It was probably a case of the kid knowing more about computers than the parent. Gods know that was the case with me, and probably with many of/.dom.
Just between us, I almost got my mother to buy me OS/2 3.0 when that was new. Good thing I couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger on that; the 486SX/4MB RAM we had wouldn't have run very well, 'specially since it was mainly used for DOS games & the occasional school paper. Actually, that would have had about the same result as installing Vista on a 1-2-year-old consumer PC.
& they also haven't brought contempt-of-Congress charges (or, IIRC, subpoenas) against certain current/former Justice Dept personnel involved in the firing-prosecutors scandal.
Sure, der Fuhrer would just pardon them, but make the effort. People will respect that, and the wingnuts won't vote for you anyway.
Nov '06, a couple days before the election, the Missouri GOP ran an ad in the Joplin, MO paper stating that if voters don't vote on every race, their ballot will be invalidated. This was patently a lie and was probably done because there were several races with a Republican running unopposed.
The worst bit: the paper didn't post a retraction until *after* the election and to my knowledge nobody was prosecuted.
Ah, another story: same city, Nov '04. I was in line waiting to vote (big turnout) and a few people were standing in line, wearing shirts that said e.g. "Team Bush" &c. I'm almost certain that's illegal electioneering, since you're not supposed to attempt to influence someone's vote inside of or within 25 feet of a voting place.
And the nationally-known story from '04 with the national GOP sending out fliers in fundie areas saying that if Dems were elected, they'd try to ban the Bible or something.
No, dipshit. They're spineless pussies because they haven't earnestly pursued impeaching The Decider and stopping his many abuses.
I had high hopes in Nov '06 when the election results were announced. The best we can say is that at least Bush doesn't have a rubber stamp anymore, and that the minimum wage was finally raised. That's about it.
It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission. Go over sometime, and when they're not paying attention nuke NAV and install AVG. Install Spybot S&D and immunize while you're there, since it's a passive defense and is probably harder to dislodge.
As the other two have said, nLite can really fuck up a Windows install. In my case, an nLite'd XP SP2 install would sometimes say it needed the XP install CD when installing Windows updates. Obviously that's Not Acceptable on an end-user's desktop.
Viruses != worms != trojans. In my experience you need not only an antivirus program (I prefer AVG Free) but also a selection of anti-spyware programs, since trojans often conceal spyware, and anti-virus programs aren't focused on spyware.
I use Spybot S&D (immunize and don't install teatimer, it's annoying (unless you've got an infection, then use it to help contain it and remove it after you're done) and sometimes Windows Defender on those machines which need periodic scanning w/o user intervention. I don't care for Ad-aware 2007 (1.06 was much better). Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (http://www.ubcd4win.com/) is very useful for cleaning up infections, and for many other uses.
It also helps to only let users have Admin rights if there's a need -- unless they run crappy Adobe s/w that requires Admin to *run* or if they're secretary to someone high up in the org (yay politics) or they actually know what they're doing, have them run as limited user. Come by and install s/w if they need something new added.
I support some users with brain-dead web apps like that as well, and other run-on-machine apps that use mshtml.dll. I have some others whose app first required.NET 1.1 & would crash if 2.0 or 3.0 was installed, then the new version requires 2.0 and crashes if 3.0 is installed, but at least the new version also works with IE7.
How, in the name of all that's crufty and evil, do you code an app that breaks if a.NET runtime newer than what you wrote against is even *installed*? FTM, I thought that.NET 3.0 was just 2.0 repackaged and with a few extras bolted on, but still fully compatible with 2.0 apps.
I was more responding to the GP's dumbass assertion that a tech who doesn't check RAM first is *always* an idiot, and implying that if I haven't got all sorts of extra RAM lying about, I'm de facto greedy.
So upgrade to XP or Vista, then. 2K is going to be EOL'd in a few years anyhow. Or do up a second VM with XP and then you can test with both versions of IE and not have to worry about the VM expiring.
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Your mom had better not come in #gentoo. It'd make bash.org for sure, and you'd never live it down.
It was probably a case of the kid knowing more about computers than the parent. Gods know that was the case with me, and probably with many of /.dom.
/4MB RAM we had wouldn't have run very well, 'specially since it was mainly used for DOS games & the occasional school paper. Actually, that would have had about the same result as installing Vista on a 1-2-year-old consumer PC.
