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42. Besides being the answer to the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything, it represents also, most probably: in minutes the time a real hacker will need to hack into itin hours the time before the hack is posted on the undergroundin days the time before it leaks into the openjaclaz

Sure, the point is that there are different methods and several different "tricks" that you may want (or want not) to implement, including running it form the .iso "as is" (but thus forfaiting some of the useful tricks) or using a .img in a Ramdisk, etc.. Here are a couple methods: http://reboot.pro/topic/5316-recovery-console-not-working-from-usb-stick/?p=41614 And here another couple ones: http://reboot.pro/topic/5316-recovery-console-not-working-from-usb-stick/?p=70268 The most straightforward is probably this thread here (which was NOT among the ones I posted before): http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=11393 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24880 Post #7 in the latter: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=24880&view=findpost&p=171330 is one of the most detailed, step by step, set of instructions you can find. jaclaz

Actually one of the few meaningful pieces of info that page has is that it is a Wi-Fi device , you know, like: From what it is said about it, you can make one today DIY by cleverly putting together a Wi-Fi IPcam, a VoiP handsfree phone and a couple more sensors/gizmos. You cannot, that's the clever part. Besides russians reverting to typewriters, is seem like people that attended a (yaawn) security conference in 2012 thanked the organization in handwriting : http://proconf-iceland.com/HackerHalted/(not so loosely connected to misinformation, badly designed sites and what not) Just for the record, in the event, for a mere several thousands dollars fee you will be able to meet and hear the speeches/presentations of information technology and security leaders like Jay BavisiEric LopezPaula JanuszkiewiczJennifer LesserDave ChronisterKevin Cardwelljaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Here: http://reboot.pro/?showtopic=2254 http://reboot.pro/topic/5316-recovery-console-not-working-from-usb-stick/ http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20983 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21049 (several different methods) The two "key" enhancements are obviously the "no more CATCH22" trick and (through editing the bootsector or using grub4dos) bypass the "blue screen": http://reboot.pro/topic/2362-makebscmd-alpha-release/ http://reboot.pro/topic/2362-makebscmd-alpha-release/?p=18878 jaclaz

Only COLOUR laser printers. jaclaz

@X. Make the minimal possible XP system you can make (still booting): http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/ make a copy of it. Run a "repair install". Make another copy. Compare differences. Admittedly a part of the result won't be "reliable" as you will need for the test to use minlogon, but, set aside initial authentication, all the rest should be "the most amount of changes" that a repair install can produce. It would be easier, much easier, if you use, instead of the "manual" or "through half-@§§ed batches by jaclaz" the nice little Winbuilder package by misty here: http://minixp.reboot.pro/docs/files/index.html jaclaz

Look, I don't want to be grumpier then usual, but if I am in my User (or member) view, or Control Panel, then I may be interested to new members , but if I am in my §@ç#ing "My conversation" and click on "View New Content" it means that I went there to either write a new PM or read a received one, and once finished I want to see View what happened on the Board in the meantime, like if somethng New was posted to it (please read as added Content) hence I click on the "View New Content". When you are in "My Conversations", you are in: MSFN Forum ->Messenger->My Converstions Now, if clicking on it would lead to New Content of the Inbox My Conversations, it would make (some) sense, but "members" and "PM's" have nothing in common. In my day if I wanted to know what new members had joined, I would press a button labeled "View New Members" . This is like Rule #1 of ergonomics, NEVER have the same command do different things! Please consider how this is also politically incorrect as it likens a human being (the new member) to Contents of the board. I can say nothing about Tformers.com, but about reboot.pro it is OBVIOUSLY the SAME, WRONG, SENSELESS behaviour as that board uses the same software as this one with the further handicap of being managed by (IMHO) less expert Board Admins than Xper is. At least, with the exception of a new little nuisances and a few bugs, each move on msfn.org to new software releases has - in some time - gone well, notwithstanding the stupidity of the Board Software programmers. The same changes on Reboot.pro have EVERY TIME caused serious problems, some of which were NEVER fixed/repaired. Maybe it is not a bug, it is just a senseless setting propagated by the IPB guys, i.e. it is "by (flawed) design" BTW, if I am in: MSFN Forum ->jaclaz's content or: MSFN Forum->My control panel->Settings->Profile Settings The "View New Content" lists Board threads "normally". jaclaz

