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The most epic log-on of all time (i.imgur.com)

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[–]instant_street 64 points65 points ago

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That would have been useful 12 years ago.

[–]flashingcurser 11 points12 points ago

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It's not NT. NT logon starts like this.

And after ctl-alt-del it looks like this.

It is win98.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points ago

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You now leave me with nothing

[–]flashingcurser 3 points4 points ago

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Sorry man. This gif comes up every couple of months, in this case 10, and every time someone claims it's NT. The problem is most of the people who enjoy this are not old enough to have ever actually seen an NT logon.

Have a sympathy upvote.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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NT was fucking horrible, they should be glad they weren't around the webz surfin and replacing E's with 3's.

[–]flashingcurser 0 points1 point ago

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By 4.5 it wasn't any worse than win95/98. For its time NT domains were pretty good, though obviously active directory is far superior.

All MS os's took a giant leap forward with win2k.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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I don't think I ever saw it progress that much before I bailed on it. I don't think I ever had to use w2k.

[–]flashingcurser 0 points1 point ago

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2k was a great os. XP was just 2k with a pretty interface that and some annoying planned obsolescence. The only thing that xp does that 2k didn't is IE7 and that came much later. The launch of 2k was only 14 months before XP, they didn't do much to it. 2k made it obvious that WIN9x line was dead and they needed to move all users over to NT kernels, even home users. Voila XP.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Ah, 14 months wasn't really long enough to upgrade our computer back then.(we were running on 4 years before getting something better.

[–]flashingcurser 1 point2 points ago

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Except nobody knew when Whistler (xp) was going to come out, even microsoft didn't know how long it would take to put a pretty gui on it. Most of us who were sick of NT did so right away and weren't disappointed. I would still argue that 2k was better than xp, it was faster, does all that xp did, didn't have the crazy licensing requirements, and only came in the "Professional" flavor.

[–]FreeSammiches 0 points1 point ago

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I had forgotten about the whistler build name. I still have copies of a few different beta versions out in the garage somewhere.

As far as the 2k vs XP argument goes, I'd say XP took the lead with service pack 2 when most of the overt bugs were finally gone, and the driver support was well established. I never used the home edition due to SMP requirements, so I can't speak to how useful xp home was.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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XP... pretty in the same way as a cheap plastic toy.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Its actually a windows 95 domain logon

[–]flashingcurser -1 points0 points ago

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Meh same difference.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Oh yes I totally agree with you, sorry I stand corrected.

[–]douglasr007 0 points1 point ago

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well technically all versions of Windows after 2000 are also versions of NT but...well yeah the people would still not be old enough to actually see a NT logon

[–]Edrondol 3 points4 points ago

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I must say I like the Karmamangler bot, but only for those images that were posted within, say, 1 month or so. In other words, blatant reposts. I'm sure he could put in that filter.

[–]xmod2 2 points3 points ago

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There used to be a privilege escalation you could do similarly by "Open"ing explorer.exe through the help process in a Symantec program. Since the AV software ran as SYSTEM and ran it's help as SYSTEM as well...

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Pressing the cancel button also got you into the OS, however no access to network resources,,,

[–]Karmangler 56 points57 points ago

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This image looks familiar:

This was an automated message with no intention of calling out reposters.

The above links are provided as references to previous discussions about this picture.

This image is one of the top 1,000 posts in a popular subreddit.

[–][deleted] 14 points15 points ago

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awwwwwwwww, well it's windows NT actually so partial credit

[–]menasan 37 points38 points ago

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hey... 10 months is a good enough gap. dont sweat it.

[–]Mr_Slippyfist 13 points14 points ago

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Especially with the new influx, I sure haven't seen it before.

[–]YoungZeebra 3 points4 points ago

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Also, It was posted in another subreddit.

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[–]JakeCameraAction 1 point2 points ago

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Karmangler is a bot.
No one controls that raving loon.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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There's a fine line between repost and classic.

[–]douglasr007 0 points1 point ago

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and that fine line is always subjective

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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no its not NT

[–]PatJackDuh 1 point2 points ago

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Is this dude serious?

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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<i>This was an automated message</i>

[–]solo-do-low 1 point2 points ago

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it's only been there 10 days. Maybe just a redditor who puts on a cape and cowl and saves Reddit?

[–]BoxThinker 3 points4 points ago

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Is that true? I think it's an awesome idea, but I don't know how the admins are going to feel about automated commenting...it could definitely be exploited.

[–]cdcformatc 9 points10 points ago

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There are plenty of bots posting all the time. No admins have done anything about them since many are useful. Tweet_poster is a good example.

[–]BoxThinker 1 point2 points ago

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TIL, thanks for the reply.

[–]someauthor 0 points1 point ago

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<b>This was an automated message!<b>

Sent from my HP Tablet 32GB

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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yeah he hit one of my threads once, and got downright pissy when I asked why he felt the need to make such a bot.

[–]AndroidHelp 1 point2 points ago

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I used to do this when Microsoft would lock you out of your XP Machine if you did not have a legit copy, it was patched within a few months.

[–]lordlicorice 0 points1 point ago

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This reminds me of the computer lab in my middle school. You weren't supposed to get to the internet, but this was enforced by not having IE on the start menu and setting the Novell client policy to lock you out of Flag+R and the task manager.

Obviously clever students could just file->open iexplore or (this was particularly obvious) type a URL in Word and control+click it.

[–]ten_thousand_puppies 0 points1 point ago

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That's okay, want to know how to log into a Windows 95 machine if you don't have a username/password? Just hit cancel, I'm not even lying

[–]sanderson22 0 points1 point ago

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this could have been useful back in middle school

[–]notsogrand 0 points1 point ago

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did anybody else wonder why there were 2 pointers on the screen only to realize that the other one was their own? oh i'm just an idiot? hokay.

[–]silentcrs 0 points1 point ago

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This gif keeps coming up. The person ends up getting full access to the files on the local computer and no network access. What's the point? I could just rip the HD out and put it another computer -- same effect.

[–]FuckKarmaGetTrees 0 points1 point ago

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"Epic" is the new "Literally"

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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really you did? Wow can give us details of this tom foolery? You some sorta hacker like in war games !!

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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Of course, and then you bypass the deflector array and route all avalable power to weapons, its that easy.. And you did all this when you were just 15 yrs old , wow brilliant.

[–]604mehrdad 0 points1 point ago

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Good ol Win95

[–]Daman09 0 points1 point ago

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Oh No He Di-duhnt

[–]avrus -1 points0 points ago

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Are you a wizard?

[–]gunnar120 -1 points0 points ago

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You are a fucking wwwyzzerdd

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points ago

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Is that Win98? Who uses that these days?

What about XP? Vista? 7?

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