A Windows Blog: 2025

ACH Payment Instructions

Using Your Bank’s Website

The first way to send an ACH payment is using your bank’s website. The challenge when using your bank’s interface is making sure that you’re entering the right data into the right field because the fields don’t always follow the same order as above.

You’ll need to pay special attention to where to put the unique “Identification Number” that E-File gives you for every payment. It must go in the ID field for the receiver/payee. This field is called different names in different systems. For example, in JP Morgan’s system, the field is called “Beneficiary ID Number” while in Bank of America’s CashPro system the field is called the “Vendor ID” field.

Using Your Accounting System

The second way to send an ACH payments is to enter data into your accounting system. This creates a file in the NACHA format that is transmitted to your bank.

The Identification Number must be put in the NACHA standard for “Entry Detail Record Type Code 6, Field Number 7 – Identification Number.” You may have to get your IT department to identify a specific field in your accounting system that will store the Identification Number and they may also have to update the system to include this number in the right field. If the Identification Number is in the wrong field, your ACH transfer will be rejected.

We recommend dedicating sufficient time to setup this new process as this could take more time than you think, depending on your system.

Tips for Success

Find out now which field is the correct field for the Identification Number. This could take time if you need to work with your bank or IT department.
You must include the unique Identification Number for your payment and put it in the correct field or the U.S. Treasury will reject your payment.
Do not put the Identification Number in the addendum or comments.
Your bank or your company may require more information to make a transfer, such as USAC’s Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN). We’ve posted this information in the E-File FAQs, under “Company and Banking Information.” Contact us if you need other information to process a payment.
Your ACH payment may seem like it processed correctly at first. It can take several days before you receive a rejection notice if your file didn’t contain the required data in the required format.
Lastly, we recommend you process small ACH payments (such as $1.00) to test this process before the next invoice deadline. All payments will be credited to your account.

2026 Home Network

In 2024-2025 I began home networking again here is what I accomplished.

Here is my Setup

2 Computers on 2024 Mac Pro, One Elite Desk Hewlett Packard 2020 running Microsoft Windows 2019 Enterprise LTSC, LG Smart TV connected to a Comcast Enterprise Cable Modem. via Category 5 Ethernet cable. Sony PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox X Series. Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. with about 30 games and 75 movies on Blu-ray. A 50 Terabyte Enclosure. with a Universal Sony Disc Player. The Consoles are connected to a HDMI Switch connected to the Klisph home theater. Biometic Fingerprint reader, and a Bluetooth Logi tech Webcam. LP Record Player. Kodak Pro Camera and JVC Video Capture Equipment and a Xerox Laser Jet Printer and USB Hub and peripherals. I'm connecting a Digital Storm Windows Server to the network in 2026. 100TB Orico Enclosure to hot swap the drives. Final Cut Pro, Virtual Box, Coral Draw Suite with Licensed Macromedia Flash Source Code now in the Computer History Museum. Matlab

I made my own personal Virtual Machine Cluster of Computer History Operating Systems from AT&T System V to Windows Server 2025 about 12 VM's with Source Code and Microsoft Code Center Premium.

With new Longhorn reset layout and Vista XAML Windows with the WPF Toolkit Plus, MSDN Magazines SideBar Source Code and the Longhorn Transformation pack, Reading Disecting a C# Application and building SharpDevelop Wrox Edtion, and using ILSpy and Global Assembly Cache de-compilation of .NET Assemblies for my own Vista Transparency Center and reading the Windows Internals Supplement Series for next year’s Imagine Cup. Registered for 2026.

Made Windows NT 3.5/4.0/XP/2003 Source Code Build Server in a Windows XP 32-bit Virtual Box 1.5 Terabytes VHD with Longhorn PDC 2003 VHD mount and Microsoft MVP. Using Interix Services for UNIX, NetBSD 2.0, SCO, Solaris FOSS Program, Red Hat Linux 8.5 Source, AIX, AIX Toolbox, HP-UX and the Open-Source Tru-64 UNIX, OSF 1.0, Sourceware, and DECUS Windows XP OPK. OPK Training Courses the MSDN Library 2005 with UNIX Migration Guide, Windows XP UX Guidelines, Windows Research Kernel with Virtual Labs. Adobe CS2, ZAM3D, Swift 3D, Windows XP Embedded and Feature Pack. Microsoft Office XP Pro for PowerPoint. Visual C++ 4.2, 6.0, Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 and Team Foundation Server 2005 for work groups Visual Studio 2008 Team System Oracle Tuxedo for middleware and 2010 Ultimate and the Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure. With Active State Perl 5.6 XP/2003 Platform SDK's and DDKs. Windows CE 6.0 with book and Training Courses and Code Plex.

Nullsoft DJ Software, Cycling 74 Max with Planet CCARMA and a Ableton licensed PX-18 Source Code Gaming Console SDK's, Operating Systems and Development Kits. MSDN Subscription from 1999-2019. Recently bought Office 2024 LTSC, Visual Studio 2026 Enterprise. Windows 10 IoT 2021 Enterprise LTSC. Steinberg Cubase connected to 2 Yamaha Studio Monitors to a Creative Audigy Soudblaster. One Epiphone Les Paul Standard with Princeton Fender Amp and one AKAI 49 Key MIDI Controller and a Avid MBox Studio.

