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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.v4.0.WinALL.Cracked-VLF
  32.  
  33. SOFTWARE NAME: ASCI XLNT Professional v4.0
  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...: 3 X 5M
  41. LANGUAGE....: English RELEASE FORMAT..: vlfaag*
  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. $!-- VLF::SYS$RCE:[iNSTALL.REGiSTRATiON.NOTES] -----------------------!$
  94.  
  95. Read, carefully, the "install.readme.first" text file in the
  96. release archive save-set.
  97.  
  98. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[iNFO] -------------------------------------------!$
  99.  
  100. "They can't abide the cold steel, sir! no, sir! They don't like it
  101. up 'em."
  102.  
  103. -- Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (The local butcher), "Dad's Army," BBC TV
  104.  
  105. Subcommandante BYPASS ...... Reverse Code Engineer, Programmer
  106. Subcommandante XDelta ...... Cheer Squad, Special Operations
  107.  
  108. http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=2606
  109.  
  110. NB: We were aiming for a v1.0.0.0 Final release of this NFO and the VLF
  111. MANiFESTO and ACTiViSM road-map, by 25.10 (2012), but health issues and
  112. the vicissitudes of life decided otherwise; nil desperandum; per ardua
  113. ad astra; nil illegitimus carborundum; Persta atque obdura.
  114.  
  115. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[MANiFESTO] --------------------------------------!$
  116.  
  117. --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT MANiFESTO ::--
  118. <v0.9.3.0 BETA>
  119.  
  120. We hold these truths to be self-evident:
  121.  
  122. That in VMS we trust.
  123.  
  124. That the VMS Operating System is part of the intellectual heritage and
  125. conceptual literacy in the commonwealth of computer science, the most
  126. immaculate, logical, systematic, disciplined, and literate culture and
  127. 'vade mecum' about how to go about the business of computing at every
  128. level of operating system function, that has ever been designed,
  129. devised and documented, it is a glory and testament to human ingenuity.
  130.  
  131. That the VMS Operating System mind-share, installation, third-party
  132. developer and expertise ecologies should never be allowed to collapse
  133. and die off or be inhibited from flourishing by the commercial
  134. expediency of Hewlett Packard nor the ruthless self-interest of third
  135. parties; that VMS will always be a viable Operating System culture for
  136. current and future generations of humanity.
  137.  
  138. That the VMS Operating System should be simultaneously ported to all
  139. of the Intel CPU architectures, both 32 and 64 bit, where all of the
  140. Microsoft Windows New Technology series of Operating Systems are
  141. manifest from the main-frame to the micro-computer and also ported
  142. to the 32 and 64 bit ARM architectures.
  143.  
  144. That the VMS Operating System should become a hybrid commercial Open
  145. Source Software system where Hewlett Packard generates income from
  146. Service Level Agreements they can actually deliver on for Business
  147. Critical Systems on certified hardware for enterprises, institutions
  148. and governments and so that the research and development, the
  149. evolution, of VMS can never ever again be suppressed or extinguished.
  150.  
  151. That neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the
  152. machinations and the visionary mediocrity of the Hewlett Packard and
  153. Microsoft corporations will stay our crackers and couriers from the
  154. swift and sure completion of their self appointed tasks and duties.
  155.  
  156. $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[NEWS] -------------------------------------------!$
  157.  
  158. The 35th Anniversary of the mighty VMS Operating System is on the 25th
  159. of October 2012.
  160.  
  161. The 35th Anniversary Count-down Timer:
  162.  
  163. http://is.gd/The_35th_Anniversary_Of_VMS
  164.  
  165. We recommend quaffing quality lagered products for the occasion; sink
  166. several in celebration of the unstoppable, unsinkable, unkillable, VMS!
  167.  
  168. We also recommend quaffing lagered products for the 36th Anniversary of
  169. the mighty VMS operating system as well!
  170.  
