Monday, August 24, 2015

Cyber-piracy groups to ban Windows 10 users

Perhaps, the reason for the unexpected and endless network hog that will drive you crazy when it comes to security issue is coming from Microsoft's actions in which according to iTS torrent sharing group, the entire contents of your hard disk are sent to the servers to check if there are any pirated versions of the software and games. It's a very big fat definition of Windows 9 to me as if technical stupidity coming from Windows 10's surveillance power is everywhere around the globe. That is more like Windows 9 to me if Windows 10 does this kind of unexpected hogging of the bandwidth to fight piracy with no way to turn it off! What will piss you off even more is that the controversial change of the Microsoft Services Agreement goes way too far in which certain games will be unplayable on Windows 10 no matter how genuine they are. It can also affect the Xbox branded consoles but I guess that computer gaming with Windows 10 matters a lot more.
Needless to say, it may appear that Microsoft is not the only one with such kinds of policies in fighting piracy in a controversial way. The other tech companies have similar policies that we may have to keep a look out for. But still, it's best to go genuine at all times by buying genuine software, games and hardware and this kind of controversial policy and method of fighting piracy is unacceptable.

Investigation on Microsoft from Russian prosecutors regarding Windows 10 security issues

I guess that making a plan of secure deployment of Windows 10 is likely to backfire on me because using Sysprep to generalize resets the settings to factory default, defeating the purpose of the security adjustment. It is one of the essential options in making sure that every computer doesn't get exactly identical information when shipping it with Windows 10. As of this blog post, I have the reference images of Windows 10 and its server variant containing some stuffs installed in MDT. It may be tedious trying to opt-out of every privacy violating feature device by device and account by account.
Speaking of opting out, the Enterprise edition has the highest opt-out level and that includes the server variant of Windows 10 which is Windows Server 2016. The server variant has improved security but since it's under prototype stage, it's not going to count towards the investigation. Like I already mentioned many times that some of the features cannot be disabled for opt-out purposes in Home and Pro editions unless you find some tricks to doing so. I don't know if USMT will retain those applied settings that affect the user accounts but it's wrong for Microsoft to COLLECT DATA ILLEGALLY IN WINDOWS 10 IN THE FIRST PLACE.
This already landed Microsoft into trouble for real for violating Russian privacy laws but they're not the only company that faces lawsuits over security concerns. The Scroogled campaign already backfired that kicked the one behind it out of the job but this privacy violation with Windows 10 is way worse than anything else made by Microsoft. The Xbox One kinect almost did this shit, the online age and facial recognition services did this shit for a short time before the update occured that they don't keep photos. What is worse, Windows 10 on Xbox One? I don't know if you can opt-out completely on that for the sake of high security. Hell, even the Mac OSX Yosemite has the same security problems as well.
I don't know if Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity 8 is going to solve the controversy like I can WAIT until the beta version of that comes out. Maybe there should be a wallpaper of a broken window glass being projected by some blue bright light! That can be applied as a default wallpaper for all editions of Windows 10 except Enterprise.

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Beatmania IIDX gameplay report - August 9

And it looks like we were back as the celebration preparation was really big on that day, that was, on certain places where the national celebrations were taking place live. Outside of those places, celebrations from home and shopping complexes were being prepared via live stream so it was seriously a special day for us. The trip was free via public transports and trains but of course, it's not the same for the games at the arcades themselves because the funny thing was, if the games at the arcades were set to Free Play, there would be non-stop hogging that it could be highly problematic for players like us. Needless to say, bus stops and train stations were seriously crowded and so was the arcade at Bugis Junction but the most crowded places of course would be the bus stops, train stations and even the venues where the celebrations were taking place.
The progress wasn't anything special other than the fact I managed to fix the video game neglection I had the last time for Beatmania IIDX. I adjusted the speed and the sudden+ cover again to make things stable after having come up with some theory that making the speed too fast can make the note falling choppy even at 60FPS. I don't know if this is choppy like that in LCD HD monitors but thankfully, I had some made some progress there. The neglection included terrible timing that resulted in terrible grade and somehow, I might have forgotten the usual way of playing Beatmania IIDX. Perhaps, someone must have the guts to harm me indirectly or something. Or maybe I should not have seen those idiotic YouTubers at all as they brought bad influence to me that I got neglected because of that.

