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Here I read "Green Hills" and wondered how an RTOS was involved. Yeah. I'm an embedded guy.
Worked in embedded in Santa Barbara for a while. Met a few of the wonderful folks at Green Hills over the years. Had the same initial thought.
> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. Well in this case that's, uh... > An old torrent I’d guess? Wrapped in a 9-month old Reddit comment https://old.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/wwjy5j/_/ilmr5s3... Wrapped in a 1-month old blog post https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html Wrapped in this article
The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082542 (65 comments)
And 8 days ago:
Windows XP Activation: Game Over
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993044 (151 comments)
The actual crack came more then a decade later, first as a web app, then as sample code. These guys just repackaged it.
And yes, Windows XP still lives on as Windows XP integral edition. Update all your certs from DER files, not from some fancy app.
Thanks to avaxhome, HiRens and studioXX.
Here I read "Green Hills" and wondered how an RTOS was involved. Yeah. I'm an embedded guy.
The green hills of XP desktops is now a vineyard. How appropos.
> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. Well in this case that's, uh... > An old torrent I’d guess? Wrapped in a 9-month old Reddit comment https://old.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/wwjy5j/_/ilmr5s3... Wrapped in a 1-month old blog post https://tinyapps.org/blog/202304230700_xp_wpa.html Wrapped in this article
This is a rare case where I vastly prefer the news outlet article over the original source. That tinyapps blog post is horribly written.
While I was in my Windows 2000 server class on 2002, we passed around a disk with a keygen for XP. It may or may not have been cracked, but it generated keys for years, until activation could be bypassed. The actual crack came more then a decade later, first as a web app, then as sample code. These guys just repackaged it. And yes, Windows XP still lives on as Windows XP integral edition. Update all your certs from D…
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This is a rare case where I vastly prefer the news outlet article over the original source. That tinyapps blog post is horribly written.
This is a case where the "journalists" hand out white canes. When you were there, it's all just a big laugh, and when you were not there, it all speculation.
Sometimes games like Heroes of Might and Magic III are a good way to play just one more turn until you notice the sun has come up.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a case where the "journalists" hand out white canes. When you were there, it's all just a big laugh, and when you were not there, it all speculation.
I'd love an explanation of what this entire comment means.
Journalists explain something accurately, which was previously noted by others, but still was under-reported relative to the potential public interest.
I'm still learning :high_five: (maybe everyone is)