Only partially OT, and JFYI, there is a newish thingy for booting from USB VurtualBox that you may find useful (after and besides the solution to current issue): http://reboot.pro/topic/18736-virtual-machine-usb-boot/ http://reboot.pro/topic/18217-booting-virtualbox-with-usb-workaround/ jaclaz

To be picky the "all" might mean "some" and in any case limited to colour laser printers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=48 https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots For NO apparent reason, a couple not-so-random links: http://www.zeroshell.org/ http://www.plugcomputer.org/development-kits/guruplug-server/ And (this time slightly OT, but not much ): http://www.thebigfix.com.au/ http://www.thebigfix.com.au/?p=50 And - curiously enough - sometimes we enter a loop: http://www.thebigfix.com.au/?p=467 http://makezine.com/2011/04/28/if-youre-going-to-kill-it-open-source-it/ guess what you do when your good idea fails miserably? You insist on it some ten years later or so! : http://www.smartwatchnews.org/2004-microsoft-spot-watch-smartwatch/ jaclaz

Yeah, the "news" (if any) are just the (crappy) slides. Look a bit around for the book: The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford It is published in 2008 and contains some reference to xkeyscore ad similar alright. Let's say that at least this time the whistleblowers failed to blow hard enough or however the whistle came out a little faint, before the mass of mindless journalists and blogging jerks ping-ponged these non-news back and forth saturating the net with the topic. I see it not entirely unlike someone publishing in - say - 1919 the original, handwritten manual and drawings for a COLT M19A11 and titling the article "New, deadly weapon revealed!" jaclaz

I would say that it is not-as-secret-as our Germans (or Brazilians) friends seem to think (or try to "sell" to the world). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Keyscore More than one company is recruiting "in the open": http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=Xkeyscore&l= specifically for x-keyscore. I doubt that if it was a top-secret military/NSA ONLY *whatever* you could find job requests about it. Besides not-that-much-covert linkedin profiles such as (example): http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/13482623512/discovering-names-secret-nsa-surveillance-programs-via-linkedin.shtml https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/346139237856460801 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jason-miller/39/741/a49 I have the impression that people in the US Army and in the NSA spend more time inventing and remembering codenames (and making crappy PowerPoint slides for them) than anything else, just for the record: http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/projects/names/new_names/ http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/projects/names/new_names/military_code_names.txt jaclaz

What about expand, cabarc or 7-zip? See: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/162516-expandexe-vs-cabarcexe-extracting-files/ jaclaz

Hmmm , this would probably need a new dedicated thread, where I will manage to get flamed by everyone: the "Windows" guysthe "Linux" guysthe "React-OS" guysBTW all good guys :, but quite touchy when you "comment" their beloved creature/preferred OS. See if these posts are enough: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/58899-open-sourcing-windows-9x/page-6#entry747389 http://reboot.pro/topic/4207-running-kde4-programs-under-windows/?p=46592 http://reboot.pro/topic/5512-mobileos-sorry-guys-im-a-little-confused-again/#entry43184 jaclaz

Yes, BUT up to first line of #3 step it mentions installing an XP 64 bit to hard disk from .iso on USB stick alright. jaclaz

The three phases business plan for the Surface RT has been written by Undrpants Gnomes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/20/surface_rt_cashing_out_while_burning_the_cash/ Some intelligent considerations here: http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/19/microsoft-still-hopes-youll-buy-a-surface-rt-launches-new-surface-vs-ipad-ad/ And another competitor for the "Captain Obvious 2013 Award" here: http://betanews.com/2013/07/19/surface-rt-sales-suck-and-heres-why/ It happened to me last time I was in a Volkswagen showroom, I went there to have a look at an used Polo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VW_Polo and suddenly realised that what I actually wanted was a new Golf R: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Golf_Mk6#Golf_R Get real, Mihaita, you can get 2 (almost 3 now) Surfaces RT's for the price of a "real" Surface. Would this mean that they are worth 1/3 to 1/2? jaclaz