Just between us, I almost got my mother to buy me OS/2 3.0 when that was new. Good thing I couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger on that; the 486SX
ror. I've never heard them called "headcount" before.
What kind of discharge, yellowish-white? ;-)
The fucking fucker's fucking fucked. Fuck!
& they also haven't brought contempt-of-Congress charges (or, IIRC, subpoenas) against certain current/former Justice Dept personnel involved in the firing-prosecutors scandal.
Sure, der Fuhrer would just pardon them, but make the effort. People will respect that, and the wingnuts won't vote for you anyway.
My personal "Republican dirty tricks" story:
Nov '06, a couple days before the election, the Missouri GOP ran an ad in the Joplin, MO paper stating that if voters don't vote on every race, their ballot will be invalidated. This was patently a lie and was probably done because there were several races with a Republican running unopposed.
The worst bit: the paper didn't post a retraction until *after* the election and to my knowledge nobody was prosecuted.
Ah, another story: same city, Nov '04. I was in line waiting to vote (big turnout) and a few people were standing in line, wearing shirts that said e.g. "Team Bush" &c. I'm almost certain that's illegal electioneering, since you're not supposed to attempt to influence someone's vote inside of or within 25 feet of a voting place.
And the nationally-known story from '04 with the national GOP sending out fliers in fundie areas saying that if Dems were elected, they'd try to ban the Bible or something.
Aw, I hurt your feelings enough that you made me a freak.
No, dipshit. They're spineless pussies because they haven't earnestly pursued impeaching The Decider and stopping his many abuses.
I had high hopes in Nov '06 when the election results were announced. The best we can say is that at least Bush doesn't have a rubber stamp anymore, and that the minimum wage was finally raised. That's about it.
We should give up and rename Uranus to Goatse.
The Dems' "excuse" is that they're politicians and spineless pussies.
But yes, the GOP has made dirty tricks an art.
fnord!
It's better to seek forgiveness than ask permission. Go over sometime, and when they're not paying attention nuke NAV and install AVG. Install Spybot S&D and immunize while you're there, since it's a passive defense and is probably harder to dislodge.
As the other two have said, nLite can really fuck up a Windows install. In my case, an nLite'd XP SP2 install would sometimes say it needed the XP install CD when installing Windows updates. Obviously that's Not Acceptable on an end-user's desktop.
Viruses != worms != trojans. In my experience you need not only an antivirus program (I prefer AVG Free) but also a selection of anti-spyware programs, since trojans often conceal spyware, and anti-virus programs aren't focused on spyware.
I use Spybot S&D (immunize and don't install teatimer, it's annoying (unless you've got an infection, then use it to help contain it and remove it after you're done) and sometimes Windows Defender on those machines which need periodic scanning w/o user intervention. I don't care for Ad-aware 2007 (1.06 was much better). Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (http://www.ubcd4win.com/) is very useful for cleaning up infections, and for many other uses.
It also helps to only let users have Admin rights if there's a need -- unless they run crappy Adobe s/w that requires Admin to *run* or if they're secretary to someone high up in the org (yay politics) or they actually know what they're doing, have them run as limited user. Come by and install s/w if they need something new added.
I think those are blobs of spooge. Excitement from having such a large request, possibly.
Pretty successful troll, though. It's even funny that there's a !linuxsucks tag right now.
Uh, mods, I don't consider some other geek masturbating "interesting".
Whew! I was afraid someone would discover that I am the true goatse.
Oh, damn.
The duct tape and knife are just for interpretive dance.
I support some users with brain-dead web apps like that as well, and other run-on-machine apps that use mshtml.dll. I have some others whose app first required .NET 1.1 & would crash if 2.0 or 3.0 was installed, then the new version requires 2.0 and crashes if 3.0 is installed, but at least the new version also works with IE7.
.NET runtime newer than what you wrote against is even *installed*? FTM, I thought that .NET 3.0 was just 2.0 repackaged and with a few extras bolted on, but still fully compatible with 2.0 apps.
How, in the name of all that's crufty and evil, do you code an app that breaks if a
I was more responding to the GP's dumbass assertion that a tech who doesn't check RAM first is *always* an idiot, and implying that if I haven't got all sorts of extra RAM lying about, I'm de facto greedy.
So upgrade to XP or Vista, then. 2K is going to be EOL'd in a few years anyhow. Or do up a second VM with XP and then you can test with both versions of IE and not have to worry about the VM expiring.
...and then you could be fired for cause. Brilliant.