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  1. $! 58 ADAWI . : FFS EA !$
  2. $! 19 BLSS : SETPRV BYPASS CMKRNL DiAGNOSE READALL . INCL D6 !$
  3. $! BC CHMK ^ VOLPRO iMPERSONATE SHARE WORLD UPGRADE v JSB 16 !$
  4. $! B7 DECW | | LDPCTX 06 !$
  5. $! -- - >--+----------------------------------------+--> -- - !$
  6. $! 7A EMUL | | MATCHC 39 !$
  7. $! EB FFC | .................................... | PROBER 0C !$
  8. $! 0A INDEX | :__ __: __ : ______ : | REMQUE 0F !$
  9. $! 17 JMP | :\$\ /$/: |@| : |&&&&&&| : | SVPCTX 07 !$
  10. $! 3A LOCC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&|____ : | TSTG 53FD !$
  11. $! 2F MOVTUC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&&&&&&| : | VGATHQ 37FD !$
  12. $! 0D PROBEW | : \$\/$/ : |@|____ : |&| : | XORW3 AD !$
  13. $! 02 REI | : \$$/ : |@@@@@@| : |&| : | ASHQ 79 !$
  14. $! 2A SCANC | :............:..........:..........: | BGTRU 1A !$
  15. $! 73FD TSTH | | CRC 0B !$
  16. $! E9FD VSXORL | --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT ::-- | VSYNC A8FD !$
  17. $! FC XFC | | CLRL D4 !$
  18. $! 35FD VGATHL | +=================+ | MTVP A9FD !$
  19. $! 60 ADDD2 | -- +| IN VMS WE TRUST |+ -- | SPANC 2B !$
  20. $! DF PUSHAL | +=================+ | PUSHR BB !$
  21. $! - -- <--+----------------------------------------+--< - -- !$
  22. $! 03 BPT | | POPR BA !$
  23. $! FA CALLG ^ THE VERNON PRESERVATiON UNDERGROUND v IOTA EDFD !$
  24. $! 97 DECB . DEDiCATED TO PROJECT EMERALD : NOP 01 !$
  25. $! 74FD EMODH : . HALT 00 !$
  26.  
  27. --:: PRESENTS ::--
  28.  
  29. $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE] ---------------------------------------!$
  30.  
  31. Advanced.Systems.Concepts.XLNT.Professional.v5.0.WinALL.Cracked-VLF
  32.  
  33. SOFTWARE NAME: ASCI XLNT Professional v5.0
  34. SOFTWARE TYPE: Microsoft Windows Command Shell Alternative
  35. DEVELOPER: Advanced Systems Concepts Incorporated
  36. URL: http://www.advsyscon.com/products/xlnt/
  37.  
  38. VLF RCE.....: Subcommandante BYPASS RELEASE TYPE....: COMMAND SHELL
  39. SUPPLiER....: TEAM VLF RELEASE DATE....: 2014-08-25
  40. PACKER......: TEAM VLF RELEASE DiSKS...: 7 X 5M
  41. LANGUAGE....: English RELEASE FORMAT..: vlfaah*
  42. PROTECTiON..: Straight-forward MEDiCiNE........: Registry Fix
  43. PLATFORM....: WinALL x86 x64 DiSTRIBUTION: PUBLiC
  44.  
  45. $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE.DESCRiPTiON] ---------------------------!$
  46.  
  47. XLNT (EXtended Language for Windows NT), developed by Advanced Systems
  48. Concepts, is an advanced command shell and scripting language for
  49. accessing and updating Windows securable objects. System Administrators
  50. and Application Developers are using XLNT to minimize and eliminate
  51. repetitive tasks without reliance on traditional programming languages
  52. and expensive development tools.
  53.  
  54. XLNT's unique and powerful commands, coupled with extensive remote
  55. access capabilities, eliminate unnecessary script statements and
  56. simplifies scripting tasks.
  57.  
  58. System Administrators employ XLNT as an advanced administrative tool,
  59. to easily address issues such as creating, modifying, deleting hundreds
  60. of Windows objects (i.e. files, shares, registry, printers, services)
  61. and their permissions. XLNT saves time and improves accuracy for
  62. administrative users.
  63.  
  64. Remote Systems Administration required for File Maintenance, CGI
  65. Development, Ad-hoc Application development and Event Scheduling
  66. becomes easier with XLNT. XLNT's advanced features include directly
  67. invoking API's, powerful built in functions for improved file and
  68. string handling, Input/Output redirection, secure TELNET like facility,
  69. nested command procedures, Universal Naming Convention (UNC) support
  70. and much more so organizations can reduce the overall cost of managing
  71. Windows systems.
  72.  