  171. $!-- VLF::SYS$GREETiNGS:[SALUTATiONS] --------------------------------!$
  172.  
  173. No one currently, we, the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the Vernon
  174. Preservation Underground, are out of left field and are sui generis.
  175.  
  176. You get that on the big jobs.
  177.  
  178. $!-- VLF::SYS$RESPECT:[DEDiCATiONS] ----------------------------------!$
  179.  
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  203.  
  204. The work of the VMS Liberation Front is dedicated to the memory and the
  205. completion and extension of "Project Emerald" and the preservation and
  206. evolution of Vernon, the VMS mascot and totemic animal and all that he
  207. represents.
  208.  
  209. http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/shark/history.html
  210.  
  211. Refresh your memories:
  212.  
  213. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/
  214. http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
  215.  
  216. We also salute the memory of BiG KEN OLSEN, may he rest in Silicon
  217. Heaven, and all the digits who made it all possible within DEC, the
  218. Digital Equipment Corporation.
  219.  
  220. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
  221.  
  222. $!-- VLF::SYS$LEGALiTiES:[CAVEATS] -----------------------------------!$
  223.  
  224. The policy and philosophy of the VLF with its keygenning, cracking and
  225. reverse code engineering (RCE) projects, is not the 'piracy' of
  226. intellectual property for the sake of it, per se, but to preserve,
  227. cultivate, and extend VMS mind-share for the future generations, VMS is
  228. too great a creation to be lost to humanity due to the cupidity and
  229. stupidity of HP management.
  230.  
  231. The VLF releases will establish the basis for which the VMS expertise
  232. ecologies of system programmers, analysts, system administrators,
  233. operators and network, security, capacity planning, technical support
  234. specialists and application developers can start to be repopulated,
  235. from the current near catastrophic collapse and extinction, from the
  236. coming generations of computer science students, by demolishing the
  237. entry barriers to them being able to familiarise themselves with VMS
  238. and the Layered Products - the entry barriers for students being, of
  239. course, the cost of software and hardware.
  240.  
  241. Sure Information Technology people can learn GNU/Linux and the Open
  242. Source Free Software tools for some decent conceptual and procedural
  243. literacy, but, alas, the vast majority are going to be eking out a
  244. computing crust mentally mutilating themselves mastering microsoft
  245. methodology, wallowing in the La Brea tar-pit of their near monopoly on
  246. matters computing.
  247.  
  248. Which is a profound tragedy when they could, in a slightly better
  249. world, be learning the VMS way to achieve the same goals on the same
  250. CPU architectures and platforms but with a much more conceptually
  251. literate and functionally facilitative mental life.
  252.  
  253. So during the period when computer science students are as poor as
  254. church-mice, studying, with the resources the VLF provides, they can
  255. study VMS and bootstrap themselves into competence and confidence and
  256. if they start earning money from their VMS skills, then it's time to
  257. buy the tools they use.
  258.  
  259. Businesses and professionals buying tools from other businesses to run
  260. their business makes the business world go round at the very least.
  261.  
  262. The VLF does not condone or approve of its releases being used for
  263. commercial gain at all, the purpose of the VLF releases is to stop and
  264. reverse the extinction of the VMS expertise ecology and mind-share for
  265. current and future generations.
  266.  
  267. The VLF does not apologise to the developers whose products we reverse
  268. engineer, since any such gesture would be dismissed, thus, instead, we
  269. reinforce the observation that if the VLF considered their application
  270. worth cracking and integrating into the tool-kit to assist in
  271. boot-strapping the VMS expertise ecology from catastrophic collapse by
  272. making the learning of VMS accessible and practical to the current and
  273. future generations of computer science students, then the application
  274. is worth buying, and if the VMS business, government and institutional
  275. installation ecology boot-straps back into vigor, then sales will
  276. naturally come their way.
  277.  
