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Kougar
07-11-2006, 12:12 AM
I finally found the bloody link! If you have a serious interest or curiosity of exactly how WPA works, or want to calculate exactly what changes to your configuration you can get away with without needing to phone MS for a reactivation of XP, then this is your article.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php (http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.php)
werty316
07-11-2006, 12:38 AM
Hehe a M$ products is every hackers dream. Its quite a lengthy article too but good thing I don't have to worry about WPA on my rig ;)
Kougar
07-11-2006, 02:14 AM
If MS never happened, some other company and OS would be dominating the OS market right now... and because of that they would have just as many security issues in their OS since the same people would be cracking it for the same reasons regardless of who made it. Even linux has enough security holes to exploit, except there isn't any major point to doing so.
werty316
07-11-2006, 04:50 AM
True but what other OS would of been king is M$ never existed? I can't remember if there was any competition when Windows first was released.
Bio-Hazard
07-11-2006, 04:58 AM
I don't really understand why so many people are all worried about calling MS for reactivation of XP, it's painless and only takes a few minutes if you have a proper copy of Windows. All they want to know is why or what happened to require the call in. Format and Virus always works and no other comments are needed.
Kougar
07-11-2006, 05:17 AM
I don't really understand why so many people are all worried about calling MS for reactivation of XP, it's painless and only takes a few minutes if you have a proper copy of Windows. All they want to know is why or what happened to require the call in. Format and Virus always works and no other comments are needed.

Since they don't ask for any personal information I'd have to agree. And secondly despite some serious amounts of hardware changes I've not once had to call them anyway for a reactivation...

Werty, I was more suggesting someone else would have come along and started one. The mouse was invented in 1978 or 1979, someone would have realized the potential uses at some point... ;)