  73. Users and programmers who are familiar with DCL on OpenVMS will love
  74. the instant familiarity of the XLNT commands and syntax.
  75.  
  76. XLNT the Enterprise Scripting and Command Language can provide you with
  77. control of:
  78.  
  79. - Print Management
  80. - Permissions for ALL Windows Objects:
  81. - Active Directory
  82. - Files
  83. - Shares
  84. - Registry
  85. - Printers
  86. - Services
  87. - WSH and ActiveX for improved and versatile GUI component integration
  88. - MAPI Support for messaging and alerting of events
  89. - Run Time Licenses for economical deployment of script "exe's."
  90. - Command Line client support of ASCI ActiveBatch, for Enterprise wide
  91. Job Scheduling and Execution
  92.  
  93. The main difference between the 4.x and 5.x major release points is the
  94. support for a native x64 (64 bit) version of XLNT for x64 Windows, in
  95. addition to x86 (32 bit) version that runs on both x86 and x64 Windows.
  96.  
  97. $!-- VLF::SYS$RCE:[iNSTALL.REGiSTRATiON.NOTES] -----------------------!$
  98.  
  99. Read, carefully, the "install.readme.first" text file in the
  100. release archive save-set.
  101.  
  102. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[iNFO] -------------------------------------------!$
  103.  
  104. "They can't abide the cold steel, sir! no, sir! They don't like it
  105. up 'em."
  106.  
  107. -- Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (The local butcher), "Dad's Army," BBC TV
  108.  
  109. Subcommandante BYPASS ...... Reverse Code Engineer, Programmer
  110. Subcommandante XDelta ...... Cheer Squad, Special Operations
  111.  
  112. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=2606
  113.  
  114. NB: We were aiming for a v1.0.0.0 Final release of this NFO and the VLF
  115. MANiFESTO and ACTiViSM road-map, by 25.10 (2012), but health issues and
  116. the vicissitudes of life decided otherwise; nil desperandum; per ardua
  117. ad astra; nil illegitimus carborundum; Persta atque obdura.
  118.  
  119. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[MANiFESTO] --------------------------------------!$
  120.  
  121. --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT MANiFESTO ::--
  122. <v0.9.3.0 BETA>
  123.  
  124. We hold these truths to be self-evident:
  125.  
  126. That in VMS we trust.
  127.  
  128. That the VMS Operating System is part of the intellectual heritage and
  129. conceptual literacy in the commonwealth of computer science, the most
  130. immaculate, logical, systematic, disciplined, and literate culture and
  131. 'vade mecum' about how to go about the business of computing at every
  132. level of operating system function, that has ever been designed,
  133. devised and documented, it is a glory and testament to human ingenuity.
  134.  
  135. That the VMS Operating System mind-share, installation, third-party
  136. developer and expertise ecologies should never be allowed to collapse
  137. and die off or be inhibited from flourishing by the commercial
  138. expediency of Hewlett Packard nor the ruthless self-interest of third
  139. parties; that VMS will always be a viable Operating System culture for
  140. current and future generations of humanity.
  141.  
  142. That the VMS Operating System should be simultaneously ported to all
  143. of the Intel CPU architectures, both 32 and 64 bit, where all of the
  144. Microsoft Windows New Technology series of Operating Systems are
  145. manifest from the main-frame to the micro-computer and also ported
  146. to the 32 and 64 bit ARM architectures.
  147.  
  148. That the VMS Operating System should become a hybrid commercial Open
  149. Source Software system where Hewlett Packard generates income from
  150. Service Level Agreements they can actually deliver on for Business
  151. Critical Systems on certified hardware for enterprises, institutions
  152. and governments and so that the research and development, the
  153. evolution, of VMS can never ever again be suppressed or extinguished.
  154.  
  155. That neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the
  156. machinations and the visionary mediocrity of the Hewlett Packard and
  157. Microsoft corporations will stay our crackers and couriers from the
  158. swift and sure completion of their self appointed tasks and duties.
  159.  
  160. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[NEWS] -------------------------------------------!$
  161.  
  162. The 35th Anniversary of the mighty VMS Operating System is on the 25th
  163. of October 2012.
  164.  
  165. The 35th Anniversary Count-down Timer:
  166.  
  167. http://is.gd/The_35th_Anniversary_Of_VMS
  168.  
  169. We recommend quaffing quality lagered products for the occasion; sink
  170. several in celebration of the unstoppable, unsinkable, unkillable, VMS!
