Why would you even bother to overwrite them? Just boot to DOS and read/copy at will.
Last time I checked, DOS doesn't grok NTFS. (A bootable Linux CD would work, but then you have the iffy support for the cheap-ass NICs in HP Pavilions and the built-in NIC in nForce-based systems to deal with. Those can be dealt with by temporarily installing a 3C905B that I keep on hand for the purpose, but it's simpler to just overwrite the password, log in, and get what I need.)
If you're an admin, just connect to the 2k/XP machines with the Computer Management console and reset the passwords remotely. Or log onto the workstation as the domain admin and do the same thing locally. This comes in even more handy when the account you need to change the password on is a domain account.
We're not set up that way...there is no domain controller or other centralized password management scheme. A couple of Linux boxes run Samba as workgroup file servers and another Linux box runs lpd to handle printing, but everybody is the "admin" of his own workstation(s). Maybe that's not the best way to run a network, but when you have fewer than a dozen people, it works well enough. (I did some experimenting at home a while back with configuring Samba as a domain controller (and got Win2K to log into the domain), but I haven't implemented it at work.)
This is simply not true. The Republican Party leans heavily on large donations from individuals.
Bzzt...thanks for playing, though. In 2002, lump-sum donations of $1 million or more were tilted 12:1 in favor of the Democrats ($36 million to the Democrats vs. $3 million to the Republicans). Democrats raised more than twice as much as Republicans in the $100k-$1M bracket ($72M D vs. $34M R), and $29 million more in the $10k-$100k bracket ($140M D vs. $111M R). You have to go all the way down to the $1k-$10k bracket before Republicans start to outraise Democrats ($317M R vs. $307M D), and Republicans do about 50% better than the Democrats at donations of only $200-$1k ($68M R vs. $44M D).
Is there a way that I could have recovered/changed my admin password knowing that I had the original Win XP install CD and I could log-in to the box with a limited access user id that wouldn't allow me to change admin password or install anything that needed admin rights??
I always thought there was something wrong with Microsofts password "encryption." Now it's confirmed.
Why bother cracking NT (and Win2K/XP) passwords when you can just overwrite them? Boot from this floppy and you can change any local password (including the administrator). It's been useful on more than one occasion at work...when somebody quits or is fired, I can go in and retrieve everything in just a few minutes.
That they're nearly as trivial to crack is somewhat disturbing...but given the ready availability of the password changer, it doesn't make Windows significantly less secure than it already is (hell, it can't get much less secure).
In order for PCI stuff to work with this platform, you need firmware for PPC. Guess what? The multitude of X86 cheap stuff doesnt work on these platforms.
It's only the cards that typically have ROM on them for which this becomes an issue. While I had to flash a no-name Radeon VE clone to get it working in my beige G3, I was able to drop in and use a no-name NIC (cheap RTL8139 job) and a no-name USB2/FireWire card. All of it runs like a champ under Mac OS X.
" No, that would be a run-of-the-mill advertisement. A FUI would be an offical looking "All Trucks Must Exit Here" sign leading to a truck-repair center. Or, maybe more realistically, a sign that says "Warning: next stop for blinker fluid in 200 miles""
A casino in Las Vegas got in trouble over its billboards that resembled traffic signs...it turns out that there are laws (in Nevada and California, at least) that "prohibit the placement of signs that imitate official highway signs."
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Maybe your just in a city with too many radio stations. Though, I live in San Francisco, which I think has a fair number of stations, and I use the iTrip with no problem. I'm not a radio listener, in general, so I can't say how many radio stations there are in San Francisco, but I started with the low end of the dial, and ended up on channel 89.7FM, which works like a charm for me.
I noticed that problem with an iRock transmitter on a trip to Phoenix...the four frequencies on which it transmits are all in use down there. Here in Las Vegas (or on the road between here and there), there are a couple of frequencies with which it works well enough. The factory radio in my S10 picks it up with no problems if the device playing the music (usually a Palm Tungsten T nowadays) is in the center console and the iRock dangles off to the side. (Don't know how it works with the Sony in my car, but since that has a tape deck, I'd just use a tape adapter there.)
