Writings from Steve Jones, the Voice of the DBA

The weak RC4 for administrative authentication has been a hacker holy grail for decades.

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Music video by The Rolling Stones performing "You Can’t Always Get What You Want" Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg Executive Producer: Sandy Lieberson Producer: Robin Klein The Rolling Stones performing "You Can’t Always Get What You Want" from The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus Recorded before a live audience in London in 1968, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was originally conceived as a BBC-TV special. Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, it centers on the original line up of The Rolling Stones -- Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman (with Nicky Hopkins and Rocky Dijon) -- who serves as both the show’s hosts and featured attraction. For the first time in front of an audience, “The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band” performs six Stones classics. The program also includes extraordinary performances by The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, Yoko Ono, and The Dirty Mac....

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(This month's T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Mike Walsh (blog). He's asked us to get reflective and introspective and write notes to ourselves. The first is to ourselves 10 years ago and the other is to our current selves from 10 years in the future, or 2035.)