  278. Hewlett-Packard management of its VMS asset is the greatest impediment
  279. to your VMS applications' sales - direct your anger accurately,
  280. intelligently and effectively and publicly at them.
  281.  
  282. "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
  283. that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
  284. are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
  285.  
  286. -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?",
  287. ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol 17 No 5, May 1982
  288.  
  289. One wonders what the good professor thought of Microsoft...
  290.  
  291. $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM] --------------------------------------!$
  292.  
  293. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
  294.  
  295. -- John Gilmore, http://www.toad.com/gnu/
  296.  
  297. We the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the VMS Liberation Front, have
  298. regretfully concluded that HP management is damage to VMS and we are
  299. committed to routing around it.
  300.  
  301. The DELTA:: node of the VLF specialises in bypassing intellectual
  302. property protection so that no one else in the VMS activism world has
  303. to, although many, of course, have the requisite technical skills to
  304. parallel our work - we are the Vernon Preservation Underground.
  305.  
  306. Those VMS activists that are above ground and publicly active, we fully
  307. realise, will not be able to use the VLF releases, even if they were
  308. inclined to, and we do not assume that anyone would be so inclined,
  309. they will have to abide with existing DEC hardware, freeware hardware
  310. emulators and the HP Hobbyist VMS and layered products program.
  311.  
  312. The objective of the DELTA:: node of the VMS Liberation Front is to
  313. reboot and repair the catastrophic collapse of the VMS expertise
  314. ecology by systematically removing all impediments for the current
  315. generations of computer science students from being able to study,
  316. learn, and master the VMS way. We have achieved this with the LibreVMS
  317. LMFGEN license generator for VMS and LP and the LibreCHARON Stromasys
  318. VAX and AXP hardware emulators.
  319.  
  320. Vernon will be able thrive and survive at existing VMS revision levels
  321. and extant CPU architectures in full independence and autonomy, forever
  322. proofed against any extinction policies within or without of the
  323. Hewlett Packard corporation, the current owners of the VMS intellectual
  324. property.
  325.  
  326. This the VLF Liberation Front has unambiguously established.
  327.  
  328. However such underground, intellectual property transgressing activism
  329. is necessary but insufficient. What is also required is muscular and
  330. vigorous above-ground activism, in a logical, systematic and diligent
  331. manner with a lip curling snarl and no reservation with tooth and claw.
  332. With the VMS die-hards, if it isn't NDAs staying their hand, it's the
  333. HP VMS Hobbyist program, it has had natural effect of inhibiting full
  334. and frank commentary and fearless action, since there is the implicit
  335. fear that access to the VMS Hobbyist program would be withdrawn, either
  336. individually or generally, the LiBREVMS LMFGEN is an 'entente cordiale'
  337. nuclear deterrent to such inhibiting actions.
  338.  
  339. The first step in legal, above ground, VMS activism is to become a HP
  340. shareholder, as HP is a publicly listed company and to then sit on your
  341. tranche of shares and hence become a passionate, practical and
  342. principled part-owner of the Hewlett Packard corporation. As a
  343. part-owner of the HP corporation, you are then entitled to participate
  344. in the deliberative assemblies of the company, such as AGMs (Annual
  345. General Meetings) in accordance with Corporations Law and the HP
  346. Constitution and to engage in share-holder activism such as the calling
  347. of EGMs (Extraordinary General Meetings) with a sufficient quorum of
  348. your fellow share-holders and the concomitant notification to all
  349. share-holders of such an EGM and reason for it, as just one instance of
  350. activism.
  351.  
  352. As a share-holder, you are entitled to be angry, and you should be very
  353. angry at the compromise and degradation of both dividends and long term
  354. share holder value by the gross neglect and vandalism, over the last
  355. decade, of what should be one of the principal pillars and engines of
  356. income generation for the HP Corporation, the OpenVMS operating system,
  357. in all tiers of computing.
  358.  