A head unit with a line-in jack would be nice, though. (Come to think of it, there's an outboard tape deck (installs in the center console) available for most Chevy trucks that works with the AM/FM/CD head unit. (My parents have one in their Tahoe.) This would imply that there's some sort of input (preferably line-level) on the back of the head unit. If there were a way to bring that out to a mini-jack into which you could connect an MP3 player, that'd get the job done.)
The only bad thing I see in that is that serial on the back of notebook doesn't work with common install CD.
It's not supposed to work. That CD key is for an OEM install, while the CD you have is most likely a retail CD. You need to either (1) score an OEM WinXP CD (some places will sell OEM software with some cheap hardware (like an old 486 or Pentium, or even an IDE cable) thrown in to make it a qualified purchase) or (2) use the WinXP keygen (it's out there) to create a CD key that works with a retail CD (or a corporate CD or whatever you have).
Have you heard about the UN's recent efforts to outlaw ALL personal ownership of small arms and light weapons WORLDWIDE?
I know it's a cliché, but that's just one more reason to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. The United Nations is the single greatest threat to liberty in the world today...consider its refusal to enforce its own resolutions against Iraq, or its allowing nations such as Libya and Iran to run its "human rights" commission, or the ITU taking advice on control of the Internet from countries such as Cuba.
'What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" don't you understand?'
The definition (or limit) of what 'arms' entails, that's what.
In the general sense, arms are defined as "Instruments or weapons of offense or defense." (from www.dict.org)
Should 'the people' have the right to bear heavy machine guns? Flamethrowers? Mortars? RPGs? Cruise missiles? Tactical nukes?
I don't see why not...the muskets that people were shooting in the late 18th century were state-of-the-art weaponry at the time. (A tactical nuke is probably outside the budget of anybody who's not Bill Gates...but you didn't see too many people with cannon and other large artillery pieces in their yards back in the day for the same reason.)
And the argument that the people need to be armed so they can overthrow the government... please. Can you imagine what would happen if private citizenry launched an assault against the government in today's America?
That is one of the many arguments made for the Second Amendment. We had just tossed out one tyrannical government largely through the skills of ordinary people who showed up ready to fight. The people who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights recognized that even though they had taken extraordinary care to craft a system of government to secure an unprecedented amount of freedom for its people, there was always the possibility that someone could come along long after they were gone who might try to undo what they had accomplished. Whether citizens with long guns and handguns are a match for modern armed forces with tanks and supersonic aircraft with bombs and missiles is irrelevant WRT the rights of those citizens.
True enough, and for the same reasons their other freedoms are abridged...they've demonstrated they're not worthy....Here's where you're completely off-base. Gun ownership is not a privilege. It is a right that is not subject to the whims of the state.
Don't these strike you as opposites? It's a right that's not subject to the whims of the state, but it can be revoked by the state? That's not much of a right if you support revocation.
Not at all. If you've demonstrated that you're a threat to society, we lock you up. If you behave yourself while you're in the Big House, we might let you out to live something that approximates a normal life, but with some controls to (hopefully) mitigate the damage you can do if you decide to resume your old habits. If, however, you continue to live a decent life on the outside, you can petition to have your rights restored. (You could also give huge sums of money to a governor or a president and buy yourself a pardon...like Marc Rich, who was pardoned on charges of tax evasion, fraud, and "trading with the enemy" after raising/donating over $1 million for the Democrats and giving over $17k in cash and furniture to the Clintons and their "legal defense fund.")
That's the price you pay if you take up a life of crime. Your rights stop where they interfere with other people's rights...my right to swing my fist ends at your nose. If you infringe somebody else's rights, expect your rights to be curtailed.
2. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I assume this is what you're referring to. Maybe I'm wrong and if I am, I'm sorry, please cite what you're talking about (if you want to keep this thread going, that is). Nowhere in the 2nd admendment does it say that you have the right to own and/or stockpile weapons without any sort of registration process.
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" don't you understand? A well-trained (or "well-regulated," as they put it...note that "well-regulated" doesn't mean registration & licensing) militia is a sufficient reason, but not a necessary reason. The correct interpretation of the 2nd Amendment as an individual right is what the Justice Department uses, and so far it has been affirmed in at least the 5th Circuit (in US vs. Emerson).
Riddle me this: Why would the Founding Fathers make free speech, free assembly, the right to a speedy trial by a jury of your peers, etc. individual rights, but make the right to defend yourself against the predations of criminals (or a government run amok...but now I'm being redundant) a collective right? That conclusion is not logical, and it's not at all supported by the plain text of the 2nd Amendment.
