jaclaz

Naah, the disclaimer won't work, a secret sentence allowed by a secret law and emitted by a secret court will void it in no time. But there is a much easier way. Sun-Tzu (or the Art of War): http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data All is needed is starting talking of Xkeyscore, of NSA and similar topics, in such a way that an analyst will be obliged to "tag" us and thus "store" our generated traffic. As soon as enough people will be "tagged", the system will collapse. jaclaz

Hmmm. Try googling for "Internet Password Retrieval" (the title of this thread) Strangely enough FIRST result is http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/network_password_recovery.html jaclaz

I liked much better the : as an argument to support an opinion. What would be interesting (and this is easily doable, it's only a matter of spending some time) is to see how many of MS patches (which BTW are the actual topic) are issued at the same time for the following Operating Systems: Windows XPWindows VistaWindows 7Windows 8my memory is quickly fading, but I seem to remember that usually whenever a vulnerability has been found (and a related patch is issued by MS) the patch is most of the times for ALL of the above OS versions (or more loosely "supported OS versions of the NT family"), I don't remember as "common" that a patch is ONLY for the oldish XP (or ONLY for a given system) and NOT for a later OS. Ideally one could list each month Security bullettin summary, here is an example of the latest: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-jul and check, bullettin by bullettin, which OS's are affected and for which a patch is issued, example: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-053 seems like a "serious" issue and "hitting" any and all OS's in the above list. I did a quick check and it seems to me like the patches are for ALL the mentined OS's, exception made for this one, that only affects Windows 7 and Server2008 R2 (and NOT XP and NOT 8) https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-058 By this tentative metrics, XP and Vista and 8 are seemingly on the same level, whilst 7 (and Server2008 R2) are slightly less secure. jaclaz

Well, but that is not fully-fully true, no actual data was provided, but they have been witheld - in perfect good faith - to prevent damages: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163539-are-ms-updates-for-xp-really-necessary/?p=1046080 jaclaz

I thought you were after attempting to convince everyone that XP is less secure than Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. jaclaz

Well, one of the points thats that I thought we discussed on this thread enough is that the borders between a RC helicopter (quadricopter) and a "drone" and "unmanned aircraft" and "A.I. driven" are pretty much confused. This thingy: http://www.bladehelis.com/350qx/ is sold as "RC controlled quadricopter", but has a "get home" function : See, besides the official video: this UNofficial one : jaclaz

And AGAIN, "xkeyscore" is NOT a "top-secret" program! And it's use is documented since 2008! (so it is not even "news"). Please, read again: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155290-windows-8-deeper-impressions/page-143#entry1045330 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155290-windows-8-deeper-impressions/page-143#entry1045335 jaclaz

But there should be no issue with linking to the google groups postings: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-code-hosting/kbugMNXibGM so that everyone can think by himself/herself the same things you cannot express . Ilko, JFYI, Sourceforge should be a much better place for WinSetupFromUSB. And at least judging from the contents of the projects hosted there they seem to be a lot less picky than google code (or possibly it's just Mr. Mark Williams ). However, besides the recent activity by Mr. Williams in searching for files without sources and therefore closing projects: http://www.mail-archive.com/google-code-hosting@googlegroups.com/index.html it seems to me like the people of the google code team are reasonable: http://www.mail-archive.com/google-code-hosting@googlegroups.com/msg11117.html though they do not judge on "copyright issues" : http://www.mail-archive.com/google-code-hosting@googlegroups.com/msg11070.html jaclaz

Yes / No http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Now , if you would be so kind as to provide the "standard litany": http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html This might help in giving you an actually useful/appropriate answer (as opposed to "assuming" and then risking to wait time in providing you with unuseful advice). What do you mean by "internet connection"? There are several possibilities about passwords "connected" to "internet usage". How do you know that the password is saved? Why are you talking of the phone line? Is it a Dial up connection to the internet? jaclaz

Why a joke? NOW is the perfect time to plan a Windows 8.1 deployment. I just did that, and after some serious planning and lots of considerations I took the decision to deploy it directly to the dustbin! jaclaz

Well, you can try, rest assured that if the things you name will be so mindboggingly complex as to become beyond our understanding capabilities, we will ask you to stop the listing before our little brains will risk to explode. jaclaz

Can I add a couple of attributes? (I take the responsibility of course ): Now it sounds more appropriate. jaclaz

That's an easy one , you need to hack a (several) ATM('s) in order to get the money to afford the boob job. jaclaz

@Cessilou Instead of being sorry for your English, you should be sorry - really sorry - for the font size you are (senselessly) using . Do check #11 here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

Well, with all respect to boob jobs (particularly those involving nice boobs ) I am failing to see the connection between boobs and diabetes, and particularly with such severe forms of diabetes to be requiring an insulin pump. Just to make sure I checked what is the idea in the UK (in case our US friends would be considered not objective): http://www.healthcentre.org.uk/cosmetic-surgery/breast-implants-faqs-diabetes.html But I am pretty sure that a number of morons are sure that "it was the diabetes thing" . jaclaz

