Yeah, it sure is unfortunate that you can't do exactly the same thing with RDP. And MS should definitely think of adding IPSEC support one of these days (yes, I know). Of course people are probably less likely to bother, since unless you're French, RDP is fully encrypted (standard VNC only encrypts the password) and talking of passwords it allows them to be more than 8 characters long. You can even have a username too, if you use the right version and configure PAM (joke - there is no right version for that because it's a terrible idea security wise). It has also never had a bug where the client could tell the server it didn't support any of its authentication schemes and so the server simply let it connect without authentication.

In fact this is the first time I've heard of a potential serious vulnerability in Remote Desktop, so frankly this is not the area to be smug about.

Anyway this is a bit too MS positive for my liking, so I'll just add that TurboVNC + VirtualGL + VirtualBox = one fucking awesome free VDI implementation. Add SSH, OpenVPN or IPSEC to taste if you want (although VirtualGL handles SSH itself transparently if you want). Actually for remote admin purposes you only need the 1st part (unless it's a bunch of 3D workstations you're supporting). And possibly a new hobby to use to soak up all the time you used to waste waiting for the screen to refresh. I would also mention FreeNX, but a) I think it gets outperformed by the above and b) I am fucked if I'm setting that damned thing up again just to verify.

Oh yeah, one more neat trick - Virtualbox can run in headless mode on a box with no GUI (or with one, doesn't matter). In this mode it serves up the VM display using an extended version of RDP. The great thing is this doesn't just apply to Windows VMs - it can serve any OS it can run over RDP. Watch the look on your colleague's faces as you get them to fire up MSTSC and connect straight into Ubuntu. Or OS2, OSX, Win 3.1 etc.. etc.. You can even dump them into an EFI shell or the virtual BIOS. Literally minutes of laughs to be had. Oh yeah, you may need the non-open source extension pack for that. Also they're adding VNC in the next release. I have no fucking idea why.

And no, I have no idea why you're not allowed to use RDP encryption in France. I have no idea why they're not allowed to use deoderant either, come to think of it.

Yes, a lot of them don't seem to be able to write unambiguously. If that many people think you were saying one thing when you meant another, it's generally you that fucked up. Hope this helps. If you say someone has a lifetime of 75 years (about the average for the US) and don't mention that they're 12 years old, you probably shouldn't get angry when people ask what the fuck you're talking about.

Unfortunately "once the prices start to rise" will be the very second your retarded plan is put into action, you fucking Yankee cretin.

Hopefully as soon as possible.

Yes, I bet that's exactly what would have happened, you unbelievable fucking faggot.

I know. Isn't it wonderful?

You only actually need one bit. The "I'm not fucking funny and this is the 5th time I've seen the same fucking joke in the same article bit". I call it the "twat" bit.

So you're saying you'd like to see it evolve slowly like NTFS, while adding all these whiz-bang new features stat?

Didn't look too hard, did you?

Sorry about your anger issues and obvious lack of understanding about what this is.

Does it work with TCP timestamps disabled? I'm guessing it doesn't. I always turn them off when deploying Linux servers. At the very least it's worth doing to confuse pen-testers, since it makes OS identification significantly harder. And as far as I'm aware it has roughly zero useful functions these days.

It's really easy to do - it's just a single sysctl setting. And it's even easier on Windows - you just put it behind a Linux router with the right sysctl settings.

Weren't they the Indian car rental company believed to have links to the Mumbai shootings?

FYI - This probably isn't a good place to try your SEO bullshit.

Crownrentcar, semtex, Al Quaeda, Crownrentcar, Bin Laden, Mumbai, Crownrentcar, AR-15, Echelon, Crownrentcar, 9/11, Omaha, Tamil Tigers, Crownrentcar. Does that help ya any?

That's the one that boots to what is obviously a blank Windows desktop with a single cmd.exe window on it, yes? Does it still boot if you take out the graphics card? If not, LOL.

This is the stupidest and most obviously wrong statement I think I've ever seen on the Internet, and I love to troll the forums where whackjobs like you hang out. So er, well done I guess. So wrong in so short a space, there should be a prize really.

The trouble with BSD people in general is that you can't tell if they're trolling (Theo), being trolled (80% of the BSD community are responding to obvious trolls at any one time which is why they advance so slowly,) or they actually believe what they're saying.

Maybe you're the same guy that said he was running the Linux Quake 3 under OpenBSD's Linux emulation and getting a higher framerate? This was on Slashdot quite a few years ago. It was soon pointed out that it really, really, wasn't possible to run the Linux version of Quake 3 on OpenBSD, and what's more it didn't have any 3d accelerated drivers (at the time anyway). He probably still believes that he did it though and I bet he's not the only one.