What's new in Windows Server 10 Preview Jump Start

Nano Server is kind of like Server Core but more stripped down as various features Server Core has are absent in the Nano Server and there's no way you can switch it back to Server Core or Server with GUI. From what I saw was that after booting up Nano Server, you got presented with the login screen along with the menus that looked easy to explore and configure. That would probably bring you back to MS-DOS days when it comes to full screen text interface and it should be quite comparable to Linux server OSes where you start off with nothing but full screen command line interface. I don't know if Nano Server is less difficult to use but needless to say, you may need to use Putty or Powershell to remotely access the Nano Servers and you can't even use the Remote Desktop thing at all. Funny imagination is, there should be the full screen text interface mode in Windows 10 client OS as grounded mode for kids as punishment but that may sound pointless to happen when there's already such a thing as domain policy or parental control. I guess that domain policy is more advanced and powerful than parental control but that will require all home computers to be part of the home domain powered by some home server running Windows Server. Another problem against the imagination is how do you adjust the corporate-like policies on kids' mobile devices as parental controls at an advanced level? With standard parental controls enabled on every device at home, I'm sure that the kids may freak out on that.
Next was the containers and this new technology will be available in Technical Preview 3 of Windows Server 10 and some third-party app called Docker allows the support of Windows Server containers. A container is none other than a mini-computer within a physical host or virtual machine. The computer part is at the base with the applications and various services being above that. It should be a handy feature for Nano Servers because server reboots can make a serious impact to the business environment. The workaround against server reboot is the live migration taking place between clusters.
Speaking of clusters, there are already server and storage clusters but the upcoming feature is the Hyper-V cluster which is basically the virtual machine cluster. Of course, people already compared the container stuff with VMWare Thinapp and App-V but I felt like the container is starting to become a different or superseding feature.
Other features mentioned included the server virtualization and automation via Powershell. It was a tedious stuff when it comes to Powershell probably due to so much scripting going on during the demo in the Jump Start and System Center Virtual Machine Manager was mentioned as well in addition to Hyper-V when it comes to server virtualization. However, there was one tool I was highly curious from the demo I saw. It wasn't Hyper-V or Remote Desktop as the top interface was black, simple and different but the host was able to switch between virtual machines from some drop-down menu at the top.
Lastly, I was trying to get the presentations at the end of the Jump Start but the network running the unknown site the presentations were held in was behaving like a technical idiot on me so screw that technical stupidity. I may as well get those presentations when the Jump Start is available on demand.

Preparing your enterprise for Windows 10 as a service Jump Start

There's really not much to say about this Jump Start other than the fact that I already have MDT 2013 Update 1 for deploying Windows 10 like I'm already doing right now after having sufficient solutions. I had already anticipated the newest deployment tools like the Windows 10 ADK which should have Windows 10 PE as well as the final version of MDT 2013 Update 1 which at that time, it still had yet to be finalized while Windows 10 ADK was already finalized. New to Windows 10 ADK is the Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer and somehow, it is like Windows System Image Manager or something where you can customize the answer file component by component which can be useful for automatic specification of the information during Windows Setup. Also, the existing versions of today's System Center Configuration Manager are already supporting Windows 10 deployment via some updates provided that you have the latest service packs and cumulative updates needed for that.
Unfortunately, at that time, other things still had yet to be finalized as well such as RSAT for Windows 10, Windows 10 IOT or something and of course, Windows Server 10 which is now at Technical Preview 3. That server variant may be based on Windows 10 but at a later build and especially when it has all the latest features of Windows 10 RTM like the new login screen, new wallpapers, new event sounds, etc. However, there are still older stuffs intact when I checked out the Windows event sounds from default sound scheme in Sounds properties. I could have called that tab, Event Sound tab because when a message box occurs, there should be an event sound for instance. From there, not all event sounds are new in Windows 10 as if even at the RTM stage, they still have yet to work on in adding and improving features in Windows 10 as if they're milking it for years and especially that there's a post-RTM build for insiders.
Other stuffs I saw included the migration of the user settings between Windows 8.1 and 10 and it was why the prototype Windows 10 wallpaper was migrated along when I installed Windows 8.1 trial the last time probably due to the fact that one of the Insider Preview builds was unbootable on various physical machines unless some options in the BIOS were turned off. However, its later build solved those reboot-loop problems as tested on booting up from that build's setup DVD in which I was able to see the setup screen.

Deployment Progress

The Enterprise edition of Windows 10 has full security opt-out options unlike the other editions of Windows 10 in which some of the features cannot be disabled. Also, the Pro and Home editions downloaded from Microsoft via Media Creation Tool or whatever cannot be imported straight to MDT or SCCM for deployment. Regardless of prototype or final stage, it's not going to work that way. I already have the reference image of the Enterprise Edition evaluation in the MDT with various things configured with the help of the external sources found on the net. The next phase will be to do the same thing for the server variant as well as Windows 8.1 with Update.
The recent problem I have is regarding the domain user account policy that should be applied to the clients in the domain. How do I apply the Windows 8.1 and 10 policies to those accounts including the new ones?

Networking Rant

I still have some networking rants in my head against various Microsoft sub-domains and websites including Microsoft Virtual Academy as their networks are unspeakably sensitive compared to other websites which are working quite well. Maybe those networks running those sites are to blame for technical stupidity acts and I don't know what the hell are those setting up and maintaining those networks are doing. Scold them, or maybe those US ISPs! They don't know what the hell are they doing that affects the Microsoft networks in the US a lot that made me freak out over networking misbehavior. And why are some of the video players on MVA still using Adobe Flash. Are they lazy or something? Why isn't the MVA site using HTML5-only media players on all courses and Jump Starts? Maybe my feedback two years ago wasn't quite enough? I don't even know if the whole MVA website works well in Microsoft Edge. Lastly, if this is the way those networks I mentioned continued to work like that like a bunch of robotic idiots bought or designed by idiots from some idiotic companies, that will cause another major layoff to happen one day.