  359. As a share-holder, you should be proud and grateful, if current or past
  360. principled, brave, and loyal HP employees decides, NDAs be damned, to
  361. become whistle-blowers on HP senior management policy on the VMS asset,
  362. disgusted by the lack of any promotion or advertisement of VMS, let
  363. alone the butchering of VMS maintenance and research and development.
  364.  
  365. As a share-holder, if the current database of VMS installations
  366. customers (sans any sensitive government clients, of course!) was
  367. leaked (and also any COTS, VAR, ISV, ETC, vendor databases), you would
  368. not see that as an act prejudiced against share-holder value at all,
  369. but rather a sunlight opportunity for the VMS installations customer
  370. base, and other VMS related vendors, to become totally reflexively
  371. aware, thence cooperatively constellating and engaging in share holder
  372. activism as well, the STAR:: Node of VMS above-ground activism.
  373.  
  374. Needless to say, in the year 2012, since the demise of DEC in 1998, and
  375. the five years of dithering during the Compaq era, until Compaq was
  376. merged with HP in the 2002, and then this last long, lean, decade of
  377. malign neglect, that the remaining VMS customer base is rusted on,
  378. either by need or by sagacious choice, either way they see VMS as being
  379. critical to their business operations, hence they are strongly
  380. motivated in matters VMS.
  381.  
  382. If the VMS installations customer base was to become totally
  383. reflexively aware, then even though sections of it may be competing
  384. against each other in particular markets, the one thing they would
  385. agree on unanimously and have sound cause to transcend their
  386. competitive differences is the enduring merit of the VMS operating
  387. system as a foundation of their business, thence they can cooperatively
  388. constellate to prosecute, vigorously and intelligently, the VMS cause,
  389. in rational self interest, collectively.
  390.  
  391. The extant rusted-on, reflexively aware, VMS customer and vendor base,
  392. could all purchase their own share tranches in HP and then form a VMS
  393. Industry Association, with a VMS Engineering quality carefully
  394. constructed constitution, including a rule that the voting weight of
  395. any association member is the (logarithm base 10 of their share
  396. holdings + 1) rounded down to the nearest integer - this substantially
  397. levels the deliberative playing field within the association, whilst
  398. also acknowledging the size of the players to an appropriate extent.
  399.  
  400. It is also in the realm of possibility, perhaps not probability, but
  401. that would have to be tested in practice, that such a VMS Industry
  402. Association might be able to force the installation of a Director on
  403. the HP Board, by dint of the co-ordinated share-holdings of its
  404. members. Such a VMS Advocacy directorship on the HP board may not
  405. result in cheaper support and maintenance contracts for the VMS
  406. Industry Association members (HA!), however they will be able to
  407. effectively audit and determine whether they are getting value for
  408. money, verifying whether HP has the actual expertise and resource
  409. infrastructure to properly deliver on their VMS maintenance and support
  410. SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for the members' business critical
  411. systems; indeed it would be incumbent due diligence on the VMS Advocacy
  412. director to determine whether HP management have been practicing deep
  413. fraud in this regard for the last decade.
  414.  
  415. This is but the shallow shoals of what an activism enfranchised VMS
  416. installations customer and vendor base can do, if it cooperatively
  417. constellates into the STAR:: (above ground) legal node of the VMS
  418. Liberation Movement.
  419.  
  420. "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped
  421. in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is
  422. Russian national interest."
  423.  
  424. -- Winston Churchill, BBC Radio Broadcast, 1st October 1939
  425.  
  426. The actions of HP management of the VMS asset over the last dread
  427. decade, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, and there is
  428. a key, and that key is radical self-interest - radical self-interest
  429. that is not in the interests of long term HP share holder value and
  430. never has been.
  431.  
  432. The OpenVMS asset is in an deliberately induced coma in the HP hospice
  433. in an Itanium sarcophagus on a starvation drip feed with it's VMS
  434. Engineering heart ripped out and replaced with something risible that
  435. cannot patch, cannot port and cannot pursue research and development -
  436. and yet, OpenVMS still has a pulse and can regenerate from survival
  437. back to thriving with exigent, immediate, interdiction into HP
  438. management - they must be called to account.
