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I had missed it (removed manually) but it looks like MS is doing the responsible thing: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2607712.mspx

Consider taking a look at Open Specification Promise.

(Note: IANAL) Since the core .NET framework, as well as the CLR specification and the base C# language are covered under this. As long as does not use things like ADO.NET, ASP.NET and WinForms or other non-ECMA-covered parts of the language/framework (and why would they, since those are essentially Windows/MicrosoftStack specific), there should be no patent problem here.

I would not recommend using such method for servers, but workstation deployment can use a prepared image through sysprep.

Thanks a linux-based open source project called Fog our team now can install and reinstall several types of workstations through a web interface. The project also includes an agent that can be useful to automate OS reinstalls.

This is more complicated than it seems

Granted, this is needed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/chfa2zb8(v=vs.71).aspx

Now:

You can write all the code as unsafe, so you're writing almost C

And in certain places of the kernel you can't have a 'malloc' that sleeps. Hence, you can't have a default allocator for objects. Hence, no gc

Also what warranties there are w.r.t. atomicity of operations in C#?

As long as your code can read and write blocks on the device, a file system can be implemented in any language

Yes. Except you have lots of restraints on fs operations, otherwise you're entering a deadlock or looping infinitely (like triggering swap).

FUSE of course needs kernel support, it's not a problem solver (from the point of view of the kernel)

So, you may be able to write an OS on "C#" but it's more of a gimmick than anything else.

According to this MS dev, they do (although not entirely):

"We use almost entirely C, C++, and C# for Windows. Some areas of code are hand tuned/hand written assembly."

Source: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcacademic/thread/65a1fe05-9c1d-48bf-bd40-148e6b3da9f1

Yeah, it's super hard in windows...
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2607712.mspx
All supported editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 use the Microsoft Certificate Trust List to validate the trust of a certificate authority. There is no action required for users of these operating systems because Microsoft has removed the DigiNotar root certificate from the Microsoft Certificate Trust List.

I don't have an XP box here to look at, but I'm pretty sure you can get to the Trusted Root Cert Authorities by going IE >Internet Options > Content > Certificates > Trusted Root Cert Authorities, doubleclick DigiNotar and uncheck all.

It's definitely not for everything, at least not yet. This page has a table with a bunch of different kinds of devices and the appropriate API for them. If I counted right (entirely possible I didn't), there are 9 out of 30 rows where UMDF is at least sometimes available; in 3 cases, it's the only choice.

Sorry to reply to myself, but: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/143164

I don't think anyone is arguing the fact that there wasn't tablets before the iPad, but the "Many of them looked similar" line is what is getting everyone's panties in a bunch. There was not a single tablet on the market or even introduced to the market that looked anything like the iPad. Everyone had some sort of bulky case thingy that held the display, no one had a flat surfaced tablet. Tablet Designs Before and After the iPad.

Fuck you and your bullshit link, which is a lying lie told by a liar, and you are a liar too for repeating it. How about the GRiDPad 1910 or the GRiDPad 2390? Okay, so they have some buttons on them; so did all the portable devices of their day. I also own a DT360 which seems like a good example of what you're saying, but the big rubber stuff is an optional accessory and while mine is red, it was also offered in black. I'm running Debian Lenny with Matchbox on mine; Lenny is probably the earliest Linux with the proper kernel patches for the Dt3?? machines, which are cheap, low power, and fanless.

Er, anyway, I digress. The point is that there WERE black rectangle tablets before the iPad. They had some buttons, but so did everything. If "remove the buttons" is deserving of a design patent, then digital picture frames are sufficient to prove that the idea is obvious.

Market cap is not a real indication of how "valuable" a company is. Apple has FAR less real money and revenue than, say, Microsoft.

Hmmm...

Apple's 10-Q says net income of $7.3b on revenues of $28.5b in the most recent quarter and $76b in cash and marketable securities on hand.
Microsoft's 10-Q says net income of $5.2b on revenues of $16.4b in the most recent quarter and $50.1b in cash and marketable securities on hand.

So... what were you saying again?

If you went out of your way to Disable Client-Side DNS Caching, that's hardly something you can blame Windows for...