  171.  
  172. We also recommend quaffing lagered products for the 36th Anniversary of
  173. the mighty VMS operating system as well!
  174.  
  175. $!-- VLF::SYS$GREETiNGS:[SALUTATiONS] --------------------------------!$
  176.  
  177. No one currently, we, the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the Vernon
  178. Preservation Underground, are out of left field and are sui generis.
  179.  
  180. You get that on the big jobs.
  181.  
  182. $!-- VLF::SYS$RESPECT:[DEDiCATiONS] ----------------------------------!$
  183.  
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  207.  
  208. The work of the VMS Liberation Front is dedicated to the memory and the
  209. completion and extension of "Project Emerald" and the preservation and
  210. evolution of Vernon, the VMS mascot and totemic animal and all that he
  211. represents.
  212.  
  213. http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/shark/history.html
  214.  
  215. Refresh your memories:
  216.  
  217. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/
  218. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
  219.  
  220. We also salute the memory of BiG KEN OLSEN, may he rest in Silicon
  221. Heaven, and all the digits who made it all possible within DEC, the
  222. Digital Equipment Corporation.
  223.  
  224. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
  225.  
  226. $!-- VLF::SYS$LEGALiTiES:[CAVEATS] -----------------------------------!$
  227.  
  228. The policy and philosophy of the VLF with its keygenning, cracking and
  229. reverse code engineering (RCE) projects, is not the 'piracy' of
  230. intellectual property for the sake of it, per se, but to preserve,
  231. cultivate, and extend VMS mind-share for the future generations, VMS is
  232. too great a creation to be lost to humanity due to the cupidity and
  233. stupidity of HP management.
  234.  
  235. The VLF releases will establish the basis for which the VMS expertise
  236. ecologies of system programmers, analysts, system administrators,
  237. operators and network, security, capacity planning, technical support
  238. specialists and application developers can start to be repopulated,
  239. from the current near catastrophic collapse and extinction, from the
  240. coming generations of computer science students, by demolishing the
  241. entry barriers to them being able to familiarise themselves with VMS
  242. and the Layered Products - the entry barriers for students being, of
  243. course, the cost of software and hardware.
  244.  
  245. Sure Information Technology people can learn GNU/Linux and the Open
  246. Source Free Software tools for some decent conceptual and procedural
  247. literacy, but, alas, the vast majority are going to be eking out a
  248. computing crust mentally mutilating themselves mastering microsoft
  249. methodology, wallowing in the La Brea tar-pit of their near monopoly on
  250. matters computing.
  251.  
  252. Which is a profound tragedy when they could, in a slightly better
  253. world, be learning the VMS way to achieve the same goals on the same
  254. CPU architectures and platforms but with a much more conceptually
  255. literate and functionally facilitative mental life.
  256.  
  257. So during the period when computer science students are as poor as
  258. church-mice, studying, with the resources the VLF provides, they can
  259. study VMS and bootstrap themselves into competence and confidence and
  260. if they start earning money from their VMS skills, then it's time to
  261. buy the tools they use.
  262.  
  263. Businesses and professionals buying tools from other businesses to run
  264. their business makes the business world go round at the very least.
  265.  
  266. The VLF does not condone or approve of its releases being used for
  267. commercial gain at all, the purpose of the VLF releases is to stop and
  268. reverse the extinction of the VMS expertise ecology and mind-share for
  269. current and future generations.
  270.  
  271. The VLF does not apologise to the developers whose products we reverse
  272. engineer, since any such gesture would be dismissed, thus, instead, we
  273. reinforce the observation that if the VLF considered their application
  274. worth cracking and integrating into the tool-kit to assist in
  275. boot-strapping the VMS expertise ecology from catastrophic collapse by
  276. making the learning of VMS accessible and practical to the current and
  277. future generations of computer science students, then the application
  278. is worth buying, and if the VMS business, government and institutional
  279. installation ecology boot-straps back into vigor, then sales will
  280. naturally come their way.
  281.  
  282. Hewlett-Packard management of its VMS asset is the greatest impediment
  283. to your VMS applications' sales - direct your anger accurately,
  284. intelligently and effectively and publicly at them.
  285.  
  286. "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
  287. that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
  288. are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
  289.  
  290. -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?",
  291. ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol 17 No 5, May 1982
  292.  
  293. One wonders what the good professor thought of Microsoft...
  294.  
  295. $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM] --------------------------------------!$
  296.  
  297. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
  298.  
  299. -- John Gilmore, http://www.toad.com/gnu/
  300.  