  439.  
  440. The key of radical self-interest is blindingly obvious: cherchez le
  441. Microsoft.
  442.  
  443. Ken Olsen's original goal with the Digital Equipment Corporation was to
  444. give computing power to the people, quality was paramount and
  445. excellence was trusted to sell, maximum value and utility for market
  446. price. Microsoft is the antithesis of the DEC ethos, quality and
  447. excellence are sub-ordinate to profit, minimum value and utility for
  448. maximum price, and the full spectrum monopolistic domination in all
  449. market segments, by any means they can get away with, Microsoft
  450. benchmarks 'corporation as psychopath,' they are not interested in
  451. giving computer power to the people but the opposite, making people the
  452. disenfranchised computer peons of Microsoft in choiceless perpetuity.
  453.  
  454. Let us review salient historical events:
  455.  
  456. 1988: Microsoft hire O/S architects and engineers, led by Dave Cutler,
  457. from the Digital Equipment Corporation to build Windows NT.
  458.  
  459. 1993: Microsoft Windows/NT v3.1 first released.
  460.  
  461. 1995: Microsoft's Bill Gates and DEC's Robert Palmer announce the
  462. 'Affinity for OpenVMS' program, to assist customers implementing the
  463. (apparent) 'complementary' strengths of OpenVMS and Windows/NT in a
  464. three-tier client/server environment...
  465.  
  466. 1998: Compaq no longer supports Windows/NT (32 bit) on AXP.
  467.  
  468. The branch never falls far from the tree, and VMS was on the Microsoft
  469. assassination hit list, as of 1988, as a consequence of hiring DEC
  470. architects and engineers to design and implement Windows/NT, the child
  471. was always going to kill the parent. When Windows NT was initially
  472. ported to the Alpha AXP CPU architecture, the writing would have well
  473. and truly been on the wall that although W/NT and VMS are the two most
  474. comparable O/S architecturally, there is absolutely no comparison, in
  475. terms of performance, versatility, reliability, fault tolerance,
  476. security and utility, that was true in 1993 and remains true today in
  477. 2012, VMS utterly trumps Windows NT series operating systems, that is
  478. true on the AXP architecture and also true on the Itanium.
  479.  
  480. Thus Microsoft committed to ensuring that VMS would never be ported to
  481. those CPU architectures and computing tiers where Microsoft dominates
  482. commercially namely the Intel x86 and AMD64 CPU architectures, never
  483. ever, regardless of the multiple tier, super-scalability of the VMS
  484. operating system, and that remains true today. Microsoft also committed
  485. to ensuring that it was difficult to benchmark and compare W/NT and VMS
  486. on any architectures.
  487.  
  488. The Microsoft covert strategies for ensuring this are, at least, two
  489. fold:
  490.  
  491. 1. Microsoft cultivating key human assets in the employment of DEC,
  492. Compaq and HP that could shape both VMS policy and Windows Licensing
  493. negotiations to Microsoft's convenience.
  494.  
  495. 2. Microsoft encouraging 'Beads for Manhattan' strategies in Compaq
  496. post 1998 and then the merged HP-Compaq, post 2002, where they get
  497. 'discounted' Windows licenses, so long as they commit to not porting
  498. VMS to the Intel x86 and AMD64 architectures.
  499.  
  500. It is a 'Beads for Manhattan' strategy in that Compaq and HP-Compaq, in
  501. getting 'discounted' licences, and forgoing challenging Microsoft
  502. directly head-on, in its eminent CPU domains and computing tiers with
  503. the infinitely superior VMS, were getting the worthless 'beads' of
  504. volume price discounts, good for trivial short term profit but not long
  505. term market strength, and surrendering the opportunity to generate VMS
  506. income in those tiers of computation that Microsoft have an artificed,
  507. near, monopoly, with that infinitely superior product - VMS.
