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Microsoft Releases Super-Secure XP to US Air Force
Wired is reporting that Microsoft is releasing the most secure version of Windows XP ever created, but only if you are the US Air Force. "The Air Force persuaded Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to provide it with a secure Windows configuration that saved the service about $100 million in contract costs and countless hours of maintenance. At a congressional hearing this week on cybersecurity, Alan Paller, research director of the Sans Institute, shared the story as an template for how the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products. And those could eventually be available to the rest of us. Security experts have been arguing for this "trickle-down" model for years. But rather than wield its buying power for the greater good, the government has long wimped out and taken whatever vendors served them. If the Air Force case is a good judge, however, things might be changing."
Now i see why they disabled autorun. :D
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...what they did to make it secure. Is the default wallpaper black with a big picture of a lock on it?
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yeah, so this prove that Microsoft makes no money fixing their product. They stop when it's good enough to sell I guess.
how the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products.
Stop purchasing Microsoft products. Duh.
But what good is XP without drivers for keyboard, CD/DVD drives, USB ports, or NICs?
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So that means its sitting in a box in the corner under armed guard?
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"How are we to secure this shit." other guy sticks gum in ethernet port, "OS secured"
If they would have used an open source operating system the results would have already been released to the public. Government money spent on an operating system is wasted when the same money contributed to open source helps citizens and indirectly the world.
Giving win7 away for free, and selling 'secure' copies of XP. What better way to fight international open source adoption?
Next most secure ever release for US army will be Windows 95, then Windows 3.11 and at the top of security development ever will be release of MS DOS 1.0.
removing the keyboard.
IE has been replaced with Firefox? Or perhaps it has no network capabilities whatsoever.
Seriously though, if the government purchased software from companies other than Microsoft, we would have much better competition in the marketplace and better alternative software.
Half of writing history is hiding the truth.
So they disabled Autorun and made UAC even more annoying? I love this strategy!
If they can make it more secure, why don't they offer everyone the secure version?
-- these are only opinions and they might not be mine.
'The Air Force, on the verge of renegotiating its desktop-software contract with Microsoft, met with Ballmer and asked the company to deliver a secure configuration of Windows XP out of the box. That way, Air Force administrators wouldnâ(TM)t have to spend time re-configuring, and the department would have uniform software across the board, making it easier to control and maintain patches.'
So if you'd like to do it yourself, you can secure your XP too.
http://nvd.nist.gov/fdcc/fdcc_faq.cfm
I'm not sure super secure is the right word for this version of XP though, given that there are a lot of security features it is missing that Vista, Windows 7 and some other OSes have.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
They shouldn't have had to been persuaded in the first place. MS should provide better defaults from the start.
Is the default security configuration relaxed in order to save tech support costs?
Also they should have used the secure guidelines required by the goevernment anyways - but that would assume that overpaid contractors would actually patch systems and the air force commands would enforce policy ;)
Purchasing power should be used for making a better product, not providing a custom install.
So I have this on good authority from someone who works there... A few years back the VA decided to start migrating from IIS to apache. At the same time they wanted to migrate file servers as well. When MS caught wind of this, they told the powers that be at the VA, "You drop us, and we'll audit you." Part of the contract MS holds with the VA is they're allowed to perform a license audit any time they want. The VA did its own internal investigation and figured out pretty quickly that MS had them, "Over the barrel" so to speak... I don't think the Air Force really wants to use MS stuff, but if they're in a similar situation as the VA, this doesn't bode well for them. I hope the Obama administration catches wind of this and puts a stop to this practice. It isn't right that my tax dollars are being forced into MS's pockets. I think in these rough economic times our government needs to really start exploring more OSS/free solutions out there.
I bet the British wish they had this option before they installed XP on their submarines ;)
so the Air force paid MS to "lock down windows" probably to the STIG.. Instead of doing what DODIIS does and create a Install disk to be installed and tested against, so if you do have to rebuild its there... I thought that MS came up with an affordable PL3 or PL4 System, we have been working with MS for a PL3 system, but it would cost almost a million more than a comparable Trusted Solaris or SELinux solution. and be hell to administer
One reporter was sure about hearing that US Air Force was starting to use XP Windows, and another wasnt so sure about the P there.
While this was an interesting article, the XP and the Vista versions used by the USAF are the same ones used by the general public. The only differences are the security setting, the firewall configuration, and the user configuration. No one is an admin unless they need to be, and no normal day-to-day work is done in admin mode (same thing you do in Linux, no doubt).
I didn't know this article was going to be published, but when I found it, I was not surprised by the comments. I've been working on this program for more than 2 years. Users hate it. Developers loathe it. Network security staff loves it.
Nothing can make Windows (or any other OS) completely secure if it's connected to a network. This is as close as the federal government as ever come.
The airforce and the military in general would do well not to create a monoculture; especially not one based on an arguably insecure operating system that is nearing its end of life. Despite the existence of *nix alternatives that are of comparable ease of use and generally superior security and customization, the military continues to insist that using an old operating system full of flaws and actively exploited by the vast majority of malware is suitable for government use. There is something very wrong here.
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"Having the most secure Windows ever" does not equate to having secure Windows.
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In other cases, systems that were configured securely became vulnerable later (for instance, when a system crashed and original software was re-installed without patches that had been on the system before the crash).
The great windows tradition of "reformat, reinstall" at work. I wonder how long until this secure XP starts suffering the same fate because users find it too restrictive to do what they need.
First Let me just say that all microsoft had to do to provide the airforce with a secure version of XP was to remove all of their built in backdoors and security holes introduced in order to fuel the security industry. Thanks for making millions of jobs for america and making computer users foot the bill!
Second, obviously they can never release this Secure Microsoft program to the public. (That's such an oxymoron I had to type it slowly) Every major public release of every operating system humanity has ever come up with has been hacked, rooted, and otherwise had its security demolished.
Releasing this system to the public will merely create a group of people bent on cracking it and then the air force won't have a secure version anymore. Pardon me for saying it, but I personally wouldn't want the air force telling me I owe them money. Brass knuckles or a baseball bat are bad enough.
Sadly, a Libertarian cannot force his views on another, and freedom cannot spread as does the cancer known as religion.
Don't tell me! They removed the floppy disk drive - yes?
I wonder if instead they slipped-in Vista and called it XP "configured" securely.
It's called running XP in VMware under Linux.
( Also, is it just me or does the "XP" after "Super-Secure" look like a smiley representing someone laughing their guts out? )
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How about "Microsoft Cockpits - USAF Edition". When things go to hell, the HDD pulls the handle on the ejection seat.
This all sounds strangely familiar. Hasn't Microsoft claimed with each OS or Service Pack release that it's "the most secure Windows OS ever"?? (usually to end up putting out patches a few days later)
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It wouldn't matter. Most users blindly run with admin privileges or have a critical application that requires it.
Next up, the Army and Navy. After that, government agencies ... finally, big businesses and the public.
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Microsoft has a slew of people who are more than happy to configure any of their software for you, for a price of course. They're called Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). To your point, the Air Force asked Microsoft to do the configuration prior to sending them the software. Thus you have tons of features that are disabled by default on install. It's not that it's a different version of XP, it's just a reconfigured version.
What I find questionable is the claim in the article that says to the effect "this is the way it should be" with software releases. In other words, all software should come with maximum security enabled (i.e. all or most features disabled by default) and users can pick and choose what they want to turn on. That's fine for corporations where people are paid to configure systems. However, Joe Consumer who doesn't know anything about enabling components or disabling services will find such a system completely unusable. It no longer will "Just Work".
As far as the Air Force is concerned, getting to a consistent image across their systems should have been the goal, regardless of whether they use Microsoft to "secure" XP. It can be done without a Microsoft tech's help, as you point out. Of course, both of those are much easier said than done. Just my 2 cents
Perhaps it's really OpenBSD, but just has a WinXP theme?!?
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Isn't super secure and XP an oxymoron??
Maybe they should have been working with MS for the past year testing and securing a Windows7 desktop config.
I am not a windows admin (thank goodness), but I remember the windows CD comes with tools to write your own install scripts. The 'security features' in this article sound like the results of an install script. Certainly Microsoft didn't make a custom build of XP that they are going to maintain, patch, etc.
So my question is how much did the air force pay microsoft to write them a custom install script? I'm not surprised at all that Balmer jumped at the chance.. it's the sales deal every company dreams of. Sell the same product but charge more money.
.. MS's admission that an insecure OS version was purposefully released to the public?
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Does the Air Force guy on the far right look like Chief Tyrol? I would expect Baltar, but if they're going to send a skin job a Six is preferrable. Or two Eights.
OK, as if, anyone smell BS here, like I do?
Here is a link to a story of how the Air Force wanted to create a wrold botnet to control and send cyber attacks should they need them for global scale cyber warfare.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/15/1654235
My guess is, it was easier to get M$ to bend and rewrite certain things that would allow the Air Force to backdoor into systems, and create a buzz, saying that we now have the best and most secure version of XP EVER!, Because we bought it so much, now it is cheap, and it can be yours for the
4 small payments of.....!!!
If i were to buy into the propaganda, I would say, it would be much cheaper for them to install one PC properly, and close the image a bazillion times as needed and just pay a M$ license fee to do this, why rewrite the app to be more secure, it already is once the updates are all installed anyways...and your disk image would contain also all the rest of the updates for all the other apps your company would use.....
I smell BS, lots of it!
Actually we were pushing a "secure" version of XP before I got out of the AF in 2006. Basically it was just locked down, if you didn't have to have it to do your job that feature/program was disabled by the security settings. I believe the image we pushed was made by the NOSC at the time. It wasn't anything you couldn't do on your own to your home computer.
Can anyone explain why a company with the manpower and wealth of Microsoft can't just ship XP with sane security defaults out of the box for everyone else?
This is the 21st century, right?
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that's not really saying much.
Now lets rephrase that; 15% of the attacks were still successful after a complete lock-down configuration was applied and lots of manpower went into burning custom installation disks and procedures. Is it just me or does anyone else see a problem with this?
The DoS Embassy office and now the Office of Alumni Affairs has been funding open-source development for a few years now. As the contractor, we get their permission to contribute their features back to the main project (in this case, WebGUI). IMHO, the US Department of State is ahead of the curve in Washington DC.
It's really only that secure if it is only connected to the .mil network. Connect it to the internet and poof!
Why bother
Here's a link to the screenshot of the new, super secure Windows XP. ;-)
That's fine for corporations where people are paid to configure systems. However, Joe Consumer who doesn't know anything about enabling components or disabling services will find such a system completely unusable. It no longer will "Just Work".
Maybe Joe / Joan should just learn rather than expecting everything to just work. Or they should pay for the privilege of remaining ignorant and get someone else maintain all the computers they need to use. At least if you disable everything by default it forces them to make this choice rather than currently where they get to just blame everyone else when their identity gets stolen.
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But what good is XP without drivers for keyboard, CD/DVD drives, USB ports, or NICs?
That's not the problem, military computers do sometimes have NICs and data copying equipment on but a very strictly regulated basis and the networks are isolated. What really annoys me about this version of XP is that it finally has drivers for the motion sensor and 7.62 mm GE Minigun that started shipping as a standard issue peripheral with all secure air-force workstations about six months ago. So remember to wear your electronic ID tag at all times.
Since the Air Force has begun the transition to Vista...
So, if you're an organization with a lot of guns and airplanes you can get a better deal from MS?
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Obviously, they didn't remove the networking stack.
Or maybe they did, for the "out of the box configuration."
Personally, I wish one of the Windows install options was "keyboard, mouse, video, installation media drive, installation target drive only" then let me install networking, USB, and non-driver software and stacks on an as-needed basis. This would make it much easier/safer to use Windows in embedded, industrial, and kiosk environments.
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Just put XP on a Time Warner broadband connection. Try downloading anything as big as a virus and you'll violate the TOS.
Have gnu, will travel.
Super-secure windows = having the the power cord unpluged.
I am not a comm guy, but the majority of systems the AF has are simply used by Airmen to access all the "online" crap they keep mitigating to. Most personnel issues are handled online, and most information systems people have to work with are also 'online' or on the AF intranet. Given that your everyday using Airmen does not need anything more than a secure browser, some CBT (computer based training) software and MS Office; disabling anything not related is the best course they can take. Also given that the current system is infected (or was in places) the conflicker worm, and all re=writable media is (was?) banned from the network. This sounds like something that will finally let me get some work done. Your feelings of "Why not use that super secure free Open Source software!!1!!" aside, this could be a large step in increasing the productivity of the AF labor pool. g down. And why pay for something you could build yourself? What person is going to bear the responsibility for anything going down? Far better for ones career to pass the buck to someone else.
if you look closely at the article, this is something that the air force did between 2005-2007. so this is actually old news. 'The Air Force began the project in 2005 and finished installing the new configuration on systems in 2007. In contracts with hardware providers it demanded that vendors pre-load the special Windows XP configuration onto systems before delivering them to the Air Force.'
"Many of the changes were complex and technical, but Gilligan says one of the most important and simplest was an obvious fix to how Windows XP handled passwords. The Air Force insisted the system be configured so administrative passwords were unique, and different from general user passwords, preventing an average user from obtaining administrative privileges. Specifications were added to increase the length and complexity of passwords and expire them every 60 days"
Is there any way of scripting this under Linux so as to equate to this NSA locked down super secure XP
I was hoping to see Balmer yelling "Gilligan!" and hitting him with the little plaque.
And the US Air Force lost this fight.
Because that's more or less what this configuration does to your XP box.
Trust me. Very few of you want this.
And very few of you will want a Government IT job because of shit like this.
Now for the rest of you super paranoid control freaks, have at it...
The Air Force began the project in 2005 and finished installing the new configuration on systems in 2007
... and I usually only need a dozen reboots or so to get a copy of XP installed ...
Wow
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It's an Open Secret that Military Intelligence will use Super-Secure Windows XP! Then they can eat some Jumbo Shrimp while watching Virtual Porn, and when the super security is Found Missing, they will Act Natural about this Minor Crisis.
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While it's true that they disabled Autorun in XP USAF Edition, what makes it truly secure is that they ported the Vista User Account Control to XP for the Air Force.
Here's how it works:
Enemy Pilot wirelessly hacks into Air Force pilot's OS and attempts to send an command to eject the pilot from the plane.
Air Force pilot sees the following message appear on his console:
Pilot clicks on Cancel, and all is good!
However, rumors persist that they did not test the scenario where the pilot actually presses the eject button.
// Top-secret!
// Copyright 2009 Microsoft Corp.
// Windows XP super-secure for USAF
// start bootup
// show shell
#include <linux.h>
int main(){
ShowWindowsLoading();
LoadKernel(linux);
ShowGUI();
}
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I haven't read the article, but I can almost guess what this secure XP consists of..
DOS 3.2
DosShell
And yes, I know I'm dating myself on that one, but my EDLIN is not working so I gotta go DEBUG A:\slashdot.exe.
"The NSA got together with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Center for Internet Security .. It then took two years for the Air Force to catalog and test all the software"
How much would it cost the average company to hire on the equivalent of the NSA, the NIoST, the DISA, the CfIS and the US Air Force - and spend TWO YEARS in locking down the network. Anyone care to propose a tender?
A FOAF's worked on a project aimed at 'securing XP'. I do not know if it was this one.
This friend asked the programmer if he had heard of SELinux. He said, "What?"
Surreal.
"the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products" - really?
There needs to be more motivation for them to release products that are more than 'good enough'?
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Joe Consumer who doesn't know anything about enabling components or disabling services will find such a system completely unusable. It no longer will "Just Work".
Mac OS X has file sharing and printer sharing and network sharing and remote connections and remote desktop and ... all disabled by default.
Joe Consumer can enable any particular service by clicking a checkbox. The defaults for the service when enabled are sane. If Joe Consumer wants to change the defaults, doing so is (mostly) straight-forward. If there is a setting which might lead to insecurity, there is an explanatory note associated with the setting. If Joe Consumer changes a setting to a value which is less secure, there is a warning dialog.
Mac OS X isn't perfect and there are lots of things about Apple to criticize, but with sane defaults and a straight-forward user interface with meaningfully-named options with English explanations, it can "Just Work".
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The Air Force has put out the order that all systems, except those exempt for specific reasons, have to have Vista installed by the late fall of this year.
They are not longer building standardized XP desktops, and the only special systems that could use this would have to be recertified to do so.
