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by noAnswer 4y ago
It had online activation and online updates. People freaked out. There was a Software called XP-AntiSpy. It was so popular that it was soled in stores on physical media!
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Having a costumer only hotline which only connects you after entering your customer ID and or Support-PIN would be a start. I know of multiple company's which have that.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
It's called "Defence in depth". There could be an unintentional or flawed kernel change. Someone could use the code on a different OS with a different behaving or buggy kernel.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
> On Windows, Firefox can't be updated while it's running because the files that comprise it are locked by the running application. I don't know how the "behind the scenes" work but you can run an update while Fi
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Multiplayer games of old where usually p2p. DoS attacks from sad losers an cheating put an end to that.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
What I find funny though is that every implementation not involving Donenfeld has "drama" (Free- and NetBSD). The small code still leave a lot of room for failure.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
DE
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by noAnswer 4y ago
> Pretty much one of the classic desktop support calls for me was "my access database on the shared drive is corrupt" Yes, that one >12 year old access database with two concurrent users brakes biweekly. Everything else: No
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by noAnswer 4y ago
I manly work as a sysadmin for small companies. (Most people don't call us when they install new tools, they call when they exploded.) All my hatred goes out to the (Windows) programs (and its creators) that think they need MS SQL Expr
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by noAnswer 4y ago
I would be surprised if they do any "verification" at all. If you are a paining member, you will get a special icon. That's it. I knew web forums that had that. Members that donated to the forum got a special status icon. It
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by noAnswer 4y ago
It became the standard _because_ of OpenBSD! They mocked others for decades. People forget that! I remember SuSE 6 from me youth. It run of the box (having selected a Desktop-Setup) SSH, Telnet, Apache, FTP, Finger, Samba, CUPS and probably
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by noAnswer 4y ago
That can't be true, or everyone would be paid in gifts and donations. (Anyway. He has to report his donations as his self-employed earnings.)
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by noAnswer 4y ago
IDK. Not knowing THC is like not not knowing the CCC or 2600. It is more on you ;-)
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by noAnswer 4y ago
> It's like someone messed with your car tank and tires and the police stop you from driving it because it is unsafe to other drivers, they are not punishing you but protecting other people from being hurt by your property. The poli
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by noAnswer 4y ago
I pledge to not spill 4.9 million barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Lets see what will happen to Scottish .uk domains when they leave.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
OP literally left despise them having "intense curry".
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Of course it does. "BigFAT allows random read and write access to any file, even if larger than 4GB, as required by databases."
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by noAnswer 4y ago
It is not true that is "free since 2019". Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/t... https://www.paragon-software.com/exfat-license/ https:/&
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Using split, cat or rar doesn't allow random access.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
> but is there a value proposition? Straight from their FAQ: We see emFile customers asking for solutions for bigger files. Implementing exFAT is not an option for us, as it is patent encumbered. SEGGER would need Microsoft's permis
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by noAnswer 4y ago
I started self hosting in 2017. (With a fresh domain. I'm the only user.) My sever closes the incoming connection if it doesn't has a rDNS or the HELO doesn't match the rDNS. Apart from that I have no anti spam measures! Frie
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Are you sure you remember it correct? I specificity remember tests we did over ISDN (64kbit/s). Opening KMail (X forwarded over SSH) and rendering changes took several 10s of seconds. There is a reason NoMachine and X2Go got invented.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Back in the day, when online banking used printed TAN-lists as a second factor, phishing sites would ask "Please type in your next 10 TANs". That is what your "please type in as many"-idea reminds me of. :-)
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by noAnswer 4y ago
I wouldn't have a problem if the tool needed admin rights. But that the whole session needs to be from an admin grinds my gears.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
You can burn ISOs with Windows (no Third-party tools required (since Win7 or 10)) without admin rights. Just right click and select burn.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
The Media Creation Tool for Windows 10 (don't know about 11 at this point) is so annoying. Not only does it need admin rights, but the whole desktop session needs to be from a user in the Administrator group. So you can't just rig
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by noAnswer 4y ago
Since a view years United Internet (mail.com, gmx.de, web.de) verifies some big players. So a email from Paypal, eBay or Postbank is visibly different from a standard email. (In the Web and App UI. Of course not if you use IMAP.) IIRC it ha
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by noAnswer 4y ago
I like people that weren't captured.
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by noAnswer 4y ago
There are (where) a bunch of scummy companies (dating sites, magazine subscriptions, ISPs) that have (had) an easy onboarding process, but you needed an notarised letter written with your own blood, send to them only on at full moon to end

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