Why is it a waste of time, when it saves me time in the long run? The parent poster said he had to reinstall or clean his wifes machine every two months! That is a waste of time. Why, I don't even remember when I installed my wifes PC... It's that long ago. Pretty much zero maintenance.
Yes, it's a good thing my wife cannot install anything. That way I protect her from herself. She doesn't know that those smilies advertised are in fact spyware. So, she has to ask me and I can explain why this is not a good idea. I don't understand what this has to do with shoes...
I can't expect her and children to read every pop-up and understand what's going on.
Now, my question is this: Why is she running Administrator at all? My wife runs as Limited user (just as my father, my mother, my brother and my sister, and some other family I manage computers for) Now, I do realise that it take quite some work to set up a computer in such a way that all applications run under Limited User. It is however not impossible because it usually only implies setting the right file permissions of said applications (cacls.exe is your friend on XP Home) and if that doesn't work, it becomes a bit harder because you have to say the right permissions in the registry.
I have exactly two applications that I haven't managed to run under Limited user and both were games. One is a game called "Children of the Nile" and the other is "Microsoft Train Simulator". The last one probably because I haven't yet taken the time to look into the issue.
If you set it up right, then there is not a problem for them to use the applications you installed for them. Of course, they cannot install applications themselves, but that is actually a good thing. Converting them fully to Firefox/Thunderbird (instead of IE/Outlook Express) also brings an extra level of security.
Well, true... but the problem with this is that in Belgium you usually use the bottle (and associated glass, every beer has its own glass) as the measure for a "pint". That's why... Now, drinking 16 Duvel is going to be hard. I don't think I'd manage.
That said, you have to realise that 8 Duvels would be about the equivalent of 16 normal beers. Normal beers in Belgium, as I do not know the alcohol content of American beers
I understand where you come from... This assumes that there will be a meltdown. What PC manufacturer will bet on that?
The best thing that Dell could do, is take a distribution, customize it slightly so that support would be easy....
The only problem would remain games, they would have to sell these machines with a disclaimer "this machines will not run most games". I'm not talking about CounterStrike but about Online Poker and Barbie Adventure... Do not forget that most games will run on low-end hardware. The will run intolerably slow, but people will blame that on their computer. If it won't run at all, they will blame it on Dell.
Yes, they should release "Windows XP Classic". You know, Windows XP with a nice theme (based on silver, and having a non-green start button), including Service Pack 3!
Cost them nothing and people will line up for it;-)
Simply put, it only takes a few commercials from Dell about "the power of open source" to get people doubting
Microsoft.
Wow, I never saw it that way. Of course Dell would need to grow a spine before ever doing that. That means saying. "Screw you Microsoft, I don't care paying a premium for your licenses.... Brand recognition will save us!" Not very likely to happen... Interesting none the less.
I don't even have a machine that can run it. The best machine I have was bought 3 months ago. (Other two in the household are both from 2003 and work 100% fine!) It has XP Media Center and was on sale. It does have a sticker saying "Vista Capable" - removed by now- but the fine print on the packing box said pretty much "you won't be getting any of the fancy stuff that Vista does even if you install it on this machine". I should have taken a picture of that text, it was priceless.
So, I wouldn't dare to say "no one", but you have to probably spend close to 1500€ for a Vista machine that won't lag. My 799€ machine doesn't lag on XP... It was cheap, has the oompha I need, and will last me some years...
I do not know what it is exactly, but it seems just sluggish in comparison to 1.5.x. I have a fast machine (Nice Core 2 Duo, oodles of RAM) at work and I have FF 2.x.x and I still find it sluggish. At home I even didn't bother upgrading... FF 1.5.x is quick, responsive and stable. I hope that that branch will live on, but as far as their website says it will be discontinued soon.
That means that you have a copy. I can't even say that. I played it at a friends place when CD-Rs were still very expensive and as such I could not make a copy.
Apparently one can still buy it, but I'm not that desperate;-)
Most of that "advertising" consists of free drugs they give to doctors to distribute to the poor and eldery. [...] A little more than half is the aforementioned drug donations.
I really have a hard time believing that. Why would they do that? I don't see any help in brand recognition, nor development of consumer loyalty (they are poor and sick, chances are they will never be able to afford the drug). There is no rationale for spending advertisement that way.
I really need a link to a reputable source to even consider your post truthful.
I'll take a closer look at what they do with the CDs next time that I'm there. Promised. Still, if one googles fro CD Recycling, it seems to exist.
Oh, they weren't happy to find out when I got caught dumpster diving. Now, I just look around if there are any employees around. I don't understand it either: re-use should be better.
I bring them to the recycling centre like almost every other plastic I collect. Nobody ever complained. I'll look if they have a separate container for it next time I go there. There are employees that do the sorting for us. (I like going there, especially for dumpster diving in the electronics container. Nuggets I found there are a P-IV 1.9GHz and an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz... both in working order. I don't even bother taking P-III class machines anymore... *grin*)
That's pretty cool.... You have proven me wrong on at least one female name. I actually tried my wifes first name, despite being at work and I was surprised to find that it wasn't a NSFW site.
