{"id":23,"date":"2006-02-27T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T16:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/27\/windows-shizophrenia\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T00:31:37","slug":"windows-shizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/27\/windows-shizophrenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Shizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How is a Windows Domain like a cult?”, Kevin asked me far to late in the night for him to still be awake (midday for me!).<\/p>\n

“Oh dear…”, I muttered in reply.<\/p>\n

“If you join one you loose your identity, and if you try to leave you’re screwed.”<\/p>\n

If you got that joke, or even still care, kudos to you. Otherwise, abandon all hope at the door.<\/p>\n

In a gregarious act of ignorance, truely the source of most of my computer problems, I removed a computer from a network domain without reseting the password for the local computer’s non-domain admin account. Ugg.<\/p>\n

Sort of funny – I am the one who is supposed to know everything, and what do I do? In a coun try without any resources, no reliable internet connection, not even a Windows CD to rebuild the machine with, I lock myself in a digital room and throw away the key. To make matters worse, I did this all in the few seconds it took while leaning over an engineers shoulder. He got a long lunch.<\/p>\n

Windows has tight security, and everything I found to break password was either hundreds of dollars, or non-existant. And then:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/home.eunet.no\/~pnordahl\/ntpasswd\/<\/a><\/p>\n

It is a linux based boot disk that will fork into the user accounts on a Windows computer and let you change anything. Got to love that windows security. Take that Kevin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“How is a Windows Domain like a cult?”, Kevin asked me far to late in the night for him to still be awake (midday for me!). “Oh dear…”, I muttered in reply. “If you join one you loose your identity, and if you try to leave you’re screwed.” If you got that joke, or even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}