Making a Bootable USB key
How can i install windows on a netbook that doesn’t have a CD player?
-Bryan F. Ontario, Canada
Well you can use diskpart to make a USB key from wich you can boot from BIOS. This also enables instant slipstreaming.
Here’s a quick look at the process:
- First, you’ll need the DiskPart utility on the system you will use to prep the thumb drive. This is a free disk partitioning utility that is likely already installed on your Windows system. If not, you can download DiskPart here.
- Launch the DiskPart utility by typing diskpart at the Start Menu.
- Then run the list disk command to check the status of your drive.Video
Dennis Chung, an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft, demonstrates how easy it is to prepare a USB thumb drive and use it to install Windows 7.
- Now run select disk 1 where the “1″ is actually the corresponding number of your USB drive.
- Run clean.
- Once the thumb drive is clean, you can run create partition primary.
- Now make the partition active by entering active
- Then you need to set up the file system as Fat32 by runningformat fs=fat32 quick (quick, of course, specifies that you want to perform a quick format to speed up the process).
- Entering the assign command gives the USB drive a drive letter, making it easy to access from Windows Explorer
- Then you can copy/paste everything from the Windows 7 installation DVD onto the USB key (a simple drag and drop will do).
- Now you can insert the thumb drive into the system you want to install Windows 7 onto and boot the system. The installation will now proceed as usual—but faster.
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A little note about Identity Theft
A research from Verisign done by YouGov revealed the minimum set of information needed to steal someone’s identity in the US and Canada.
- Full Name
- Date of birth
- Address
- Full name of mother before marriage.
As you can see, that set of information is pretty easy to gather on a person especially with sites like facebook and the white pages.
A fake phone polling session would gather this information about 45% of the time said Verisign. And this is bad news for us because it makes it a lot harder to protect our identity.
The US and Canadian laws state that if someone is caught making a fraudulous phone poll, that person can get up to 5 years in prison and 100,000$ fine. Note that you only have 1 year to complain about someone at the police. And proving that you are good willed and that he is the bad guy you have to prove there is defamation, falsification or a recording of illegal questioning. And if you fail to give this proof and you attacked that person, they can make sure you get fined for attack of their character.
Things you can do to protect yourself
- Install an anti virus on your computer.
- Before entering any information in a website, check the certificate of the website and the address.
- Modify your passwords often.
- Secure your wifi.
- Clean up your social networks and other profiles.
Tabnapping : Phishing 2.0 will break all multitaskers!
So imagine you go on a website and an ad pops up, you don’t notice it. You close the first website and suddenly Gmail asks for your credentials. You enter them.
Congratulations, you just been socially engineered.
It is even easier to trick you because all the current browsers use a file called History.js that saves all the website addresses you ever visited. (the same technology that makes blue links go purple after you went to it) So the hacker can ask that file if you went to specific addresses and then change itself when it sees you went to a specific site. And all this works even if NoScript is installed. So what all this does is that any ad you leave open could change into a site you visit often without your knowledge!
How The Attack Works
- A user navigates to your normal looking site.
- You detect when the page has lost its focus and hasn’t been interacted with for a while.
- Replace the favicon with the Gmail favicon, the title with “Gmail: Email from Google”, and the page with a Gmail login look-a-like. This can all be done with just a little bit of JavaScript that takes place instantly.
- As the user scans their many open tabs, the favicon and title act as a strong visual cue—memory is malleable and mouldable and the user will most likely simply think they left a Gmail tab open. When they click back to the fake Gmail tab, they’ll see the standard Gmail login page, assume they’ve been logged out, and provide their credentials to log in. The attack preys on the perceived immutability of tabs.
- After the user has entered their login information and you’ve sent it back to your server, you redirect them to Gmail. Because they were never logged out in the first place, it will appear as if the login was successful
Source : http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/a-new-type-of-phishing-attack
A Popup appears!
You dun care and take focus away and open a new tab. The website sees that and changes it’s title and skin.
You come back and enter your credentials.
Aion Review
The Aion team tried to copy the gameplay of a Korean MMO while still making the game more eastern so that WoW players aren’t alienated too much. Let me say that they achieved that goal. It is the whore of MMOs, trying to give something fun to every player that tries it.
The gameplay is targetted, meaning that to attack you need to click and focus on a single monster/player. WASD walking and a few userbars for skills. At the begining you will mostly be doing PvE. But the farther the game goes, the more the gameplay will be PvP centric, ending as mostly PvP only. The game is not instanced, you will meet players randomly everywhere, but all the zones are separated. You cannot walk of fly from one to another. There is a 8 character limit TOTAL, meaning 8 characters by account, and not by server. This might hit you hard when you realize that the best items ingame need 5 characters on the same server, meaning that if you choose a side (Elyos or Asmodian) you essentially have to be loyal to that side AND server on that account. You usually have enough money when you get to a point where you need new spells or equipment.
Main quests are linear and repetitive, but thats how Every MMO is. :D They also contain cinematics so that you get a more immersive questing experience. For some dungeons you will still need the Tank-Healer-DPS-Magic combo most RPGs use. Crafting, Grinding and Socializing is what you will do in this game, and for the PvE players we are here at tech wub, 
we think it is worth it to pay for this game, until you finish your character and get bored with the game. For PvP players, this will be the best game they will ever play, even if the Aerial fighting is a sham. Combat in itself is mostly pressing the button, then chain a second attack and then wait for the cooldown to let you repeat that process. One great thing is that buffs last from 30 mins to an hour.
The graphics are awesome. Environments are submersive, weather effects are realistic, and the characters are great. This makes exploration the best part of Aion, because the world is huge.The Elyos (Good) are usually pretty and more human looking, while the Asmodian (Evil) usually sport a more Cool and Beastial look. Character customisation is detailed, with sliders and color grids. The chat system recognises what you are saying and makes you do the proper emote like laughing when you say lol and dancing like michael jackson when you say *dance*.
Each zone has it’s theme music. Most fit well with the zone. The speech from players when attacking and casting skills are just weird, they sound like pure gibberish, like someone sneezing, or someone “moaning”, which may disturb some people.
The crafting lets you create items that are similar in strenght with rare loots, and it makes you level, so most types of gameplay will make you advance ingame. And you can skip grinding for items by doing “work orders” to learn how to do it.
There is also a monthly magazine that will give a code each month to redeem an exclusive ingame item. Availlable digitally only (for now).
The game is availlable in English, French and Spanish.
In conclusion, This game will feel awesome to PvP fans, but it will only last a few months for PvE fans.
Initial reaction : Awesome angel wings! <3
| Rating Graphics : 10/10 Sound : 9/10 Playability : 7.4/10 Replayability : 4/10 Overall: 7.6/10 |
Endgame Reaction : Aww, only pvp nao :(
Pros : Best graphics ever seen in an MMO. Character customisation system is great, tough limited. Great gameplay.
Cons : All characters do the same quests. Main quests are linear. End game is PVP only. Some small balancing issues.
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