@pauska A bit scary that the legal system can be used that way... I applaud the downfall of any botnets, and especially the lack of any new laws, lobbying, or further erosion of privacy; but I'm not sure what they did should be legal in the first place...
I guess my knee-jerk reaction is that these machines were probably violating the data centers' TOS anyway; I'm not sure if MS could have convinced those 11 DCs to all disconnect/shutdown those machines at the same time, but it would have given me warm fuzzies all around that MS took a socially responsible lead, coordinated/cooperated with other businesses, and had a positive net effect.
Admittedly that would have been more difficult, especially coordinating the timing to ensure the botnet couldn't just adapt.
@packs Installation shouldn't take too long, it's mostly limited by the speed of the hard drive or cd drive. Using the computer after that should be a treat however.
there's a lot of good, dedicated people at Microsoft's security team. I can well believe they are happy to have done something that brings benefits to all
More and more I like the idea of having the SA related "sites" be subsites of SF (ie unix.SF, security.SF, dba.SF). If you're on the "parent" site you get to see questions from all of them on the front page. If you're on the "child" site you only get those, so you can specialize if you want.
@SmallClanger Seems like that was the intention... But seem like people wanted specific communities; many of the people on unix.se for instance didn't land there first, they found SF or SU, didn't like it for whatever reason, and moved to unix.se.
I've had the same trouble when people ask for mailing lists or newsgroups or forum categories. I tend to refuse fragmentation requests; unless there's a clear, atomic separation and there's enough traffic in the general group that people are struggling to find stuff.
If you let people set their own categories, then you end up with usenet. :)
Perhaps a method of promoting the busiest tags to some kind of headline items; l from which people can set permanent filters in their preferences . Looking at the main tag list, there's probably only 8 or so that would apply. Other tags could then be made children of these.
@ChrisS there's 4 accounts, but if that stuff didn't change when I changed the computer name, what else could be affected? That's what I'm worried about.
Plus I'm hoping for a click this, type this in, and fix all the problems in one go :)
Hi i currently have a network management that is really manually and there is no user management at all, i've heard that Microsoft Active Directory allows you to have a better network administration by letting me install and configure equipment remotely by user or groups that would be nice.
Also...
@Holocryptic Just looked at your question on SF. I found a link that may help you out but I do't have a lot of time to test it out/make a competent answer out of it atm.
I thought they'd have played down the doom-ladem terminology when discussing their own issues, though; and perhaps use something like "Mild Electronic Scuffle"
Personally... More importantly than the fact that he would probably do bad things in the future, left unchecked; the US put him in power in the first place, making it our mess, and our responsibility to clean up. I know that opinion doesn't sit well with most Americans, but if my dog shits on someone's law, I'm the type to clean it up.
oh i'm not all upset about it or anything, just a little fed up at their attitude. Apart from anything else - presumably the questions are asked by real people with real problems they need real answers to, and this moving a question just to have it closed jamboree isn't helping them
I have setup a server at work and I want to use 2 network cards to have a local and external (internet) interface. I have set it up as follows:
This server will be used for Windows Deployment Services and I would like to spoof internet domains and redirect them to this server. This would be ...
I have setup a server at work and I want to use 2 network cards to have a local and external (internet) interface. I have set it up as follows:
This server will be used for Windows Deployment Services and I would like to spoof internet domains and redirect them to this server. This would be ...