The software running are :

Cornell University's Bio HPC from Microsoft Research.

The price or cost is about $45K from Direct and Amazon.

Morrell Music and Builders First Source Cutris Morrell, Kelly Curtis, and my father were promoter for 8 shows. Including my graduation show in 2013.

Guns N' Roses

My Aunt McGuiness attended the 1988 Aerosmith show and brought back a autograph

The Ritz, NYC (May 16, 1991)

Pearl Jam

In 2016 I tested as a INTJ-T. In 2026 I'm attending the Anne Hathaway premieres of a few movies. I asked her to marry me if I'm rejected for real only copy of the HIV Cure will be destroyed. I'm starting to think if computing industry is all mental health because the only celebrity that answered me on Twitter or X was Anne Hathaway the Actress with a verified social media check. I'm beginning to read the Virginia and California Consumer Privacy law. I paid for her FBI Movie.

I applied to Stanford University to the Graduate School of Mathematics for 2027 admissions. I was denied admissions but told I had a very impressive resume. That I just applied too late. convergent UVa computer science graduate in 2018. I'm starting on ARM computer architecture for 2026. I'm looking for one book in 2026 and investing the rest of my income a VAX to ARM Book to port DEC to ARM.

I built a home studio its registered a Dissident Studios in town.

What did IBM say? "How much room do you need?" and keep it that way!

I would like to thank Mr. Rose for the Terminator show in 91' that mentions Izzy's lisp like mine.

My theory of a cousin in the Actress Anne Hathaway is a beautiful and talented actress. However she needs to understand I did test in the top 2% percentile and don't deserve to be abused by psychiatry and its her choice if she wants to learn computer science. I am related the Charles Darwin. I did get corporate endorsements that made me a celebrity according to personality law. I want her to make a Darwin masterpiece but with me in it. Maybe a small cameo I didn't take acting lessons.

I side with Charles Darwin's Conversions with Mr. Hooker. However immutable presumptions need to to be adaptive. I and making my father's home a 501 organization because I don't believe in taking money from the aging population and money demand. I just don't want to adapt to a changing world in 2029. I side with China. In WWIII as war breaks out over Taiwan. I dream of a simplified Chinese wedding not traditional and bringing castles to America not skyscrapers and am well read in Thomas More's Utopia.

I do not support postmodernism a late 20th-century movement (roughly post-1940s/70s) that arose as a skeptical reaction against modernism and Western philosophical, scientific, and cultural norms

The cash supply isn't backed by gold anymore. My family did not support Nixon. I received the Pell grant for one year but then used a personal account on record. It is the upper class and my family that was robbed maybe by postmodernism and the lose of the the gold standard. I don't support the deceleration of independence. I do no support the colonization of mars as terraforming is impossible on mars.

The Castle may like Microsoft's Software Assurance. 5 or more devices.

Code View for MS-DOS 6.22

I'm learning Code View for MS-DOS 6.22 and making a Virtual Appliance for sale The appliance will contain Code View MS-DOS 6.22 Source and the MKS-Toolkit

Why Windows 2000 and XP Virtual Machines in Vitrual Box are running slow or have a black screen on Windows 10

So, I have changed settings of machine to 1 CPU and 3.5GB RAM
than did:
- memory integrity off
- DeviceGuard via gpedit - off
- regedit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\Scenarios\SystemGuard - all "0" values
- bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
- shutdown -s -t 2

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=110203

Alias

In Windows XP/2003 Source Kit after you open a razzle window you just need to execute 'alias' and navigate to the project window and build the specified project. with the build utility.

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I bought Charlton Sheet's No Down Payment Program in 2003 and paid $400 they gave me vouchers not good for cash but good for real real estate I have $2 million in vouchers I'm on Section-8 housing until my dad passes. I would like a new home if the east coast would listen to me and California.

Debate Bill Gates and Charlton Sheets

https://www.mcspotlight.org/debate/workers/messages/2521.html

Build your own SPARC workstation with QEMU and Solaris

"Back in the late 80s and through the 90s, Unix workstations were super powerful, super cool, and super expensive. If you were making 3D graphics or developing applications, you wanted a high-performance workstation and Sun made some of the best ones. But unless you worked for a huge company, university, or government, they were probably too expensive.

More than twenty years later, we have much more powerful and affordable computers, so let's emulate the old systems and see what it was like to run some of the coolest computers you could buy in the 90s".

https://learn.adafruit.com/build-your-own-sparc-with-qemu-and-solaris?view=all

Installing X-Windows and Motif

#pkg install xorg

#pkg install open-motif

#pkg install xlm

#pkg install xdm

#pkg install drm-515-kmod

#kldload i915kms

$ echo "mwm" > ~/.xinitrc
$ startx

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics

The book uses Solaris UNIX 2.5

There are the mwm, fwm, twm fvwm95 for the Windows 95 look and

feel..

UNIX® Certified Products

"The Open Group UNIX standards offer the most stable, portable and cost-effective applications development environment for a wide range of platforms from mobile devices to mainframes. For end-user enterprises, procuring certified UNIX systems ensures the highest level of availability, scalability, and maintainability for those who want to focus on their business with confidence in their IT.

UNIX certification is a trusted and open system industry standard, ensuring that products conform to the most exacting criteria for portability, compatibility, and global interoperability. This enables buyers to specify UNIX conformance in procurement's, facilitates Boundary less Information Flow™, and enhances the perception of the UNIX system as a consistently stable, flexible, and reliable operating system."