  301. We the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the VMS Liberation Front, have
  302. regretfully concluded that HP management is damage to VMS and we are
  303. committed to routing around it.
  304.  
  305. The DELTA:: node of the VLF specialises in bypassing intellectual
  306. property protection so that no one else in the VMS activism world has
  307. to, although many, of course, have the requisite technical skills to
  308. parallel our work - we are the Vernon Preservation Underground.
  309.  
  310. Those VMS activists that are above ground and publicly active, we fully
  311. realise, will not be able to use the VLF releases, even if they were
  312. inclined to, and we do not assume that anyone would be so inclined,
  313. they will have to abide with existing DEC hardware, freeware hardware
  314. emulators and the HP Hobbyist VMS and layered products program.
  315.  
  316. The objective of the DELTA:: node of the VMS Liberation Front is to
  317. reboot and repair the catastrophic collapse of the VMS expertise
  318. ecology by systematically removing all impediments for the current
  319. generations of computer science students from being able to study,
  320. learn, and master the VMS way. We have achieved this with the LibreVMS
  321. LMFGEN license generator for VMS and LP and the LibreCHARON Stromasys
  322. VAX and AXP hardware emulators.
  323.  
  324. Vernon will be able thrive and survive at existing VMS revision levels
  325. and extant CPU architectures in full independence and autonomy, forever
  326. proofed against any extinction policies within or without of the
  327. Hewlett Packard corporation, the current owners of the VMS intellectual
  328. property.
  329.  
  330. This the VLF Liberation Front has unambiguously established.
  331.  
  332. However such underground, intellectual property transgressing activism
  333. is necessary but insufficient. What is also required is muscular and
  334. vigorous above-ground activism, in a logical, systematic and diligent
  335. manner with a lip curling snarl and no reservation with tooth and claw.
  336. With the VMS die-hards, if it isn't NDAs staying their hand, it's the
  337. HP VMS Hobbyist program, it has had natural effect of inhibiting full
  338. and frank commentary and fearless action, since there is the implicit
  339. fear that access to the VMS Hobbyist program would be withdrawn, either
  340. individually or generally, the LiBREVMS LMFGEN is an 'entente cordiale'
  341. nuclear deterrent to such inhibiting actions.
  342.  
  343. The first step in legal, above ground, VMS activism is to become a HP
  344. shareholder, as HP is a publicly listed company and to then sit on your
  345. tranche of shares and hence become a passionate, practical and
  346. principled part-owner of the Hewlett Packard corporation. As a
  347. part-owner of the HP corporation, you are then entitled to participate
  348. in the deliberative assemblies of the company, such as AGMs (Annual
  349. General Meetings) in accordance with Corporations Law and the HP
  350. Constitution and to engage in share-holder activism such as the calling
  351. of EGMs (Extraordinary General Meetings) with a sufficient quorum of
  352. your fellow share-holders and the concomitant notification to all
  353. share-holders of such an EGM and reason for it, as just one instance of
  354. activism.
  355.  
  356. As a share-holder, you are entitled to be angry, and you should be very
  357. angry at the compromise and degradation of both dividends and long term
  358. share holder value by the gross neglect and vandalism, over the last
  359. decade, of what should be one of the principal pillars and engines of
  360. income generation for the HP Corporation, the OpenVMS operating system,
  361. in all tiers of computing.
  362.  
  363. As a share-holder, you should be proud and grateful, if current or past
  364. principled, brave, and loyal HP employees decides, NDAs be damned, to
  365. become whistle-blowers on HP senior management policy on the VMS asset,
  366. disgusted by the lack of any promotion or advertisement of VMS, let
  367. alone the butchering of VMS maintenance and research and development.
  368.  
  369. As a share-holder, if the current database of VMS installations
  370. customers (sans any sensitive government clients, of course!) was
  371. leaked (and also any COTS, VAR, ISV, ETC, vendor databases), you would
  372. not see that as an act prejudiced against share-holder value at all,
  373. but rather a sunlight opportunity for the VMS installations customer
  374. base, and other VMS related vendors, to become totally reflexively
  375. aware, thence cooperatively constellating and engaging in share holder
  376. activism as well, the STAR:: Node of VMS above-ground activism.
  377.  
  378. Needless to say, in the year 2012, since the demise of DEC in 1998, and
  379. the five years of dithering during the Compaq era, until Compaq was
  380. merged with HP in the 2002, and then this last long, lean, decade of
  381. malign neglect, that the remaining VMS customer base is rusted on,
  382. either by need or by sagacious choice, either way they see VMS as being
  383. critical to their business operations, hence they are strongly
  384. motivated in matters VMS.
