Top: Legacy_Microsoft

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• Altair BASIC - Story of the 1976 Altair BASIC flap, related by former Homebrew Computer Club member Rick Moen
• Archivers - File archiver/compression programs for MS-Windows
• Burning ISOs - Rundown of many MS-Windows programs for burning optical discs from ISO9660i (ISO) image files
• CD Burning - Detailed tutorial for MS-Windows users about how to burn ISO9660 (ISO) files to CDR media, e.g., to install/run Linux distributions
• CVS SSH - Instructions on using CVS with SSH encryption on Windows, using SourceForge code checkouts as a example
• Downloadable DOS - How to download (if necessary) and convert to bootable CD-ROM format a DOS image, e.g., to run hardware-oriented utilities
• Drive Letter Order - Explanation of how Microsoft OSes assign drive letters
• IIS and OpenSSL Certs - Making Windows2000's IIS Certificate Manager import OpenSSL certificates
• ISO Recorder - Small Microsoft-recommended tool for MS-Windows XP, 2003, and Vista to burn ISO9660 (ISO) files to CDRs, e.g., of Linux distributions
• MacOS 9 and Windows Services - How do I make Linux able to furnish file/print support for pre-OSX Mac OS and MS-Windows boxes?
• MAPI library - Brutus is a complete, GPLed CORBA wrapping of the entire MAPI library, making it possible for any open source groupware client to connect to MS Exchange on an equal footing with MS Outlook
• MBR Rewriting - How to restore the Microsoft MBR (e.g., if removing Linux from dual-boot) in DOS/Win9x/WinME, in WinXP, and in Win2k
• Messaging Flaw - Watershed paper revealing that the fundamental nature of Win32's messaging model makes it inherently vulnerable to privilege-escalation attacks, a flaw that cannot be fixed without breaking essentially all existing applications
• MSIE Deficiencies - Ways in which Microsoft Internet Explorer is deficient. Please feel free to send people who think MSIE is a good browser to this page
• MS-Outlook Quoting - Add-on tools to fix quoting in MS-Outlook and MS-Outlook Express, so they no longer violate netiquette standards
• NFS - All known NFS software for Win32
• NT Access to Linux Filesystems - Are there any ways for MS-Windows NT to have access to native-Linux filesystems?
• NT Boot Problems - I've upgraded Red Hat, and now NT won't boot. What do I do?
• Offline NT Password Disk - Petter Nordahl-Hagen's 'ntpasswd' or Offline NT Password and Registry Editor, a Linux boot floppy able to null out the Administrator password in an NT/win2k/XP system's SAM security database on its NTFS filesystem volume. Can also unlock locked or disabled user logins, and generally edit the system registry
• Open Letter to Hobbyists - Infamous 1976 letter from William Henry Gates III to Altair users
• Ping of Death - How the Ping of Death worked against perennially vulnerable Microsoft OSes, circa 1997
• PPTP - Security problems of PPTP, especially as implemented by Microsoft Corporation
• Procmail Sanitizer - Procmail ruleset to 'defang' arriving e-mail of macro viruses, Web bugs, Javascript, sundry exploit code, etc. to protect vulnerable MS-Outlook users
• Security Compromises - The Microsoft security bulletin you'd love to see (humour)
• Service Packs - Reasons to shun MS-Windows service packs later than Windows 2000 SP2, and to shun MS-Windows XP, even if you're a Microsoft fan
• Startup Items - Information on a utility to review/adjust all MS-Windows startup tasks
• Unix v. NT - John Kirch 1998 study comparing WinNT Server 4.0 with Unix
• Unix Shell - How to implement Unix shells in MS-Windows
• VNC and Similar - List of non-X11 graphical remote access protocols and packages, including implementations of VNC
• Win95 Analysis - Editorial and technical analysis at the time of Win95's introduction (Rick Moen's 1995 magazine editorials)
• Windows Bestiary - How to tell what version your (non-NT) copy of MS-Windows really is
• Windows Rescue Disk - Suggested system-rescue boot images for MS-Windows systems; article by Karsten Self: Reset lost Administrator password, remove viruses, fix filesystems, test disks/RAM, backup/restore data, etc.
• WINE Tips - Frank's Corner, a set of tips on configuring common MS-Windows apps and games on WINE under Linux
• X Servers for Win32 - List of all known X Window System server software for MS-Windows