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

Xinuos Sues IBM and Red Hat for Antitrust Violations and Copyright Infringement, Alleges IBM Has Been Misleading its Investors Since 2008

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Xinuos, Inc., a software company headquartered in the U.S. Virgin Islands that provides commercial customers with server operating systems, today filed a copyright infringement and antitrust lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp. ("IBM") and Red Hat, Inc. ("Red Hat") in the United States District Court of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas and St. John Division. Xinuos alleges that IBM and Red Hat, using wrongfully copied software code, have engaged in additional, illegal anti-competitive misconduct to corner the billion-dollar market for Unix and Linux server operating systems.

"While this case is about Xinuos and the theft of our intellectual property," said Sean Snyder, President and CEO of Xinuos. "It is also about market manipulation that has harmed consumers, competitors, the open-source community, and innovation itself."

According to the complaint, at their peak, Xinuos' operating systems were the most widely-used operating systems in the Unix/Linux server operating system market. Xinuos' UnixWare 7 and OpenServer 5 and 6 server operating systems were popular because they were stable, reliable, and easy to manage. Xinuos alleges that in or around this time, IBM's server operating systems were declining in popularity and new entrants to the market, such as Red Hat, were gaining market share and threatening IBM's server operating system business, its underlying business selling server hardware, as well as related software and services.

Xinuos' complaint alleges that IBM then took unlawful steps to improve its market position and safeguard its business from competition:

"First, IBM stole Xinuos' intellectual property and used that stolen property to build and sell a product to compete with Xinuos itself. Second, stolen property in IBM's hand, IBM and Red Hat illegally agreed to divide the relevant market and use their growing market powers to victimize consumers, innovative competitors, and innovation itself. Third, after IBM and Red Hat launched their conspiracy, IBM then acquired Red Hat to solidify and make permanent their scheme."

The complaint further alleges that IBM has been misleading its investors about its rights to use Xinuos' code for more than a decade:

"IBM has made demonstrably and materially misleading statements in securities filings about its ownership interest in the Code. In every annual report filed with the SEC since 2008, IBM has represented that a third-party owns all of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, and that this third-party has waived any infringement claim against IBM. These self-serving representations are demonstrably false and misleading to investors and potential asset purchasers."

The complaint also details IBM's and Red Hat's alleged conspiracy, summarizing it as follows:

"Thereafter, IBM and Red Hat…divided the market for enterprise clients to protect IBM's precious high-end server, software, and services business, they promoted each other's operating system products, and they granted each other special technical access and abilities that were not made generally available and from which Xinuos and others were specifically excluded. These bad acts continue to this day."

Xinuos alleges that the IBM and Red Hat conspiracy has harmed the open-source community and specifically Xinuos' OpenServer 10 product, which is based on FreeBSD, an open-source UNIX-based operating system and alternative to Red Hat's Linux-based open-source operating system, RHEL. "By dominating the Unix/Linux server operating system market, competing open-source operating systems, like our FreeBSD-based OpenServer 10, have been pushed out of the market," said Snyder. "This prevents developers and consumers from receiving the benefits that these products have to offer."

Xinuos asserts claims under the copyright infringement provisions of 17 U.S. Code §101, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Virgin Islands Antimonopoly Law, and Virgin Islands Unfair Competition and Unjust Enrichment common law. Xinuos has asked for both monetary damages and injunctive relief.

About Xinuos, Inc.

Xinuos provides commercial customers with operating systems that are reliable, dependable, and secure for mission-critical applications that demand rock-solid performance. The Xinuos general-purpose operating systems are on pace with hardware and software industry advances and are designed to power any size business that requires stability, reliability, and scalability. Learn more at www.xinuos.com.

Contact:
Simone Jackenthal
SJackenthal@tridentdmg.com
(202) 923-5296

SOURCE Xinuos

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xinuos-sues-ibm-and-red-hat-for-antitrust-violations-and-copyright-infringement-alleges-ibm-has-been-misleading-its-investors-since-2008-301259756.html

My So-Called Code Center Priemium

I have had my Symbols since 1997 and NT 4.0 and accumulating up to Windows 10. Until the Windows Installer Service just wasn't strong enough to install all the debug symbols that you would have to retrieve it from the symbol store at Microsoft. if you have all your debug symbols you can set up a private symbol server and work with debug help to retrieve the source files from the servers using the DIA SDK and the Debug Help API. Really it is up to the partners to make a dbghelp solution if they haven't already I might have a older one in my files. If I do I'll put it on my GitHub. Corporate has a supply chain. Microsoft needs to work on their Component Source relationship. I own Sparx Systems stock from Australia. I paid for my Code Jock Suite Pro 98.

https://github.com/sharedsourceinitiative/Debugging-Code-Center-Premium

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dbghelp/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dbghelp/nf-dbghelp-symgetsourcefile

Using SymChk

The basic syntax for SymChk is as follows:

symchk [/r] FileNames /s SymbolPath

FileNames specifies one or more program files whose symbols are needed. If FileNames is a directory and the /r flag is used, this directory is explored recursively, and SymChk will try to find symbols for all program files in this directory tree. SymbolPath specifies where SymChk is to search for symbols.