  385.  
  386. If the VMS installations customer base was to become totally
  387. reflexively aware, then even though sections of it may be competing
  388. against each other in particular markets, the one thing they would
  389. agree on unanimously and have sound cause to transcend their
  390. competitive differences is the enduring merit of the VMS operating
  391. system as a foundation of their business, thence they can cooperatively
  392. constellate to prosecute, vigorously and intelligently, the VMS cause,
  393. in rational self interest, collectively.
  394.  
  395. The extant rusted-on, reflexively aware, VMS customer and vendor base,
  396. could all purchase their own share tranches in HP and then form a VMS
  397. Industry Association, with a VMS Engineering quality carefully
  398. constructed constitution, including a rule that the voting weight of
  399. any association member is the (logarithm base 10 of their share
  400. holdings + 1) rounded down to the nearest integer - this substantially
  401. levels the deliberative playing field within the association, whilst
  402. also acknowledging the size of the players to an appropriate extent.
  403.  
  404. It is also in the realm of possibility, perhaps not probability, but
  405. that would have to be tested in practice, that such a VMS Industry
  406. Association might be able to force the installation of a Director on
  407. the HP Board, by dint of the co-ordinated share-holdings of its
  408. members. Such a VMS Advocacy directorship on the HP board may not
  409. result in cheaper support and maintenance contracts for the VMS
  410. Industry Association members (HA!), however they will be able to
  411. effectively audit and determine whether they are getting value for
  412. money, verifying whether HP has the actual expertise and resource
  413. infrastructure to properly deliver on their VMS maintenance and support
  414. SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for the members' business critical
  415. systems; indeed it would be incumbent due diligence on the VMS Advocacy
  416. director to determine whether HP management have been practicing deep
  417. fraud in this regard for the last decade.
  418.  
  419. This is but the shallow shoals of what an activism enfranchised VMS
  420. installations customer and vendor base can do, if it cooperatively
  421. constellates into the STAR:: (above ground) legal node of the VMS
  422. Liberation Movement.
  423.  
  424. "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped
  425. in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is
  426. Russian national interest."
  427.  
  428. -- Winston Churchill, BBC Radio Broadcast, 1st October 1939
  429.  
  430. The actions of HP management of the VMS asset over the last dread
  431. decade, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, and there is
  432. a key, and that key is radical self-interest - radical self-interest
  433. that is not in the interests of long term HP share holder value and
  434. never has been.
  435.  
  436. The OpenVMS asset is in an deliberately induced coma in the HP hospice
  437. in an Itanium sarcophagus on a starvation drip feed with it's VMS
  438. Engineering heart ripped out and replaced with something risible that
  439. cannot patch, cannot port and cannot pursue research and development -
  440. and yet, OpenVMS still has a pulse and can regenerate from survival
  441. back to thriving with exigent, immediate, interdiction into HP
  442. management - they must be called to account.
  443.  
  444. The key of radical self-interest is blindingly obvious: cherchez le
  445. Microsoft.
  446.  
  447. Ken Olsen's original goal with the Digital Equipment Corporation was to
  448. give computing power to the people, quality was paramount and
  449. excellence was trusted to sell, maximum value and utility for market
  450. price. Microsoft is the antithesis of the DEC ethos, quality and
  451. excellence are sub-ordinate to profit, minimum value and utility for
  452. maximum price, and the full spectrum monopolistic domination in all
  453. market segments, by any means they can get away with, Microsoft
  454. benchmarks 'corporation as psychopath,' they are not interested in
  455. giving computer power to the people but the opposite, making people the
  456. disenfranchised computer peons of Microsoft in choiceless perpetuity.
  457.  
  458. Let us review salient historical events:
  459.  
  460. 1988: Microsoft hire O/S architects and engineers, led by Dave Cutler,
  461. from the Digital Equipment Corporation to build Windows NT.
  462.  
  463. 1993: Microsoft Windows/NT v3.1 first released.
  464.  
  465. 1995: Microsoft's Bill Gates and DEC's Robert Palmer announce the
  466. 'Affinity for OpenVMS' program, to assist customers implementing the
  467. (apparent) 'complementary' strengths of OpenVMS and Windows/NT in a
  468. three-tier client/server environment...
  469.  
  470. 1998: Compaq no longer supports Windows/NT (32 bit) on AXP.
  471.  
