Interesting reading for 1-August-2006

Getting system level access from a limited account in WinXp - This video shows how you can get "system" level access very easily on a WinXp box. Looks totally possible. The basic crux is that we run a scheduled task that launches command prompt, since scheduler is run by the system account, we get a command prompt that is owned by system!!

Google's Bigtable - I had seen this before while reading about google code base. But this is a nice technical overview of the google system for storing large amounts of semi-structured data. This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to work at Google.

ZuluPad - The personal wiki notepad. Looks interesting.

Jakob Nielsen on screen resolution and page layout - Always a crucial decision, web design guru Jakob Nielsen offers some advice.

Schrödinger's cat is not dead. - Funny, if you know the story behind schroedinger's cat.

How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal - Wow, finally all the univeristy education put to use. Really geeky stuff. The guy basically built a directional antenna but the way he did it is a very interesting read.

How to make a corporate butt pucker - Rick really makes the corporate butt pucker... LOL

The most important software innovations - I found the section on software patents and non-innivations very interesting too.

Feed2JS - Incorporate any RSS feed into your web page easily.

TunnelVision - A really wierd utility that provides security by hiding the entire screen except the area around your cursor.. LOL

Ruby books sales pass Perl - Interesting commentary by O'Reilly

Get Google spreadsheet and writely invitations - For free.

ATA Over Ethernet - Putting hard drives on the LAN. About a year old but still a very informative read.

Wanna know who's ripping off your content? - This site can be used for some very interesting stuff. I think it may just be using the google related pages tech underneath, but the results looked good at first shot.

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  • > This video shows how you can get "system" level access very easily on a WinXp box. Looks totally possible.
    > The basic crux is that we run a scheduled task that launches command prompt, since scheduler is run by
    > the system account, we get a command prompt that is owned by system!!

    The "AT" command that they use can only be run by administrators. The SYSTEM account doesn't *really* get any more privilege than Administrator, contrary to what the video says, because the Administrator has permission to configure services which run as SYSTEM anyway.

    Basically, for that video to work, their "passive" user would have had to be a member of the Administrators local group.

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