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  1. Re:Installing Apps vs. Running Apps multiuser/admi on Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security · · Score: 1

    As a Solution you can put the files in /home/shared and you shouldn't have any problems with them. But I do like how Apple handles a multi-user system. each person has one config for the application and are not shared (or should not be) between other users. If you need to install a program it will ask for your password, even if you are set up as an administrative account. in order to delete a file in /system or /Library it will again ask you for the password. To me that is a lot better security than Microsoft or linux distros) handle things. When you login as admin you can do everything, as a normal user you have no rights and you have to right click and runas. with linux it does ask you for the root password with most distros when you try to install an application, but it might not be the same password.

    Microsoft needs to think about real user security because currently that don't even think about it. If you are the only user on the system you have no choice, but to be the administrator. Besides every place I have worked with Windows I have in time been given local admin rights in time, due to one or two applications that would not run without it.

    Am I asking too much for Microsoft?

  2. Re:Looks like FireFox on Windows Longhorn and Internet Explorer 7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    more like Safari than Firefox I would say, the real question is does it pass Acid2? (my guess is no)

  3. Re:And "Al Qaida" literally means "the base". on All Your Base Are Turned Five · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had to look this up just to verify that and yeah its correct according to various sites including the Air Force's Air University Webpage.

    Link
  4. Re:I agree. on Google Maps Now Cover Whole World · · Score: 1

    now I can see how Netscape 7 might not be an unsupported browser but how is Solaris unsupported on Sparc hardware, unless of course you are running Solaris 10 on some ancient hardware.

  5. Re:Rose on Dr Who Rolls On · · Score: 1

    For those that do not know what he is talking about, here is the script for that section of E12 - Bad Wolf.

    Jack: Am I naked in front of millions of viewers?
    Robots: Absolutely!
    Jack: Ladies, your viewing figures just went up.

    - Qua

  6. Re:Employees are not trusted on Mobile Magazine's Notebook Tech Support Reviews · · Score: 1

    But that is different than saying "my hard drive is dead, send me a new one now". I honestly used to work for Gateway before being laid off to be outsourced (the best thing they could have done to me) and I had people call me up all the time saying "the system is not working, send me a new one" and they didn't want to troubleshoot or anything. But if someone called me up and say my modem is not working and then tell me everything they have done then I would have them off the phone in 5 minutes.

    - Qua

  7. Re:OTHER HEADLINES TODAY on BSA Piracy Study Deeply Flawed · · Score: 1

    I like his voting record except for gun ownership, but everything else looks good.

    Strongly Opposes topic 10:
    Absolute right to gun ownership

  8. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    see I like the features of Lotus Notes like the database ability, its archive ability, the security of syncing with a notes server. but I hate the look and feel of the calender, email, etc. besides its called notes, but there is no place to put a little note like there is in Outlook. But the database features are very nice feature to have, if used. If they aren't used then, to me, it is a waste of a major feature.

  9. Re:Which is the bigger irony: on Ajax On Rails · · Score: 1

    I myself use Gmail for both the interface and the space. The search ability is super quick, the keyboard commands are handy to have, and the Label ability is a nice feature. Now when I first got it all I was thinking about was the space, but soon after I feel in love with its features rather than the size. now size does matter, but only with great abilities to go along with that.

  10. Re:Hrm.. on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 1

    You would not be able to claim it since Microsoft has the authority to sell there software at whatever price they chose to anyone, and also it is a binding contract between Microsoft and another country. Now if you want you can try to tell microsoft that you are using illegal software and would like to use it legally for $1. Why not try it and see what they say? :)

    - Qua

  11. Re:Hrm.. on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 1

    but if you can sell it for $200 and earn just as much money as if you sold it for $15 then why bother lowering the price? Some people will also pirate no matter how cheap is, others will always buy software legally. For example, lets just say that Adobe decides to sell Photoshop for $50. How many more people would buy the software? Some would of course, but in the end they would probally have less of a profit since a good deal of there sales are from businesses needing the software for web,production, etc.

  12. Re:Hrm.. on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forget that by doing that they won't make a profit. For example you sell MS Office 2002 to Indonesia for lets say $10, out of that $10 at least $5 is used for cd stamping, cardboard box, etc., $3 the development of the software, and $3 for the reseller themselves. Well they just lost $1 by doing that, or they can sell it for $200 and have enough people buy the software to make a slight profit. As a business which would you rather do? lose money or make a profit? Microsoft has gotten used to people pirated their software. With Windows XP they put enough protection to stop the casual users, but they knew people would find a hack (or use Volume Licensed keys) and people who would use the pirated software still would.