Your statement saying that gun ownership is not a privilege in no way whatsoever validates your statement that you need no license to own a gun.
Privileges are subject to licensure...driving your car on public roads is a privilege for which you need a driver's license. Rights are not subject to licensure. You don't need a license to speak or write whatever you want...and you don't need a license to own a gun.
Hehe... don't you Americans know how ridiculous to the rest of the world?
That remark is a shining example of all that is wrong with democracy. I'm more concerned with what is right than with what the rest of the world thinks...that's what separates George W. Bush and Tony Blair from most of the rest of the world's "leaders."
You know, the bible is an unfalible book from 2000 years ago and it doesn't say anything about the right to gun ownership.
You don't suppose that could be the result of the Bible being centuries older than firearms, do you?
Shouldn't that take precedence over your constitution, which is merely an infalible document from 200 years ago?
Considering that the Constitution is the law of the land and the Bible isn't, no.
(Yes, IHBT. A good fisking in response to a troll isn't necessarily a Bad Thing, though. It's even fun sometimes.)
Dude, get your facts straight. We don't just allow anyone to carry a gun at all times. Very few states allow you to carry a gun on you (carrying a concealed weapon).
Actually, 35 states have "shall-issue" concealed-carry laws. There's also open carry...here in Nevada, while a permit is "required" (not sure that the requirement is constitutional, but at least it's issued upon passing written and shooting tests) for concealed carry, anybody of age can open-carry without restriction. I doubt that this is the only state like this.
Also, convicted felons aren't allowed to own a gun
True enough, and for the same reasons their other freedoms are abridged...they've demonstrated they're not worthy.
and you're definitely not allowed to own a gun without a permit and license.
Here's where you're completely off-base. Gun ownership is not a privilege. It is a right that is not subject to the whims of the state. You need no "license" from the state to own a gun. The state has no authority to require that gun owners have "licenses" for their guns. If your state is claiming unconstitutional authority to say who can have how many guns, you need to vote out the control freaks who implemented those "laws" and vote in some people who are willing to stick to their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
"They are gonna have a hard time when they send a notice to the address I had my card & reader shipped to: COD John Smith UPS Customer Counter - Hold for Pickup (my local UPS counter addy)"
Of course they will get your credit card number in those raids too and your bank will have your billing address...
Last time I checked, COD meant Cash On Delivery. UPS won't have a credit-card number to give to The Man, if they should come knocking.
Another possibility is MaGlobe...they've had multiple local numbers everywhere I've gone, and 69/hr is cheap enough for occasional use. (My primary access is cable modem service...I use the dial-up mainly to access my mail server, which is parked on a cable-modem static IP.)
I manually configured dial-up networking in WinXP to use it (dialers suck), so you should be able to set it up under Linux easily enough if that's what you use.
... when Slackware was released... I think it was by SLS, no, which mean "Soft Landing Systems".
SLS was a separate outfit (and distro) that predates Slackware a bit. My first Linux system was SLS...unlike Slackware, you could install SLS from 5.25" floppies. I had a binder with somewhere around 20-30 disks that held the entire thing.
I even ran my BBS on SLS for a while...made a cheesy menu-driven shell for callers that called a mail reader, news reader, etc. If they wanted full-up csh access, that was available too.
Next stop after that was Slackware...then SuSE, and then Linux From Scratch, and now Gentoo. (I still have some boxen running LFS, but my home server will get moved to Gentoo before too long.) Slackware is still better than the others for low-end hardware, though...it took no time to get it onto a 486DX2-66 which is now running at work as a print server.
Macrovision will not affect your ability to capture video on your computer clearly.
It will if your capture card has AGC that is freaked out by macrovision.
...or if your capture card detects it and the driver says, "No video capture for you!" (That misfeature is sometimes correctable with a driver patch...here's one that works with All-In-Wonders.)
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Last time I checked, DOS doesn't grok NTFS. (A bootable Linux CD would work, but then you have the iffy support for the cheap-ass NICs in HP Pavilions and the built-in NIC in nForce-based systems to deal with. Those can be dealt with by temporarily installing a 3C905B that I keep on hand for the purpose, but it's simpler to just overwrite the password, log in, and get what I need.)
