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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	And on for another, though useless, developer perspective, and :D first class expert's :D technical insight : Vista at my work place is a steamy pile of bullstuff. Irony aside, as this is rather a user perspective in the context of my current workplace (my client WS is Vista, my target machines are servers, Linux and Windows 2003), when I reboot, one of my monitors is always crippled (lil'squares allover), and it refuses to keep my monitor arrangement : it will always swap them after restart, no matter how hard I try. Cool beans, my work Vista cannot be called stable in the slightest, but hell it is funky. ...Now for the real developer perspective : the core API still is the same. The same as in... Windows 95, the superb Windows API : itself such a steamy pile of nonsense that it hurts - there aren't two modules that are congruent to one another in the Windows API. It reminds me of the experiments on LSD & drawing in the 70's, feels like Redmond is a bit of a wild party place. Now, mas, if you want to be root from guest on your Vista, given this presence of the everlasting "Windows 95 recycling with a new GUI" philosophy (ha-hem), look into "system messages - code injection", I am willing to bet it works in Vista, still (then again, this one probably works in Unix or Linux as well, a tad crafty as it requires some application patching, but feasible, and really, not that hard - given some practice, feasible in 10-20 minutes from scratch yeah). I am trying my luck at this type of vulnerability because it is a consequence of the practices of OS design (or at least was since the dusk of 32 bit systems). Basically, with that one, ALL you need to have is a textbox in a program which is run with system level privileges. Aero is exactly what the name says : thin air, blow it away, and you'll see through the holes. But taste is taste and a personal thing, and challengers are a requirement of evolution and a good thing : go with Vista, please, it'll help keep "our" Steve Jobs fit o) Loading...
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