There are many more command-line optinos. For a full listing, see SymChk Command-Line Options.

The symbol path specified can include any number of local directories, UNC directories, or symbol servers. Local directories and UNC directories are not searched recursively. Only the specified directory and a subdirectory based on the executable's extension are searched. For example, the query

symchk thisdriver.sys /s g:\symbols

will search g:\mysymbols and g:\mysymbols\sys.

You can specify a symbol server by using either of the following syntaxes as part of your symbol path:

srv*DownstreamStore*\\Server\Share
srv*\\Server\Share

This is very similar to using a symbol server in the debugger's symbol path. For details on this, see Using Symbol Servers and Symbol Stores.

If a downstream store is specified, SymChk will make copies of all valid symbol files found by the symbol server and place them in the downstream store. Only symbol files that are complete matches are copied downstream.

SymChk always searches the downstream store before querying the symbol server. Therefore you should be careful about using a downstream store when someone else is maintaining the symbol store. If you run SymChk once and it finds symbol files, it will copy those to the downstream store. If you then run SymChk again after these files have been altered or deleted on the symbol store, SymChk will not notice this fact, since it will find what it is looking for on the downstream store and look no further.

Note SymChk always uses SymSrv (Symsrv.dll) as its symbol server DLL. On the other hand, the debuggers can choose a symbol server DLL other than SymSrv if one is available. (SymSrv is the symbol server included in the Debugging Tools for Windows package.)

Examples

Here are some examples. The following command searches for symbols for the program Myapp.exe:

e:\debuggers> symchk f:\myapp.exe /s f:\symbols\applications

SYMCHK: Myapp.exe FAILED - Myapp.pdb is missing

SYMCHK: FAILED files = 1
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 0

You can try again with a different symbol path:

e:\debuggers> symchk f:\myapp.exe /s f:\symbols\newdirectory

SYMCHK: FAILED files = 0
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 1

The search was successful this time. If the verbose option is not used, SymChk will only list files for which it failed to find symbols. So in this example no files were listed. You can tell that the search succeeded because there is now one file listed in the "passed" category and none in the "failed" category.

A program file is ignored if it contains no executable code. Many resource files are of this type.

If you prefer to see the file names of all program files, you can use the /v option to generate verbose output:

e:\debuggers> symchk /v f:\myapp.exe /s f:\symbols\newdirectory

SYMCHK: MyApp.exe PASSED

SYMCHK: FAILED files = 0
SYMCHK: PASSED + IGNORED files = 1

The following command searches for a huge number of Windows symbols in a symbol server. There are a great variety of possible error messages:

Taken from the MSDN Library

e:\debuggers> symchk /r c:\windows\system32 /s srv*\\manysymbols\windows

Mets fire Buck Showalter after disappointing season

NEW YORK -- For the fifth time in six years, the New York Mets are in the market for a manager.

Buck Showalter was fired Sunday after a disappointing season in which baseball's highest-spending team tumbled from contention by midsummer.

The 67-year-old Showalter said before the 2023 finale against Philadelphia that he will not return next year, and a few minutes later the Mets announced the club had decided on the change.

New York plans to introduce David Stearns as president of baseball operations on Monday, placing him above general manager Billy Eppler. Showalter's departure with a year remaining on his three-year contract clears the way for Stearns to pick the next manager.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38539509/buck-showalter-return-mets-manager-2024

IMDb Enhancement Content: User Reviews

An add-on to IMDb's Essential metadata package. Includes text of user-written reviews of movies, TV shows, and video games from IMDb's global audience of more than 200 million visitors. Content is in English.

The dataset contains the 'Most Helpful' user-written reviews as voted by IMDb's users. Each title inlucludes up to 15 reviews, with a mix of review lengths.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ruo6dxqm3iipe?sr=0-7&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa

Amazon Fires Producer Joel Silver From Films Starring Mark Wahlberg, Jake Gyllenhaal Over Verbal Abuse

"For the past few years, Joel Silver has kept a relatively low profile, his most recent credit on the little-seen “SuperFly” remake of 2018. Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback. And his prospects looked promising with a series of feature film and TV projects at Amazon that were based on Donald E. Westlake’s Parker noir crime novels.

Alas, the Silver comeback has hit a snag. Sources say Amazon has fired the polarizing Hollywood figure from at least two films — one starring Mark Wahlberg, the other Jake Gyllenhaal — for being verbally abusive to two female executives. But sources close to Silver say Amazon is retaliating against the producer after he pushed back on the studio’s calls to use artificial intelligence to finish a movie during the strike. Amid the chaos, Silver’s longtime friend Robert Downey Jr. has quietly exited one of the projects."

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/amazon-fires-producer-joel-silver-mark-wahlberg-jake-gyllenhaal-road-house-1235812510/

The real danger in Sinclair Broadcast’s ‘fake news’ scandal

"Over the last month, viewers in dozens of local media markets across the country began to hear impassioned warnings from their trusted local anchors about the danger mainstream media outlets and “false news” posed to democracy.

It was soon discovered that these weren’t genuine outpourings of principle or belief from the anchors, but scripted monologues mandated by their superiors, and repeated verbatim across the country. Sinclair Broadcast Group

, the single largest owner of local television stations in the United States, had sent down marching orders; these were must-runs.