We're not set up that way...there is no domain controller or other centralized password management scheme. A couple of Linux boxes run Samba as workgroup file servers and another Linux box runs lpd to handle printing, but everybody is the "admin" of his own workstation(s). Maybe that's not the best way to run a network, but when you have fewer than a dozen people, it works well enough. (I did some experimenting at home a while back with configuring Samba as a domain controller (and got Win2K to log into the domain), but I haven't implemented it at work.)
Bzzt...thanks for playing, though. In 2002, lump-sum donations of $1 million or more were tilted 12:1 in favor of the Democrats ($36 million to the Democrats vs. $3 million to the Republicans). Democrats raised more than twice as much as Republicans in the $100k-$1M bracket ($72M D vs. $34M R), and $29 million more in the $10k-$100k bracket ($140M D vs. $111M R). You have to go all the way down to the $1k-$10k bracket before Republicans start to outraise Democrats ($317M R vs. $307M D), and Republicans do about 50% better than the Democrats at donations of only $200-$1k ($68M R vs. $44M D).
Yes.
Why bother cracking NT (and Win2K/XP) passwords when you can just overwrite them? Boot from this floppy and you can change any local password (including the administrator). It's been useful on more than one occasion at work...when somebody quits or is fired, I can go in and retrieve everything in just a few minutes.
That they're nearly as trivial to crack is somewhat disturbing...but given the ready availability of the password changer, it doesn't make Windows significantly less secure than it already is (hell, it can't get much less secure).
Whippersnapper. When I was in grade school, encyclopedias still took up 3-6 feet of shelf space...and we liked it that way! :-)
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It's only the cards that typically have ROM on them for which this becomes an issue. While I had to flash a no-name Radeon VE clone to get it working in my beige G3, I was able to drop in and use a no-name NIC (cheap RTL8139 job) and a no-name USB2/FireWire card. All of it runs like a champ under Mac OS X.
A casino in Las Vegas got in trouble over its billboards that resembled traffic signs...it turns out that there are laws (in Nevada and California, at least) that "prohibit the placement of signs that imitate official highway signs."
I noticed that problem with an iRock transmitter on a trip to Phoenix...the four frequencies on which it transmits are all in use down there. Here in Las Vegas (or on the road between here and there), there are a couple of frequencies with which it works well enough. The factory radio in my S10 picks it up with no problems if the device playing the music (usually a Palm Tungsten T nowadays) is in the center console and the iRock dangles off to the side. (Don't know how it works with the Sony in my car, but since that has a tape deck, I'd just use a tape adapter there.)
A head unit with a line-in jack would be nice, though. (Come to think of it, there's an outboard tape deck (installs in the center console) available for most Chevy trucks that works with the AM/FM/CD head unit. (My parents have one in their Tahoe.) This would imply that there's some sort of input (preferably line-level) on the back of the head unit. If there were a way to bring that out to a mini-jack into which you could connect an MP3 player, that'd get the job done.)
It's not supposed to work. That CD key is for an OEM install, while the CD you have is most likely a retail CD. You need to either (1) score an OEM WinXP CD (some places will sell OEM software with some cheap hardware (like an old 486 or Pentium, or even an IDE cable) thrown in to make it a qualified purchase) or (2) use the WinXP keygen (it's out there) to create a CD key that works with a retail CD (or a corporate CD or whatever you have).
The story's not that long. It is funny, though.
I know it's a cliché, but that's just one more reason to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. The United Nations is the single greatest threat to liberty in the world today...consider its refusal to enforce its own resolutions against Iraq, or its allowing nations such as Libya and Iran to run its "human rights" commission, or the ITU taking advice on control of the Internet from countries such as Cuba.
I don't see why not...the muskets that people were shooting in the late 18th century were state-of-the-art weaponry at the time. (A tactical nuke is probably outside the budget of anybody who's not Bill Gates...but you didn't see too many people with cannon and other large artillery pieces in their yards back in the day for the same reason.)
That is one of the many arguments made for the Second Amendment. We had just tossed out one tyrannical government largely through the skills of ordinary people who showed up ready to fight. The people who wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights recognized that even though they had taken extraordinary care to craft a system of government to secure an unprecedented amount of freedom for its people, there was always the possibility that someone could come along long after they were gone who might try to undo what they had accomplished. Whether citizens with long guns and handguns are a match for modern armed forces with tanks and supersonic aircraft with bombs and missiles is irrelevant WRT the rights of those citizens.