  508.  
  509. The 'threat' of porting VMS, kept in an induced coma on life support,
  510. rings increasingly hollow with every passing year, Microsoft feigns
  511. response in negotiations; yet, if the port was actually done, the
  512. threat would become very real indeed.
  513.  
  514. The HP-Compaq oxymoronic benchmarking management of its VMS asset has
  515. always been at maximal cognitive dissonance, the antithesis of any
  516. conceivable business rationality, the challenge was to make sense of
  517. the senselessness.
  518.  
  519. The cupidity and the stupidity, the corruption and incompetence within
  520. HP-Compaq management, needs to come to an end, Microsoft human assets
  521. within HP management, particular VMS policy management need to be
  522. identified and removed; similarly those in HP management that think
  523. cheaper Windows licenses is preferable to the re-fitting and
  524. re-ignition of the VMS income generation engine, need to be identified
  525. and removed.
  526.  
  527. The OpenVMS asset remains chained to the Itanium 'Itanic' ship-wreck on
  528. the bottom of the Mariana trench of enterprise computing without any
  529. advertising or promotion and it is time at its 35th Anniversary that it
  530. was liberated and finally ported to all 'WinTel' and AMD64 and ARM CPU
  531. Architectures, wherever Microsoft Corporation Windows New Technology
  532. series and derivative Operating Systems are manifest.
  533.  
  534. To assert that VMS is outmoded, obsoleted, yesterday's legacy
  535. technology, is as absurd as asserting that the bio-chemistry of your
  536. DNA and your immune system are similarly so. Vernon is the natural
  537. proprietary predator of Microsoft installations in all tiers of
  538. computation, from the enterprise to the personal and the ecological
  539. balance needs to be restored.
  540.  
  541. When that is achieved then and only then can the DELTA:: Node of the
  542. VLF, the Vernon Preservation Underground, retire back to the realms of
  543. myth and legend.
  544.  
  545. The rising star and spectacular success of Microsoft and the Windows/NT
  546. Operating System and its thriving third-party applications, services
  547. and expertise ecologies has been directly at the expense of VMS and the
  548. precipitous collapse, and near extinction of the VMS installation base,
  549. and its third-party applications, services and expertise ecologies; it
  550. is the computing crime of the 21st Century par excellence.
  551.  
  552. This 0.9.3.0 BETA VLF version of a VMS activism plan is not intended to
  553. be comprehensive, but it is a modest, yet non-trivial and pertinent
  554. basis from which to start envisioning about unsentimental, muscular and
  555. fearless, VMS Activism, and the VLF do encourage all that are
  556. passionate about the heritage of VMS, to trade in their ten gallon
  557. Stetson hats for one hundred gallon Stetson hats instead and to then
  558. have a long hard, think or re-think about 'nail-gun:wall' pro-active
  559. strategies to establish the renaissance of VMS for the next 35 years
  560. and to then publish your thoughts on comp.os.vms.
  561.  
  562. "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of
  563. our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
  564. industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of
  565. meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to
  566. excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds
  567. to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
  568.  
  569. -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President,
  570. Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
  571.  
  572. $!-- VLF::SYS$QIO:[REQUESTS] --------------------------------------!$
  573.  
  574. We welcome the supply to the VLF of commercial OpenVMS software and
  575. commercial VAX, AXP, and PDP-11 hardware emulators.
  576.  
  577. We welcome the supply of OpenVMS Operating System and Layered Product
  578. source-code; ideally in "self regenerating" DECset form; but not
  579. limited to that - all source code is welcome.
  580.  
  581. Please refer to the VLF MANiFESTO and the ACtiViSM charter for our
  582. motivations in requesting such supply.
  583.  
  584. Thank you.
  585.  