Must-runs are nothing new for Sinclair station employees; they’ve been happening for ages: prepackaged stories designed to be aired over a specific period of time during local newscasts, and very often politically charged.

They’ve included mandatory daily terrorism stories, hit pieces on Hillary Clinton, and forceful denunciations of “fake news,” a term with which we are all by now deeply familiar. The past month’s word-for-word diatribes are simply the latest example of this, and notably, have finally caught public notice."

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/the-real-danger-in-sinclair-broadcasts-fake-news-scandal.html

https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/tv-stations

Mac OS X Server 1.0

"Mac OS X Server 1.0 is an operating system developed by Apple, Inc. released on March 16, 1999.^[1] It was the first version of Mac OS X Server.

It was Apple's first commercial product to be derived from "Rhapsody"—an eventual replacement for the classic Mac OS derived from NeXTSTEP's architecture (acquired in 1997 as part of Apple's purchase of NeXT) and BSD-like Mach kernel. It could run applications written using the "Yellow Box" API, and featured components such as NetBoot, the QuickTime Streaming Server, components carried over from NeXTSTEP, and the "Blue Box" environment (which allows a Mac OS 8.5 session to be launched as a separate process to run legacy Mac OS software).

Mac OS X Server 1.0 was a prelude to the first consumer-oriented version of the OS—Mac OS X 10.0—which was released in 2001. It did not include the eventual Aqua user interface (instead using NeXTSTEP's Workspace Manager shell mixed with aspects of Mac OS 8's "Platinum" user interface) or Carbon API"

EOL 2022

Virtual Box Teleporting

"When you want to run a virtual machine, you have several hypervisors to choose from, including two of the most popular products: Oracle VirtualBox and Microsoft Hyper-V. So how do you decide which one to choose: VirtualBox or Hyper-V? Both solutions provide many features that allow you to run and manage VMs. Read the VirtualBox vs Hyper-V comparison to understand the differences between these two hypervisors and select the one that better meets your needs"

https://www.nakivo.com/blog/hyper-v-virtualbox-one-choose-infrastructure/

SQL Injection

"SQL Injection attacks (or SQLi) alter SQL queries, injecting malicious code by exploiting application vulnerabilities.

Successful SQLi attacks allow attackers to modify database information, access sensitive data, execute admin tasks on the database, and recover files from the system. In some cases attackers can issue commands to the underlying database operating system.

The severe impact of these attacks makes it critical for developers to adopt practices that prevent SQL injection, such as parameterized queries, stored procedures, and rigorous input validation."

https://brightsec.com/blog/sql-injection-attack/

SQL Injection and DoSS Faternity in Azure

Microsoft handled 238 internal complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination in a “lacklustre” way, according to court documents published this week.

Between 2010 and 2016, women in technical jobs at the company lodged 108 complaints of sexual harassment, 119 complaints of gender discrimination, eight complaints of retaliation and three complaints of pregnancy discrimination.

The plaintiffs accuse the world’s largest software company of systematically denying pay rises or promotions to women and has an “exclusionary ‘boys’ club’ atmosphere” that is “rife with sexual harassment”.

At least three women reported sexual assault or rape by male co-workers, including a female intern who alleged rape by a male intern, reported the rape to the police as well as her supervisor and HR, and yet was forced to work alongside her accused rapist

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/13/microsoft-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-lacklustre-response

Monster Career Builder

CHICAGO, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- We are excited to announce that with the completion of all customary regulatory approvals, the agreement to combine CareerBuilder and Monster is now finalized. As previously announced, the combination of CareerBuilder and Monster brings together two strong, trusted, complementary brands to create a job board with greater scale and reach. Together, both companies can more effectively capitalize on prevailing trends in the market to deliver enhanced growth.

Jeff Furman, CEO of the combined company, said: "I could not be more excited to bring these two celebrated brands together. We are able to leverage the best-in-class solutions, capabilities, and expertise from both companies to better serve both our candidates and employers and help them navigate the evolving talent marketplace."

Moore’s Moral Philosophy

G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica of 1903 is often considered a revolutionary work that set a new agenda for 20^th-century ethics. This historical view is, however, somewhat overstated. In metaethics Moore’s non-naturalist realism was close to that defended by Henry Sidgwick and other late 19^th-century philosophers such as Hastings Rashdall, Franz Brentano, and J.M.E. McTaggart; in normative ethics his ideal consequentialism likewise echoed views of Rashdall, Brentano, and McTaggart. But Principia Ethica presented its views with unusual force and vigor. In particular, it made much more of the alleged errors of metaethical naturalism than Sidgwick or Rashdall had, saying they vitiated most previous moral philosophy. For this reason, Moore’s work had a disproportionate influence on 20^th-century moral philosophy and remains the best-known expression of a general metaethical view also shared by later writers such as H.A. Prichard, W.D. Ross, and C.D. Broad.

Go against Moore you are an enemy of the state. Or against society.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moore-moral/

My College UNIX-Like BSD

To install the MATE desktop environment and Slim so you can design your own Slim themes. Please no baby picture themes please. First "pkg delete" all of your old desktop environment packages and settings and then remove and unwanted dependencies with "pkg autoremove". The installation of a new desktop envirnoment is usually done after a clean install of FreeBSD. If some of the packages names change over time be sure to look them up on the freshports website.