Not at all. If you've demonstrated that you're a threat to society, we lock you up. If you behave yourself while you're in the Big House, we might let you out to live something that approximates a normal life, but with some controls to (hopefully) mitigate the damage you can do if you decide to resume your old habits. If, however, you continue to live a decent life on the outside, you can petition to have your rights restored. (You could also give huge sums of money to a governor or a president and buy yourself a pardon...like Marc Rich, who was pardoned on charges of tax evasion, fraud, and "trading with the enemy" after raising/donating over $1 million for the Democrats and giving over $17k in cash and furniture to the Clintons and their "legal defense fund.")
That's the price you pay if you take up a life of crime. Your rights stop where they interfere with other people's rights...my right to swing my fist ends at your nose. If you infringe somebody else's rights, expect your rights to be curtailed.
What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" don't you understand? A well-trained (or "well-regulated," as they put it...note that "well-regulated" doesn't mean registration & licensing) militia is a sufficient reason, but not a necessary reason. The correct interpretation of the 2nd Amendment as an individual right is what the Justice Department uses, and so far it has been affirmed in at least the 5th Circuit (in US vs. Emerson).
Riddle me this: Why would the Founding Fathers make free speech, free assembly, the right to a speedy trial by a jury of your peers, etc. individual rights, but make the right to defend yourself against the predations of criminals (or a government run amok...but now I'm being redundant) a collective right? That conclusion is not logical, and it's not at all supported by the plain text of the 2nd Amendment.
Privileges are subject to licensure...driving your car on public roads is a privilege for which you need a driver's license. Rights are not subject to licensure. You don't need a license to speak or write whatever you want...and you don't need a license to own a gun.
That remark is a shining example of all that is wrong with democracy. I'm more concerned with what is right than with what the rest of the world thinks...that's what separates George W. Bush and Tony Blair from most of the rest of the world's "leaders."
You don't suppose that could be the result of the Bible being centuries older than firearms, do you?
Considering that the Constitution is the law of the land and the Bible isn't, no.
(Yes, IHBT. A good fisking in response to a troll isn't necessarily a Bad Thing, though. It's even fun sometimes.)
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Actually, 35 states have "shall-issue" concealed-carry laws. There's also open carry...here in Nevada, while a permit is "required" (not sure that the requirement is constitutional, but at least it's issued upon passing written and shooting tests) for concealed carry, anybody of age can open-carry without restriction. I doubt that this is the only state like this.
True enough, and for the same reasons their other freedoms are abridged...they've demonstrated they're not worthy.
Here's where you're completely off-base. Gun ownership is not a privilege. It is a right that is not subject to the whims of the state. You need no "license" from the state to own a gun. The state has no authority to require that gun owners have "licenses" for their guns. If your state is claiming unconstitutional authority to say who can have how many guns, you need to vote out the control freaks who implemented those "laws" and vote in some people who are willing to stick to their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
Indeed it is...as lots of conservative organizations discovered during the Clinton-Gore regime.
Last time I checked, COD meant Cash On Delivery. UPS won't have a credit-card number to give to The Man, if they should come knocking.
I manually configured dial-up networking in WinXP to use it (dialers suck), so you should be able to set it up under Linux easily enough if that's what you use.
He's a consultant...it goes without saying that he's overpaid.
SLS was a separate outfit (and distro) that predates Slackware a bit. My first Linux system was SLS...unlike Slackware, you could install SLS from 5.25" floppies. I had a binder with somewhere around 20-30 disks that held the entire thing.
I even ran my BBS on SLS for a while...made a cheesy menu-driven shell for callers that called a mail reader, news reader, etc. If they wanted full-up csh access, that was available too.
Next stop after that was Slackware...then SuSE, and then Linux From Scratch, and now Gentoo. (I still have some boxen running LFS, but my home server will get moved to Gentoo before too long.) Slackware is still better than the others for low-end hardware, though...it took no time to get it onto a 486DX2-66 which is now running at work as a print server.
You forgot "Profit!!!" from not having to waste time on dumbass commercials.