British (and particularly Londoneers) are - generally speaking - nice guys/gals. 5. Because Her Majesty the Queen is a guarantee of stability of the financial system. 35. Because the British Laws - with particular regard to financial trading - are very favourable when compared to other Eurozone countries 35. Because - with much difficulty - the people from the US can actually understand what they say and with even more difficulties the British can understand what the US peeps say, and - still with much difficulty - a conversation between them, the people actually doing the work in India and the people which bring in the real money (Arabic countries) is possible. 35. Because the British have built for themselves a reputation of respect of privacy, earnestness and correctness second only to that the Swiss made for themselves. Give yourself the points correspondent to the three options you chose, if you make less than 100 you are wrong. No particular surprise IMHO that the good guys at GCHQ (actually those in command of them) are perplexed by the spying (in favour of the US Government) on financial transactions. jaclaz

Since the good ol' times of DIN connectors, before PS/2 connectors became mainstream, I have saved more than a few motherboards from trash by replacing those little "fuses", so it is something I would also check attentively. Another hint , try with a USB Y cable, it is possible that the actual USB bus is working but the device doesn't get the 0/+5 V. jaclaz

Hi, mritter . Have you checked on the Wayback Machine collection? http://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive A number of Aminet and Fresh Fish CD's are there : http://archive.org/search.php?query=Aminet jaclaz

Direct link: http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid and video: AND: http://blog.cenzic.com/2013/09/cenzic-researchers-uncover-new-vulnerability-in-apples-ios-7-that-enables-pretenders-to-act-on-a-users-behalf-even-when-iphones-are-locked/ And, strangely ON topic the new Surface, wittingly named Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 have been announced: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/09/23/microsoft-gives-surface-tablet-another-try/ From the mouth of the wolf: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/sep13/09-23surface2pr.aspx Among the new accessories that will be released, I would like to meet in person someone that will actually buy any of these: IMHO the Arc Touch Mouse Surface Edition is a steal at a mere US$ 69.99 , expecially when compared to the (lousy) Car Charger with USB plus at a whopping $49.99, I mean, WOW, a device capable to connect to the lighter plug and charge a tablet/notebook with no need for an additional adapter WHILE ALLOWING TO SIMULTANEOUSLY charge another USB device, what an innovative idea! jaclaz

@j7n Is that for "booting from USB"? It is very possible that by using a "common" USB external hub you can bypass the issue (but possibly won't be able to boot from those sticks). Those thingies (the hubs I mean) are normally 1.1 and 2.0 compatible. jaclaz

Made by whom? (just as curiosity). AFAIK the current trend (on networks) is the use of MDT (and of single, separate .iso's/folders). jaclaz

OT but not much this may be of use/related : http://reboot.pro/topic/16755-offline-event-viewer/ jaclaz

See this Forum: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ (what you want to do is not necessarily Windows 8 related, but it is about "installing Windows from USB" ). jaclaz

That's entirely up to you. If you value the DATA on it between US$500 and US$1,000, go for the pro's (possibly even MUCH more if the issue is damaged heads ). If you don't, or simply do not have that amount of money available, you have no choices but try yourself. Since we have no validated experiences with that model (and we completely fail to know the "reason why" or the actual cause of the LBA0 situation you are in) I would suggest you anyway to invest a few more bucks - besides the ones needed to buy the TTL adapter - to buy an used (but fully working) similar 5400.6 disk drive and try the commands/routines on this second "expendable" drive. The commands *should* be the same as the 7200.11 ones, but possibly only some of them need to be issued and the order in which they are issued may be different. IF they work, they shouldn't make any "damage" (if they are correct and correctly executed they are not "destructive" commands) and you could attempt the unbricking of the "real" drive with at least some more confidence. In any case be ready to have a larger drive ready and the tool/OS tested to make an image of the unbricked drive as soon as you (hopefully) manage to revive it. These may be of help/reference: http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=18819 http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?t=18645 jaclaz

Let me doubt (with all due respect ) that you can have a WinFLP license (as those were issued only as part of the Software Assurance contract). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs But the issue is not IMHO the actual OS, which anyway will need at least 512 Mb to run decently, it may be if you plan to run on it *any* real-time antivirus, they tend to peak well over 256 Mb and use in "normal" operation 100 Mb or more. The original specs for XP were: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865/en-us jaclaz

Yes, and : http://xkcd.com/327/ jaclaz

That's actually good, as you shouldn't use WAREZ. The disk is either in LBA0 status or it is not in it. You can check this status in the BIOS, when booting go to BIOS setup and try autodetecting the disk, when it is connected through a direct SATA connection. It will either show the right capacity (or a reduced ones n some cases) or a 0 one. This said, the SD15 firmware issues and corresponding remedies are specific to the 7200.11 model (and the same kind of "generic" reset has been with alternate success, used with the 7200.12 series too). There is unfortunately no "known-to-be-working" method (if applicable) for the 5400.6 model, only info we have is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158397-invalid-partition-table-on-my-500gb-hdd/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155638-seagate-momentus-54006-st9500325as-freeagent-go/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/150293-unlock-seagate-54006/ The only "vague" report of the method having worked is "very" vague and here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/145751-seagate-freeagent-go-momentus-54006-solution/ If you value the data on it, you shouldn't even think of attempting recovery with this method, as we simply have NO previous validated experience. jaclaz

OT SCOOP! Apple considers running a bunch of queries against their financial database to create detailed reports "a herculean effort": http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2013/09/articles/case-summaries/citing-proportionality-court-concludes-it-would-be-senseless-to-require-plaintiff-to-go-to-great-lengths-to-produce-evidence-defendants-are-able-to-do-without/ There must be some gaps in current technology, on one side there are peeps capable of looking at you every time you breath, listen to anything you say and read everything you write, and on the other someone considering extracting data from their own financial databases an ordeal. jaclaz