  472. The branch never falls far from the tree, and VMS was on the Microsoft
  473. assassination hit list, as of 1988, as a consequence of hiring DEC
  474. architects and engineers to design and implement Windows/NT, the child
  475. was always going to kill the parent. When Windows NT was initially
  476. ported to the Alpha AXP CPU architecture, the writing would have well
  477. and truly been on the wall that although W/NT and VMS are the two most
  478. comparable O/S architecturally, there is absolutely no comparison, in
  479. terms of performance, versatility, reliability, fault tolerance,
  480. security and utility, that was true in 1993 and remains true today in
  481. 2012, VMS utterly trumps Windows NT series operating systems, that is
  482. true on the AXP architecture and also true on the Itanium.
  483.  
  484. Thus Microsoft committed to ensuring that VMS would never be ported to
  485. those CPU architectures and computing tiers where Microsoft dominates
  486. commercially namely the Intel x86 and AMD64 CPU architectures, never
  487. ever, regardless of the multiple tier, super-scalability of the VMS
  488. operating system, and that remains true today. Microsoft also committed
  489. to ensuring that it was difficult to benchmark and compare W/NT and VMS
  490. on any architectures.
  491.  
  492. The Microsoft covert strategies for ensuring this are, at least, two
  493. fold:
  494.  
  495. 1. Microsoft cultivating key human assets in the employment of DEC,
  496. Compaq and HP that could shape both VMS policy and Windows Licensing
  497. negotiations to Microsoft's convenience.
  498.  
  499. 2. Microsoft encouraging 'Beads for Manhattan' strategies in Compaq
  500. post 1998 and then the merged HP-Compaq, post 2002, where they get
  501. 'discounted' Windows licenses, so long as they commit to not porting
  502. VMS to the Intel x86 and AMD64 architectures.
  503.  
  504. It is a 'Beads for Manhattan' strategy in that Compaq and HP-Compaq, in
  505. getting 'discounted' licences, and forgoing challenging Microsoft
  506. directly head-on, in its eminent CPU domains and computing tiers with
  507. the infinitely superior VMS, were getting the worthless 'beads' of
  508. volume price discounts, good for trivial short term profit but not long
  509. term market strength, and surrendering the opportunity to generate VMS
  510. income in those tiers of computation that Microsoft have an artificed,
  511. near, monopoly, with that infinitely superior product - VMS.
  512.  
  513. The 'threat' of porting VMS, kept in an induced coma on life support,
  514. rings increasingly hollow with every passing year, Microsoft feigns
  515. response in negotiations; yet, if the port was actually done, the
  516. threat would become very real indeed.
  517.  
  518. The HP-Compaq oxymoronic benchmarking management of its VMS asset has
  519. always been at maximal cognitive dissonance, the antithesis of any
  520. conceivable business rationality, the challenge was to make sense of
  521. the senselessness.
  522.  
  523. The cupidity and the stupidity, the corruption and incompetence within
  524. HP-Compaq management, needs to come to an end, Microsoft human assets
  525. within HP management, particular VMS policy management need to be
  526. identified and removed; similarly those in HP management that think
  527. cheaper Windows licenses is preferable to the re-fitting and
  528. re-ignition of the VMS income generation engine, need to be identified
  529. and removed.
  530.  
  531. The OpenVMS asset remains chained to the Itanium 'Itanic' ship-wreck on
  532. the bottom of the Mariana trench of enterprise computing without any
  533. advertising or promotion and it is time at its 35th Anniversary that it
  534. was liberated and finally ported to all 'WinTel' and AMD64 and ARM CPU
  535. Architectures, wherever Microsoft Corporation Windows New Technology
  536. series and derivative Operating Systems are manifest.
  537.  
  538. To assert that VMS is outmoded, obsoleted, yesterday's legacy
  539. technology, is as absurd as asserting that the bio-chemistry of your
  540. DNA and your immune system are similarly so. Vernon is the natural
  541. proprietary predator of Microsoft installations in all tiers of
  542. computation, from the enterprise to the personal and the ecological
  543. balance needs to be restored.
  544.  
  545. When that is achieved then and only then can the DELTA:: Node of the
  546. VLF, the Vernon Preservation Underground, retire back to the realms of
  547. myth and legend.
  548.  
  549. The rising star and spectacular success of Microsoft and the Windows/NT
  550. Operating System and its thriving third-party applications, services
  551. and expertise ecologies has been directly at the expense of VMS and the
  552. precipitous collapse, and near extinction of the VMS installation base,
  553. and its third-party applications, services and expertise ecologies; it
  554. is the computing crime of the 21st Century par excellence.
  555.  