Microsoft does see that a little bit differently, they just did a major compatible breaking change without incrementing the version number.

VS Express can't use plugins. That's one of the "upsell" features of Visual Studio Professional and higher.

So to build plugins that's free for anyone to use without needing to pay the ~$400 for Visual Studio you need to use the Visual Studio Isolated Shell

"Note: PTVS does not install into VS Express Editions". It needs some sort of Visual Studio Shell, which is separate from VS Express for some odd reason.

And has Microsoft added the necessary pieces to the version of the .NET Compact Framework for Xbox 360 Indie Games and Windows Phone 7 to allow DLR languages such as IronPython to work in applications for those platforms?

You might try this link, it's really slick (requires silverlight or moonlight though):

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-and-related-products-HA101794130.aspx

http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/08/29/fraudulent-google-com-certificate/
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/08/update-on-attempted-man-in-middle.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2607712.mspx

Perhaps those are the most common used commands, but the most common USE is to browse folders, and when the ribbon UI and "enhancements" start eating up real estate it takes away from that core purpose. The ribbon takes up 3x horizontal space compared to Win7.

Do you mean vertical space? If so, then compared to toolbar alone, it does; but with all other changes to Explorer combined together, the end result has just as much vertical space for files as before, and in some cases more. Also note that you can minimize the ribbon if you don't care for it - this will be about as tall as the old menu in XP.

Also in case anyone from MS is reading along, here's some helpful suggestions

I'm from MS, though not from the Windows division. That said, I'll try to find the best person to forward your feedback to. Alternatively, apparently there's this form to submit user feedback (as a side note, I'm quite frustrated by how long it took me to find such a simple thing; IMO, if you type "feedback" or "bug" in Start menu search field, and don't immediately get to the right place, it's an epic fail in that department).

There are comrehensive Windows UI guidelines, as well. Problem is that practically no-one is actually following them, not even many Microsoft products.

Apple also loves to ignore their own guidelines, but they (or rather their users) are much less forgiving towards anyone else who does that. If your app doesn't look and behave like a normal OS X app should, it'll get crucified regardless of its other merits. Hence, developers and designers are kept in check.

FWIW, the correct place to put "Options" menu item in Windows is under "Tools".

There are comrehensive Windows UI guidelines, as well. Problem is that practically no-one is actually following them, not even many Microsoft products.

Apple also loves to ignore their own guidelines, but they (or rather their users) are much less forgiving towards anyone else who does that. If your app doesn't look and behave like a normal OS X app should, it'll get crucified regardless of its other merits. Hence, developers and designers are kept in check.

FWIW, the correct place to put "Options" menu item in Windows is under "Tools".

Yes, you can and have always been able to afaik. How to disable the Local Administrator account in Windows In Vista and 7 you actually have to go and enable it manually.

Someone else linked to the MS info on it: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm%3AWin32%2FMorto.A and it just goes and trys weak passwords... EXTREMELY weak passwords. Also looks like Vista/7 2008/2008R2 are default secure since it trys against "administrator" which is not an account you can actually log in as if UAC is on.

So as long as your password isn't monkey-fuck retardedly easy, should be a non-issue. If it is this weak, well then you really need to get a better password policy, and not because of this worm just in general.

None the less I expect this worm to own tons of systems because people fail at passwords. Story time:

Back in 1999 I worked as a student for network operations on campus. They wanted to migrate their small domain from NT4 to 2000 and the guy in charge decided to just do a clean reinstall/redo. He knew his shit and there wouldn't be many user facing issues except for account recreation. While some users would have no problems, the non-technical ones would whine and cry. He reasoned (correctly) that those kind of people would have weaker passwords so he grabbed the SAM file and had me load it on one of our powerful systems to crack. Since it had LM hashes stored (required for Windows 9x which was in use), cracking alphanumeric passwords could be done inside a week.

The result was much worse than we thought. At least half of the non-technical people had the password of "changeit", the password that had been handed out as a default password, which you were supposed to change. So it ended up being a big issue because he had the new accounts created with that password, but set the domain to require them to pick a new one. Much crying and whining ensued.