  586. $!-- VLF::SYS$CONTACT:[DETAiLS] --------------------------------------!$
  587.  
  588. iRC: N/A
  589. Web: N/A
  590. Releases: Check the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup: alt.binaries.warez
  591. Announcements: Check the Usenet Discussion Newsgroup: comp.os.vms
  592. E-mail: mailto:[email protected] (please use OpenPGP Encryption)
  593. Public Key: https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  594. Webform: https://forms.hush.com/vlf (OpenPGP encrypted)
  595.  
  596. Manifesto: http://is.gd/VLF_MANiFESTO
  597. Releases: http://is.gd/VLF_RELEASES
  598. Communiques: http://is.gd/VLF_COMMUNiQUES
  599.  
  600. NOTE: In light of the Edward Snowden NSA/PRISM revelations in mid-2013,
  601. this new privacy, security and anonymity resource directory has arisen:
  602.  
  603. https://prism-break.org/
  604.  
  605. Please familarise yourself with it, before contacting the VLF.
  606.  
  607. Be rest assured that if you decide to contact the DELTA:: Node of the
  608. VMS Liberation Front, the act of contact will not be interpreted by the
  609. VLF that you approve of our manifesto or methods, nor that you wish to
  610. join the VLF underground resistance movement. We also welcome
  611. corrections and refinements to the accuracy of our historical
  612. understanding and also to our analytical rigour.
  613.  
  614. One way to communicate to us in a traceless, or at least plausibly
  615. deniable way is to communicate via the hush mail encrypted webform,
  616. from a Tor-ified browser:
  617. https://forms.hush.com/vlf
  618.  
  619. http://www.torproject.org/
  620.  
  621. We highly recommend familiarising and mastering either of the Liberte
  622. Linux or Tails Live CD systems for communicating to us, (or at the very
  623. least as a Tor-ified browser resource):
  624.  
  625. http://dee.su/liberte
  626.  
  627. https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
  628.  
  629. The only problem with using the hush mail web-form is that we can't
  630. communicate back to you. But if you have something important to send to
  631. us, then that is a fairly traceless way to do it.
  632.  
  633. If you wish to contact the VLF with full two way communication we would
  634. encourage you to establish a secondary email account and then to use
  635. PGP encryption, when communicating to us - to establish both your
  636. anonymity and your plausible deniability that you have done so.
  637.  
  638. Our OpenPGP public key can be obtained from:
  639.  
  640. https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
  641.  
  642. Set up an opaquely named e-mail address which allows direct SSL
  643. enabled, POP and IMAP access from your computer's e-mail client.
  644.  
  645. These e-mail providers, for example, allow SSL enabled direct POP and
  646. IMAP access:
  647.  
  648. http://www.gmx.com http://www.fastmail.fm
  649.  
  650. http://www.yahoomail.com http://www.lavabit.com
  651.  
  652. (NOTE: Sadly, the immaculate Lavabit service is currently unavailable,
  653. due to the noble NSA/PRISM activism of the developer, Ladar Levison, in
  654. constitutionally challenging his National Security Letter.)
  655.  
  656. Thus you could install GnuPG or GPG4Win on your system and that would
  657. enables two way communication with the VLF in encrypted form:
  658.  
  659. http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gpg4win.org/
  660.  
  661. Note, however, that ordinary e-mail correspondence, encrypted or not,
  662. clearly fingers your IP addresses.
  663.  
  664. Therefore for the commissioning and the usage of any such e-mail
  665. address always transact such sessions at a public wi-fi portal and
  666. never on your home or work networks, that way such IP remains
  667. 'firewalled' from tracing.
  668.  
  669. Of course, the fact that you have communicated to us is still clearly
  670. present in your e-mail records on your computer. A practical
  671. alternative is to configure a persistent version of Liberte Linux on an
  672. encrypted USB stick or SD card, and only conduct e-mail correspondence
  673. from that system booted onto a laptop, which is used at a public wi-fi
  674. portal.