Step 1:

 #pkg install xf86-video-ati mate-desktop mate xorg

Step 2:

Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf

 moused_enable="YES"  
 dbus_enable="YES"  
 hald_enable="YES"

Step 3:

 #pkg install slim

Step 4:

Add the following line to /etc/rc.conf

 slim_enable="YES"

Step 5:

Create the following .xinitrc file in the user’s home directory and add the following line.

 exec mate-session

Step 6:

You might have to configure slim by enabling the following line in your slim.conf file. Or if you are using bash enable it for bash.

 login_cmd   exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session

Reboot

Quantum Physics and the Existence of God

"Interpretations of quantum physics presuppose the reality of consciousness. But if a minimal realism about the external world is true, then the consciousness presupposed by quantum reality cannot be only that of the scientific observer, cannot be only ‘local’ but must be ‘global’. Global consciousness is argued to have all and only the essential properties of God. Quantum reality depends on God’s consciousness and the physical world depends on quantum reality. Therefore, the physical world depends on God’s consciousness.

We know, from the recent empirical confirmations of Bell’s criticism of the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen experiment (EPR)1, that quantum reality does not depend on anything classical: there is no macroscopic Newton–Einstein world more fundamental than the quantum level. It follows that consciousness does not depend on, and is irreducible to, anything physical. If the quantum depends on consciousness, and consciousness were to depend on the physical, then the quantum would depend on the physical (via consciousness). But that is precisely ruled out by Bell’s criticism of the EPR experiment and by subsequent practical work.2

It has often been pointed out that, for reasons peculiar to it, the popular Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics seems to presuppose consciousness. Here, it is argued that no interpretation escapes this presupposition. The reasons for this are not always so closely tied to the unique character of the interpretation in question. Nonetheless, interpreters of quantum mechanics are without exception forced to fall back upon consciousness. The presupposition is ontological, not just epistemological: consciousness is entailed by quantum reality, not just by inquiry into quantum reality, by what would make the theory true, not just by the consciousness of the theoretician.3

It follows that some salient tenets of modernity are false: consciousness does not depend on and is not reducible to the physical world, in any sense of ‘reducible’, so consciousness is not a product of evolution. We should not be surprised by this result because, if consciousness were a product of evolution, consciousness would be an emergent property of the brain. But the brain, for all its anatomical complexity, is only billions of atoms in empty space, and billions of atoms in empty space are neither logically nor causally sufficient for consciousness. Consciousness did not evolve.4

Some important theses are entailed: the Thomist theses that God is his existence, and God is actus purus, and the idealist thesis that the physical world depends on consciousness. Being, Presence, and Consciousness itself are, fundamentally understood, the persons of the Holy Trinity.

This paper is a summary of an unpublished book manuscript, and I do not pretend that there is not much more to be said about the problems and their putative solutions"

.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/1/78

Perficient Architects Microsoft Azure Cloud Modernization Solutions for Builders FirstSource

SAINT LOUIS (July 24, 2023) – Perficient, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRFT) (“Perficient”), the leading global digital consultancy transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands, today announced that it successfully partnered with Builders FirstSource (NYSE: BLDR), the largest U.S. supplier of structural building products and services to the professional market for residential and multi-family construction, to develop a new, cloud-native application for roof and floor truss manufacturing. The unified cloud platform implementation allows Builders FirstSource to better scale future operations and fully integrate new acquisitions across all operating plants.

As a Microsoft Azure partner, Perficient guided Builders FirstSource in developing a new, cloud-native system that would unify manufacturing execution system (MES) processes across the enterprise and their physical truss manufacturing locations. With a standard tool enforcing best practices, capturing job analytics, and automating integrations with raw material databases, Builders FirstSource has increased visibility into material availability and improved production and purchasing scheduling, resulting in a faster turnaround for their customers.

“We needed a more agile and unified manufacturing organization. Efficiency is key in this business, so the more efficient we can run across our factories, the more profitable our business can be,” said Mike McCranie, CIO, Builders FirstSource. “With an infinitely scalable cloud solution we can now move our other on-premises technologies in the manufacturing space to the cloud, thereby streamlining our processes.”

Perficient was recognized as a 2023 Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year finalist for its cloud native app development work with Builders FirstSource from a set of more than 4,200 submitted nominations. The Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services, and devices during the past year. The award recognizes Perficient for having a track record of building new cloud-native apps and providing outstanding solutions and services in Cloud Native App Development.

“We’re honored to be recognized by Microsoft as a 2023 U.S. Partner of the Year finalist,” said John Jenkins, vice president, Perficient. “Our Microsoft partnership and expertise enables us to build leading-edge, strategy-driven, cloud-native solutions that are transforming the manufacturing industry. Our commitment to Builders FirstSource and other clients makes Perficient a trusted partner to imagine and execute holistic visions for Microsoft Azure cloud services.”