Here at US Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force base in Omaha, Nebraska (a joint command), we don't need no stinkin' Windows XP! Why, Win2k is just fine for all us folk here. In fact, we are going to SKIP windows XP and move straight to Windows Vista last year... uh I mean this year (major roll-out keeps getting pushed back-can't understand why). Yep! In the works right now. What's that? Win 7 is coming out this year? Nah. We don't need that either. We'll go to Vista instead! Keep in mind that 98% of all the machines there are still on Win2k and the Vista migration still hasn't happened in force, but there are no plans yet to skip Vista and wait for Windows 7. My guess is that they already bought the licenses for Vista, but I can neither confirm or deny that.
Remember when MS was blowing their horn about getting a "level 4" [some such] from the DoD for NT handling everything the threw at it.
Then when MS was packing up to go home, they held up the network cable and said "oh, how silly of us, never mind".
This does not surprise me since governments are MS #2 customer, right behind themselves.
Do the math, all those VAR's, anti-? companies, etc, yep, "our customers wanted this"-----right.
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Hey USAF! If you can't see the source code and see the patches for later versions, you can't have any hope of securing the system in the long run.
The Microsoft Government Security Program does allow review of source code.
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... that the Air Force would use Windows at all.
If I were a government (or a head of government), I would NEVER allow my military or important offices use proprietary software! I want the source code in my hand, period.
What the hell happened to our Government? When did it become such a circus of morons?
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As for myself, I find this later-day example of Microsoft's performance as a naval subcontractor rather more to the point: USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)
"If they can make it more secure, why don't they offer everyone the secure version?" - by slashkitty (21637) on Friday May 01, @02:30PM (#27790685) Homepage
You can do it, yourself, is why... &, here is how:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (&, beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=205e8f8ebee94af1add5ec477faf8a70&showtopic=2662
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It's doable, w/ about 1-2 hours, TOPS, of your time, in order to "security-harden" a Windows NT-based OS of modern variety, yourself... that's how/why!
A QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE THAT I KNOW IS NOT TRUE:
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"The only problem is, you have to join the Air Force to get it."
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How do I know? Besides the results I have seen for myself, paying clients, friends & family? Well, here is a quote from an end-user that applied that guide above in the 1st url I posted, as evidence thereof:
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I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point.
So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008.
Great stuff!
My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads.
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A linux distro rebranded as Windows XP.
I thought Windows 98 was the most secure version of Windows ever created! Do you mean to tell me that those bits of text that were displayed when I installed the OS were lying to me?
Somehow this reminds me to the windows 95 installation process... which told you that it had become extremely secure...
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>> the most secure version of Windows XP
Isn't that an oxymoron? Kinda like dry water?
Microsoft is not "releasing" it, they already did. The article says the process was mentioned. The Air Force is already moving to Vista.
"Nothing can make Windows (or any other OS) completely secure if it's connected to a network" - by PapaSmurph (249554) on Friday May 01, @02:37PM (#27790805) Homepage
THE MILITARY HAS GOTTEN 'SECURITY-HARDENED BUILDS' OF WINDOWS, before (circa 2004 in fact), see here:
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23 November 2004
US military gets its own secure version of Windows
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=2666
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& they have to, as you can all see, based on this report, yet again...
Makes sense though - because new exploits + vulnerabilities arise, & people LEARN HOW TO "GET AROUND" RESTRICTIONS, though, many times to their OWN dismay!
SO, that "all said & aside", & what I quoted from you? YES - I'm inclined to agree!
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Still, I have evidences of folks that CAN "follow rules" (for their own good no less), & I provide THEIR results (1 of them) below, for "contrast & compare" type scenarios vs. my buddies' experience above... This guide below, really works (&, you don't have to be in the US Military to get it, you can do it, yourself):
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (&, beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=205e8f8ebee94af1add5ec477faf8a70&showtopic=2662
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It's doable, w/ about 1-2 hours, TOPS, of your time, in order to "security-harden" a Windows NT-based OS of modern variety, yourself... that's how/why!
A QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE THAT I KNOW IS NOT TRUE:
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"The only problem is, you have to join the Air Force to get it."
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How do I know, besides my actually SEEING the results I have seen for myself, paying clients, friends & family?
Well, here is a quote from an end-user that applied that guide above in the 1st url I posted, as evidence thereof:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=7de5812b7341873cc5e6ee9582f21bf9&t=28430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my ho
Persian Project Management Software as a Service
Now just imagine what that $100 Million would accomplish if spent contributing to a free platform to which they could "own" the code.
Let's see, they saved ~$100M on 5 years on JUST MICROSOFT LICENSES; so lets estimate its a savings of 10% (probably less) so they were spending about $1B for COTS software over 5 years, now they are only spending $750M.
$750M would pay 1500 employees $100K/Yr for that same 5 years. At the end of 5 years, a 1500 person development team (with help from the public) would have turned out one hell of a secure linux/BSD distro. After that they could eliminate most of those positions, and stick with auditing community contributions for security reasons.
Why the hell any agency with the resources of the US Government (or many large corporations) don't contribute to and use free software makes no sense to me. It seems like only a handful of major companies and governments are pushing for open operating systems and desktop software... but they all spend millions on web development and keep pumping money to Microsoft year after year.
I would imagine if 5 of the top 10 governments were to get together and pool 50% of their software licensing budgets over the next 5 years, they could replace 90% of their commercial software with open alternatives that meet their needs; nearly eliminating the cost of software licensing forever. The financial benefits are nothing compared to the security and flexibility gained by owning the OS.
It's sad that what MS did for the USAF is being touted as a "good thing"... For the amount of money that MS is making off our government I think anyone who has ever put their life on the line for our country should be entitled to Free BJ's from MS execs in Redmond. And now MS is being made to look good.
I think the bigger story here is that the USAF was being charged over $100M in excess licensing fees because it had multiple contracts with Microsoft. And that Microsoft has been giving their largest customers a generic, bug ridden, POS OS and not been willing to respond to their largest customer's needs until now.
What do you bet this is just a tactic to prevent the USAF from deploying their own OS as described above.
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
"My guess would be" - by Keruo (771880) on Friday May 01, @02:22PM (#27790545)
Something along the lines of this:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (&, beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=205e8f8ebee94af1add5ec477faf8a70&showtopic=2662 [tcmagazine.com]
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It's doable, w/ about 1-2 hours, TOPS, of your time, in order to "security-harden" a Windows NT-based OS of modern variety, yourself... that's how/why!
A QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE THAT I KNOW IS NOT TRUE:
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"The only problem is, you have to join the Air Force to get it."
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SO - How do I know, besides my actually SEEING the results I have seen for myself, paying clients, friends & family?
Well, here is a quote from an end-user that applied that guide above in the 1st url I posted, as evidence thereof:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=7de5812b7341873cc5e6ee9582f21bf9&t=28430&page=3 [xtremepccentral.com]
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
THRONKA@xtremepccentral.com
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Where even "normal end-users" can get results, like that, by taking 1-2 hrs. of their time, TOPS, to apply some settings given to they by CIS Tool (a multiplatform gauge/benchmark of std. industry-based best practices for each OS platform tested)
"Nuff said"...
APK
P.S.=> Following the security hardening guidelines provided by NIST can do very nearly the same thing, so, I imagine a lot of that & what is in the security guide I authored up there in the 1st URL in 2007-2008 is what has been applied to it (vs. the easily mass-deployed stock/oem std. model of XP most folks get)... and?
THE MILITARY HAS GOTTEN 'SECURITY-HARDENED BUILDS' OF WINDOWS, before (circa 2004 in fact), see here:
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US military gets its own secure version of Windows:
23 November 2004
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=2666 [techworld.com]
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& they have to, as you can all see, based on this report, yet again...
Makes sense though - because new exploits + vulnerabilities arise, & people LEARN HOW TO "GET AROUND" RESTRICTIONS, though, many times to their OWN dismay... apk
Here at US Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force base in Omaha, Nebraska (a joint command), we don't need no stinkin' Windows XP! Why, Win2k is just fine for all us folk here. In fact, we are going to SKIP windows XP and move straight to Windows Vista last year... uh I mean this year (major roll-out keeps getting pushed back-can't understand why). Yep! In the works right now. What's that? Win 7 is coming out this year? Nah. We don't need that either. We'll go to Vista instead! Keep in mind that 98% of all the machines there are still on Win2k and the Vista migration still hasn't happened in force, but there are no plans yet to skip Vista and wait for Windows 7. My guess is that they already bought the licenses for Vista, but I can neither confirm or deny that.
Veritas patesco per quaestio questio. Truth is revealed through questions.
Our military using Windows? Doesn't make me feel secure!
it may be, it just might not be compatible or usable by the average user.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
My Windows wallpaper for the last few years has been a MacOS startup screen. People who see it do occasionally ask me when Apple made a thin black laptop (it's an IBM T41) or if I'm running a hacked MacOS.
It does seem to have some security implications, though - something seems to have locked it into place, so even if I update the wallpaper using the normal mechanisms, the MacOS image gets restored whenever I mess with screen resolutions (e.g. plug into the LCD at work...) It happened around the time my corporate IT department locked in the screensavers with an unchangeable 10-minute timeout and password prompt.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
This is where you trade money for intelligence and/or diligence. Either you pay someone to do it or figure out how to do it yourself. If you're stupid AND poor, well, good luck with that.
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza..
Todos mis movimientos están friamente calculados
Window XP Pro 100% secure would mean NSA not to have access to computers world wild... do you really think that they want that?? Never! That confiker guy, the day NSA says it stops it will REALLY stop... but the president must say to NSA fu*k that guy down immediately.
4. shred 35 times the all disk and melt it away for your breakfast, here you have a secure Windows PC :P
This may just be a ploy to get people to attack it to find the 15% where there are filters in place to capture anomalous data from certain or all sources and send it to live security auditors who will instantly issue commands to reverse any threat action.
Please explain to me why I've been running a stock (fully patched) Windows Server 2003 Enterprise installation for three years straight, have never reinstalled the OS, and have not experienced any of the dreaded "Windows is Getting Too Old" speed decreases?
No fancy guide is required to get this performance. It's attainable out of the box. All that's needed is -as you say- user education. Don't install crapware and you're done!
Also, your guide? It's not hardening.
Check out projects like Hardened Gentoo and Hardened Solaris. No amount of registry tweaking and software uninstallation can make Windows match up to the results from either of those projects.
Super-Secure?
Knowing Microsoft, I'll bet their 'Super Secure' version is the equivalent of installing a cheap Chinese-made deadbolt over a spackle-encrusted lock that has already been kicked open.....
"Pssst! The key is under the mat!"
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
There's a reason why most IT professionals prefer centralized installation systems over manually walking to each of the systems that they manage and installing each piece of software a machine at a time. Distributing dynamic things such as hosts files through forum posts is generally a *really* bad plan. DNS changes *Very* quickly. Forum posts (especially identical ones spread throughout tens of forums) do not.
If you're going to be a saviour of the computer world, get a web page, post what you have to say there, link to it, and keep it up to date. If your advice is good, you'll gain pagerank faster than just spraying copypasta across the web.
The Air Force has yet to explain who, if anyone, authorized the bombing of a Redmond, WA software company by a squadron of B-52s.
So what torrent site can I get this on? It's not on the pirate bay. :(
Or just the command line option?
Folks, they're not using XP (or any Windows for that matter) for the things that really need to be secure. They are probably using a variant of BSD or Unix for those things.
I would guess they are using XP for the masses where information security is impossible anyway.
Without networking, USB, and keyboard: yes, otherwise how is that possible............
Erm. I'm ashamed of myself.
/. Where the truth
"Please explain to me why I've been running a stock (fully patched) Windows Server 2003 Enterprise installation for three years straight, have never reinstalled the OS, and have not experienced any of the dreaded "Windows is Getting Too Old" speed decreases?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Friday May 01, @08:50PM (#27794633)
This isn't about speed really, it's about securing a system by the guidelines set in CIS Tool (a security compliance audit basically, based on "industry best practices") -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=f782d2c005c8e9d388e21ba0d2671695&showtopic=2662 (although you will notice more online IF you apply certain points from it, mainly, a custom HOSTS file)...
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"No fancy guide is required to get this performance. It's attainable out of the box" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Friday May 01, @08:50PM (#27794633)
Once more? It's NOT about speed (though you WILL see more online, if you follow all/each of its points)...
APK
anyone got a torrent file or link?
" DNS changes *Very* quickly." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Friday May 01, @09:47PM (#27794995)
That has NOTHING to do with an adbanner, bad adbanner, or bad website blocking custom HOSTS files!
(That was the main reason & purpose of noting them in my guide)...
E.G./I.E.-> HOSTS files that use 0, 0.0.0.0, or 127.0.0.1 (no DNS server broadcasts those, mind you) to block out known bad adbanners, bad websites, etc. et al!
( & the security portion of using a HOSTS file is largely that, not "hardcoding" in your favorite websites into it so you avoid DNS round-trip lookups of URL-to-IP address resolutions )...
AND, as far as "DNS Servers changing", AND, their reliability for URL-to-IP address resolutions?
(BOY, do they... )
See here:
Hackers hijack DNS records of high profile New Zealand sites
April 21st, 2009
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3185
(That's VERY recent, & only a SINGLE EXAMPLE of "DNS poisoning", & that goes on quite a lot (especially the past 6 yrs. or so now)).
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"There's a reason why most IT professionals prefer centralized installation systems over manually walking to each of the systems that they manage and installing each piece of software a machine at a time." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Friday May 01, @09:47PM (#27794995)
The guide deals in things that can be "mass deployed" via Group Policies (or via logon scripts via .reg file merges, or HOSTS file copies to local machine nodes on a network, in the same manner)...
So - how is this not the same? The guide shows a user on a single machine how to do this (& it states it is geared to single machines @ home online on the internet, though it also warns what to do, or not to do, on a LAN/WAN (especially an AD one)).
(E.G.-> You'd "prototype" a single machine with diff. wares a particular company uses OR custom develops, & then deploy the hardened settings across the rest once you have a proven, working, & useable setup)
APK
P.S.-> The bottom-line however, IS that the guide's recommendations are largely "industry based practices" for the OS tested per CIS Tool, AND, that it just works!... an example thereof:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=7de5812b7341873cc5e6ee9582f21bf9&t=28430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
THRONKA@xtremepccentral.com
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apk
"Also, your guide? It's not hardening." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Friday May 01, @08:57PM (#27794675)
I'll have to disagree with you: It absolutely is (considering you are, for example, "fortifying" a file, like a custom HOSTS file, the registry, & others vs. known bad sites etc.) - &, especially when it gets others w/ results like this:
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=7de5812b7341873cc5e6ee9582f21bf9&t=28430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free! I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill. I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get. He said good point. So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008. Great stuff! My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads. APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easier. Sandboxing was great. Getting my host file updated, setting services to system service, rather than system local. (except AVG updater, needed system local)"
THRONKA@xtremepccentral.com
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It most certainly is a form of "system hardening".
(Especially considering it's not just registry reconfigurations & such, but far more!)
AND? Hey - It just works!
(& in my P.S. below is another example of that & how/why)
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"No amount of registry tweaking and software uninstallation can make Windows match up to the results from either of those projects." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Friday May 01, @08:57PM (#27794675)
OH, I "beg to differ", & so does NASDAQ!
(NASDAQ sees 99.999%/fabled "5-9's" of 'uptime' that Windows Server 2003 + SQLServer 2005 have achieved for NASDAQ (The world's largest electronically traded stock exchange & a very high "tpm" environs), since 2005, on the "industrial front", for nearly 5 yrs. now)
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NASDAQ Migrates to SQL Server 2005:
http://windowsfs.com/enews/nasdaq-migrates-to-sql-server-2005
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&, also see here ->
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NASDAQ Performance Statistics
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=MarketShare
"NASDAQ is renowned for its high performance technology and has proven reliability with 99.999+% uptime. Whats more, firms count on NASDAQ for unsurpassed speed and tested capacity to execute trades quickly and efficiently."
APK
P.S.=> Again, & I have noted this in other posts here?
My buddy Jack (who has a "penchant for Pr0n" & the indiscriminate usage of javascript on EVERY site he visits (bad move, because today that is one of the MAIN "delivery/attack mechanisms" used in these things being put on others' machines)) went from literally getting 200++ malwares on his system per WEEK, down to MAYBE 1-2 a year &, the couple he gets, are a result of his use of javascript (& he knows + admits it)... after his application of my guide's steps.