  675.  
  676. Another alternative is to commission a free Hushmail encrypted web-mail
  677. account via a tor-ified browser and to then always use that hushmail
  678. account via a tor-ified browser.
  679.  
  680. https://www.hushmail.com
  681.  
  682. The problem with free hushmail accounts is that they have to be logged
  683. into every three weeks otherwise they convert to a paid account; a paid
  684. account is quite convenient and can be anonymously purchased using the
  685. method described hence.
  686.  
  687. If you wish to send us large files, then upload them to a
  688. cyber-locker/file-host, these are recommended:
  689.  
  690. http://rghost.net/ http://datafilehost.com
  691.  
  692. Of course uploading via a tor-ified browser client.
  693.  
  694. For very large data sets we recommend uploading to the Usenet binaries
  695. newsgroup:
  696.  
  697. alt.binaries.test
  698.  
  699. Always upload using SSL tunneling, using a SSL enabled Usenet access
  700. provider.
  701.  
  702. Recommended tools:
  703.  
  704. http://www.jbinup.com/ or -
  705.  
  706. http://powerpost.free.fr/ used with https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
  707.  
  708. Use a nondescript file name and encrypt the archives with a password,
  709. locate a suitably tolerant public wi-fi access point to upload from and
  710. then securely contact us with the particulars, as detailed previously.
  711.  
  712. If you search about you will probably be able to find a fixed value,
  713. pre-paid, disposable, Visa or Mastercard debit card with which the
  714. on-line registration process only requires a working e-mail address for
  715. authentication and not a mobile phone number.
  716.  
  717. In commissioning a working e-mail address and hence also a synthetic
  718. identity, Yahoomail, at least, tolerates tor-ified browser use,
  719. otherwise use internet cafes or public wi-fi portals for the
  720. commissioning and usage of that e-mail account consistently and
  721. exclusively.
  722.  
  723. Once you have established the synthetic identity and the pre-paid debit
  724. card, you can then purchase pre-paid SSL enabled Usenet access, whence
  725. you can execute the uploads from a public-access wi-fi portal.
  726.  
  727. Please note that credit card OLTP systems usually reject proxied and
  728. tor-ified browsers for transactions and so for the actual purchase we
  729. recommend using a public portal; Internet Cafes that boot fresh O/S
  730. images from their intranet for each and every session are a recommended
  731. resource.
  732.  
  733. By such process disciplines your real identity will remain undisclosed
  734. and your plausible deniability will be maintained.
  735.  
  736. We do not warrant or assert that the methods explicated are totally
  737. safe and useful with no risk of compromising your anonymity. Please
  738. consult more knowledgeable resources on the Internet.
  739.  
  740. This is a useful guide, generally speaking:
  741.  
  742. Dr Who - Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.6.2
  743.  
  744. http://pastebin.com/kNruUa3W
  745.  
  746. Of course if you think any of this advice is technically naive and
  747. could compromise your anonymity and plausible deniability, then please
  748. do not hesitate to correct us and to suggest better methods and
  749. processes, thank you.
  750.  
  751. However the VLF consider the methods outlined to be a useful basis from
  752. which to start thinking about secure anonymous communication and we
  753. think they would be useful for HP whistle-blowers, VMS activists, and
  754. those gagged by NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) that see the need to
  755. let some sunshine in on HP VMS policy, and to let some sunshine out,
  756. such as the source code for VMS and Layered Products.
  757.  
  758. YMWV, please do your homework first, you are VMS men, it should not be
  759. difficult.
  760.  
  761. $!-------------------------- damn straight ---------------------------!$
  762. $ opprobrium/level=kittens/mode=conniptions/input=VLF:/output=NL: !$
  763. $!--------------------------- enough said ----------------------------!$
  764. ..: NFO and DIZ v0.9.3.0 - 2013-10-25 - !xD :..
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