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Kaspersky replaces files with fake ones infected with malware as part of competition

The security rant isn't finished here. The problem's still on-going for Lenovo and especially that I still have yet to find solutions for secure Windows 10 deployment but there comes another security betrayal, Kaspersky, which replaced certain files with the fake ones infected with malware on their accord out of their jealousy after knowing the fact that their idea or technology has been used by other companies. It's kind of like someone steals your idea for his stuff and it is more popular than your original stuff that you get angered even more when they make something based on his stuff. Or maybe, someone rips off the content from whatever you like for his own stuff and then he and his retarded fans defend the hell out of it despite the fact that the ripped off content isn't original that you get angered as well. Perhaps, Kaspersky went jealous about that but they denied the claim that they did all this shit out of jealousy and anger. This happened from 2009 to two years ago and what about the present and future, will they continue this jealous bullshit or something? Such jealousy like this for the sake of competition will backfire and it may become a disaster or land you in trouble like that once it goes viral. I admit that I already had the similar anger and rant about that F***** B*** thing the last time like I felt in having established something that was designed to bash the hell out of it. Unfortunately, that already landed me into trouble or something at the time due to the lack of official references until the time I finally specified them. Also, I still have yet to update that that reduces the trouble.

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In the future of this blog, there will be product originality rants indicating on the amount of plagiarism put in unless you don't really care about that like a faggoted modern mobile user. Remember, cloning something spares you apart when you officially admit and know that you have made a clone according to your official description but of course, there should be official references of yours as well that can be stated in the blog, the interview or maybe some differences in the names to avoid infringement. Maybe that will sound like a truth of admittance that way.

Lenovo bloatware installs itself upon next boot

The previous discoveries of Superfish and its similar malware were really large that many users wondered if they were infected or not with that regardless of whichever computer manufacturer they're using but if that wasn't enough, there's another malware that was recently discovered that caused the Lenovo bloatware to be installed all by itself even if you uninstall itself. This surely happens in Windows OSes whether it's Windows 7, Windows 8 or whatever. I don't know if other Widnows OSes are affected as well on those affected Lenovo computers but this surely has annoyed Lenovo consumers again. Normally, a Windows OS on a computer doesn't come with those third-party bloat apps unless it is deployed for school, work or even by the OEM for consumers themselves. They can be removed unlike Android devices manufactured by those third-party brands where their bloatware can't be easily removed unless you root those devices which is a risky idea.
The deeper part of the security problem takes place at the BIOS level on those Lenovo computers and no matter how you remove the bloatware, it will surely come back again. However, the recent models of Lenovo computers manufactured from June onwards have the security protection at the BIOS level that removes any malware that tries to affect the BIOS. Worse of all, like the Superfish malware, this is another mysterious spyware that tries to steal your info and spy on your actions or something.
Bravos to Lenovo for messing up if they did all this bullshit on purpose and yet, this is the security situation way worse than the Superfish infection. If the users encounter another security problem that causes them to put the blame on Lenovo, perhaps, this is the future time that the users will either ditch the Lenovo brand or Windows on Lenovo computers in favor of Linux. Imagine this affecting the enterprise users using Lenovo computers like it's going to be a serious organizational problem because of this serious security problem. That will take a long time to change computers across the whole organization while leaving the data intact.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Windows 10 RTM opinion

This one's a big story for me but some of the controversies are still intact for Windows 10 as if retarded people may think that we with security concerns don't care for anything else which is one of the stupid thoughts we know of. Even after Windows 10 had gone to RTM stage, there are some articles regarding Windows 10 security concerns but there are already options you can disable for privacy reasons as if Microsoft has done things right with Windows 10 security. However, it is not the same for other features of Windows 10 as well like bandwidth being overused without people's consent, updates are made compulsory like there's no way to turn them off in Home edition which may result in buggy updates breaking Windows 10 systems and the list goes on. There are already solutions on the way that put an end to those problems but even then, the rest of the technology has yet to be finalized for full support of Windows 10.
Through security concern of mine, I had decided to try deploying Windows 10 RTM but it backfired on me as something made the WIM format look unknown to MDT 2013 Update 1 preview so I couldn't import anything there. I don't know if the Update 1 will be finalized with that bolded problem solved for smooth deployment. The official announcement had already stated that the finalization of Update 1 is already on the way for release sometime this month. I don't know if the import works for Enterprise edition of Windows 10 RTM only or what. If that's the case, it's a controversial deployment of Windows 10 for OEMs unless they find other deployment solutions that will help them get through. The actual intention for image customization was to remove certain modern apps as well as to install some security-related ones before Sysprep but I guess that making use of the custom ISO file containing all those things needed for customization was what I missed out in the first place.
Needless to say, I already Syspreped the VM running Windows 10 RTM Pro with partial customization as the network and USB access are obviously disabled in Audit Mode but I don't know if I can move on to the next phase which is image capture