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Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying
tiny69 writes "According to Microsoft, a Person's hair turns grey if there are more than 500 users in a User Group. Supposedly, the grey hair does not affect the functionality of the User Group. Microsoft claims to have a solution to fix the problem. How many people do you know that have hair that has turned grey? This web site has a large collection of links to humorous Microsoft Knowledge Base articles."
I get grey hair just thinking about Windows. Is that in the knowledge base?
A musician without the RIAA, is like a fish without a bicycle.
From the article, here's how you fix grey hair:
Windows must query for the class type of each group member to assign an icon. This query can take a long time as groups grow in size; this is the reason for the default limit.
You can override this behavior in the registry. To do so, modify the GroupMemberQueryLimit REG_DWORD value in the following registry key:
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Directory UI
So...I'll be the first to say it.
You have to edit the freaking registry to change a simple icon's color??
How in the world do you expect the mythical "Joe Sixpack" to manage that? Every time you have a less-than-wizard user poke around in the registry you risk absolute ruin.
Folks, all you need to do is look at stuff like this to know that the MS studies on cost-of-ownership are complete bunk.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
I stumbled across this a month or so ago, but I didn't think much of it.
This is not hair... it is filth building up.
I mean, this has been around for what, 5 years. Wow. God forbid anyone crack a quippy about anything that's remotely related to "open sores" (is that funny as well?), because then it's called an "attack on the free software community".
It's not posted because it's "funny", unless I've been somehow misunderstanding how this place works.
I guess we ran clear out of "M$" bashing stories, so this will do for the time being?
Mod the fuck away. But this is utterly pathetic.
Grey hair is actually caused by having to program with the win32 API. I recently did a win32 app, my girlfriend claims my hair is entirely grey now, case closed! M
Yes, SATAN causes it to play "The Mephisto Waltz." Also, "Night on Bald Mountain." I could go on, but the fact that "Microsoft Knowledge Base" is the archetypal oxymoron has me distracted...
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
Large groups of Windows Users causes the Sys Admin to go gray, not the users!
Of course it would.
... while denying the fact that to do any simple thing at all with linux, you need a god damn degree and the ability to read hieroglyphics.
Because you are another dumbass linux user who thinks anyone off the street should be able to do a complex windows related job with no training
That's not hair,
thats mold on your dead corpse from spending your life trying to get the simplest thing done with linux.