    To me the article sounds like a good PR move. make an agreement with another government so they seem like less of a bad guy and try to get them to buy more and more legal software. If you notice its $1 per computer not $1 per peice of illegal software per computer.

  13. Re:Doctor Who? on Online Doctor Who Documentary · · Score: 1

    True, true. Now I only saw a few episodes of the old seasons, and all of the new ones. But from what I am seeing the Time Wars between the Daleks and the Time Lords did not happen in one time, but instead existed in diffent times and different areas of the Universe.

  14. Re:I hate Microsoft, but I hate these guys more on Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    just call it a process to apply butter to chemically modified with heat to products containing starch. or better yet call butter a substance containing at least 80% milk fat.

  15. Microsoft Shared Source Initiative on Microsoft's Slap at Samba · · Score: 1

    How is this different than anything else released under Microsoft Shared Source Initiative? everything else they have released stated that you can look, but can't share changes with anyone.

  16. Re:And, on top of that on Online Shoppers Naive About Online Prices · · Score: 1

    In the perfect world using coupons to save money would be great, but that is not always the case. Many times coupons don't save money when you compare the product to a product of the same or better quality that costs less or when compared to making the product yourself. Take for example Pasta sauce. One can buy one brand for $4 and save 50 cents with a coupon, can by another one for $3 of equal quality or spend $2 if they spend the time to make the sauce from tomatos, tomato paste, herbs, etc,etc. Which is why I almost never use coupons. While it is true you can sometimes save money with coupons, you can also spend more by buying brands that are more expensive.

  17. Re:Farewell, old warhorse... on Final Windows 2000 Update · · Score: 1

    If by stable you mean limited in what you could do and a pain in the ass to install new hardware. No device manager, having to reinstall the service pack everytime you touched the NT cd, no recovery console, no usb support except for a few devices that provided NT USB drivers (such as the Iomega Zip drive), Now as long as you did not change a thing then NT is stable and has very low requirements when it comes to hardware and in fact I know a few people that still use NT machines for some tasks due to its quick response time and because it does everything they need it to do.

  18. Re:It's a shame... on Final Windows 2000 Update · · Score: 1

    you forgot Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5 under the Unusually bad MS OSes

  19. Re:Price discrimination on Online Shoppers Naive About Online Prices · · Score: 1

    umm no you pay much less for gas than everyone in the lower 48. I am in Texas and paid $1.95 last weekend, 4 months ago I lived in Missouri and paid $1.80 for gas. I can only wish to pay $1.29 a gallon.

  20. Re:Sigh on Cell phones as Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    Nokia 3120 does not have bluetooth. I used to own one and well its pretty basic of a phone. Now I do believe that Verizon has some phones that are even more basic than the 3120.

  21. Re:Sigh on Cell phones as Credit Cards · · Score: 0

    the size of Moto Razr for a basic phone? it could be much smaller like maybe the size of a watch with just enough screen for caller ID, but then you come into needed features like bluetooth for a headset since you would not want to include a mic and speaker on a cell phone the size of a watch. I would also want a Voice dialer so i wouldn't have to look at such a small screen. I think it is possible, but no company would want to make a phone like that since people like the idea of holding onto a phone, along with extra revenue being earned from txt messenging, Wireless Internet, and sending pictures from the phone itself.

  22. Re:Why Do Smart People Defend Bad Ideas? on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas · · Score: 1, Interesting

    no they just create them. Just think of how smart jesus must have been to be able to get all these people to follow his ideas blindly.

  23. Re:Killing the revenue stream... on Using Computer Stores to Spread Open Source? · · Score: 1

    unless it is an OEM version of MS Office in which case Microsoft doesn't support it and leaves all support to the OEM (be it HP, Compaq, Dell, IBM, etc). Now that also lets the OEM say "we will only support in the installation of the software and nothing more", in the case of Open Office they could do the exact same thing.

  24. Re:Uh on New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thats better than the books that I get recommended. Amazon.com thinks I'm a lesbian and recommends oral sex books.

  25. Re:Spam on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    any hidden connection between the SPAM being near the tuna, Crisco, and Tylenol sinus or was this picture taken at the local mini-mart?