JFYI, it is not a matter of simply "burn-ISO-to-flash", there are a number of issues to take care of, a lot of users use multi-boot flash sticks and AFAIK the Win2flash approach is very similar to the original "how to install XP from USB" approach ( i would dare to say "replicating" it ), which has been found being not fully compatible with *every* setup/machine, and the more current approaches tend to use the install .iso "as is", see: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ jaclaz

Yes , but - specifically - it's not really "news" (from a technical standpoint), the comment by user twilightomni is accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Controversy Anyone using the algorithm after the paper by Shumow and Ferguson was published at the CRYPTO 2007: http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf and after the article by Bruce Schneier posted: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html was eidently doing that intentionally or because of unexcusable ignorance. As Matthew Green puts it in this excellent article: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/09/the-many-flaws-of-dualecdrbg.html About the live finger vs. cut out finger, it is the good ol' same bull$hit.A US$ 5 wrench:has traditionally proved to work alright for ol'passwords, no matter the algorithm used, elliptic curves or whatever, this time you will have the additional issue that if you forget your phone at the office you will not anymore be able to instruct your secretary to access it to retrieve that address or phone number that is only stored there and you will have to drive back some 300 miles instead .The only good thing that can come out of it is that if you accidentally break your finger or hand and need to have it bandaged/put in a cast, you are cut out of the rest of the world for the time needed for it to heal.Of course this will never happen, as there will be surely an "alternate" way (password) to access the phone (unless the good Apple guys are completely crazy).http://www.macworld.com/article/2048514/the-iphone-5s-fingerprint-reader-what-you-need-to-know.html Since you won' t be using it for months (as you would normally use the fingerprint) you'll risk forgetting it, so you will jolt it down on a post-it stored in a handy place, and access to the device will be as-easy-as-it-was-before (or even easier) for the "bad guys". jaclaz

Another good reason (IMHO) for closing a thread would be that of having in there people repeatedly and insistently whining about the way the board is managed. You may well get over it (still IMHO). jaclaz

The US$ 99 vs. US$ 550 sounds like the only good argument (though I don't see all these people giving away lumia 520's unlocked for US$ 99) , more like US$180-200, which still may have some merits. jaclaz

No, maybe you could do a "full" dump and then trick one of the few guys capable of analyzing it into having a look at it. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/130005-creating-memory-dumps/ jaclaz

Are you somehow trying to say that Child Pornography should be covered by the 1st Amendment or similar provision? There are better places to discuss this kind of topics, be aware of Rule #2.b Back to topic. I am pretty sure some of our Apple firends won't like what will be said on Octoper 17th: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013kul/agenda-conference-day-2-17th-october-2013/ http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013kul/cyril-gg-quarkslab/ jaclaz

JFYI, RTM means "Release To Manufacturers", it only applies to the edition given to (large) OEM's before the official launch of the product. The fact that the good MS guys (as hinted before) released it before it was "ready" (and senselessly induced everyone to install it on underpowered hardware) only means that in this case (not the only one) they behaved as "perfect morons", making the Vista OS getting the "bad name" it bears till today, making it a huge Commercial fiasco and somehow "forcing" for an earlier release of 7. Namely, in the case of Vista, RTM is November 8, 2006 and the end-customer version was released January 30, 2007, which would have allowed almost three months to fix (if they wanted) the most obvious issues. Not that after one year, when the SP1 was released February 4, 2008, it didn't have it's big share of issues: http://4sysops.com/archives/list-of-vista-sp1-problems-be-careful-with-service-pack-1/ Remember that it took more than 2 months to have the mess up with Windows Updates fixed for those that had the issue... So, you couldn't even rely on SP1, one year later, but had to wait for the "fixed" SP1. Of course the OS itself has no faults for the mis-management the good Microsoft guys did, but it is obvious that the "bad name" will always remain attached to the poor innocent OS. And the SP2, while containing good things, was of little use, as it came out on April 28, 2009, when all the media was already trumpeting about Windows 7 and how good it would be (soon available). Of course this has affected the most the less-technical savvy people, the "common" end customers which would just buy a HP, a Dell or any "big brand" OEM laptop or desktop with the pre-installed system, and later found out that the thing they bought was outperformed by the older XP machine their neighbour or friend had. Initially no info (or proper, or enough info) was given about the all new (also mostly senseless IMHO) BOOTMGR+\boot\BCD "shift" from good ol' NTLDR+BOOT.INI+NTDETECT.COM, and in such cases when the average Joe would have a booting issue the "procedure" adopted at the time by "highly specialized technicians" was to wipe and reinstall or use the recovery partition to reset to factory status. The initial common issues with drivers, UAC, Aero not running, and what not completed the scenario. No, it has not been a "lucky" OS. jaclaz

@ROTS The actual issue in most Western countries is only with child pornography (good ol' p0rn between consenting adults is not a problem at all AFAIK). Of course there have been (and there will be) exceptions, like this known case: http://web.archive.org/web/20111225024328/http://www.opposingviews.com/i/porn-star-lupe-fuentes-saves-man-from-bogus-child-porn-charges (but that was a mistake and the guy was proclaimed innocent) Before I forget: https://windowssecrets.com/top-story/touring-through-the-final-windows-8-1/ jaclaz

No. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html The WinsetupfromUSB page not working on Google Code is "queer" I just uploaded a copy of WinSetupFromUSB_1-0-beta9_rc4.7z I had around, here: WinSetupFromUSB_1-0-beta9_rc4.7z - 20.2 Mb See if it works for you . jaclaz