  556. This 0.9.3.0 BETA VLF version of a VMS activism plan is not intended to
  557. be comprehensive, but it is a modest, yet non-trivial and pertinent
  558. basis from which to start envisioning about unsentimental, muscular and
  559. fearless, VMS Activism, and the VLF do encourage all that are
  560. passionate about the heritage of VMS, to trade in their ten gallon
  561. Stetson hats for one hundred gallon Stetson hats instead and to then
  562. have a long hard, think or re-think about 'nail-gun:wall' pro-active
  563. strategies to establish the renaissance of VMS for the next 35 years
  564. and to then publish your thoughts on comp.os.vms.
  565.  
  566. "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of
  567. our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
  568. industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of
  569. meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to
  570. excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds
  571. to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
  572.  
  573. -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President,
  574. Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
  575.  
  576. $!-- VLF::SYS$QIO:[REQUESTS] --------------------------------------!$
  577.  
  578. We welcome the supply to the VLF of commercial OpenVMS software and
  579. commercial VAX, AXP, and PDP-11 hardware emulators.
  580.  
  581. We welcome the supply of OpenVMS Operating System and Layered Product
  582. source-code; ideally in "self regenerating" DECset form; but not
  583. limited to that - all source code is welcome.
  584.  
  585. Please refer to the VLF MANiFESTO and the ACtiViSM charter for our
  586. motivations in requesting such supply.
  587.  
  588. Thank you.
  589.  
  590. $!-- VLF::SYS$CONTACT:[DETAiLS] --------------------------------------!$
  591.  
  592. iRC: N/A
  593. Web: N/A
  594. Releases: Check the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup: alt.binaries.warez
  595. Announcements: Check the Usenet Discussion Newsgroup: comp.os.vms
  596. E-mail: mailto:[email protected] (please use OpenPGP Encryption)
  597. Public Key: https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  598. Webform: https://forms.hush.com/vlf (OpenPGP encrypted)
  599.  
  600. Manifesto: http://is.gd/VLF_MANiFESTO
  601. Releases: http://is.gd/VLF_RELEASES
  602. Communiques: http://is.gd/VLF_COMMUNiQUES
  603.  
  604. NOTE: In light of the Edward Snowden NSA/PRISM revelations in mid-2013,
  605. this new privacy, security and anonymity resource directory has arisen:
  606.  
  607. https://prism-break.org/
  608.  
  609. Please familarise yourself with it, before contacting the VLF.
  610.  
  611. Be rest assured that if you decide to contact the DELTA:: Node of the
  612. VMS Liberation Front, the act of contact will not be interpreted by the
  613. VLF that you approve of our manifesto or methods, nor that you wish to
  614. join the VLF underground resistance movement. We also welcome
  615. corrections and refinements to the accuracy of our historical
  616. understanding and also to our analytical rigour.
  617.  
  618. One way to communicate to us in a traceless, or at least plausibly
  619. deniable way is to communicate via the hush mail encrypted webform,
  620. from a Tor-ified browser:
  621. https://forms.hush.com/vlf
  622.  
  623. http://www.torproject.org/
  624.  
  625. We highly recommend familiarising and mastering either of the Liberte
  626. Linux or Tails Live CD systems for communicating to us, (or at the very
  627. least as a Tor-ified browser resource):
  628.  
  629. http://dee.su/liberte
  630.  
  631. https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
  632.  
  633. The only problem with using the hush mail web-form is that we can't
  634. communicate back to you. But if you have something important to send to
  635. us, then that is a fairly traceless way to do it.
  636.  
  637. If you wish to contact the VLF with full two way communication we would
  638. encourage you to establish a secondary email account and then to use
  639. PGP encryption, when communicating to us - to establish both your
  640. anonymity and your plausible deniability that you have done so.
  641.  
  642. Our OpenPGP public key can be obtained from:
  643.  
  644. https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  645.  
  646. Set up an opaquely named e-mail address which allows direct SSL
  647. enabled, POP and IMAP access from your computer's e-mail client.
  648.  
  649. These e-mail providers, for example, allow SSL enabled direct POP and
  650. IMAP access:
  651.  
  652. http://www.gmx.com http://www.fastmail.fm
  653.  
  654. http://www.yahoomail.com http://www.lavabit.com
  655.  
  656. (NOTE: Sadly, the immaculate Lavabit service is currently unavailable,
  657. due to the noble NSA/PRISM activism of the developer, Ladar Levison, in
  658. constitutionally challenging his National Security Letter.)
  659.  
  660. Thus you could install GnuPG or GPG4Win on your system and that would
  661. enables two way communication with the VLF in encrypted form:
  662.  