Thus, once more, via such an example, albeit again (like THRONKA's written results above) from an "end-user" this time (not NASDAQ's fine example on the industrial front)?
It works! apk
Computer security is the same way. You *can* cracl WPA(1/2) encryption, but if you neighbour has his connection open (or is using WEP), you are not likely to become a target.
That's why I use MAC filtering instead of WEP or WPA(1/2). It's much more secure! ;)
[UID-HeinzIntel]
WoooOOo Sounds like Linux got an XP gui Skin.
Maybe they should have skinned Unix instead. Then maybe it wouldn't be a sad 85% secure.. Closer to 100% perhaps?
(Sarcastic-wise Speaking)
BTW - In reply to TimeOday: nothing is 100% secure, if it appears to be so, its insecurities are actually just 100% unknown. ( For the moment )
" DNS changes *Very* quickly." -
That has NOTHING to do with an adbanner, bad adbanner, or bad website blocking custom HOSTS files!
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Right... Spammers and advert hosts can't use DNS to change the hostname that they use to host their crap with a moment's notice.
(That was the main reason & purpose of noting them in my guide)...
E.G./I.E.-> HOSTS files that use 0, 0.0.0.0, or 127.0.0.1 (no DNS server broadcasts those, mind you)
Wait, what? You're telling me that IANA doesn't hand out IP addresses that are invalid or reserved for local use to Internet-facing hosts? You *don't* say!
to block out known bad adbanners, bad websites, etc. et al!
See my initial paragraph. Morever, you're doing the internet a disservice by spraying copypasta across the web. What happens when some spammer registers badnews.forumhost.com and starts spreading the worm du jour from it?
How is some clueluess user going to find the very latest copy of the hosts file that you're distributing when you've put several hundred different revisions across several thousand different forums? Is he going to go on a vision quest to compare post dates to be sure that he has the very latest one? That's why I said this:
There's a reason why most IT professionals prefer centralized installation systems over manually walking to each of the systems that they manage and installing each piece of software a machine at a time.
I guess that I was too subtle for you. Would you recommend to your 3000-identical-Windows-machines-at-a-site clients that they install the latest .MSI of EnterpriseApp v4.0 by burning a disc, taking it to each computer -one at a time-, logging in with a root account, open Explorer, double click the .MSI, answer the installer's questions, wait for the installer to complete, and move on to the next machine?
Your practice of distributing identical hosts files across dozens of forums is analogous to this inefficient system administration method. How do you plan to update all of those forum posts when a new advertising server starts up? Do you intend to leave stale copies of time-critical information up for clueless users to stumble across and use?
Why don't you emulate the practices that you claim to preach? Set up a web site. Post your advice and wares there. Link to it in forums. When the situation on the Internet changes, you can react to it immediately and be the saviour of the internet, rather than one of those who is leading clueless users astray with reams of out-of-date information.
You can't answer my question, can you?
What if I told you that not only have I not seen the "Windows is Getting Old" slow-down, I haven't had a malware infection, ever? [0]
This is on a stock -fully patched- installation of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise. No fancy guides or tools are needed to achieve this result, it's attainable out of the box. Nothing more than plain-old user education is required.
t's NOT about speed (though you WILL see more online, if you follow all/each of its points)...
Heh. You you can install NoScript or use Google Chrome and immediately see more speed online. No fancy guide or tool required.
[0] I posit that much of the "Windows is Getting Old" effect is directly related to malware installed on the system.
Why couldn't they release this as Windows 7 instead of what they are releasing which is essentially Vista SP 3?
"You can't answer my question, can you?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @02:32PM (#27799841)
I did, via the results others have been experiencing, quoting them & providing a url to said quote, which is a lot more reliable than your personal "anecdotal experience"... because, if your method was always the case, then nearly no computer repair shops would be in business (& many spend large tracts of their days doing virus/spyware removals etc. et al).
Sure, I can use "personal anecdotal experience" too, just like you, also:
E.G.-> I also have had it this way for over 6++ yrs. straight on this system, no infestations whatsoever, & 4++ more on the system before it as well! That's A DECADE OF SOLID UNINFECTED UPTIME HERE... have you even been USING COMPUTERS THAT LONG?
(That's ON TOP of my showing you users that for more than 1-2 yrs. now experiencing the same in my last post!)
AND?
Maybe you have experienced that no infections/infestations, maybe you have not... who knows?
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"Heh. You you can install NoScript or use Google Chrome and immediately see more speed online. No fancy guide or tool required." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @02:32PM (#27799841)
I recommend that in my guide, but, I also tell others how it's done in other browsers AND I provide a HOSTS files that covers ALL/EVERY webbound program you have (unlike plugins/addons specific to a certain browser as well - though I do recommend SOME for layered security purposes).
I never mentioned a "Windows is getting old" effect, so... no need to cover THAT, from you.
APK
P.S.=> Newsflash: Ion.SIMIAN.c, give up already - you weren't born w/ the intelligence to "get the better of me"... & I severely doubt you've accomplished 1/10th of what I have in it over the past 16++ yrs. as a paid professional in this field (ranging from network admin/engineer to programmer-analyst/software engineer)... apk
"Right... " - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @02:20PM (#27799759)
Yes, I am, as-per-usual, especially when I showed you how often DNS servers get hacked (just recently in New Zealand last week, see below - would you like a few more of the same, in those types of evidences?)
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Hackers hijack DNS records of high profile New Zealand sites
April 21st, 2009
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3185
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I suggest you read that, again!
(Mainly, because that is EXACTLY what "DNS Poisoning" is about - redirecting users to a bogus website for say, www.slashdot.org, to their site loaded with malscripted traps)
Man - At this point? I strongly suspect you do NOT know what you are talking about (& are trying to "save face" here @ this point now, with double-talk b.s.!)
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"How is some clueluess user going to find the very latest copy of the hosts file that you're distributing when you've put several hundred different revisions across several thousand different forums?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @02:20PM (#27799759)
There is only 1, & they email me for it (otherwise, they get an older one that is VERY tiny, no need to disable the DNS client either since it is small, & it's only for speed really, by blocking adbanners in that tiny older one)...
I.E.-> My latest one is updated, daily, from numerous reputable sources (ZDNet's Dancho Danchev, StopBadware.org, SRI, & even Spybot "Search & Destroy" lists, to name only some of them)
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"Would you recommend to your 3000-identical-Windows-machines-at-a-site clients that they install the latest .MSI of EnterpriseApp v4.0 by burning a disc, taking it to each computer -one at a time-, logging in with a root account, open Explorer, double click the .MSI, answer the installer's questions, wait for the installer to complete, and move on to the next machine?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @02:20PM (#27799759)
Man, either YOU cannot read, or you don't understand what I noted last post:
LOGON SCRIPTS can merge .reg files settings for reconfiguration, via batch .bat or .cmd files...
OR
Group Policies via AD distribution can do much of this as well, and for different areas/things!
(Have you ever done anything of this nature as a network administrator or tech? Apparently not!)
APK
P.S.=>
"you're doing the internet a disservice by spraying copypasta across the web." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @02:20PM (#27799759)
This guy says QUITE otherwise, take a read (opinions vary, lol):
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http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=813d47fae9640bf0469914bb62faf019&t=28430&page=3
"Its 2009 - still trouble free!
I was told last week by a co worker who does active directory administration, and he said I was doing overkill.
I told him yes, but I just eliminated the half life in windows that you usually get.
He said good point.
So from 2008 till 2009. No speed decreases, its been to a lan party, moved around in a move, and it still NEVER has had the OS reinstalled besides the fact I imaged the drive over in 2008.
Great stuff!
My client STILL Hasn't called me back in regards to that one machine to get it locked down for the kid. I am glad it worked and I am sure her wallet is appreciated too now that it works. Speaking of which, I need to call her to see if I can get some leads.
APK - I will say it again, the guide is FANTASTIC! Its made my PC experience much easie
Oh, hang on. You missed my previous post. Let me repeat it.
Oh wait... rather than repeating my previous post and duplicating a lot of effort and wasting loads of my time, let me provide you with a link to a centralized location on the web that is already hosting this information.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27799759
Here's something for you to think about...
I came by the parent comment via AlterSlash. This means that the comment you posted to was of sufficient quality to rise out of the background noise of the general /. commenting public.
Noone but me has replied to your comments.
None of your comments here have been up-modded.
What does this say about the quality of your advice?
"Mmmhmm. You're not patching security holes or removing vulnerable services in your "guide"" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:52PM (#27801155)
On services trimming? First of all, I wrote THE OLDEST/FIRST guides for NT-based OS online, back as far as 1998 & for NTCompatible.com as "ARTICLE #1" there (& entire sites sprung up from THAT idea, "Black Viper" anyone? Proof of that alone is from NEOWIN (Who also took my guide to their site in 2001, FROM NTCompatible.com, verbatim, here -> http://www.neowin.net/news/main/01/11/29/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text )
Secondly - My guide DOES tell people how to "cut off" vulnerable services (by patching)
YOU obviously haven't read it... &, are clearly talking out your behind.
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"Also, you can't *secure* access controls in a Windows system. Access controls are an operating system level function" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:52PM (#27801155)
Man, you really DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, do you?
The registry &/or filesystem have a very "fine-grained" native & built in "ACL" (access control lists) for both, by groups &/or users, & you can exploit/access/use them in regedit.exe + explorer.exe, quite easily (& my guide goes thru it, + how simple it is).
"The only way that you can secure them is to harden the OS itself. Projects like grsecurity and SELinux do just that. There are no such projects in the Windows world." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:52PM (#27801155)
Ugh, You've GOT to be kidding me w/ that statement above!
AGAIN:
NT ACL's COMES NATIVE TO NT-BASED OS', & beats the hell out of chmod *NIX normal permissions alone (& ACL's on NT-based OS & controlling them? Heh, also isn't "grafted on" as a "kernel hooking" system as is SeLinux or AppArmor for Linux by the by)...
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"Your definitions suck." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:52PM (#27801155)
They seemed to shut you up on what "security hardening" is defined as though, & this is the best you have vs. them... & they weren't even mine, another mistake on YOUR part!
APK
P.S.=> Keep it up Ion.SIMIAN.c - you're failing on each point you make, post by post, all the more... how much more can you take (lol, how much more CAN I, before I die laughing!)... apk
"Yes, I have. I've been using computers since the Tandy 1000 TL. That one was produced in... 1986, 1987 or so." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:43PM (#27801111)
And, evidently NOT doing much with them either... &, you surely showed your behind about ACL's in NT-based OS in your other replies too (you messed up hugely, lol, give up already).
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"Point me to a place in any of your forum postings where you say the equivalent of "See here for a hosts file that is not out of date." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:43PM (#27801111)
Boy, you either have not read it, or are dyslexic... see here ->
As I said before?
My HOSTS file's updated from sources like:
Stopbadware.org
SRI
SpyBot "S&D"
Dancho Danchev ZDNet Blog
PLUS - Other reputable HOSTS file shown on WIKIPEDIA's entry for HOSTS files
AND, in my posts here I said that Folks can email me for a current one, & many do -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=8b87fa331607ccbe8078215f389936c2&showtopic=2662&st=0&start=0
(See post #6 there, dyslexic blind man)
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"You and I have already talked about your accomplishments" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:43PM (#27801111)
Yes, & you have NOTHING like them (lol, so much for your WASTING TIME on PC's, all these years), see below... again!
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"You've demonstrated none of the knowledge that you claim to have." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:43PM (#27801111)
Funny, these say otherwise (&, they carry a lot more "weight" than your mere unqualified opinion):
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
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"Nuff said", except for the quote from Shelley's poem & the film, "The Watchmen", below... lol!
P.S.=> "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" ... apk
Quoting you in my subject line above, & answering:
"None of your comments here have been up-modded." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @06:09PM (#27801257)
Oh no?
How about nearly 100 times here on this website (ranging from +1 thru +5 max)
(Pay attention to the 4's (top one) & 3's (top one & one a few below it about my guide))...
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+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170545&cid=14210206
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175774&cid=14610147
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26975021
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26974507
+4 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=13531817
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167071&cid=13931198
+3 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
(LOOK @ THIS NEXT ONE BELOW, ION.simiAn.c, lol)
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155172&cid=13007974
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166850&cid=13914137
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175857&cid=14615222
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=273931&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=20291847
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1021873&cid=25681261
+2 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
(LOOK @ THIS ONE NEXT BELOW ALSO, ION.simiAn.C, lol)
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158231&cid=13257227
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158310&cid=13263898
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=158231&cid=13257227
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=290711&cid=20506147
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=245971&cid=19760473
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=416702&cid=22026982
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174759&cid=14538593
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=233779&cid=19020329
(THIS ONE NEXT BELOW IS ABOUT MY GUIDE, modded up, no less... lol, despite your b.s. it never gets "modded up")
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&cid=25093275
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=978035&cid=25176955
"Prove it. Don't just quote from or link to some web page. Prove that you wrote it." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:17PM (#27803057)
WoW... you are BLIND, DYSLEXIC, or just stupid (or, trying to 'save face' here after all your blatant screwups anyone can read which I quoted, & CORRECTED YOU ON, all thru this exchange in my posts (since I quote points you were in error on)).
A quote from that page will do it (you just skim, shoot your mouth off, & keep SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT, lol, while sticking your foot IN YOUR MOUTH):
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http://www.neowin.net/news/main/01/11/29/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text
"This is quite a read, so print yourself a copy or download to your PDA, and be amazed at what you'll learn from this collection of information that APK has gathered and put in one place
"You have never looked at the way SeLinux or grsecurity actually function, have you?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:17PM (#27803057)
Question is, have YOU?
SeLinux was built in part, for example, to addon ACL's (THE VERY THING WE WERE DISCUSSING NO LESS) TO LINUX & you said nothing like that existed on NT-based OS' & I proved you wrong there easily... @ both the registry AND filesystems levels!
PROOF?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux
(Look up "Mandatory Access Control" there, it is the analog to NT-based OS' "ACL's")
AND, again - That NT-based OS' have had NATIVELY @ the filesystem &/or registry level, for years since its inception in beta in 1992 & Linux had to have "grafted on" by the NSA, because they knew the value of that level of control...
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"I'm a programmer" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:17PM (#27803057)
Again, apparently?
YOU'RE NOT A VERY GOOD ONE!
(that... OR, you just THINK you're a programmer)
E.G.-> You try to "put me down" for the list of accomplishments I posted here again for you, when you try this... & yet YOU HAVE NONE LIKE THEM?
Thus?
I.E.-> Who are YOU, to put me down then?
(You're clearly NOT my "superior" in this art & science by any means, because others would have noticed your skills &/or accomplishments by now, after 22+ yrs. on YOUR PART around these systems. Nobody has apparently, done this for you... gee, I "wonder why"? NOT)...
Give me a break, give us ALL a break - if you're "SO GOOD" that you can put me down, one would think YOU HAVE DONE BETTER & COULD EVIDENCE IT!
(Clearly you cannot, because YOU HAVE NOT, & thus? Aren't one to put me down!)
APK
P.S.=> KEEP IT UP, Ion.SIMIAN.c: You're ruining your own reputation here no doubt, by all the mistakes you are making... it's almost funny, but now that I realize I am NOT talking to a "seasoned pro" here (especially after all of your screwups here)? I am not even laughing anymore, @/by this point! apk
"You don't understand what the phrase "securing access controls" implies" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:26PM (#27803103)
YOU had best learn what MAC (mandatory access control) is on Linux, for 1 thing (& how it is just like NT-based ACL's (access control lists))...
SeLinux was built in part, for example, to addon ACL's (THE VERY THING WE WERE DISCUSSING NO LESS) TO LINUX & you said nothing like that existed on NT-based OS' & I proved you wrong there easily... @ both the registry AND filesystems levels this exists on NT-based OS since their inception & part of how they obtain an "Orange Book" C2 level of security!
PROOF?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinux [wikipedia.org]
(Look up "Mandatory Access Control" there, because they are the analog on Linux (SeLinux to be SPECIFIC) to NT-based OS' "ACL's")
AND, again - That NT-based OS' have had NATIVELY @ the filesystem &/or registry level, for years since its inception in beta in 1992 & Linux had to have "grafted on" by the NSA, because they knew the value of that level of control, for purposes of security on an Operating System...