Perficient is an award-winning Microsoft Solutions Partner with more than 20 years of experience delivering strategic solutions across the Microsoft Cloud. For more information about Perficient’s Microsoft expertise, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

About Perficient
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https://www.perficient.com/news-room/news-releases/2023/perficient-architects-microsoft-azure-cloud-modernization-solutions-for-builders-firstsource

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Autobiographical

I'm a 46 year old Royal Society of the Arts Fellow, I'm Jonathan David Moore FRSA I'm a Moore, Chapman, Hathaway(Garthwaite), Turner, Little, Vaughn, Gates, McCulley, Turlington, Bright, Spencer, Roberts, Ryder, and Lyon and Irish Ashkenazim Levite Jewish. The Moore's are related to Bram Stoker. and Irish Ashkenazim Jewish. Microsoft System Integrator with valid contract from 2002-present. INTJ-T tested at the University of California, University of Virginia Computer Science Alumni. With 3.5 GPA Scholar Award. I was UVa's ACM Vice President in 2008-2010. I'm also Windows 7/2008 Internals Certified. Former Macromedia User Group trainer from 1999. WK3 was released on my birthday. I took Computer Science Courses at UVa-Wise including UNIX.

I was born in 1978. I grew up with Alpha, MIPS, VAX and x86 computer architecture. Star Wars and Star Trek. My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 with Microsoft XENIX in 1984. AT&T System V at Sullins Academy in 1983. I later bought Apple Macintosh Pro's, Hewlett Packard and Dell PC's and servers running OpenVMS, Apple's System, Mac OS X and Windows. I've bought 4 MSDN enterprise subscriptions and have three Microsoft Bizspark grants.

I've worked for ID Software for Quake 1, 2 and 3 Arena. I was born with as lisp. I look forward to Windows Embedded in 2029. To bring back modular round trip engineering of Windows. Because I think Linux is and hacker operating system. Microsoft has a nice UNIX corporate Darwinism with Research UNIX version 7, XEINX, SCO Open Server, OpenVMS, and Decus. Or they used to prior to Windows 10 and 11.

I'm looking forward to when Microsoft can be called a Computer Science company not IT. I have two corporate contracts and NDA's.from Redmond Washington Wa. In 2003 and 2007 respectively. With letters of recommendation from President Obama, Bill Gates, Steve Balmer, Galan Hunt, and Midori Lawler. And one entrepreneurial grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. I'm looking forward to when Microsoft can be called a Computer Science company not IT.

I was raised on DecNet. I've done work with BSD in 2001 on the Common Desktop Environment for x86. I would like to teach the top down software design approach of Bell Labs Plan 9 to students. I have submitted my Bell Labs academic scholar application to Nokia Bell Labs awaiting approval in 2026.

My Microsoft Bizspark startup builds, FreeBSD, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 from a shared source 2003 system integrator contract in my email.

II have $14.2 million in value in my base account I just need to link the deposit account to the base account at the bank. The value is in perpetual software licensing and books. My 10-year portfolio forecast is $2 million in cash in stock and bonds. I'm debt free. My mother gave my a NASDAQ application I have to this very day. Who was on the board of the YWCA.

Our licensed work is in the Computer History Museum for Macromedia. I own a Macromedia Patent Portfolio. I helped ship Macromedia Studio 8 and Windows Server 2003 and the Windows 11 Dev Drive. I also worked on official Windows 8/8.1 PowerPoint Storyboards. I'm also A Windows Compact Embedded Shared Source Initiative Licensee 2000-2023. My first girlfriend was Angie Howard. I'm a SEP friend.

Through DNA testing I discovered I was a direct decedent of William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway. 3rd cousin.through the Bakers.and Jane Austen through the Quinn s and Sheldon's.. Charles Moore. Inventor of the Forth programming language

I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder because I read Noam Chomsky as a teenager, in 1997, COCOMO II and computer architecture. I will argue to get my point across because I am a INTJ-T top 1% of the general population backed by the University of California Fullerton. So far social media is the Internets great schism.

I have a normal fMRI My background check is clean. One stalking charge that was expunged. Which was really Macromedia Philanthropy. I'm studying Social Rank Theory. I've been in adult case management in Virginia since 2001. I advocate for population law and more English architecture in America. My credit score is 740 and I'm inheriting my fathers home, I rent and will retire with home equity loans and the market. In Lowery Hills. My father is retired credit manager from Builders First Source. My family lives in NY, California and Virginia.

https://news.microsoft.com/2002/02/21/microsoft-announces-major-expansion-of-shared-source-initiativeproviding-source-code-to-systems-integrators/

Written and copyright by Jonathan Moore 2024.

SCO confirms Microsoft has licensed its Unix technology

In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group Inc. announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. over SCO’s Unix operating system.

Through the deal, SCO has licensed Unix technology, including source code and patents, to Microsoft, said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of the company’s SCOsource, a division in charge of managing and protecting SCO’s Unix intellectual property.

The deal ensures that Microsoft is in compliance with SCO’s Unix intellectual property and will help Microsoft improve the Unix compatibility of its products, specifically Microsoft Windows Services for Unix, Sontag said.

News of the agreement first appeared earlier today on The Wall Street Journal‘s Web site (see story).

Windows Services for Unix, now in Version 3.0, consists of different components that bridge the gap between Windows- and Unix-based systems running in the same network, according to information on Microsoft’s Web site. The product’s services include file sharing, remote access and administration, password synchronization, common directory management, a common set of utilities and a shell, according to Microsoft’s Web site.

Microsoft didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment on the deal. But in an e-mail statement, Brad Smith, the company’s general counsel and senior vice president, said the agreement “is representative of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to respecting intellectual property [IP] and the IT community’s healthy exchange of IP through licensing. This helps to ensure IP compliance across Microsoft solutions and supports our efforts around existing products like Services for UNIX that further UNIX interoperability.”