  663. http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gpg4win.org/
  664.  
  665. Note, however, that ordinary e-mail correspondence, encrypted or not,
  666. clearly fingers your IP addresses.
  667.  
  668. Therefore for the commissioning and the usage of any such e-mail
  669. address always transact such sessions at a public wi-fi portal and
  670. never on your home or work networks, that way such IP remains
  671. 'firewalled' from tracing.
  672.  
  673. Of course, the fact that you have communicated to us is still clearly
  674. present in your e-mail records on your computer. A practical
  675. alternative is to configure a persistent version of Liberte Linux on an
  676. encrypted USB stick or SD card, and only conduct e-mail correspondence
  677. from that system booted onto a laptop, which is used at a public wi-fi
  678. portal.
  679.  
  680. Another alternative is to commission a free Hushmail encrypted web-mail
  681. account via a tor-ified browser and to then always use that hushmail
  682. account via a tor-ified browser.
  683.  
  684. https://www.hushmail.com
  685.  
  686. The problem with free hushmail accounts is that they have to be logged
  687. into every three weeks otherwise they convert to a paid account; a paid
  688. account is quite convenient and can be anonymously purchased using the
  689. method described hence.
  690.  
  691. If you wish to send us large files, then upload them to a
  692. cyber-locker/file-host, these are recommended:
  693.  
  694. http://rghost.net/ http://datafilehost.com
  695.  
  696. Of course uploading via a tor-ified browser client.
  697.  
  698. For very large data sets we recommend uploading to the Usenet binaries
  699. newsgroup:
  700.  
  701. alt.binaries.test
  702.  
  703. Always upload using SSL tunneling, using a SSL enabled Usenet access
  704. provider.
  705.  
  706. Recommended tools:
  707.  
  708. http://www.jbinup.com/ or -
  709.  
  710. http://powerpost.free.fr/ used with https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
  711.  
  712. Use a nondescript file name and encrypt the archives with a password,
  713. locate a suitably tolerant public wi-fi access point to upload from and
  714. then securely contact us with the particulars, as detailed previously.
  715.  
  716. If you search about you will probably be able to find a fixed value,
  717. pre-paid, disposable, Visa or Mastercard debit card with which the
  718. on-line registration process only requires a working e-mail address for
  719. authentication and not a mobile phone number.
  720.  
  721. In commissioning a working e-mail address and hence also a synthetic
  722. identity, Yahoomail, at least, tolerates tor-ified browser use,
  723. otherwise use internet cafes or public wi-fi portals for the
  724. commissioning and usage of that e-mail account consistently and
  725. exclusively.
  726.  
  727. Once you have established the synthetic identity and the pre-paid debit
  728. card, you can then purchase pre-paid SSL enabled Usenet access, whence
  729. you can execute the uploads from a public-access wi-fi portal.
  730.  
  731. Please note that credit card OLTP systems usually reject proxied and
  732. tor-ified browsers for transactions and so for the actual purchase we
  733. recommend using a public portal; Internet Cafes that boot fresh O/S
  734. images from their intranet for each and every session are a recommended
  735. resource.
  736.  
  737. By such process disciplines your real identity will remain undisclosed
  738. and your plausible deniability will be maintained.
  739.  
  740. We do not warrant or assert that the methods explicated are totally
  741. safe and useful with no risk of compromising your anonymity. Please
  742. consult more knowledgeable resources on the Internet.
  743.  
  744. This is a useful guide, generally speaking:
  745.  
  746. Dr Who - Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.6.2
  747.  
  748. http://pastebin.com/kNruUa3W
  749.  
  750. Of course if you think any of this advice is technically naive and
  751. could compromise your anonymity and plausible deniability, then please
  752. do not hesitate to correct us and to suggest better methods and
  753. processes, thank you.
  754.  
  755. However the VLF consider the methods outlined to be a useful basis from
  756. which to start thinking about secure anonymous communication and we
  757. think they would be useful for HP whistle-blowers, VMS activists, and
  758. those gagged by NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) that see the need to
  759. let some sunshine in on HP VMS policy, and to let some sunshine out,
  760. such as the source code for VMS and Layered Products.
  761.  
  762. YMWV, please do your homework first, you are VMS men, it should not be
  763. difficult.
  764.  
  765. $!-------------------------- damn straight ---------------------------!$
  766. $ opprobrium/level=kittens/mode=conniptions/input=VLF:/output=NL: !$
  767. $!--------------------------- enough said ----------------------------!$
  768. ..: NFO and DIZ v0.9.3.0 - 2013-10-25 - !xD :..
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