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"My challenge to you to prove that you've done any of that is here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803057 " - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:26PM (#27803103)
Yes, and I don't think you will LIKE the answer too much, as it is shown where I wrote that, when, & it is credited to ME (APK)... from nearly 13 yrs. ago in fact, on securing AND SPEEDING UP NT-based OS!
Here it is, again, as PROOF (& my initials are there as usual):
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http://www.neowin.net/news/main/01/11/29/apk-a-to-z-internet-speedup--security-text [neowin.net]
"This is quite a read, so print yourself a copy or download to your PDA, and be amazed at what you'll learn from this collection of information that APK has gathered and put in one place"
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(Man - you just skim, shoot your mouth off, & keep SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FOOT, lol, while sticking your foot IN YOUR MOUTH (picture that)):
So - How's your foot (and the "bitter taste of defeat"), taste? Because that is around the 5th or 6th screwup you've made here by now...
APK
P.S.=>
"Ah. You are correct." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @11:26PM (#27803103)
Yes, & on every point I quote + CORRECT you on... every time - again, keep it up... it's YOUR rep here, not mine, that you're ruining man... apk
This is quite a read, so print yourself a copy or download to your PDA, and be amazed at what you'll learn from this collection of information that APK has gathered and put in one place
That's not proof of anything. I don't have proof of your identity. On the Internet, noone knows that you're a dog. For all you know, I'm the brains behind every commenter on /. besides yourself.
Question is, have YOU?
SeLinux was built in part, for example, to addon ACL's
Aye, I have. And aye, this is correct. The point in question is your lack of understanding of how SELinux interfaces with the Linux kernel.
...you said nothing like that [ACL's] existed on NT-based OS'...
Prove it.
You try to "put me down" for the list of accomplishments I posted here...
Prove that you've accomplished any one of the AFK things that you claim.
Ion.SIMIAN.c: You're ruining your own reputation
From the looks of it, this thread is a wasteland. The only folks here are me and you, hoss. If you want an audience, go back to the amateur techie boards that you like to inhabit.
"None of your comments in this thread have been upmodded. Noone but me has replied to this thread. What does that say about your advice in this thread?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @12:51AM (#27803601)
No one decided to mod it up in this exchange is all... that happens!
BUT, I can show how many WERE modded up here:
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http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170545&cid=14210206 (+5, AND has proof of my knowing about SeLinux as well as its mechanics, from LONG ago no less)
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=416702&cid=22026982 (+3)
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&cid=25093275 (+2)
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1135717&cid=26941781 (+2)
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1218837&cid=27787281 (+2)
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168931&cid=14083927 (+1)
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=970939&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&no_d2=1&cid=25092677 (+1)
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1027095&cid=25747655 (+1)
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1159209&cid=27178753 (+1)
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=267599&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=20203061
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AND, each post I was "modded up on" above?
Is also STRICTLY in regards to my seucurity guide!
(So, that all "said & aside"? What's what?? 10-to-1 odds in MY favor vs. your obviously flawed assumptions it never is here on this website... vs. this time my NOT being "modded up" for posting it???)
That's Ok, I can live w/ that... & the proof that others from this forums found it "mod-up'able" also, many times.
Also, my security guide, to date (since late 2008), also has these "stats" to its credit:
1.) Over 250,000++ views to its credit over 20 forums in around 1 yr's time online now
2.) As well as it being in the TOP VIEWED in forums that have existed for years TO DECADE++ on some no less & doing that number of views in such a relatively short time vs. other posts on those forums...
3.) Then, my guide's nearly always being used by others too (such as NEOWIN as far back as the turn of the century)
4.) My guide being rated VERY WELL, to the point of being made an:
a. "essential guide"
b. "Sticky/Pinned Thread"
c. Being well rated by those that applied it (such as THRONKA from xtremepccentral.com I posted a couple times here now vs. your opinion (a numerously erroneous one here no less on your part)).
(WANT PROOFS OF THOSE TOO? I can supply them, quite quickly...)
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"Whoops. Lemmy correct myself:" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @12:51AM (#27803601)
LOL, to that? All I can hear now, is that 'whacked' song by the "Insane Clown Posse" called "How Many Times?"... because this has to be the 7th or 8th time now corrections have been issued on your part (twice from yourself, & around 7 times now f
"That's not proof of anything. I don't have proof of your identity" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @01:03AM (#27803693)
Ok - ask the guys @ NEOWIN if I wrote that guide of mine they used, for starters!
(AND, that's only my "first round prototype" of it, from more than a decade++ ago (1997), & even THEN, it can still get a user to 67/100 on CIS Tool test, & my current guide gets you to 85-99.058/100 on it)
Specifically, in regards to here -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=8c871266023b7d58549d7d4a7fe23f12&showtopic=602537&st=90
First post there, in fact (nobody denied it was me, they know it is - it's the 2nd time I've made a "good guide" status there, in 7++ yrs. time)...
Fact is?
That very post "shut them up", the 'naysayers' there, easily... just like the definitions of "security hardening" a system did here that I put up, to you earlier... TOO easy!
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- by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @01:03AM (#27803693)
Funny - you've made SO many screwups here, I am finding enough "amateurs" (wannabe in your case, especially about the 'programmer' part on YOUR end stating that), easily enough, here on /. ... lol!
(After all - Nobody in publication's ever noted YOU, apparently, because I posted 10 of those for ME, but you can't even put up 1... sad! AND, you have the nerve to try to give me crap? Unbelieveable!)
AND:
Why are you trying to make it seem as if it is NOT worth kicking your butt in for all you have said to me, that I have shown has been not only ERRONEOUS technically on your part, but also that in your "attempts to school me", you have made a TON of errors & had to 'correct yourself'?
(What a crock THAT 'little trick' is, & it doesn't work, lol... you STILL end up being wrong, everytime!)
APK
P.S.=> You're not very skilled in this art & science imo, & based on your obvious lack of visible accomplishments in this field? I can only say that, & also based upon your NUMEROUS screwups here (lol, which you try to 'correct' for, after I CORRECT YOU on where you are wrong - give up already!)... you're not even good @ debate & proving points! apk
"That's not proof. I can credit anything I like to APK. Is this all that you have to show me?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @01:12AM (#27803715)
Ok - AGAIN: Ask the guys @ NEOWIN if I wrote that guide of mine they used, for starters!
(AND, that's only my "first round prototype" of it, from more than a decade++ ago (1997), & even THEN, it can still get a user to 67/100 on CIS Tool test, & my current guide gets you to 85-99.058/100 on it)
Specifically, in regards to here -> http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=8c871266023b7d58549d7d4a7fe23f12&showtopic=602537&st=90
First post there, in fact!
(Nobody denied it was me, least of all their mods or owners, & they know it is I (APK) - it's the 2nd time I've made a "good guide" status there, in 7++ yrs. time)...
Fact is?
That very post "shut them up", the 'naysayers' there, easily... just like the definitions of "security hardening" a system did here that I put up, to you earlier... TOO easy!
(Who are you trying to fool @ this point? Yourself?? Must be, because the proof's there - & your WEAK little "argument" of "Prove it's YOU who wrote that" is in little question by the people who's forums it on!)
APK
P.S.=> Ion.SIMIAN.c = "Capt. Carnage" from "The Watchmen"... gotta be! You LIKE "getting punished", & lol, MAINLY by your own blatant mistakes here (the biggest one being trying to get the better of ME, in debate)...
"That's not proof. I can credit anything I like to APK. Is this all that you have to show me?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @01:12AM (#27803715)
Well, lol, there WAS this post here (lol, part of my "Ozymnndias" series here vs. yourself (showing my accomplishments in noted respected publications in this art & science (of which you have NONE like them apparently, Mr. "wannabe programmer"))):
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
AND THIS one from here also (lol, ALSO part of my "Ozymnndias" series here vs. yourself) :
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803307
(And, the day you can do more OR BETTER YET, better? Then, you can talk as you have to myself... but, try not to make so many damned errors and be so arrogant as to only admit to a couple, and then try to WEAKLY "amend your statements" afterwards... give us a break!)... apk
Reread my second paragraph. You seem to have missed the point:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803715
Alternatively, check out my hypothetical query to the NEOWIN folks here for an amplification of my point:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27804009
Ok - AGAIN: Ask the guys @ NEOWIN...
Copypasta, he chooses you!
Addressed here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27804009
(the biggest one being trying to get the better of ME, in debate)...
This isn't a debate. You're determined to ignore any points made, avoid any pointed questions asked, and deflect any criticism with reams of copypasta declaring the unverifiable glories of some guys who like to call themselves "apk".
I'm amusing myself on a lazy Saturday evening. What are you doing?
(showing my accomplishments...
Prove it. Prove that they were yours. Prove that you received some token -either a meatspace or cryptographically secure one will do- that proves that you are the author of all of the documents that you lay claim to, and that people who are not you have vouched for the documents' credibility, accuracy, and usefulness, replicate it, and show it to me.
*That* is proof. Not quotes or links.
So the base I am stationed at is trying to upgrade to Vista, no one told them the minimum spec apparently.
"Wait, what? Where have you proven anything?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @02:17AM (#27803987)
I have proven that you cannot stay on topic for 1 thing @ this point... lol!
(AND, that you made a TON of technical errors (2 of which you admitted to, others you tried to 'amend your statements' for, which fools NOBODY, lol) & more - like you are "on the ropes" on each point you attacked me on, & now have to go "off topic" about... lmao!)
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"I've seen a lot of absolute trash declared "essential" and stickied on many, many forums." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @02:17AM (#27803987)
My guide, @ nearly 40,000 views on this site alone:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (&, beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=6d4dad3766bad13b4da1d8b4ee539d09&showtopic=2662
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Isn't one of them.
(Here in this exchange, to that effect - Hey, I've even pasted a user's testimony to that effect from numerous systems from friends, family, & paying clients even liking its results, for going on 2++ yrs. by now, w/ NO infestations/infections, whatsoever... not bad eh? IT WORKS - 1 to 2 hrs. of your time, for what is on a decade for myself experiencing the same!)
I.E.-> AND, How can something that helps you get up to a 99.058/100 score on the multiplatform CIS Tool, AND go beyond it even to help secure a system be? Especially coming up from BOTH the Linux AND Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 series of this OS defaulting @ 46/100 initially?
(That's the QUANTIFIABLE IMPROVEMENT anyone can use & see no less there that is possible!)
LOL - in the end?
Yes, You've seen what you've "conveniently" seen, but strangely as-per-usual, also post NO proofs of...
Hey- You've proven yourself no 'authority' in this field, nor even recognized in publication for anything around it (I have though @ least 10x)... who are you to judge anything really, above all else?
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"What happens when your security guide is out of date? " - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @02:17AM (#27803987)
It doesn't really: It's very specific to an OS family & what members fall under its wing: Windows NT-based OS'...
AND?
It's very generic/by principals, that extend to various applications even, & future OS' (just ways of doing things that help, use patterns & settings et al).
(PLUS, I can edit the places where it's on mostly still (some not, but most I can).
APK
P.S.=> Anyone can read from HERE on down -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27792899 and see my quotes of YOUR replies & their errors I correct repeatedly throughout this exchange, as proof of your screwups, & in each of my posts - lol, and you now 'scrambling' to go offtopic and failing to disprove points I disproved yours with all thru this exchange: "TOO Easy"... apk
"Oh, hang on. You missed my previous post. Let me repeat it." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday May 02, @05:57PM (#27801185)
See subject-line above, & this URL, again:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
(As well as the rest of my reply below, in the 'P.S.' section)
APK
P.S.=> And, YOU had the nerve to say this:
"You really like that copypasta." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @01:12AM (#27803715)
There? Give us a break already...
I.E.-> YOU'RE DOING THE SAME THING IN THE POST THAT'S PARENT TO MY REPLY HERE NOW, in COPY/PASTE WORK... lol!
(I mean - Talk about the 'pot calling the kettle black')...
URA TROLL... apk
Hooray! A dead thread! I win! :D
Now, on to the others.
I have proven that you cannot stay on topic for 1 thing @ this point... lol!
Very well.
Here are my currently unanswered questions. Once they have been answered, I will address the rest of your points.
Why do I have a secure and performant Windows system, when all I had to do was apply offical Microsoft patches?
Why do you spray copypasta across forums rather than host it in a central location that's easy to manage and update?
What, in your mind, constitutes proof of ownership?
What, in your mind, constitutes proof of identity?
How does your opinion on these two things compare with the high-level design of current implementations computerized authorization and resource control schemes?
What would the consequences of designing such schemes to use your level of proof of ownershit and identity be?
How do current implementations of SELinux interface with the Linux kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources. Descriptions of grsecurity's interface to the Linux kernel will be accepted in lieu of information about SELinux.
How do current implementations of NTFS's ACL interface with the Windows NT kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources. Descriptions of either Windows Vista or Windows XP SP3 will be accepted.
See subject line: Rinse, Lather, & Repeat... for best results!
Well, along w/ this link -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27804267
(Where I prove you are off topic)
HEY - you win the prize: You're an "OFF TOPIC TROLL" ontop of being incorrect on many points in this exchange (hosts files anyone, to name one? Want more??)
APK
P.S.->
"I'm amusing myself on a lazy Saturday evening. What are you doing?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @02:36AM (#27804053)
LOL!
I'm feeding a way off topic troll, in yourself!
(You're, as usual, predictable with faults & scrambling to 'save face' (don't like this? Quit while you're behind, this is your 2nd time @ me here now, & it only ends up with you with egg on your face, lol, mainly w/ techincal errors regarding this field)).
You're a troll, rotflmao, who is now & for many posts now, so off topic he is asking ME to prove I am ME... hilarious!
PROVE SOME THINGS TO ME FOR ONCE! You know, like Can YOU prove there is a God?
That's for starters... See, I'd like just 1 proof from you, for once!
(There is no qustion I provide links, quotes, & other things from very reputable sources to back myself up, everytime almost & as far as publications? I have those in my room as I speak on a bookshelf, staring @ them (books, mags, newpapers, Cd-Rom distros & more my works have been on in the arena of computer sciences))
LOL, I provide proofs, whereas you do not (& cannot evidently) as to your expertise in this field... I do so, first, in order to bring YOU, lol, to THIS low level you are @... Pure manipulation!
(That only happens though, each time you do this directed my way, only after making you look the fool on all of your technical errors here though - I don't think you understand - this is AMUSING to me... huge fun, albeit, @ YOUR expense (you bring it on yourself, everytime, attacking my posts here))
(OH yea those errors of yours? Pretty huge, & many, which I corrected you on thru this exchange, and you admitted 2, & then tried to avoid the other 7-8 by now I have you in, lmao, by your trying to 'amend your statements' - give us a break, troll!)
Above all else - Hey: See everyone? I now have a "new troll" on /., aren't I priveleged? apk
From my first post down, I answered all questions
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27804393
See my subject-line above, & this URL (because unlike you? I provide proofs & answer questions):
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27792899
(And you had to correct youself 2x thru it, lol, + try to 'amend your questions', after other screwups on technical issues here you made (how lame, it never works, & fools no one), and I did another 10 corrections of your errors (numerous) throughout the exchange here, by now... merely easily showing you the error of your ways).
APK
P.S.=> Anyone is free to read from that post downwards in this exchange & decide for themselves to my last statement + subject line... & in regards to this statement from you?
"Very well." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)
That's the 1 thing you haven't done... apk
"Hooray! A dead thread! I win! :D Now, on to the others." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:00AM (#27804359)
Grow up.
(And quit being such a troll)
APK
"Are you sure that I can check with them to verify that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:00AM (#27804359)
Grow up, & quit being such a troll. When you are "on the ropes", you start asking stupid questions to 'stall' or otherwise troll others, just as you did here as well in this thread to others who proved you wrong -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27796177
APK
P.S.-> Anyone here reading is free to read from my 1st post here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27792899 onwards, & make their own decisions on anything going on here &, whom has gotten the better of whom, in this exchange (like your blatant screwups on numerous technical topics & your lastly having to go "off topic" as you have, & more importantly, why)... apk
Q.)
"How do current implementations of SELinux interface with the Linux kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources. Descriptions of grsecurity's interface to the Linux kernel will be accepted in lieu of information about SELinux." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)
A.) http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Search the term "SeLinux" there... you'll see the tracing dump I speak of next below:
(There, YOU can see that MS themselves step-trace debugged SeLinux & the Kernel hooking methods I stated are indeed, in effect, in SeLinux)
I'm always specific, & I provide backing links that back my points (HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone? There are more in this exchange I have caught you in, in errors, by far, but... those'll do, for now!)