On account of that at my current job when we need to hand out a password to change (our system is cross Solaris/Linux/Windows/Mac and there isn't a good method to force a reset on login for all systems) we set it to something like "this is a long password that needs to be changed soon," because nobody wants to type that in every time they log in.

Or instead do you just use strong passwords?

That is what the issue with this worm is: Weak passwords. Go read the MS doc and see just how weak I'm talking about: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm%3AWin32%2FMorto.A.

This kind of shit affects SSH as well. We periodically whack IPs in China that beat on our SSH servers. They try the same password list over and over, they aren't sophisticated, just looking for weakly passworded stuff.

The answer isn't to move the port. The answer is to have a good password.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

The list of password that the worm tries is interesting. Apart from the obvious abc123 and the like, the worm tries "RavMonD" and "zhudongfangyu". Is that a clue? Some Chinese hommage to the bazar?

If only M$ didn't make it so difficult to change the RDP port...

Oh wait, it used to be difficult, but now its stupid easy: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306759
Now they even have a program that does it for idiots -- what amazing customer service!
This is why I now respect Microsoft's operating systems - someone finds an exploit and they get vilified, so they have to work extra hard and put a lot of money into meeting a higher standard of criticism to keep a huge base of customers satisfied and using their OS.
They make "QA mistake" releases like Vista, and they turn around and outdo everyone win Win7 and 2008R2..... ....unlike the academic operating systems where often kernels and filesystems and distributions are released with statements given such as "ext4 is now a fully supported file system" http://centos.org/ with severe but not mentioned issues like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=696545 but they are silently given a pass because technically its a WIP.
With hokey pokey dodgy insecure applications like the authentication-less/unencrypted NFS protocol or the openldap that sends passwords clear text over the wire still by default configuration, or I could go on and on... but I know this criticism (like the criticism mentioned above) will be ignored and treated like flame-bait...

And lastly.... MS already has an entry for it.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm%3aWin32%2fMorto.A

What Tea Party Eisenstein said buying m$ anything was cheaper than LibreOffice? I can only imagine the conversation Miss Scott had with his staff:

Miss Scott: anybody ever been to school?
Scribe working feverishly in the back: yes, once.
Miss Scott: tell m$ that you haven't bought a PC in 4 years. m$ will come into your trailer an gut your living room and put in all their products so you can make an informed choice.
Scribe confussed in the back: But I've been out of work for over 3 years?!
Miss Scott: Then you make the best decision you can make.

"Mine!" -- Tea Party slogan

Windows 7 is fine, but once Windows 8 is out, Windows users will experience what Gnome 3 users are experiencing today. Their interface is completely tile based, which is totally different from the start menu that people have been used to since Windows 95. In short, an user experience that is now close to 20 years old is being replaced by this (there was nothing in the cited article that suggested that a Windows 8 user could use, say, the Aero interface, much less the old Windows XP or the 2000 interface.

With KDE, you can at least adopt their 'Redmond' theme that would give you the Windows look & feel. I doubt it'll be do-able w/ WIndows 8. This is what beats me - previously, Microsoft used to allow users to use older interfaces, but it's not sure that they will this time. Also, by having the same interface for both desktop & tablet, MS is doing what GNOME did rather than what KDE did. If that ends the Windows desktop, it'll probably take down the x86 CPU w/ it, since Windows is the only reason the x86 is ubiquitous (or else, everybody would be using ARM or MIPS)

They are probably making lots of money from bored housewifes playing "casual" games -- not from the Real software that was once their core product.

They sued Microsoft ages ago, settled in 2005 for 76mln and bought several online gaming sites from the cash.

Microsoft and RealNetworks Resolve Antitrust Case
Gamehouse

There's not differing branches of the CLR proper, but there is a Client Profile version of the framework which omits some of the standard libraries.

You should try reading the manual. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx It is called Advanced Query Syntax and it is very powerful and easy to learn. Use it like this: ext:.cmd folder:bin filename:*z*

Powerful, perhaps. I suppose if I want to, I can search for businesspostalcode:90210 in my email contacts. (WTF? Why would I be doing this from Explorer? Why do I need to be able to do this from anywhere in Windows other than in the email client, or possibly an address book application??)

