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.

While I agree it's a good thing to have a small nest egg, so one can weather bad times, millions in the bank for a comparably low pay couple seem obscene.

After all, although money and 'stuff' is not the most important in life, sometimes it's nice to be able to spend some.

Jorg, call social services - to take on something like this without professional help is very, very hard. If you have somebody to help and guide you, you as well as him may come out of this ok.

Good luck!

Mmmh.

I have 500MB a month (for which I pay 10EUR), and am usually getting along fine with it. That includes surfing, emailing, the odd app and video during train rides. I could upgrade to 2GB for 20EUR, but I don't see a need for that right now.

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?

Government is corrupt. government is rife with crony insiders from wall street and the casino banks who rotate in and out of government and are in the positions of ultimate economic authority, including at the Fed. All policies come from there. They also lobby/bribe off other government employees..politicians and 'regulators", to look the other way or to sponsor new legislation or remove old legislation that gets in the way of their skimming con games.

Government is 100% at fault, being so corrupt. Corporations are *corrupt by design*, the nature of the beast, it is the government's job to regulate them. None of those entities could do squat unless they were allowed to do it. They couldn't come up with toxic waste derivatives and sell them, or nuthin. the government should have said "WTF are these CDOs and so on? Are you crazy, this is bullshit, these are not "products", GTFO of here right now". These corporations couldn't manipulate the (now scam and counterfeit since 1913) money supply, manipulate the markets, without government lack of oversight, no matter how much tax money is stolen from the "people" for them to do their jobs correctly. Oh, but they are well paid, now government employees at the Fed level make way more than most non government workers and have carved in stone pensions and health insurance and other sorts of goodies.

    These are corporations and receive government charters to function as corporations.. they have to "incorporate", the government could say "no", and either not grant the corporate charters for scam businesses like these, or actually remove them if malfeasance is found, but they do neither, they just steal tax payer money and re-allocate it further upstream to those guys, and let them continue with their mass thievery. It's a mostly closed good ole boy loop, with "government" being the enforcer, the entity with dudes with guns who tell people what they can and can't do. Now, they tell the "people" to always support those billionaires and make them even richer.

  That's all they do, make already rich corporations richer, and get everyone else to believe they are "in debt" to them via constant mass brainwashing.

And so on, and man am I disappointed, it's like all those articles I did, all the typing..gone, worthless, waste of time.

Anyway, thanks for making me realize this, how much of a waste of time and effort it is here.

...is that stupid looking. Government sure does come up with some harebrained excuses to drop tons of cash on fatcats all the time...

Hey, here's a thought....don't invade other nations where the locals don't like you and resort to any weapon they can come up with to stop you. Of course I know this doesn't make the fatcats any *more* money, but really....

Look at those pics....geez....the "insurgents" will enjoy their skeet shooting. And the oil companies will enjoy their profits, after first having to transit five other fatcat DOD "contractors" pockets first. What is it in ashcanistan now, 400 bucks a gallon for fuel delivered, something like that? Can you imagine the fuel an even slightly armored flying dork mobile like that will need to burn to get off the ground and stay aloft?

Can't have PETA showing up (unless it is those nekkid gurl protesters all decked out in animal body paint...)

Helium balloon for the GPS bug tracker spoofing win!

..and here I thought they just liked the taste of my corn, squash and tomatoes..learn new stuff ever' day.... /me heads to the farm n feed for USB spray.....