Never said you said it. I said how it probably was not one of them. I will cite the already given link: http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/mystery.htm Possible? Yes . Good example from the good MS guys of the worst possible approach (including arrogance, stupidity and a number of other attributes I am too polite to express) to "stamp" something within an OS or software? Yes. Probable/likely to occur and cause havoc? No. The only issue is when you make a "dd-like" clone and BOTH original and clone are connected/mounted, and, to cite again: To sum up, IMHO something that everyone dealing with these activities should know about but not something that one wouldn't sleep about. Ooops , I gotta go , I am late for the daily check on my meteorite shielding device .... jaclaz

Welcome to the club: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155290-windows-8-deeper-impressions/?p=1008822 BUT you omitted a small, trifling, detail, the thingy you paid US $ 1,500 for actually did last 10 years! jaclaz

Sure they are not (at the very least since 2004). A very good real life example of what can happen , though, still - of course IMHO - not "an everyday occurrence" to connect a SCSI Amiga disk to a Win9x . jaclaz

Thanks , but I need it not. Luck (if needed) is for the future. What I was talking about was experience (past). If you prefer I had in the past enough luck already to be able - with the exception of a few disk drive hardware failures (and even in those cases without actual data loss as I had valid backups) never lost (apparently) not even a single byte of data in any accident connected with LBA28, LBA48 or their good or bad/defective implementation in any BIOS of any machine I happened to own (or use or repair/set up). Everything can happen (always) but after some 20 years playing with PC's, when something never happens I feel authorized to say that it is a bit unlikely (as said if some common sense is used). In my simplicity I believe that anyone running today obsolete software (no offence whatever intended to the good Win9x/Me lovers) on obsolete hardware (and again no offence whatever intended for those peeps that - BTW like myself - have fun in using/re-using such things) should be aware (or made so) of the possible issues/limits and of the possible solutions/workarounds but - with all due respect - your posts about these issues sound a tidbit "catastrophical" to me. jaclaz

Can you provide any detail/reference/whatever about this behaviour? Are you talking of the "mistery bytes"? http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/mystery.htm From the above this can happen only if all six bytes at 0DAh-0DBh are 00's on the "non-standard MBR". jaclaz

In my experience when this happens, there is a THIRD ELEMENT that is missing, that is a sentient being between chair and keyboard. jaclaz

Yeah, and the Police is in it, of course : Of course also the Coroner / Legal MD examiners would be in it , but at least let's wait and see what they manage to detail invent in the autopsy report in order to cover this accidental mysterious death murder case. While we are at it, have you seen the actual building where the San Francisco Medical Examiner office is? (850 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA) There are a few pictures connected to google maps/street view. Look at the antenna on it's roof. It doesn't seem like an ordinary antenna. What could it be it's REAL use? jaclaz

Sure , but that conspiracy theory was a plausible one. Now, according to the originally referenced article there would be 6 (six) different possible "groups of people" that could have committed the (currently merely hypothetical) murder could exist: NSA an enemy country (together with a photo of a Chinese or however Eastern chap) a medical device company a wireless company a rival hacker "suicide or drugs" (which both, last time I checked, were NOT "a group of people" )They forgot another 6 (six) different "groups of people": a bank a ATM manufacturer (after all one of the most spectacular hacks Barnaby Jack made was about an ATM machine and ATM machines are used by banks) a consortium of people that had planned to kill their relatives by hacking an insulin pump that had to devise an alternate way after the hack was demonstrated a convicted prisoner escaped from an asylum a serial-hacker-killer (which the NSA and the FBI are attempting to profile since the suicide suspected murder of Aaron Swartz) an alien (Aztec descendant of the enemy alien race that ruled some countries of pre-columbian America)And another six: the Mafia an undetermined "Act of God" a disgruntled ex-partner of his actual partner a disgruntled ex-partner of himself a mutant werewolf (full moon was on the 22nd in San Francisco) the same people that killed JFK (if not already listed above)For NO apparent reason: jaclaz

And again, no real issues if one uses some common sense and does things "properly", and is not "obsessed" with using the entire space of the hard disk. If one has a LBA28 BIOS, that is a VERY OLD machine, manufactured around 2001 or before, most probably with a very limited amount of RAM, and most probably the ONLY OS that would run smoothly on it - apart Win9x would be NT 4.00, 2K already needs in my experience 128 Mb of Ram to "behave" (provided that one uses not a "modern" browser or a recent AV suite, otherwise the bare minimum becomes 256 Kb). And of course anything later than 2K (possibly included 2K) will be slow as molasses. BTW, since the "official" LBA48 is part of the ATA-6 standard ("officially" dated 2003 but adopted earlier by most manufacturers), a motherboard not supporting it would be at the most ATA-5, i.e. with UDMA/66 speed. jaclaz

These are "strange": map (fd0) (hd0) (hd1) (rd)map (rd) (hd1) (hd0) (fd0)Syntax is map from device to device. Only: map (fd0) (hd0)map (rd) (hd1)Will probably be in effect. jaclaz