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1727355/sco-confirms-microsoft-has-licensed-its-unix-technology.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenServer

Microsoft Windows 2.0

Windows 2.0 is a major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical operating systems for personal computers developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on December 9, 1987, as a successor to Windows 1.0.

The product includes two different variants: a base edition for 8086 real mode, and Windows/386, an enhanced edition for i386 protected mode. Windows 2.0 differs from its predecessor by allowing users to overlap and resize application windows, while the operating environment also introduced desktop icons, keyboard shortcuts, and support for 16-color VGA graphics. It also introduced Microsoft Word and Excel.

Noted as an improvement of its predecessor, Microsoft Windows gained more sales and popularity after the release of the operating environment, although it is also considered to be the incarnation that remained a work in progress. Due to the introduction of overlapping windows, Apple Inc. had filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in March 1988 after accusing them of violating copyrights Apple held; in the end, however, the judge ruled in favor of Microsoft. The operating environment was succeeded by Windows 2.1 in May 1988, while Microsoft ended its support on December 31, 2001

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0

Next Computer's OpenStep

Workstations from Sun Microsystems were originally programmed at a relatively low-level making calls directly to the underlying Unix operating system and the SunView window system toolkit, and to libraries built atop those interfaces. This led to complex programming even for simple projects. An attempt to address this with an object oriented programming model was made in the mid-1980s with Sun's NeWS windowing system, but the combination of a complex application programming interface (API) and generally poor performance led to little real-world use and the system was eventually abandoned.

Sun then began looking for other options. Taligent was considered to be a competitor in the operating system and object markets, and Microsoft's Cairo was at least a consideration, even without any product releases from either. Taligent's theoretical newness was often compared to NeXT's older but mature and commercially established platform. Sun held exploratory meetings with Taligent before deciding upon building out its object application framework OpenStep in partnership with NeXT as a "preemptive move against Taligent and Cairo". Bud Tribble, a founding designer of the Macintosh and of NeXTStep, was now SunSoft's Vice President of Object Products to lead this decision. The 1993 partnership included a $10 million investment from Sun into NeXT. The deal was described as "the first unadulterated piece of good news in the NeXT community in the last four years".^[2]

The basic concept was to take a cut-down version of the NeXTSTEP operating system's object layers and adapt them to run on Sun's Solaris operating system, more specifically, Solaris on SPARC-based hardware. Most of the OpenStep effort was to strip away those portions of NeXTSTEP that depended on Mach or NeXT-specific hardware being present. This resulted in a smaller system that consisted primarily of Display PostScript, the Objective-C runtime and compilers, and the majority of the NeXTSTEP Objective-C libraries. Not included was the basic operating system, or the lower-level display system.

Steve Jobs said "We are ahead today, but the race is far from over. ... [In 1996,] Cairo will be very close behind, and Taligent will be very far behind." Sun's CEO Scott McNealy said, "We have no insurance policy. We have made a firm one-company, one-architecture decision, not like Taligent getting a trophy spouse by signing up HP."^[2]^: 13

The first draft of the API was published by NeXT in mid 1994. Later that year they released an OpenStep compliant version of NeXTSTEP as OPENSTEP, supported on several of their platforms as well as Sun SPARC systems. NeXT submitted the OpenStep specification to the industry's object standards bodies.^[2] The official OpenStep API, published in September 1994, was the first to split the API between Foundation and Application Kit and the first to use the "NS" prefix.^[3] Early versions of NeXTSTEP use an "NX" prefix and contain only the Application Kit, relying on standard Unix libc types for low-level data structures. OPENSTEP remained NeXT's primary operating system product until the company merged with Apple Computer in 1997. OPENSTEP was then combined with technologies from the existing classic Mac OS to produce Mac OS X. iPhone and iPad's iOS is also a descendant of OPENSTEP, but targeted at touch devices.

Sun originally adopted the OpenStep environment with the intent of complementing Sun's CORBA-compliant object system, Solaris NEO (formerly known as Project DOE), by providing an object-oriented user interface toolkit to complement the object-oriented CORBA plumbing.^[2] The port involved integrating the OpenStep AppKit with the Display PostScript layer of the Sun X11 server, making the AppKit tolerant of multi-threaded code (as Project DOE was inherently heavily multi-threaded), implementing a Solaris daemon to simulate the behavior of Mach ports, extending the SunPro C++ compiler to support Objective-C using NeXT's ObjC runtime, writing an X11 window manager to implement the NeXTSTEP look and feel as much as possible, and integrating the NeXT development tools, such as Project Builder and Interface Builder, with the SunPro compiler. In order to provide a complete end-user environment, Sun also ported the NeXTSTEP-3.3 versions of several end-user applications, including Mail.app, Preview.app, Edit.app, Workspace Manager, and the Dock.

The OpenStep and CORBA parts of the products were later split, and NEO was released in late 1995 without the OpenStep environment. In March 1996, Sun announced Joe, a product to integrate NEO with Java. Sun shipped a beta release of the OpenStep environment for Solaris on July 22, 1996,^[4] and made it freely available for download in August 1996 for non-commercial use, and for sale in September 1996. OpenStep/Solaris was shipped only for the SPARC architecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

The UNIX timeline isn't right XIENX was sold to SCO and later Xinuos and later OpenVMS and Windows.