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Q.)
"How does your opinion on these two things compare with the high-level design of current implementations computerized authorization and resource control schemes?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)
?
A.) NT ACL = SeLinux MAC
(I said that before, please: Take your alheimers/dementia/senility meds...)
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Q.)
"Why do I have a secure and performant Windows system, when all I had to do was apply offical Microsoft patches?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)
A.) Not sure - However? Did I ever say it was "out of the question" in that happening for users either?
(ESPECIALLY if you only visit a small number of websites (that are trustworthy, & have decent owners/mods/webmasters policing them for malware) plus, actually do practice points I made in my security guide (such as email in text form only, not downloading every little app there is, or clicking on a "YOU HAVE A VIRUS: CLICK OK TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL 'SuperDuper AntiSpyware/AntiVirus' now", because not once have I stated that good use practices/patterns do NOT matter here, not once... & in my guide I say that in essence on many topics for safety online, today... especially today & for around 6++ yrs. now)
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Q.)
"Why do you spray copypasta across forums rather than host it in a central location that's easy to manage and update?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @04:08AM (#27804393)
A.) Why not, first of all... Secondly, the people that NEED the stuff in my guide, are "amateur forums users" as you put them down in calling them that (especially considering how many errors I have caught you in here in yourself, 2 you admitted to, & about another 10 by now I had corrected you on (to which you tried to 'amend your questions to' later, in trying to 'save face' here with doing that (as well as your asking questions that are silly 1/2 the time, off topic for sure like this one is, & just obviously stalls for time OR to try 'bury this post').
You're tactics don't fool anyone... you have a PATTERN of this, & I saw it in your post history (the downside of being an 'almighty registered user' here is that - I.E.-> You're VERY easily tracked!)
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Q.)
"How do current implementations of NTFS's ACL interface with the Windows NT kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources.
[ "Answer" to "Why do you consider your time to be worthless?" ]
This answer is insufficient. Try again.
[Your "what is proof of ownership?" question is] OFF TOPIC
This is directly related to computer security. Re-read the first "paragraph" of this post that is enclosed in double quotes.
[Your "what is proof of identity?" question is] OFF TOPIC
See my previous statement.
How does your opinion on these two things compare with the high-level design of current implementations computerized authorization and resource control schemes?
?
A.) NT ACL = SeLinux MAC
(I said that before, please: Take your alheimers/dementia/senility meds...)
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I've left this one in in its entirety to demonstrate how taking things out of context can lead to incorrect results. You answered the wrong question. Try again.
[Your "What are the implications of your idea of auth and trust on security schemes?" question is] OFF TOPIC
See my previous responses to your previous "...OFF TOPIC" remarks.
[ "Answer" to "How does SELinux work?" ]
You were asked to be specific. A cursory examination of Table 2 on Page 13 reveals two things:
* All SELinux syscalls are glommed into an entry called "selinux ops".
* EXT 3 Filesystem operations are classified as "kernel hooks".
The linked paper is insufficiently specific. You would have done better by selecting the second result returned by Google for your search phrase.
Try again. (It is suggested to the supplicant that he begin his search by downloading a recent kernel source package and examining the file "src/security/security.c".)
[ "Answer" to "How are ACLs implemented in recent versions of Windows?" ]
This is the opposite of specificity. Try again.
You managed to pretty much answer one question!
Here are my currently unanswered questions:
Why do you spray copypasta across forums rather than host it in a central location that's easy to manage and update?
What, in your mind, constitutes proof of ownership?
What, in your mind, constitutes proof of identity?
How does your opinion on these two things compare with the high-level design of current implementations computerized authorization and resource control schemes?
What would the consequences of designing such schemes to use your level of proof of ownership and identity be?
How do current implementations of SELinux interface with the Linux kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources. Descriptions of grsecurity's interface to the Linux kernel will be accepted in lieu of information about SELinux.
How do current implementations of NTFS's ACL interface with the Windows NT kernel? Be specific. Cite only from credible, verifiable sources. Descriptions of either Windows Vista or Windows XP SP3 will be accepted.
See subject-line above, & this URL (for the only answers that matter here):
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
(I answered your questions there & that is that!)
There, lol, I also show where & how you are wrong in this thread also... especially about SeLinux, because I stated it used "kernel hooks" (kernel patching) to achieve an ACL-like function (MAC) on a Linux rig, via SeLinux (proof of kernel hooking calls on Linux are there on that page).
As my nephew put it? You're SO arrogant, & thought you knew this stuff, & I have shown you do not, @ least not well and at every turn now vs. your trolling attacks!
I.E. -> You can't handle you are WRONG @ every turn here, & are trying to "troll me" (you don't seem to realize this is your 2nd "pounding" you've taken @ my hands here (& each time, you have brought it on yourself)).
APK
P.S.=> Go away now, little troll! Do something of note or worth with a computer, instead of trolling others... apk
"Even a clueless college sophomore would be able to look up the answers to my questions in four or five hours." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @06:05PM (#27809645)
Then, go look them up yourself! I answered ALL questions you had, to your dismay (on DNS servers, HOSTS files, NT registry + filesystem ACL's & where you erred stating "windows has nothing like SeLinux" (it always DID in ACL's))
PLUS, how ACL's on NT-based OS' are like SeLinux MAC, & how SeLinux is implemented via kernel hooking/patching!
(Heck - the URL I posted you for proof of my being correct from MS states much on this, as far as details, & IF you want THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL? I won't "retype it" here, so, just read it, or again, see my last post (posting its content below for you again))
APK
P.S.=> Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary (w/ out writing a book), are here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
Learn to read, as I covered it's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks well enough per your quoted questions there.
Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux. Go away, little troll, lol... apk
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27809645
Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
(Learn to read!)
I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS servers, Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).
(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)
Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...
APK
P.S.=> Go away, little troll, lol... apk
Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379 [slashdot.org]
Learn to read!
I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone, as regards Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).
(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)
Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...
APK
P.S.=> Go away, little troll, & anybody is free to read this exchange, end-to-end, & to determine whom got the better of whom thru it... apk
Copypasta! He chooses you!
You're lazy. You appear to be ignorant.
You claim technological knowledge. I ask pointed technological questions. You refuse to answer them.
Self-inflicted transcription errors cause you to forget what question you were replying to and respond incorrectly.
You don't sound like an expert. You don't act like a professional. Just what *do* you do when you're not spreading your copypasta on internet forums?
Oh, wait. Don't bother answering that. Your version of proof is inadequate for even the most basic of authentication schemes.
Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379 [slashdot.org]
Learn to read!
I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone, as regards Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).
(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)
Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...
APK
P.S.=> Go away, little troll, lol... & "maintain your dignity", accept your defeat you brought on yourself here in trying to attack me, gracefully @ least! apk
So, have I tired you out yet?
Why don't you answer my questions? There are two to which you have provided *no* answer to. There are four of which you have provided an insufficient answer. There is one which you provided a completely incorrect answer.
Each one of these questions is something that any college sophomore could answer. You claim that you're a professional. Prove it. Answer these questions. (Two of them are open-ended questions. They ask for your opinion. How much easier could it get?)
Here is a direct link to a post that contains the remaining questions. Good luck.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27809231
Wow, more copypasta.
*chuckles* There's this rule in chess... if you're down to your king, and you move between the same two spaces three times in a row, your opponent wins.
This is the third time in a row that you've posted the same ignorant garbage.
Your answers, as detailed from myself as is necessary have been answered. See here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379 [slashdot.org]
Learn to read!
I covered SeLinux's MAC vs. ACL & how it is implemented via kernel hooks (well enough per your quoted questions there) + throughout this thread I have shown you in error about HOSTS files, DNS Servers, login scripts useability in migrating security settings alongside Group Policy tools in Windows, & now SeLinux kernel hooking anyone, as regards Windows NT-based OS' having what Linux didn't (not without the kernel hook SeLinux distros)).
(w/ out my 'writing a book' like the url next which has much about kernel hooking & how it works (since SeLinux is shown to use the methods I noted in kernel hooking EXACTLY with trace debug dump proof no less on that page of it), here -> http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:dmPDdpPh_Q0J:research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/wdcui/papers/hookmap-raid08.pdf+%22SeLinux%22+and+%22kernel+hook%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because I am NOT going to rewrite that much info)
Again - Want more? Talk to the NSA on SeLinux, or, read that url above...
APK
P.S.=> Go away troll, lol... apk
"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
Well:
The day you can appear in respected publications and widely recognized contests in this field (Ms Tech-Ed), or have commercially sold application code to your credit? (as I have on each of those grounds in this art & science)?
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) pril 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
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OR, even these many "mod ups" here on YOUR postings Ion.SIMIAN.c?
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+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=170545&cid=14210206
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175774&cid=14610147
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26975021
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1139485&cid=26974507
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+4 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=161862&cid=13531817
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167071&cid=13931198
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+3 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
(LOOK @ THIS NEXT ONE BELOW, lol)
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155172&cid=13007974
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166850&cid=13914137
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175857&cid=14615222
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=273931&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=
Hey, look!
It's that copypasta again.
You must be tired. Tired and ignorant.
You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)
"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, screwed up on several points throughout this exchange, shown by your erroneous points I quoted no less in my replies, such as:
1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
2.) DNS Servers -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803627
3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
4.) SeLinx being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
5.) Services patching &/or cutoffs for security -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27802917
6.) What the definition of "System Hardening" is -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800687
(AND, more that you were incorrect on, but that list will do!)
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Also, as far as the quote of yours I put up above initially?
The day you have appeared this many times in reputable printed publications in this art & science, + have commercially sold application code to your credit, as I have here:
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) pril 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Lastly, being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
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OR, even something as simple as this many "mod ups" here, as I have:
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+5 'modded up' posts by "yours truly":
http
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections...)
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"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer, the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on experience in the trenches in this art & science?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica & Jeremy Reimer the blatant FAKE.
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, screwed up on several points throughout this exchange, shown by your erroneous points I quoted no less in my replies, such as:
1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
2.) DNS Servers -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27798027
3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
4.) SeLinux being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095
"How do I know that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:16AM (#27813099)
LOL, ask Jeremy Reimer, he is from your fav. site there, arstechnica (they KNOW who I am, much to their own dismay here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html )
&
"Also, show me a copy of your conversations with law enforcement. If you tell me that you don't have any, I know that you are a liar." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:18AM (#27813101)
All you need is @ the URL from Windows IT Pro (including discussions from email w/ the police + Reimer's ISP/BSP)
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections...)
---
"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer, the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on experience in the trenches in this art & science?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica & Jeremy Reimer the blatant FAKE.
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, screwe
"How do I know that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:16AM (#27813099)
LOL, ask Jeremy Reimer, he is from your fav. site there, arstechnica (they KNOW who I am, much to their own dismay here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html )
&
"Also, show me a copy of your conversations with law enforcement. If you tell me that you don't have any, I know that you are a liar." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:18AM (#27813101)
All you need is @ the URL from Windows IT Pro (including discussions from email w/ the police + Reimer's ISP/BSP)
----
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections...)
---
"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer, the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on experience in the trenches in this art & science?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica & Jeremy Reimer the blatant FAKE.
----
"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, screwe
"How do I know that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:16AM (#27813099)
LOL, ask Jeremy Reimer, he is from your fav. site there, arstechnica (they KNOW who I am, much to their own dismay here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html )
&
"Also, show me a copy of your conversations with law enforcement. If you tell me that you don't have any, I know that you are a liar." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:18AM (#27813101)
All you need is @ the URL from Windows IT Pro (including discussions from email w/ the police + Reimer's ISP/BSP)
----
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections...)
---
"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer, the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on PROFESSIONAL experience in the trenches in this art & science?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica & Jeremy Reimer the blatant FAKE.
----
"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
HOWEVER - You by way of compa
This is character-for-character identical to the post here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27813171
You even duplicated your typos. Good job. Keep increasing that ratio!
Also, you didn't even read what you were replying to.
Are you this thoughtful and careful when you give advice to new and/or clueless users?
And, why haven't you answered my outstanding questions?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27809231
"How do I know that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:16AM (#27813099)
LOL, ask Jeremy Reimer, he is from your fav. site there, arstechnica (they KNOW who I am, much to their own dismay here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html )
&
"Also, show me a copy of your conversations with law enforcement. If you tell me that you don't have any, I know that you are a liar." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:18AM (#27813101)
All you need is @ the URL from Windows IT Pro (including discussions from email w/ the police + Reimer's ISP/BSP) & as far as your question from w/ in this exchange to myself of "Are you Dr. Russinovich"?
NO, I never said I was - We'd both done paid work for a couple of the same companies @ the same time in the mid to late 1990's in this field & that how I know he, in addition to helping him find AND FIX problems in his applications, but I am not he, I am myself. One would think you'd realize that.
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections... which is by far, more than YOU have shown you have done, for comparison's sake!)
---
"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer (the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on PROFESSIONAL experience in the trenches in this art & science)?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica & Jeremy Reimer the blatan
"How do I know that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:16AM (#27813099)
LOL, ask Jeremy Reimer, he is from your fav. site there, arstechnica (they KNOW who I am, much to their own dismay here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html )
&
"Also, show me a copy of your conversations with law enforcement. If you tell me that you don't have any, I know that you are a liar." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:18AM (#27813101)
All you need is @ the URL from Windows IT Pro (including discussions from email w/ the police + Reimer's ISP/BSP) & as far as your question from w/ in this exchange to myself of "Are you Dr. Russinovich"?
NO, I never said I was - We'd both done paid work for a couple of the same companies @ the same time in the mid to late 1990's in this field & that how I know he, in addition to helping him find AND FIX problems in his applications, but I am not he, I am myself. One would think you'd realize that.
----
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections... which is by far, more than YOU have shown you have done, for comparison's sake!)
---
"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer (the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on PROFESSIONAL experience in the trenches in this art & science)?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica & Jeremy Reimer the blatan
"How do I know that you are who you say you are?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:16AM (#27813099)
LOL, ask Jeremy Reimer, he is from your fav. site there, arstechnica (they KNOW who I am, much to their own dismay here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html )
&
"Also, show me a copy of your conversations with law enforcement. If you tell me that you don't have any, I know that you are a liar." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:18AM (#27813101)
All you need is @ the URL from Windows IT Pro (including discussions from email w/ the police + Reimer's ISP/BSP) & as far as your question from w/ in this exchange to myself of "Are you Dr. Russinovich"?
NO, I never said I was - We'd both done paid work for a couple of the same companies @ the same time in the mid to late 1990's in this field & that how I know he, in addition to my helping him find AND FIX problems in his applications (never the reverse though), but I am not he, I am myself. One would think you'd realize that.
----
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
Can't get that EVERY place, but, I have on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, on many others, it is in their most viewed, or "essential guides" sections... which is by far, more than YOU have shown you have done, for comparison's sake!)
---
"It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
LOL, Arstechnica: The "private playpen" of Jeremy Reimer (the no degree in computer sciences, no certifications in computer sciences, & no years to decades of actual hands-on PROFESSIONAL experience in the trenches in this art & science)?
No thank you.
(I wouldn't associate myself w/ they by ANY means - they were caught impersonating myself on their forums, caught email harassing myself by their ISP's, & had law enforcement summoned upon them for it no less, and lastly they were caught impersonating others (via posting as them & admitting to it no less after being caught doing so @ Windows IT Pro magazine forums, no less, publicly to their humiliation worldwide))
See here -> http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/41095/the-memory-optimization-hoax.html
In regards to Arstechnica
"Hey, it's more copypasta." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:48AM (#27813229)
And, you don't? B.S., & the proof of that's below, so "see subject-line above" (you hypocrite), because here is you doing it yourself:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27809817
That's only once, of many times YOU have through this exchange (your typical trolling 'pot calling the kettle black').
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"Your copypasta/new content ratio is really high."" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:48AM (#27813229)
See above, dimwit... being a trolling hypocrite that can't even recall himself doing it also seems to be your specialty.
APK
P.S.=> Give up already, like I said before: YOU don't possess the intellect, skill, or experience to get the better of the likes of ME... apk
"more copypasta."by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @03:58AM (#27813263)
And, you don't? B.S., & the proof of that's below, for the 2nd time now... So again, "see subject-line above" (you hypocrite), because here is you doing it yourself:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27809817
That's only once, of many times YOU have through this exchange (your typical trolling 'pot calling the kettle black').
