RDC Hack

HOW TO HACK CONCURRENT RDC SESSIONS IN WINDOWSXP SP2 TO SUPPORT GREATER THAN THREE CONCURRENT CONNECTIONS

Downloading a new termserv.dll and running through install and a reghack allows up to three concurrent users to connect to an RDC session at once. This runs contrary to current controls that preserve EULA licensing restrictions with XP. Gets rid of the annoying problem of connecting to a box although an existing terminal is in session, like, if someone is logged in for example.

http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop?from=50&comments_per_page=50
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Discussions on Wealth Distribution

In a chat session with a student, I thought this was reasonable enough to preserve….

Benjamin Harney (2:39PM) : I want to know if I got this right, in about 50 years or so, money will be useless since 98% of us will not have jobs?
Russell Mickler (2:40PM) : Grin – some economists believe that the nature of work will change so that unemployment will become systemic. Now, how that relates to currency, I couldn’t say, but one could believe that transfer payments (socialistic societies) would tend to dominate in some way, to feed the masses, should capitalism/market economies continue.
Benjamin Harney (2:41PM) : or would the star trek war happen, where afterwards money is abolished and everyone gets basically anything they need?
Russell Mickler (2:41PM) : Rifkin is regarded by many as a crackpot. But I don’t think he’s too far off the mark in terms of trends and ramifications on this one. We must prepare for a world where the role of labor _changes_ because of market-driven forces. That means, if we’re to remain a capitalistic society, the profit motive will undo the livlihood of people. How will we cope with that? That’s the larger question…
Russell Mickler (2:42PM) : Right… that would be a positive, Star Trekiean kind of outcome. That we no longer need to work and the state/society provides… plus, in Trek, there’s no scarcity issue – human society didn’t _want_ because they had replicators, no money, etc…
Benjamin Harney (2:42PM) : most scholars that were right on the money such as Chris Columbas were considered crack pots by their respected peers
Russell Mickler (2:43PM) : I think Rifkin has some questionable treatise, but I think his “end of work” book was excellent. I think it’s very relevant when considering our current fight to explain why so many people can’t find work, or, are working 2 or 3 jobs, instead of traditional 1 job employment, and why productivity/profits are at all-time highs…
Russell Mickler (2:43PM) : The nature of work is changing. How it changes, how radically it will change, and how the economy will evolve, is questionable…
Russell Mickler (2:44PM) : I can tell you one thing: I work out of my own office, teaching, online, not in a classroom but across the world, in real-time, for four colleges and universities that I’ve never set foot on. That, in and of itself, is a radical change in employment and learning…
Benjamin Harney (2:46PM) : yes it is
Russell Mickler (2:47PM) : How companies choose to evolve will be an interesting period to live through. But it’s unquestionable that it’s happening, and that it’s happening so fast that our politicians and best economists are unable to predict its outcome, yet we rush headlong into globalization, because it’s the only rational alternative…
Russell Mickler (2:48PM) : ..consequences be damned (grin)…
Benjamin Harney (2:48PM) : now my next question… will this lead us into WWIII?
Russell Mickler (2:49PM) : Hmmm In my _opinion_, I would say no.
Benjamin Harney (2:49PM) : where all of the countries destroy through compition for work?
Benjamin Harney (2:50PM) : because even in Star Trek, there was a major war right before everything went to easy street
Russell Mickler (2:50PM) : I think the concept of a World War (the likes of WWI and WWII) is a bit dated. The threat of conventional conflict is a little rediculous in that the US outspends everyone by 100:1 ratios on conventional warfare, and, we own a ton of nukes. The more likelihood is an act of desparation that forces social change or social collapse…
Benjamin Harney (2:50PM) : now I am not saying that we will have star trek abilities, but somthing similar
Russell Mickler (2:50PM) : Like terrorism….
Benjamin Harney (2:51PM) : right, where one society does not agree with another so they choose to destroy instead of compramising
Russell Mickler (2:52PM) : Well, we can presume there’ll be all kinds of scarcity in the future (energy, food, water, access to health care, etc). How societies can distribute wealth equally to satisfy the starving, the impoverished, is our next challenge… we’re pretty poor at that idea right now. Capitalism is an unforgiving mistress (grin).
