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Comment Re:Pentalty for 12 million botnet = 6 years (Score 3, Interesting) 177

Here's why botnets and, more generally, spam continue to survive - people buy the products advertised!:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527491.500-spamdemic-tracking-the-plague-of-junk-mail.html

(From the text in the graphic) An analysis of just 1.5% of one botnet ("Storm") for one month in 2008 showed:

35 million spams sent
8.2 million passed filtering software
10,500 clicked on the link in the email
28 people actually bought the product

Although this represents only a 0.000008% conversion rate when scaled up it shows that "Storm" generated $3.5 million in sales in 2008.

Comment Re:With an important caveat! (Score 5, Informative) 201

Here's what happens when a DC and member server are both cloned from the same base image with identical SIDs:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: NETLOGON
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5516
Date: 04/11/2009
Time: 08:52:35
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER01
Description:
The computer or domain SERVER01 trusts domain TESTDOMAIN. (This may be an indirect trust.) However, SERVER01 and TESTDOMAIN have the same machine security identifier (SID). NT should be re-installed on either SERVER01 or TESTDOMAIN.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Comment Re:not flamebait, simply advice (Score 1) 756

But somehow SuperSpeed's RamDisk product (which I use in a 64-bit, 8GB Vista box so as Photoshop can have a 2GB+ scratch disk) offers 32-bit OS users the ability to see and use more than 4GB ...

RamDisk Plus 10 has a most unique feature. Our patent pending technology can access memory beyond the limitation imposed by a Windows 32-bit operating system! In other words, RamDisk Plus 10 can use "unmanaged" Windows' memory e.g. above 4GB. It can also use the stubbornly inaccessable memory between 3.2GB and 4GB. See the product's help file for detailed explanation of what "unmanaged" memory is and how to access and use it with RamDisk Plus 10.

Do they have to patch kernels to do this ... ? [see http://www.superspeed.com/servers/ramdisk.php%5D

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