You're just being a trolling hypocrite that can't even recall himself doing it also, & that seems to be your specialty: Having a dim brain!
APK
P.S.=> Give up already, like I said before: YOU don't possess the intellect, skill, or experience to get the better of the likes of ME... apk
Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich.
I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him, and to see what his professional opinion is of the person that you claim to be.
Would you care to provide me with an email address so's I can send you a copy of the conversation?
Hey, look. MOAR copypasta.
Have you run out of things to say? Did you run out of ideas a decade ago?
Are you sure that you know what the various types of Windows ACL's are?
http://forums.techpowerup.com/archive/index.php/t-25428.html
I've been looking more closely at what you did over at Ars.
You made 157 posts with a single nick in two days? Seriously?
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
See the list below, contact the magazines, publishing houses, or software companies involved @ your discretion, if you wish... professional technically means getting PAID to do a job, right? That's there below...
AND
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
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HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, show you clearly are not, & screwed up on several points throughout this exchange, shown by your erroneous points I quoted no less in my replies, such as:
1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
2.) DNS Servers -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27798027
3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
4.) SeLinux being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
5.) Services patching &/or cutoffs for security -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
See the list below, contact the magazines, publishing houses, or software companies involved @ your discretion, if you wish... professional technically means getting PAID to do a job, right? That's there below...
AND
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
----
HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, show you clearly are not, & screwed up on several points throughout this exchange, shown by your erroneous points I quoted no less in my replies, such as:
1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
2.) DNS Servers -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27798027
3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
4.) SeLinux being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
5.) Services patching &/or cutoffs for security -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095
Arstechnica's been proven to impersonate me before, & they have done so again is all (see the windows it pro memory optimization hoax article URL I posted below for proof of that much):
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
See the list below, contact the magazines, publishing houses, or software companies involved @ your discretion, if you wish... professional technically means getting PAID to do a job, right? That's there below...
AND
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
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HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, show you clearly are not, & screwed up on several points throughout this exchange, shown by your erroneous points I quoted no less in my replies, such as:
1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
2.) DNS Servers -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27798027
3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
4.) SeLinux being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&
"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#27811101)
See the list below, contact the magazines, publishing houses, or software companies involved @ your discretion, if you wish... professional technically means getting PAID to do a job, right? That's there below...
AND
I've answered ALL of your questions (the ones that matter, & I did so, w/ out writing out a book to do so), here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
----
HOWEVER - You by way of comparison, show you clearly are not, & screwed up on several points throughout this exchange, shown by your erroneous points I quoted no less in my replies, such as:
1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005
2.) DNS Servers -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27798027
3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951
4.) SeLinux being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
5.) Services patching &/or cutoffs for security -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095
"Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...
See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)
YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...
LOL, trouble is, you're showing yourself to be nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online... and, you say you're a programmer? PROVE IT (how do you like it? That's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... lol, you do not & have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)
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"I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC (& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location (which is doable on both accounts) to another disk (he had them hardcoded to C: drive only, & it made his program fail - he emailed me back thanking me in fact).
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#2
"Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...
See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)
YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...
LOL, trouble is, you're showing yourself to be nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online... and, you say you're a programmer? PROVE IT (how do you like it? That's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... lol, you do not & have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)
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"I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC (& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location (which is doable on both accounts) to another disk (he had them hardcoded to C: drive only, & it made his program fail - he emailed me back thanking me in fact).
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#2
"Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...
See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)
YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...
LOL, trouble is, you're showing yourself to be nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online... and, you say you're a programmer? PROVE IT (how do you like it? That's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... lol, you do not & have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)
----
"I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC (& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location (which is doable on both accounts) to another disk (he had them hardcoded to C: drive only, & it made his program fail - he emailed me back thanking me in fact).
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been on a PC & yet accomplished nothing on your end apparently. I.E.-> My guide alone thus is, by far, more than YOU have shown you have ever done over 22++ yrs. on these machines on your part, for comparison's sake!)
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"You claim that you're a professional. Prove it" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Sunday May 03, @08:52PM (#2
Arstechnica people like Jeremy Reimer impersonated me on their forums & that was shown @ Windows IT Pro forums (url below) as well as his friends impersonating others & admitting to it on Reimer's own forums (lol, what a bunch of losers), & proof of that is below (anything over @ arstechnica is the same, b.s. impersonations many times of myself):
"Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...
See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)
YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...
LOL, trouble is, you're showing yourself to be nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online... and, you say you're a programmer? PROVE IT (how do you like it? That's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... lol, you do not & have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)
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"I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC (& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location (which is doable on both accounts) to another disk (he had them hardcoded to C: drive only, & it made his program fail - he emailed me back thanking me in fact).
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=135
(AND, as noted above? On many websites, it is in their top 1-5 most viewed usually, or "5/5 star rated" many times, would you like a list of those also?? Heh, sad really, all those years you claim to have been o
Chill, mate, /b/ is being DDoSed. He'll be gone as soon as it's back. In the meantime, quit feeding the troll?
Arstechnica's JEREMY REIMER (a blatant FAKE) was caught red-handed alongside his friends impersonating me on his OSY website (to which his hosting provider removed large portions of his website for, lol, & his ISP nailed him for email harassing me, as well as making threats to my family no less, which got law enforcement involved in Canada (& Reimer stopped right there, lol)).
So much for your "edited" arstechnica posts that are not even myself (they like to impersonate others, because that's ALL they have)...
Anyhow - Here we go now, ready (as to your errors here):
"Google failed to find any offical mention of your work with Russinovich" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
GOOGLE didn't fail, YOU DID (as usual, per this reply AND the list of your screwups here I enumerate below in this exchange)...
See this -> http://www.pcmech.com/article/defragging-the-windows-page-file/ (& the comment by "SuperFluid" there)
YOU can't even GOOGLE something right, lol...
LOL, trouble is, you're showing yourself to be nothing more than a "I can't do anything w/out GOOGLE" type online... and, you say you're a programmer? PROVE IT (how do you like it? That's the kind of crap you've been saying to me & I provide proof below... lol, you do not & have NOTHING LIKE THE LISTS I PROVIDE BELOW, to your credit)
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"I've emailed Mr. Russinovich to figure out what work that you've done with him" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:57PM (#27825779)
For Sunbelt Software (I'll save you the time there) to whom we contracted out wares we had written, thru LC (& also MANY years later, in 2003, when I fixed up his pagedefrag program, instructing him where it was hardcoded and how/why it could adversely affect the operations of his application if people moved their pagefile.sys location (which is doable on both accounts) to another disk (he had them hardcoded to C: drive only, & it made his program fail - he emailed me back thanking me in fact).
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"You're thread's not stickied on xtremepccentral, btw. Why is that? It's not stickied over on Ars, either. Why is that? :)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @02:18AM (#27812855)
I don't believe they do that, & I can't get that EVERY place I imagine though I'd like to!
(However, my guide IS rated "5/5 stars" there, AND is in the top 2 most viewed of all time @ that website within the forums section it is featured on)...
NOW, for what You're asking for now? Well, it has done so in becoming an "Essential Guide", & on these websites:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=ab63b5c5b7b51bde1ed34c6db909d3a7&act=SF&f=87&st=0&changefilters=1
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=26&start=0
http://forums.guru3d.com/forumdisplay.php?s=c90357a670c55c225331de7ca6e1d8a2&f=27&page=1&pp=25&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f34/?pp=20&sort=views&order=desc&daysprune=-1
http://www.proprofs.com/forums/index.php?s=abcd398e654a2bb1de0042564186ceeb&showforum=
I've read the article over at windows it pro magazine since I am a subscribing member there and Jeremy Reimer, Jarrett DeAngelis, and Jay Little impersonated apk on Reimer's website and admitted to it (only after their isp's busted them for email harassing apk, and then Reimer's hosting provider for his website removed parts of Reimer's website for libelling apk as well as threatening his family like a psyhopath would which got canadian law enforcement involved (and reimer backed off fast at that point and had to or go to court and jail)). It is therefore quite obvious that moron Reimer did the same over at arstechnica, the home of the trolling loser online.
I read apk's reply and he more than answered your questions, and provided a link that actually even proves what he stated that selinux uses kernel hooking to achieve what it does on Linux, and that windows nt family of operating systems has had something like that natively already built in since day 1 in acl's. Quit trolling ion.simon.c, because you have lost miserably and make a dozen or more mistakes here and they were documented in apk's answers here which made me laugh at how badly you have done in this exchange, error after error on your end. You call yourself a programmer? You have no proof of it, where apk does, and provided it at your request. You then laughingly try to lessen what he has accomplished, because you have nothing like it. You are a jealous troll that messes up on technr ical points here as well. Grow up, accept that you lost, and move on troll. I know you are full of it and you're no longer even amusing.
If anyone here is tired, it is us reading your repeated mistakes and off topic posts in this thread, ion.simon.c. So, ion.simon.c, You claim to be a programmer. Prove it. That's what you said to apk and he blew you away with a lot of evidence to that effect as to his professional status in this science and his accomplishments in it, as well as he showing you in error here a dozen times or more by now on technical issues being discussed. Give up, you lost badly, ion.simon.c, and it is obvious you are just trying to troll him now. I will say one thing in your defense: You are so stupid that it is hilarious watching you try to save face and cover your mistakes by trying to bury apk's replies, but as you can see, I can see and have read them also and man, did you ever lose and badly.
The word MOAR doesn't exist in the english language moron. You ran out of things to say after you were caught in a dozen errors in this thread ion.simon.c and all you have is off topic evasions and attempts at burying evidences of you being in error so many times in this post that it is not even amusing anymore. You say you are a programmer. Prove it. At least apk had some evidences to that much and his accomplishments, which you have none of given that you can't produce a list of evidences like his. He did more a decade ago up to recently than you have in this science in your entire time in it. Prove otherwise.
He certainly shut you up about how selinux implements things like windows access control lists in mandatory access control and also that selinux uses kernel hooks which you doubted and he produced a stack trace debug dump of selinux from microsoft themselves to prove it. You tried to say "that is insufficient" only because it blew away your trolling garbage and once I read that article I actually learned a thing or two, so thanks apk. Ion.simon.c, thanks for the amusement and showing us all you are a victim of your own hubris and that you stuck your foot in your mouth a dozen times and are now off topic trolling to try to bury the evidences of your mistakes here through this posting. I read the list of errors you made here that apk put up and you are one stupid sob who claims he is a programmer (prove it, apk did, and you can't) and is clearly not.
HOSTS files are used in security, as is the other point apk covered on wfp versus how older windows did a 3 part phalanx zone defense like arrangement for securing ip traffic. It is on topic, because this is about windows and security and hosts files plus filtering are portions of microsoft windows' own security system. You stated you are a programmer in this posting and it is clear you are not and just some lying amateur, because when you asked apk to prove he is a pro in this science he did so with numerous examples and accomplishments in this science. You by the same token had nothing like them. apk more than answered your questions where you said "windows has nothing like selinux" and apk pointed out acl's and how they have been in NT\2000\XP\Server 2003 since their conception unlike Linux using kernel hooking seLinux. apk was completely correct and so much so you had to try the 'troll tactic' of saying "that is insufficient" and the article goes into it more in depth as to how kernel hooking works and proved selinux does as apk said it does, uses kernel hooks to achieve what Nt-based OS' always have had natively. Go away you jealous little nobody troll ion.simon.c, you have lost badly.
Alongside the article over at windows it pro forums called the memory optimization hoax and there apk stated the same as he has here and dr. russinovich never replied otherwise as to apk and he doing work for the same companies in the 1990s and that apk helped him find and fix problems in his pagedefrag program. That's official enough for me and please don't try to cover for your own inadequacy in computer sciences saying that's insufficient. What IS insufficient is your lack of proof you are a programmer since you ask proof of others of their roles in this science as you had to apk and he blew you away with his proofs and amount of it as well as achievements he has to his credit where you laughingly have zero to compare, let alone prove your bullshit that you are a programmer. If you are a programmer then I am Barack Obama. Give up ion.simon.c you inadequate jealous troll.
How apk uses P.B. Shelley's quoted excerpt fits here quite nicely. You looked upon his works and must despair, hahaha, because you have zero to compare to his rather large list of accomplishments around this science, despite you saying you have used computers since the late 1980's. I hate to point out the obvious ion.simon.c, but you have not accomplished much, otherwise you would have put up proofs of your status allegedly as a programmer in this science since you stated you are. I don't believe it because you make too many technical mistakes and I read them when apk noted them. If you are a coder then you must stink at it. You ion.simon.c claimed to be a programmer and then you asked for proof of apk's status in the science of computing. He put up so many proofs this way in the way of verifiable achievements in this science that I found it impressive in fact, especially considering he blows away anything to that effect (proving his status as a pro in this science) you had, which was, laughingly, nothing on your part ion.simon.c, so give up. You trolled and were destroyed here for it by your own stupidity and numerous errors which apk also documented and I read them. I believe you are a professional in this field as much as anyone might believe I am Barack Obama. You're nothing but a stupid troll ion.simon.c, face it.
You're a troll ion.simon.c, and not very good at it either. You made so many mistakes up there that apk documented that you are just now embarrassed into having to try to goad him via your off topic trolling. Do you think you are pulling the wool over anyone's eyes here with your off topic bullshit? By no means. I read both of your statements here and apk backs everything he says where you have no proof of even your being a programmer (though you asked it of apk and he put out an impressive list of things he has done around this science, and despite your probable lie that you are a programmer when you stated it, you have nothing, not even 1 thing that was noted as good in this science, where apk had 10 of them). You can't even match the 'modded up' posts count he had and you are a registered user. Lord knows the "elitists" amongst the registered users here often avoid ac posts (like apk does) and certainly for modding them upwards. You should be able to blow his mod up posts count away, however as usual, you have no proof of your doing better. Typical troll is what you are and not even good at that just judging by the counts of errors you have made here on things technical in this discussion.
What a joke you are ion.simon.c in saying you got the better of apk. Is making mistakes now considered getting the better of people around this website? Because your mistakes here: [list]1.) HOSTS files -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803005%5B/list%5D [list]2.) DNS Servers -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27798027%5B/list%5D [list]3.) Logon scripts & Group Policies usage -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800951 [list]4.) SeLinux being implemented via kernel hooking/kernel patching -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379%5B/list%5D [list]5.) Services patching &/or cutoffs for security -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27802917%5B/list%5D [list]6.) What the definition of "System Hardening" is -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27800687 [list]7.) Your 1st post thought my guide was about speed, & instead it is about security -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27794633%5B/list%5D [list]8.) Here was your FIRST instance of "correcting yourself"/admitting I was correct -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803103%5B/list%5D [list]9.) Here was where you FIRST asked me to "prove who I am" -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27804053 (give us all a break!)[/list] [list]10.) Here you said I was not enforcing policies in my security guide, & you made another mistake on that -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27801155%5B/list%5D [list]11.) Here was your 2nd instance of "correcting yourself" (amending your questions to try to "make me wrong" & you failed again) -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803601%5B/list%5D 12.) YOU also said my guide being posted here NEVER gets "modded up"? I showed QUITE the contrary here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27803307%5B/list%5D [list]13.) You're clear INABILITY to even GOOGLE something right, @ the top of THIS post - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=27831377%5B/list%5D Show whom got the better of whom, and it doesn't look at all like you got the better of apk, in fact it seems to be quite the reverse with that list of errors you have made here, along with false accusations you had to 'correct' and admit later you were wrong on a few times according to those url's above and your own quoted words in them. Give up you trolling loser, and prove you are a programmer since you asked apk to do so and he put out a list of proofs that were impressive I felt, whereas you had nothing even remotely like the 10 he had and you cannot even match apk's mod up posts count here and he is an ac no less (and everyone knows the "elitis
What's a BSP?