Benjamin Harney (2:53PM) : in your opinion, do you think that the world bank would collapse if the changes did reach to 98% unemployment?
Russell Mickler (2:53PM) : I can say that history demonstrates that the starving eventually eat their masters through revolution and rebellion; that the wealthy cannot hold on to power indefinitely if the serfs are hungry (grin)…
Benjamin Harney (2:54PM) : I hear that
Benjamin Harney (2:56PM) : now will all of the outsourcing, raise the 3rd world countires into 1st world countries and then basically level out all countries into the same catagory?
Russell Mickler (2:56PM) : Hmmm Well, the bank would need to be restructured; it wouldn’t collapse, you see, as banks are just manifestations of the confidence we have in the state. The bank exists because we have confidence in artificial representations of wealth – a dollar, for example – because the US Government stands behind the dollar. That’s why we’re not all holding gold in our pockets. But the system would have to change. The way we feed ourselves right now is based off labor in exchange for wealth. If labor is no longer needed, how is wealth generated or transferred? This is the question…
Benjamin Harney (2:57PM) : I think wealth is just a state of mind, I believe the wealthiest people are those that have friends and family that stand by them
Benjamin Harney (2:58PM) : I also believe that money is today’s root of greed
Russell Mickler (2:59PM) : Well, the standard of living will certainly become a more equal playing field. However, there are some nations worse than others. Imagine what will happen to Africa when the seas are over-fished and the population has no infrastructure to support basic needs (like agriculture, waste disposal, health care)… wer’re seeing it already:mass death, starvation, riots and unrest, homicides/genocides for scarce resources… now, take that same unrest and transfer it to western countries as people fight for their survival. Again, it doesn’t have to be a desolate future, but one has to be reasonable: change will come in one form or another….
Russell Mickler (3:01PM) : We could also suggest that even our intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan is very much an orchestrated manuver to insert strong American influence over the world’s 2nd largest oil reserve, as to guarantee supply and stabilize our own economy in the next 50 years. In other words, the invasion of Iraq was a scenario that was planned 20+ years ago as a means to stablizing world oil markets at the time supplies began to diminish… which was, hum, right around the turn of the century….
Russell Mickler (3:02PM) : …To the stronger goes the spoils.. The US will waste no time in securing the resources it needs for its own survival, including installing geopolitical puppet regimes to guarantee its long-term viability…
Benjamin Harney (3:03PM) : wow, I hadnt thought of that
Russell Mickler (3:04PM) : I think your take on greed is noble. Unfortunately, you can’t eat it (grin). We live in a material society. Hopefully we can change some of our perceptions of wealth and value and purpose of life before it’s too late (grin)… but our current course is very unsustainable. Economists were telling us that thirty years ago… scientists were telling us that 30 years ago, too, with global warming and oil consumption and pollution… we choose not to listen because the thought of sacrifice grains against our nature (grin).
Russell Mickler (3:05PM) : Oh, no doubt, Ben (grin). The Bush Administration is simply executing something that had been orchestrated and planned for many, many years… that idea will be verified when/if we invade Iran. It would be too surreal then…
Russell Mickler (3:07PM) : But I’m more left on this spectrum – it’d be a better counterbalance if you were to talk to a righty, too (grin)…
Russell Mickler (3:08PM) : The conservative would argue Rifkin is all wet because the economy will change – just like there’s nobody making buggies for horses anymore, those jobs went away, but new ones were created. I agree, but I’d suggest those jobs will take advanced understanding of math and science – academics that we’re very unprepared for as a society in America….
Russell Mickler (3:08PM) : Yes, the jobs will change, but there will be fewer of them, and intense competition for them.
Russell Mickler (3:09PM) : Hense, Rifkin is accurate. Two-percent of the world’s workforce to produce 100-percent of the goods and services.

ZOTOB Making the Rounds

Last Tuesday (Aug 8, 2005), Microsoft released a patch to prevent RDC (Remote Desktop Connectivity) hijacking by a worm called w32.zotob.x (http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.zotob.a.html). Microsoft recommends users apply security patches and update virus definitions as soon as possible.

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