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Vista Can Run Without Activation for a Year
An anonymous reader gave us a heads up on this article for people who like putting things off. It begins: "Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end-run around one of Microsoft's key anti-piracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today. Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely."
Since microsoft have made it perfectly clear that they don't want anyone running their OS without paying, why continue to try, how about giving one of the many shiny desktop linux distros a go instead?
Software Freedom Day!.
Seriously, they do have this little windows update thing that sends out updates, I'm sure it's mostly trivial for them to fix the flaw
Digital? Check. Rights? Check. Management? Sure looks like it to me.
I hate to nitpick too ;)
But...
How much the sun moves depends on your frame of reference. It's cruising round the galactic centre at a fair ol' rate, for example.
Sysadmins are creatures that follow the money trail friend. If the company wants a Win based platform as their workhorse, then the sysadmins are getting certs on that platform. Why on earth would you go through the trouble of learning Linux if what you need is a cert on Win2003 server administration? That sounds like you are setting yourself up for either getting fired for being a complete chuckle head who doesn't know his company's O/S of choice well enough to be able to audit logs or getting passed over on a potential raise or promotion because you couldn't take the time to learn the GD O/S that your company uses and HIRED you to learn and administer for them. Knowing linux commands is definitely a good thing to know, however, for a Windows sysadmin, it is NOT mission critical.
Right now, getting certs on anything non windows related if you are a sysadmin at a company that uses windows is a hobby. Until you get paid for what you know, it is just a hobby. Me? I hate windows and Vista especially. BUT I get paid to administer it so I do what needs to be done to do that well. That includes renewing certs, researching the myriad exploits that are out there everyday, and dealing with crap ware from Redmond. My linux know how is, for the moment, just for my home use and pleasure. Maybe one day I will run into a company or organization that uses a unix based system instead of a doze based system.
EDIT: What I have tried in the past is to approach my CIO with the idea that we could use linux for certain things or resources and each time he doesn't want to hear it. So this forces me to learn what they want me to learn. BECAUSE of that, Linux is just a hobby....for now.
Hm. The last "standards based" printer I bought, an Okidata with PS option, used SCSI as the interface. None of my PCs have SCSI, and it's cheaper and easier for me to buy a new printer than to install a SCSI card. So much for standard printer languages.
Join the window installer's union, where prosperity is a brick throw away!
C:\WINXP>ifconfig
.bashrc.
'ifconfig' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\WINXP>doskey ifconfig=ipconfig
It's never ceased to amaze me the sheer number of workarounds one collects when using or administering Linux systems. To say nothing of the endless variations of config files and values that must be memorised, but change frequently enough (or are different between distros) to remind you that the sum total of your knowledge is mostly a collection of useless trivia.
Yes, that can be made to always run (from the registry), just like yours will run from