Your questions have been answered as well as your being shown in error here repeatedly ion.simon.c in the post parent to your own as well as many times in this thread where you were shown to have accused apk of things regarding his hosts file (which you admitted you screwed up on) and also about his security guide (where you stated he did not go into things like securing services or disabling vulnerable ones). You either skim, or are just another losing his ass troll who is now going off topic to try to troll others even more. You are a programmer you say? Prove it (that's what you said to apk and he blew you away with a quite impressive list of accomplishments to his credit, where you laughingly have not even a single one). You are a pitiful example of how low a human being can be ion.simon.c and thus I cannot even credit you as being a good troll. You can't match your opponents achievements, and also have made more mistakes than he did on technical issues (only thing is, apk has not made a single one yet, inclusive especially of his stating how selinx works via kernel hooks and you tried to say Microsoft's debug dump of selinux showing kernel hooking is insufficient? Give us a break you know nothing troll ion.simon.c)
Oh, this is good. How would you know that if you said you cannot see it? It's an article by Dr. Mark Russinovich and it is where Jeremy Reimer, Jarrett DeAngelis, and Jay Little (artechnica members all) were caught libelling, threatening apk and his family no less (that is when the law got involved and it stopped all 3 of them cold) and where each of the was caught impersonating not only apk, but also a Mr. Marty Meszaros, and then with them posting as others under "alternate guises" as they called them and were then caught admitting to it (waarheid=veritas) over at Jeremy Reimer's own forums at his osy website. These arstechnica morons are as laughable as you are ion.simon.c and I suspect you are just another one like them. A jealous scumbag who has never accomplished anything worth noting by those in publication in this science, which apk has shown us a ton of he has from as far back as 13 years ago or more, and you have not a single thing like them to your credit by way of comparison. Prove to us you are a programmer, and even if you can, which I doubt? I would just say as was said to you here a few times now, that you're not good at it or you would have been recognized as that by those in the media around this science. You are a troll and not even good at that.
That dumbass ion.simon.c can't even google something right, lol, see here - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27831079 lmao unbelievable, and this moron ion.simon.c says he is a programmer? No way. He's another done nothing useful or good with his life troll is all.
Even I know that. It's an acronym for a "broadband service provider" troll. You're the googler here though you messed up on something as simple as that too, lol, here - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377 You say you're a coder and you don't know that? You really are a lame liar ion.simon.c so take your "I am a programmer" trolling lie someplace else. You are too stupid to fool any of us and especially at this point. Now I am trolling you and laughing at you, because you say you are a programmer and you cannot even google something properly. I'll give you one thing. You are amusing in a fool's kind of way. You keep making mistakes and making your opponent look all the more stronger in your doing so. You tried to take on a tiger by taking it by its tail and are now reaping the rewards of that (you look like a stuttering mistake making idiot).
See here troll - http://www.bitpipe.com/tlist/Broadband-Service-Providers.html Then again we already know you can't even get a google query right from this example of that here on this forums - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377 where you said you went looking for something involving the ac apk helping Doctor Mark Russinovich with his work in pagedefrag and it was right there once he proved you can't even run a query right on Google. You say you're a programmer in this thread, prove it (after all, you asked that of apk and he did with an impressive and overwhelming list of proofs to that effect, and you by comparison have nothing to your credit). Go away troll. You're no programmer, ha, you can't even get a google query correct.
rotflmao @ ion.simon.c, you said this - "'ve already "gotten the better" of you" here - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27825529 and I hate to tell you the obvious, but far from it. Looks to be the other way around in fact, with the ac apk trashing you and mostly with your own mistakes which I found rather funhy. Also, when the ac apk posted this in reply - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377 showing all the technical mistakes you made, even something easy like querying google for pete's sake, you messed up large. You state you're a programmer, so I will just say what you kept repeating endlessly to apk, which is prove it. You kept acting the ass afterwards, even after the ac apk put up quite the impressive list of times his works and wares have been in written publications or doing well at respected technical contests like Microsoft TechEd too, in the sciences of computing from as far back as 13 years ago up until present time or near to it in 2007 or 2008. You by way of comparison are unable to do anything like that despite your stating you have been at this since the 80's in that exchange. Based on all of this, there is no way you could ever successfully convince me that you are a programmer. You can't even query google right.
*grins* I'm as cool as a cucumber. It's this AC and his sockpuppet that seems to have lost it.
Anyway, good luck with this guy. He's pretty thick-headed. Lemmy know how it turns out?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27837223 sure you're cool as a cucumber (in a furnace), because you are making one screwup after another, just as you did here - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377 where all of your errors so far in this exchange have been exposed. You can't even query google properly and that was shown in the second url I posted. You say you're a programmer but there is no way you have tried to prove that though you demand it of others, and even if you could, based on your poor performance here it is obvious you are either not one and are lying or are crappy at it. Your choice, there are no other options so pick one. That's how many options I will leave you based on your errors and false accusations here and your inability to even query google right or know the meaning of simple acronyms like bsp which you had to ask for and I answered it for you and I am just a user.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377 and you can call me all the names you wish, you are reduced to name calling like most frustrated children or noobs in this science are when they mess up and shoot their mouths off while inserting their foot into their mouth as you have with false accusations, technical errors on the topics, and most of all your trolling here (you certainly are not big on proof though you demand it of others and they provide it) I mean, least of all the statement you made that you are a programmer, because no programmer I know would screw up as much as you have on this forums in 2 to 3 days time as you have been shown to do in the posting above). Happy now, with your trolling? See what it got you? You are running yourself off this forums with screw ups and it is hilarious. Anyone is free to read the link I just posted for a good laugh though it comes at the expense of your reputation on slashdot. You brought it on yourself troll.
Loved your performance (or rather, lack of it on your part ion.simon.c) here - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831825 nice of you ion.simon.c to make so many errors and false accusations that you ion.simon.c had to later admit you were wrong on here in this exchange. It's all there in black and white as proof that you made it too easy for the ac apk to tear you apart with ease, and believe me, it give us reading a good laugh,though at your expense ion.simon.c . You only brought the can of whoop ass the ac apk brought out on you, yourself, by trolling him. By the way, you claim to be a programmer? Prove it. You had the ac apk do that and he put up a list of 10 proofs that you had nothing like it to compare with from yourself though you say you have been using computers since the 1980's. I can now never believe that just based on the list of your errors in this thread in the link I posted just above. You're a troll.
What an idiot you are ion.simon.c for this statement - "Are you implying that you want to physically harm me?" from the post I am replying to of yours now. How on earth can anyone do that online, when they are not physically present to do so? You really are stupid. I've known plenty of little punks like you my entire life and sooner or later their wise ass remarks and snide buffoonery online gets them into a jam in the real world, everytime. I wager strongly you've had your ass beaten more than once a few times because of your pussy like behaviour and apparently you don't learn from it. Keep it up because I can promise you 1 thing that sooner or later your woman like ways will get your ass beaten in the real world because a moron like you definitely is not smart enough to avoid it as you create your own hassles as you have here and you are losing this debate badly evidenced here where all of your errors in this very thread are listed - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377
Prove you are a programmer,first. After all, I see you nearly constantly asking for many proofs here and on many things, which the ac apk did provide at your request. All your bullshit doesn't make me not believe the list of accomplishments the ac apk posted, along with all the errors you made here - http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831377 were listed to satisfy your request. You are nothing but another troll trying to save face here and you are not doing a good job of it. You are now off topic as is your usual also. I took a few minutes and I looked at your posting history. You have a pattern you try to repeat and it makes you extremely predictable. For example, when you are losing a debate, you start asking for "more detail" and you get supplied backing data that is detailed and you say it is not enough? Spare us. Poor little troll ion.simon.c, you are only fooling yourself, not us readers. Go away now troll, hide your head in shame. I state that since your performance in the link above which replies to you via quotes of your own words no less doesn't show any of us reading otherwise. It's shameful, and if you are a programmer (which I strongly doubt due to your list of errors in that url above as well as lack of proof you are, which is what I am asking for now). You lose, and don't have the good sense to realize it. Worse yet, you brought it on yourself and made horrendous technical errors and you try to do your trolling techniques and they keep burying you here, even moreso. It's your funeral.
OK I will email him and ask him a question. I found his email in his guide over at tech connect magazine and will email him a question and if you do not answer it correctly here, and he does answer the email, then we shall find out who is who. Fair enough? I know that will work because you do not have his email account to access as your own. You must think people are stupid you troll. Time to show you just how stupid you really are with this little test.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27839929 that is going to put your rather unintelligent question to rest, and I got the email MEK_LoveBug, and you obtained the answer from me as well. So, what answer would that be, ion.SIMIAN.c? Won't you tell us??
(You're driving yourself out of here, and I am loving EVERY SECOND OF IT - you just don't seem to get it, do you??? I do "get off" on putting little "not men" like you, right out, on ALL possible fronts (wish you were where I could reach you in person though, because that'd be REALLY fun then - too bad!))
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By the by, ion.SIMIAN.c - I saw this come out of you in a post here:
"You made 157 posts with a single nick in two days?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @04:20AM (#27827795)
You really ARE "transparent" aren't you?
You're stating that (the nick part) only tells me you're just another "multiple guises online" loser!
One just like Jeremy Reimer, Jay Little, & Jarrett DeAngelis who did the same thing, & were caught in it + forced to finally admit they not only impersonated me, but also were busted posting under different usernames, so they could try to "gang up on me" - GOOD, I welcome that too, as it only makes me look better blowing away an entire horde than it does 1 person only.
(Especially Jarrett DeAngelis, who tried to lie about who he was, & where he was from (but he had NO idea how easily I can determine that once I set my mind to it))
HE tried to do over @ the windows it pro magazine forums, lie like hell @ first... when he was caught? His credibility was shot & he knew it, and along with that went his nerve...
I trashed them all, RIGHT out of there, even to the point where the doctoral candidate student J. DeAngelis started agreeing with MOST of what I said, & I shut off FatBoy "Jay Little" with his own errors on Exchange Server (despite his braggadocio of "I AM AN EXCHANGE EXPERT" literally coming from him, first... so much for the "experts of arstechnica", eh?).
You're just like them, only even more stupid. I.E.? You're TOO easy!
APK
P.S.=> MEK_LoveBug, in case I don't get to tell you this? Thanks! You did a great job driving this weasel right out of here and you shut him up, perfectly, throughout all of your "scathing" replies (I'm impressed - most trolls don't "fold under pressure" as easily as this blatantly stupid & weak dolt, ion.siMIAN.c has)... apk
LMAO... again, you're just giving away your "modus operandi", w/ your:
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"It's this AC and his sockpuppet" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @06:19PM (#27838853)
Comment, just as you did here:
"157 posts with a single nick in two days?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @04:20AM (#27827795)
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In stating "I only used 1 nick to do so" -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27827795 (at this point, it is obvious to myself you are a multiple identity online troll is all).
Trolls: They're ALL the same, & usually TOO stupid to realize they give away how they operate (while trying to sound "cool & collected" as ion.SIMIAN.c has in the post I am replying to now here)
It was terribly funny how MEK_LoveBug beat the HELL out of you all thru this exchange, & so BADLY, you've run from commenting tonite...
I mean - you ordinarily 'stick it out' even though you mess up badly (too bad you finally realized your "trolling jedi mind tricks" don't work on me, they only make me more determined to do you in here is all, & I LOVE KNOCKING TROLLS FLAT OUT).
HOWEVER? Well, no small wonder that you ran, after this:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925
(LMAO!)
Remember: YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF!
I mean, hey - From near the get-go here, I tried to warn you, leave me be, don't mess with me & that you don't possess the intellect, experience, or skill to drag me down to YOUR level & get the better of me (the level you are at, of a lying trolilng scumbag, & that kind tries to "drag you down to their level & beat you with experience")... Sorry to disappoint you, but it'd most likely take somekind of skull trauma to make me have a "10 below plantlife IQ" like yours has shown itself to be, & when I get asked for proofs? I provide them, unlike yourself
(So, prove to us, for once, that you are a professional programmer as you stated, won't you? YOU asked ME for proofs of that, I backed up my words & provided them... you clearly demand proofs from others when you are "going down" in threads, so, let's see some PROOF FROM YOU, of your words, for once...)
APK
P.S.=> Ion.SIMIAN.c, this wasn't as fun as I thought it would be... mainly, because You're "TOO Easy", too stupid, and too uncool not to do this to, but, you also were TOO easy to destroy (you did THAT, only to yourself too, mind you, with massive errors here)
So, thus "you reap what you sow" & I promise you something, right now:
That posting of mine that shows your errors in this exchange? Well, that is going to go into EVERY ONE OF YOUR POSTS here, until you can't stand it anymore, & change your nick/handle here (I've done it before to trolling weakling wannabe's like you here, and elsewhere, so it's nothing new to me (getting rid of "trolling pests" like you? MY SPECIALTY, & I delight in it))... apk
Are saying that you're going to dump your copypasta into every post that I make from here on out? Oh, the horror.
If you are serious about this, do add a link to your very first comment, so's bored folks with an hour to kill can see the entire thread in all its glory.
"How could the Ars folks differentiate between your IP and mine?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @02:12AM (#27842383)
The short & sweet version? The IP address would be different (duh!)
LOL, man, you just ASKING that, tells me worlds on the question MEK_LoveBug & I have been asking that YOU provide proof of, see my subject line as to the "pronosis" thusfar, & you're leading me to THAT as a diagnosis by your evasion of it (though YOU "DEMAND" proof from others, & when you get it, your "that is not enough detail" trolling b.s. doesn't work (it may on the weak minded, but "Jedi Mind Tricks" don't work on me (they sure do you though, lol)).
I posted a longer version, regretting it now (might give a dullard like you, ideas) as it outlined what I strongly suspect you might try, the link you posted being VERY old & all, it would be child's play to track, as it would be what YOU called this thread here "a wasteland" & not many viewing it.
APK
P.S.=>
"Moreover, why wouldn't you browse the forums through Tor? That works just fine. - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @02:12AM (#27842383)
Listen, you keep "showing me your tell"... I'll give you some free advice - don't try to "play smart" with me, I warned you of that by the 3rd post here of mine iirc... In the end? I'll just turn it against you (you're doing quite nicely on that on that account, per this -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925 LOL!)
You've already alluded to your "modus operandi" here via this below already:
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"You made 157 posts with a single nick in two days?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @04:20AM (#27827795)
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You really ARE "transparent" aren't you? You're stating that from the quote of your words above just now (the nick part) ontop of your use of TOR onion routers (why not mention anonymous proxy lists too?) only tells me you're just another "multiple guises online" loser and it probably does anyone reading also!
Damn, you are not only an amateur @ computing saavy, but also LIFE imo @ this point - CLUE: YOU can't outfox "the fox".
Your puny moves? They're ones just like Jeremy Reimer, Jay Little, & Jarrett DeAngelis who did the same thing, & were caught in it + forced to finally admit they not only impersonated me, but also were busted posting under different usernames, so they could try to "gang up on me" - GOOD, I welcome that too, as it only makes me look better blowing away an entire horde than it does 1 person only.
(Especially Jarrett DeAngelis, who tried to lie about who he was, & where he was from (but he had NO idea how easily I can determine that once I set my mind to it))
HE tried to do over @ the windows it pro magazine forums, lie like hell @ first... when he was caught? His credibility was shot & he knew it, and along with that went his nerve...
I trashed them all, RIGHT out of there, even to the point where the doctoral candidate student J. DeAngelis started agreeing with MOST of what I said, & I shut off FatBoy "Jay Little" with his own errors on Exchange Server (despite his braggadocio of "I AM AN EXCHANGE EXPERT" literally coming from him, first... so much for the "experts of arstechnica", eh?).
You're just like them, only even more stupid. I.E.? You're TOO easy! apk
Both MEK & I are asking for what you are "big on" now though, since you said it yourself:
"Your standards of proof, just like those of the AC who claims to be APK, are inadequate." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @01:17AM (#27842127)
You always state you want proof, well, since you said you are a programmer? PROVE IT!
(He wrote me, asked me a question, I gave an answer... can you tell he & I what that answer is, also?)
APK
P.S.=> You had ME do the same, so, now "the shoes on the other foot"... After all, you said you were a professional programmer, so, prove it! apk
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27842631
Re-read it, drink it in, & digest it... it's ALL there, so, perhaps "hooked on phonics" might be in order for YOU!
APK
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27842631
Re-read it, drink it in, & digest it... it's ALL there, so, perhaps "hooked on phonics" might be in order for YOU!
PLUS, MEK_LoveBug and myself have been asking for what you are "BIG ON" & demanded from myself... proof! Proof you are indeed a professional programmer... so, I put out mine, where is yours?
(Same place as you list of accomplishments in this field that's bigger OR better than my own I had to produce as one of your "requirements"??)
APK
P.S.=> By this point, I've answered ALL of your questions here, so your trolling "delaying tactics" are over with, you get no more evasive questions of yours answered by myself - & that is that.
