I’ve spent much of my time the last few years looking at windows support from the linux side of the fence. Certainly linux boot disks and the like are among the most useful utilities that I’ve used. However, I am reminded from time to time that there is a good share of freely available utilities on the Windows side of things. http://www.mdgx.com/ is a site devoted to not just the free windows and dos utilites and add ons… but to quote the site…
Tag: NT
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Windows lost administrator password rundown….
I’ve done one or two mentions in the past of ways to recover/reset lost windows passwords and thought it was probably time for another “brain dump/web research dump” of things that I’ve run across. This is not just for lost administrator passwords, but could apply to a lost user account password as well. (I’ve found that the mileage varies on the system. NT/2000/XP/2003 are not the only variations, there seem to be variations related to certain Windows updates/etc.) I should also put a disclaimer here that this information is not so you can break into someone else’s windows installation (without their permission), at the very least that’s a privacy violation and at the worst, against the law and unethical. What this is for is a guide to someone that has accidentally locked themself out of their windows install (or in some cases where someone ELSE has locked you out of your own pc.) In other words – don’t use this to crack.
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Zotob.b may be affecting some XP SP2/2003 installs
As I noted yesterday, virii typically get updated and improved. Yesterdays reports about the zotob virus noted that Windows Xp service pack 2 and Windows 2003 were not affected by the new worm. Today however, the sans institute is reporting that zotob may be affecting some XP sp2 and 2003 installs. It appears that it uses something called NULL sessions.
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Free Ext2 Ext3 driver for Windows
Barrapunto.com is reporting on a Noticias.com article (on another story by… sorry… got carried away.) Their reporting on a freely available Ext2 Ext3 driver for Windows. It should allow full read/write access (although I would quail at allowing Windows to write to ext2 or 3…. just me though.)
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Mandriva wins another Government convert to linux from NT
According to Mandriva’s community newsletter, they’ve landed a contract with the French Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing. The deal will replace outdated Windows NT servers with Mandriva Linux Corporate Server on a number of machines.
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Different attitudes towards upgrading and developing software
So many times, even in the last few days, I have talked about keeping software up-to-date. For many people that means upgrading to the latest version of windows as soon as it comes out, or Office, or well… fill in the blank. It’s a vicious cycle when you think about it. So, is it necessary to REALLY chase the absolute newest version of anything that you use. The best answer is (more…)