Cannot say if it is a bug, but usually with this kind of batches it is better to use "negative logic". @ECHO OFFSET Defaultpwd=Adminecho Now configuring the Remote Shell Serviceecho Stopping the Servicesc stop RshSvcecho Enter the Password for Admin account or ENTER to leave the default oneset /p adminpwd=Type password or press [ENTER] to leave the Default one.IF NOT DEFINED adminpwd SET adminpwd=%Defaultpwd%sc config RshSvc type= own obj= %computername%\Admin password= %adminpwd%echo Starting the servicesc start RshSvcjaclaz

Defeat (or giving up) is NEVER an option . All automated tools (for obvious reasons) tend to work alright with an "original", not modified source. The "fully up to date XP x64 DVD" is AFAICU a (nice) very modified source, no particular surprise that a "standard" tool cannot work properly with a "non-standard" source. It is very possible that a few changes are needed (and are enough) in order to use one of those tools, but XP 64 is (no offence whatever intended ) a "not-so-common" OS and while I am sure that Ilko or JFX or Steve6375 (to name a few of those that are around here) would be happy to help, they would need cooperation for testing from someone with a 64 XP (standard) and a 64 XP ("fully up to date"). If you are game, I am pretty sure that if you post a request here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ and be a diligent party in the testing some of the good guys would help you. BTW, there is at least one report that the "usual" method of Firadisk or Winvblock (of course the 64 bit version) do work for installing: http://reboot.pro/topic/9830-universal-hdd-image-files-for-xp-and-windows-7/page-36#entry163260 and Sardu is said to be compatible with XP64: http://reboot.pro/topic/14768-new-release-of-sardu-204-beta-16/ jaclaz

JFYI, there is much more reason to be sad about the ReactOS development, they IMHO completely missed a logical, prgmatical approach and spent an incredible amount of (otherwise exceptionally good) resources and talent without advancing a single bit in practice, but your blue screens have nothing to do with NTFS. NTFS is just a filesystem, a live CD without NTFS support won't be able to access a NTFS volume, that's all, no reason why it should Blue Screen because of it. jaclaz

Maybe useful, maybe not: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/137714-install-xp-from-a-ram-loaded-iso-image/?p=895361 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/?p=1005836 jaclaz

Ah well, no. Now that my "gut feeling" is confirmed (partially) the bug is described and Xper (when he has time as this is a very-non-relevant issue) may have a look abiut it. As well the "View new Content" automagically going to "new members" is only a nuisance. The botched post numbering/referencing (post #2 in this thread) has IMHO a much greater priority. jaclaz

I'm not sure what you mean by non-existing time. Isn't that referring to 14 minutes after midnight and 10:20 AM the same morning, ie a 10 hour and 6 minute time period? EDIT: I had 1 new conversation in my inbox just now, ie your response, so for me at least, it seems to working correctly. But apparently from your experience, not consistently. Cheers and Regards Ooops, sorry, I thought you sent the two messages within a short delay (one or two hours at the most) and that there were issues with times. My bad . I take it back. Maybe this only happens if you get TWO messages by the SAME person (and thus going into the same "conversation")? I will try to send you TWO messages in short succession, please check if you get a notification with "2" or just 1. jaclaz

I think there is an indicator. I sent you a test PM so that you can verify it. Cheers and Regards We (thanks bhlpt ) made a few tests. His first message did not "trigger" anything (but since I had a tab opened on my messenger this, though stupid, may be considered "normal"). I replied to his message and he replied to mine with a message that appears in my messenger as: Sent Today, 12:14 AM (please take note of the date/time) Since I was offline, I didn't saw that/replied to it. So bhplt sent me another message, that appears in my messenger as: Sent Today, 10:20 AM This morning when I accessed the board forum homepage I had: You have 1 new conversations in your inbox and I had a small red square with a 1 in it just over the "envelop icon". I replied to bhlpt with a message that appears as: Sent Today, 10:57 AM Unless something was fixed in the non-existing time between Today, 12:14 AM and Today, 10:20 AM, there is still something "queer" going on. jaclaz

Now, this is cool: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/107217-real-life-constructicon-quadcopter-robots-being-developed jaclaz

And related articles written by journalists that have had an amusing past as fishermen: http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/320724/19/Gallinippers-Giant-mosquito-invasion-Nope-just-another-Florida-critter It all reminds me the original Calvin's report on bats: http://mimosasonthefrontlawn.blogspot.it/2009/02/bats-arent-bugs.html jaclaz

And no particularly good music came from it, additionally. jaclaz