Anyone interested can read this URL & judge "whom is getting the better of whom" via this URL (pretty much says it all):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925
(AND, based on your sheer number of TECHNICAL ERRORS in this exchange? I'd nearly guarantee they're NOT going to say YOU got the better of ME - unless being incorrect on many things has become "the new win" lately, that is... & I do not believe it has!)
apk
Not much!
Especially after this:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=d92e1af0e02fb341317f7d617b83fdfd&showtopic=2662
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As I don't advertise shares here, via cutting off the "SERVER service" alone can do...
That's as far as getting to my data on disk!
(However, there are vulnerabilities that aren't disclosed either so, I avoid giving away information I don't have to such as my IP addres, ala your SMB question for example, & NTLMv1 vs. NTLMv2 issues (version 1 had DES encryption usage vulnerabilities in LanMan networking (NetBIOS stuff & good ole' port 139 &/or 445)))
That's the thing, the stuff NOBODY has disclosed or discovered that you can BANK on it, some people DO know about, + how to exploit it!
(NULL session hacks, anyone? I'm easily immune to that also, since I am a single machine only here (online on the internet single system), & my server service is stalled (saving RAM + other forms of I/O also)... Plus, other settings too, which are EASILY controlled via registry hacks, just like using NTLMv1 vs. NTLMv2, & they have GUI fronts for the latter alongside Group Policies you can set on them also (as well as local policies))...
"Layered security" is the trend, & I go into ALL of this, in the URL above...
(Still, one never knows, & I am just being safe!)
APK
P.S.=> I have NO need, desire, or sufficient motivation to visit arstechnica, sorry... & just being safe, & avoiding potential hassles is all! apk
Not much!
Especially after this:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=d92e1af0e02fb341317f7d617b83fdfd&showtopic=2662
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As I don't advertise shares here, via cutting off the "SERVER service" alone can do...
That's as far as getting to my data on disk!
(However, there are vulnerabilities that aren't disclosed either so, I avoid giving away information I don't have to such as my IP addres, ala your SMB question for example, & NTLMv1 vs. NTLMv2 issues (version 1 had DES encryption usage vulnerabilities in LanMan networking (NetBIOS stuff & good ole' port 139 &/or 445)))
That's the thing, the stuff NOBODY has disclosed or discovered that you can BANK on it, some people DO know about, + how to exploit it!
(NULL session hacks, anyone? I'm easily immune to that also, since I am a single machine only here (online on the internet single system), & my server service is stalled (saving RAM + other forms of I/O also)... Plus, other settings too, which are EASILY controlled via registry hacks, just like using NTLMv1 vs. NTLMv2, & they have GUI fronts for the latter alongside Group Policies you can set on them also (as well as local policies))...
"Layered security" is the trend, & I go into ALL of this, in the URL above...
(Still, one never knows, & I am just being safe!)
APK
P.S.=> I have NO need, desire, or sufficient motivation to visit arstechnica, sorry... & just being safe, & avoiding potential hassles is all!
And, don't avoid the question MEK_LoveBug and I have been asking you for (which is what you demanded from myself & I put it up, PROOFS): Provide proof you are what you claim you are in being a professional programmer... apk
"Is the the traditional form of SMB password handling secure or insecure? Why or why not? - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:08PM (#27825411)
Insecure due to incorrect DES encryption handling, NTLMv2 is the way... changeable in Secpol.msc "Network Security:" sections of it. In fact, see my guide below for specifics!
(I wrote about this years to DECADES ago &? In both versions of my security guide, give me a break - Learn to READ... please.)
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"And, moreover, what would they *do* with your IP address if they had it?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @03:37AM (#27842843)
Not much! I.E.-> About as good a performance out of the arstechnica gang, as you did here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925 lmao!
AND, I can say that... Especially after this:
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HOW TO SECURE Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, & even VISTA, + make it 'fun-to-do', via CIS Tool Guidance (& beyond):
http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=d92e1af0e02fb341317f7d617b83fdfd&showtopic=2662
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As I don't advertise shares here, via cutting off the "SERVER service" alone can do...
That's as far as getting to my data on disk!
(However, there are vulnerabilities that aren't disclosed either so, I avoid giving away information I don't have to such as my IP addres, ala your SMB question for example, & NTLMv1 vs. NTLMv2 issues (version 1 had DES encryption usage vulnerabilities in LanMan networking (NetBIOS stuff & good ole' port 139 &/or 445)))
That's the thing, the stuff NOBODY has disclosed or discovered that you can BANK on it, some people DO know about, + how to exploit it!
Another E.G. -> NULL session hacks, anyone?
I'm easily immune to that also, since I am a single machine only here (online on the internet single system), & :
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1.) My server service is stalled (saving RAM + other forms of I/O also + I don't need to share anything)
2.) I manually stop shares as well, via:
NET SHARE ADMIN$ /DELETE /DELETE /DELETE /DELETE /DELETE /DELETE /DELETE /DELETE
NET SHARE IPC$
NET SHARE DFS$
NET SHARE COMCFG$
NET SHARE FAX$
NET SHARE NETLOGON
NET SHARE PRINT$
NET USE *
3.) I also disable File and Print sharing + Client for Microsoft Networks & disable NetBIOS over Tcp/IP here, via IP settings dialogs in the Local Network connection
4.) Plus, other settings too, which are EASILY controlled via registry hacks, just like using NTLMv1 vs. NTLMv2, & they have GUI fronts for the latter alongside Group Policies you can set on them also (as well as local policies)...
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(That all only takes me minutes, as I have much of the gui tools memorized once I am in them, & the registry settings .reg file mergeable easily, automating the entire process into minutes of work. Layered Security @ work & it works...)
"Layered security" is the trend, & I go into ALL of this, in the URL above...
(Still, one never knows, & I am just being safe, smart, & cool as I don't go looking for trouble with idiots, but I won't "lay down like a dog & roll over" for them either, but then, you know that now, don't you? LOL!)
APK
P.S.=>
"You're a security expert, and they're a bunch of wannabes, remember?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @03:37AM (#27842843)
I have NO need, desire, or sufficient motivation to visit arstechnica, sorry... & just being safe, & avoiding potential hassle
And, moreover, what would they *do* with your IP address if they had it?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @03:37AM (#27842843)
Nothing, as nothing can get thru this kind of setup with a semi-saavy user even -> http://www.tcmagazine.com/forums/index.php?s=0e0939a8079638d64fd73a81b7f302dc&showtopic=2662
(Still, I don't take chances, & I don't invite trouble or start it for no good reason either)
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"You're a security expert" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @03:37AM (#27842843)
If you say so, & thank you I suppose.
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and they're a bunch of wannabes, remember?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @03:37AM (#27842843)
Again, not everyone there is like Jeremy Reimer, Jay Little, or Jarrett DeAngelis (or you, what with your 'sock puppet', TOR, & single nick references, showing us all YOUR tell & modus operandi)...
APK
P.S.=> Answer the question MEK_LoveBug & myself asked of you, which is what YOU are "big on" in PROOF (which I provided, now it's YOUR TURN) -> Prove to us all you are a professional programmer, since you stated you were & demanded it of myself... I wish you do better though, than you did here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925 , lol! apk
"Until they are answered to my standards, I have nothing more for you." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Thursday May 07, @12:59AM (#27855779)
Your questions were ALL answered here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27853857
and, here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
If you want more detail than that? I'd suggest looking @ articles on NT ACL's (Dr. Mark Russinovich did an entire series of them, and they take up MANY PAGES (which is not what I am willing to do here, because it'd take several posts to fit even 1 in I imagine).
Those articles go into more detail, & each deals in things like:
1.) ACL Editor Documentation
2.) The mechanisms of NT's robust security system (SIDS, Access Tokens, C2 Security, Impersonation, Security Descriptors, Priveleges, & Policies).
However, as noted by the subject-line here? YOU are avoiding a simple question, & something you demand of others: PROOF!
(Proof that you are indeed, a professional programmer, since you stated you were & demanded it of myself, and I provided some proofs thereof)
APK
P.S.=> Then again, we've already seen your "fine performance" on things technical in this list of that, here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925
apk
"Until they are answered to my standards, I have nothing more for you." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Thursday May 07, @12:59AM (#27855779)
Your questions were ALL answered here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27853857
and, here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27806379
If you want more detail than that? I'd suggest looking @ articles on NT ACL's & Security (Dr. Mark Russinovich & Windows IT Pro magazine (as Windows NT magazine, Windows 2000 magazine as their title back then) did an entire series of them, and they take up MANY PAGES (which is not what I am willing to do here, because it'd take several posts to fit even 1 in I imagine)).
Those articles go into more detail, & each deals in things like:
1.) ACL Editor Documentation
2.) The mechanisms of NT's robust security system (SIDS, Access Tokens, C2 Security, Impersonation, Security Descriptors, Priveleges, & Policies).
However, as noted by the subject-line here? YOU are avoiding a simple question, one both myself and MEK_LoveBug wanted answered by you, & funny you do that, when PROOF is clearly something you demanded of others all throughout this exchange...
(Proof that you are indeed, a professional programmer, since you stated you were & demanded it of myself, and I provided some proofs thereof)
APK
P.S.=> Then again, we've already seen your "fine performance" on things technical in this list of that, here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925
apk
Listen, you keep "showing me your tell"... I'll give you some free advice - don't try to "play smart" with me, I warned you of that by the 3rd post here of mine iirc... In the end? I'll just turn it against you (you're doing quite nicely on that on that account, per this -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1221343&cid=27831925 LOL!)
You've already alluded to your "modus operandi" here via this below already:
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"Moreover, why wouldn't you browse the forums through Tor? That works just fine." - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Wednesday May 06, @02:12AM (#27842383)
"You made 157 posts with a single nick in two days?" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @04:20AM (#27827795)
"It's this AC and his sockpuppet" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @06:19PM (#27838853)
"Also, you may wish to start folks from the beginning http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1219095&cid=27792899 sockpuppet. ;)" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Tuesday May 05, @06:21PM (#27838879)
Hey, I'm ALL for that & I'll wholeheartedly agree with you for once on that much - I welcome ANYONE reading this, ever, to read this exchange from the beginning & see who did what + whom "got the better of whom"... absolutely!
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This whole "bent" of yours, without proof? It's only showing us, how you yourself, operate...
(I.E.-> You don't know me personally nor you have no proof of myself doing this (which is what you demand of others & I provided all questions answered you asked (minus writing out a small book, which is rare for me to NOT do actually), & proofs that I am indeed a pro in this field after you had accused me of not being so no less... and you fail to provide the same despite your claim of being a pro coder? Please...))
Man, lol... You really ARE "transparent" though... aren't you?
I mean, hey - You're stating that stuff, those methods alone, from the quotes of your words above just now (the nick, + socket puppet ones), ontop of your use of TOR onion routers (why not mention anonymous proxy lists too)?
That all only tells me you're just another "multiple guises online" loser, and it probably does anyone reading also!
CLUE: YOU can't outfox "the fox"... ( &, "I see you")
I mean, lol... Your puny moves you make & clues you give that "show your tell" here?
They're exactly like the ones just like Jeremy Reimer, Jay Little, & Jarrett DeAngelis of arstehnica (whom YOU brought up here first no less) who did the same thing, & were caught in it + forced to finally admit they not only impersonated me, but also were busted posting under different usernames, so they could try to "gang up on me" - GOOD, I welcome that too, as it only makes me look better blowing away an entire horde than it does 1 person only.
(Especially Jarrett DeAngelis, who tried to lie about who he was, & where he was from (but he had NO idea how easily I can determine that once I set my mind to it))
HE tried to do over @ the windows it pro magazine forums, lie like hell @ first... when he was caught? His credibility was shot
& he knew it, and along with that went his nerve...
I trashed them all, RIGHT out of there, even to the point where:
A.) The Notre Dame postgrad masters/doctoral candidate student J. DeAngelis started agreeing with MOST of what I said
B.) I shut off FatBoy "Jay Little" with his own errors on Exchange Server (despite his braggadocio of "I AM AN EXCHANGE EXPERT", following me around to other forums afterwards and getting himself banned there and losing once more on technical issues being discussed since he went into posts I had made
I heard they distributed a blank CD. pretty damn secure
I know that YOU are a liar by this point, Ion.simon.c because you avoid my question to you asking for proof of your professional status as a programmer. It is obvious by now that though you demand proof from others you are unwilling or unable (the latter in this case) to provide proofs yourself. You are trying to get the better of your betters and it cost you your reputation here because you lied about being a professional programmer and are unwilling to disprove my statement calling you a liar. After seeing the list of errors you made I was almost certain you lied about being a programmer and now I have no doubt that you are not a programmer because you evade answering a simple question asking you for proof of if you are a programmer or not. I also just watched the film THE WATCHMEN and the very beginning of the film where THE COMEDIAN is trying to defeat OZYMANDIAS reminds me of this exchange between the ac apk and yourself, and you are definitely THE COMEDIAN in this case (except you are not funny and the beating you are taking isn't even funny anymore)
"I've already "gotten the better" of you. I did this the very first time that I closed a thread with you" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:20PM (#27825529)
Oh, really? Is that why you RAN from these 3 simple questions there:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1061185&cid=26161101
AND, Just like there? You are running from SIMPLE questions, where you called the Gigabyte IRAM a "finicky piece of trash", but that piece of trash works FINE on Windows... & yet, it does not on Linux!
Explain that, & it appears the "finicky piece of junk", IS LINUX, not Windows OR the IRAM...
(And, just like the 3 questions I asked you there, and you RAN from them also? You're also running from the ones in my p.s. below now, avoiding them @ any cost as you did those above...)
Who are you trying to fool here?
(ROTFLMAO... "too easy")
APK
P.S.=> Like I told you around my 2-3rd post here? I'll outsmart you, & largely with your own screwups, as I did here in the end of this -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1229883&cid=27930695 which was, again "TOO easy"... apk
"I've already "gotten the better" of you. I did this the very first time that I closed a thread with you" - by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Monday May 04, @10:20PM (#27825529)
Oh, really? Is that why you RAN from these 3 simple questions there:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1061185&cid=26161101
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Answer this simple set of questions, enumerated 1-3 below, since you said the "Gigabyte IRAM is a 'finicky piece of trash'" etc. et al on your part:
After all, you said this, here, in this very discussion:
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1061185&cid=26102285
"Heh. The i-RAM is a finicky chunk of trash."- by ion.simon.c (1183967) on Saturday December 13, @09:55AM (#26102285)
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So, since you said that? Well, back it up, vs. these 3 simple questions you now refuse to answer:
1.) Does the IRAM run on Windows reliably? ANSWER = YES...
2.) Does the IRAM run on Linux reliably?? ANSWER (per your sources no less) = NO...
3.) Since the IRAM runs on Windows well, but not Linux, well... what is the "piece of trash" here (what is it YOU called the IRAM? A "finicky piece of trash"??)??? ANSWER (obviously) = LINUX...
Ah, yes: Nothing like trashing another "arstechnica wannabe", publicly, online... & your SILENCE vs. those questions? IS GOLDEN... lol!
APK
P.S.=> As the saying goes? "TOO easy"... apk
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AND, Just like there? You are running from SIMPLE questions, here in the url in my p.s. below!
Who are you trying to fool here?
Clearly, once more/again - YOU PLAYED YOURSELF with another lie, or rather it seems in YOUR case, ion.SIMIAN.c, a delusional mind on your part... because anyone can see you RUN LIKE A BEYOTCH from valid questions you screw up on, badly... above, & in my p.s. below!
(ROTFLMAO... "too easy")
APK
P.S.=> He's certainly NOT a programmer (though he CLAIMS HE IS, & evidently, not much of a techie even either per the IRAM exchange above as well) because, after all?
Well, he asked ME for proof of that on my part, & I freely provided it... however, you ask ion.SIMIAN.c to do the same? You get evasions, like here (@ least 6-7 times now he has evaded this no less) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1229883&cid=27930929 ... TOO easy! apk
You sound like a botmaster who is trying to convince others that running unsecured is enough so he can take advantage of them being unsecured as the ac apk outlined how to do it along with his written quoted testimonials of others who have been free of such things as malwares for going on 2 years currently because of them applying his guide. I used it also and I used to be infested by bad ad banners and bad websites but the ac apk's advice of just turning off javascript has me not getting any infections like I used to. His ideas work and I am not a computer guru by any stretch of the imagination. I am glad I used his guide. Go away botmaster ion.simon.c, please.