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What's So Precious About Bad Software? 278

Posted by kdawson on Saturday September 29, 2007 @01:26PM from the ugly-to-boot dept.

David Gerard invites to read Carla Schroeder from Enterprise Networking Planet, who gets down to the real reason why companies want to keep their code proprietary, with examples. Quoting: "We are drowned in tides of twaddle about precious IP, Trade Sekkrits, Sooper Original Algorithms that must not be exposed to eyes of mere mortals, and all manner of silly excuses. But what's the real reason for closed, proprietary code? Embarrassment."

Comment Re:UAService7 not on my system thank god (Score 1) 529

by agingGeek on Sunday August 26, 2007 @04:29PM (#20364809) Attached to: BioShock Installs a Rootkit

I tried this command in Vista and it gave an error stating that interactive mode should only be used with schtasks. I ended up trying this instead:

schtasks /create /it /sc once /st 17:04 /tn tmp1 /tr %systemroot%\system32\cmd.exe

When you are done with it, you can then delete the task from schtasks with:

schtasks /delete /tn tmp1

This worked fine for creating a command promt with system level access and I was able to delete the malformed files.

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