Posts by oldcoder

Re: So, in simple terms

It stupidity to assume the network itself is secure.

Passing any password in plaintext is a MASSIVE mistake.

Re: Clock virus

Only way to be sure is to drop by the bar...

Re: Better use them quick

NRL certainly can. Been there seen that. In our group as soon as we were notified (as in, management saw/read the report, or sometimes even rumors) the passwords can be forced.

the normal replacement was every 90 days, as measured from last password change. But it could be reset to any interval.

How about "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish..."

Re: More on MS Copy

Actually, the randomness of the copy shows the instability of the system - with apparent random amounts of overhead causing the estimated completion time to be useless.

Re: Huh?

Depends on your point of view.

A politicians coworkers would be disappearing...

And possibly would actually learn what not to do.

Not on Windows...

The password can be/is stored in memory in plaintext.

You don't even need the password for NTLM hacks - just grab the hashed version actually used...

Re: So The Great Plague was caused by - YES - the plague! Next ....

Why not?

Water isn't always wet (which is why you use soap). Nor are all surfaces subject to being "wet" by water (even with added soap).

Re: Think about the process..

Well, almost. The blob that the driver may need loaded into the device does not have to be part of the driver - just part of the distribution. It can be loaded into the device as a separate item, thus removing the bloat from the driver code.

Re: Meanwhile

You are ASSUMING that the losses from exported cars is strictly less than or equal to the income from import tariffs.

If nobody buys the cars - that would be 100% loss - and no exports; resulting in no subsidies from import tariffs.

Re: Taxes

Most likely spending it on Microsoft products... or just to get more non-working patches from Microsoft.

Re: Well, bears in the woods etc.

Ah, but as I understand it, US taxes do NOT include sales outside the US.

Thus the profits you mention that would have been taxed in the US are not... making the profits even larger.

Re: Linux control to proprietary entities, particularly Microsoft

Even that won't work - Linux is GPLv2.

And will always be GPLv2.

The most they could do is fork Linux... And they don't even need to depose Linus.

It would be quite hard to "wrest Linux copyright authority from all the Linux and GNU copyright stakeholders" - some are dead.

You can't change the license without the permission - and you can't get it from them. Nor will you be able to get it from all the thousands of contributors.

Re: It's True!

"the stakes are so small"????

With 90% of all phones

With 95+% of all supercomputers

Majority of embedded computers (toys, drones, TVs, routers, ...)

Not small at ALL.

Re: Usual Microsoft behaviour

The order is a bit off:

1. change it so the Windows version is not compliant with the non-microsoft version

2. make it available in Windows

3. claim the Windows version is compliant

4. refuse to make the Windows version compliant

5. push windows version of said item

6. call non-Microsoft version "broken"

Hey - works for AD, being broken with LDAP/Kerberos/Bind.

Microsoft doesn't even know how its own software works as MS had to get help from the Samba project for the EU mandated documentation.

Not necessarily.

They are just BLAMING the free encyclopedia.

Microsoft laid off the QC employees... and closed the QC departments.

Not that they ever did all that much in the first place.

Re: Hmm...

"Thoroughly tested"??? Microsoft doesn't have a quality control section anymore.

"Secure"?? This is Microsoft and Windows - not a chance.

Besides setting off the BS detector, it should have also caused the audience laughter detector off.

Re: Won't you think of the children?

Well, considering he is a British, Dutch and Turkish origin - most of him coming from northern Europe...

Actually, Linux is at the top. The most phones, supercomputers, a bit more than half of IoT... It even controls Azure networking, and about 25% of all instances on Azure.

That depends on your definition of "limited".

There was a lot of damage caused by above ground testing (designed to minimize damage and investigate the damage there was). And this would NOT be testing - but deliberately placed detonations; designed specifically to kill people. Also even one detonation would be several times larger than the tests.

"It doesn't have a proper modular device driver system."

Unlike Windows that doesn't support backward compatibility with device drivers, and changes "modular device drivers" at the drop of a hat, forcing OEMs to do the work of conversion all the time.

"It just grows including support for every nasty and not so nasty processor and chipset that comes out."

Unlike Windows that only runs on ONE processor and a little bit on ONE ARM processor architecture.