Easy to learn? Easier than the old search GUI? I think not. Also, it is restricted to files that have been indexed, unless you set up the 'hidden' search options under Folder Options to search non-indexed locations as well, which loses you the supposed performance benefit...in which case, what's the point?

To be fair you can restrict a drive letter to a specific device.
And mounted drives can be used in windows as well it's even a known work-around for the 26 drive limitation http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889/en-us.

Mount point:
  - in UNIX: /usr
  - in Windows: C:
  - although you can mount volumes at arbitrary mount points in Windows too if you want to: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938934.aspx

Block device identifier:
  - in UNIX: /dev/sda1
  - in Windows: er, can't find an example right now. I have seen it on boot logs when booting's broken.

In fact.. it was added for POSIX compatibility. *gasp*

Ofcource any application that opens a file can deny this behavior passing appropriate flags to the API. Not much the OS can do about it.

(FILE_SHARE_DELETE) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858.aspx

You should try reading the manual. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx It is called Advanced Query Syntax and it is very powerful and easy to learn. Use it like this: ext:.cmd folder:bin filename:*z*

The OS itself permits this. The problem is that setting the correct sharing flags when opening a file is a chore that many developers don't do. This is exacerbated by the fact that Win32 CreateFile() function requires the caller to specify what he wants to permit others to do, not what he wants to prohibit them to do (dwShareMode parameter and FILE_SHARE_* constants). If you're being a good citizen, you should pass FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_DELETE, but it's just so damn simple to pass 0 there - which has the effect of an exclusive file lock - that many do just that. Also, many higher-level frameworks wrapping CreateFile pass zero by default.

In contrast, on Unix, the default is no locking, and you need to explicitly call fcntl(), which most programs don't do. This may mean that some Unix programs are not correctly locking files when they should (and would e.g. crash or misbehave if the file is modified while they're working on it), but in practice it's rare to hit it, while incorrect overboard locking is much more likely to result in user annoyance. In that sense, POSIX API encourages developers to do the thing that is most often right and less annoying to the user.

I don't want to have to install a stupid unlocker program like I do on Windows.

Using such a program has a very good chance of causing random file corruption:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.04.windowsconfidential.aspx

"Forcing a handle closed is equivalent to reaching into a program and freeing some memory. The program thinks the handle (or memory) is still valid and will continue to use it. But since the handle is really free, it will be reused for something else."

I just can't remember what it looks like. I have a vague sense that its a solid green bar (lighter in colour) with something bouncing back & forth, but I might be mixing it up with something else.

You're right. A search on "windows barber pole" led me to the "Marquee" control in Windows forms at MSDN. It looks like blank progress bar where a 20-40% width marker made up of tiny green progress bars slide back and forth like a train. Think about the red scanner sensor effect in front of Kitt, the AI car in Knight Rider. I first saw it used in Netscape 6 for Windows, IIRC.

Kind of! Process Explorer is a SysInternals program. SysInternals is a bunch of power user programs for Windows. While Process Explorer is GUI only you can instead use the command line alternative Handle.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653

Process Explorer can list file handles.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

Here, take a look: Microsoft 2011Q4 Earnings

You'll see both "Intangibles" and "Goodwill" listed on the balance sheet.

HTML 5 local storage worries the hell out of me. It's nothing new though because Microsoft has had an almost identical "userdata persistence" feature since forever. Try this link in IE browser http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/persistence/userData_1.htm

Yet another reason to avoid IE, even in its newer (differently-evil) incarnations.

HTML 5 local storage worries the hell out of me. It's nothing new though because Microsoft has had an almost identical "userdata persistence" feature since forever. Try this link in IE browser http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/persistence/userData_1.htm

A typical Windows user don't even know that they can try to fix shit themselves
A Microsoft evangelist wouldn't acknowledge that Windows needs extra help.

Everybody that uses Windows and could not care less about labels just download sysinternals and it's done with it.

Windows Phone 7 is a completely new OS, no support for previous version, focused on the consumer market.
Windows Embedded Handheld 7 I believe is the old Windows Mobile environment, and will be specific to handheld scanners etc, more Business orientated.
Also Silverlight is coming to Windows Embedded Handheld later next year.