The people having the least problem feeling themselves as a "part of the EU" are those EU citizens that do not live in their own country. For most of my life, I have been a foreigner in the country I live and I had no problem identifying myself as a "European Citizen". Heck, I thought that it would be a good idea to drop all nationalities and call ourselves "Europeans". I still think that (but it will never happen), and now I have adopted the nationality of my host country.
I still am not a real national in the eyes of the people living here. My accent gives me away every single time. Heck, even parts of my in-laws family call me the "Dutch Guy" (albeit jokingly), even though I have never been Dutch. Sure, I speak Dutch, but I am not from the Netherlands.
Nationality is a tricky thing and personally, I feel as if I have none. European would be closest, even if my passport doesn't say so.
Also an EU resident here. Haven't seen a single one.... I pretty much only see country tlds and the generic ones (.com,.net and.org). Especially that my country is very small and still has a lot open names. My dad has one (our last name), but I don't: they simply are extremely expensive in comparison to the generic ones. For the same amount my dad has one domain, I've got three.
Actually, I'd consider buying my wifes first name as a present within my countries tld, because it's still free. On a generic, I'm pretty sure it would end up in a NSFW site;-) (Before you say anything: pretty much all common female first names as a domain end up in NSFW sites)
IT staff at schools are notoriously bad. I worked a while as a "computer" teacher (and as such had no control over the IT infrastructure) Their "fancy" squid filter did keyword filtering in the URLs + blocking of certain domain names. So, stuff with "game", "sex", whatever was blocked as was stuff like myspace.
The workaround? Simple: use the IP address directly: immediate pass. No, I didn't tell the IT staff that they should fix it. I did tell my students how to get around it, hoping that the IT staff would notice it in the logs and fix the damned thing. In the 1.5 years I was there, nobody fixed that flaw.
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Why is it a waste of time, when it saves me time in the long run? The parent poster said he had to reinstall or clean his wifes machine every two months! That is a waste of time. Why, I don't even remember when I installed my wifes PC... It's that long ago. Pretty much zero maintenance.
Yes, it's a good thing my wife cannot install anything. That way I protect her from herself. She doesn't know that those smilies advertised are in fact spyware. So, she has to ask me and I can explain why this is not a good idea. I don't understand what this has to do with shoes...
That explains why I never seemed to get drunk when in the States... *sigh*
I can't expect her and children to read every pop-up and understand what's going on.
Now, my question is this: Why is she running Administrator at all? My wife runs as Limited user (just as my father, my mother, my brother and my sister, and some other family I manage computers for) Now, I do realise that it take quite some work to set up a computer in such a way that all applications run under Limited User. It is however not impossible because it usually only implies setting the right file permissions of said applications (cacls.exe is your friend on XP Home) and if that doesn't work, it becomes a bit harder because you have to say the right permissions in the registry.
I have exactly two applications that I haven't managed to run under Limited user and both were games. One is a game called "Children of the Nile" and the other is "Microsoft Train Simulator". The last one probably because I haven't yet taken the time to look into the issue.
If you set it up right, then there is not a problem for them to use the applications you installed for them. Of course, they cannot install applications themselves, but that is actually a good thing. Converting them fully to Firefox/Thunderbird (instead of IE/Outlook Express) also brings an extra level of security.
Well, true... but the problem with this is that in Belgium you usually use the bottle (and associated glass, every beer has its own glass) as the measure for a "pint". That's why... Now, drinking 16 Duvel is going to be hard. I don't think I'd manage.
That said, you have to realise that 8 Duvels would be about the equivalent of 16 normal beers. Normal beers in Belgium, as I do not know the alcohol content of American beers
You can't drink 8 pints of any of the ones you name
Speak for yourself, my first hangover was kindly sponsored by 8 bottles of Duvel (33cl).
And that's one of the strongest ones he states. Take that Franziskaner Hefe Weiss: easily manageable over 8 pints (meaning 0.5l)
I understand where you come from... This assumes that there will be a meltdown. What PC manufacturer will bet on that?
The best thing that Dell could do, is take a distribution, customize it slightly so that support would be easy....
The only problem would remain games, they would have to sell these machines with a disclaimer "this machines will not run most games". I'm not talking about CounterStrike but about Online Poker and Barbie Adventure... Do not forget that most games will run on low-end hardware. The will run intolerably slow, but people will blame that on their computer. If it won't run at all, they will blame it on Dell.
Yes, they should release "Windows XP Classic". You know, Windows XP with a nice theme (based on silver, and having a non-green start button), including Service Pack 3!
Cost them nothing and people will line up for it ;-)
Simply put, it only takes a few commercials from Dell about "the power of open source" to get people doubting Microsoft.
Wow, I never saw it that way. Of course Dell would need to grow a spine before ever doing that. That means saying. "Screw you Microsoft, I don't care paying a premium for your licenses.... Brand recognition will save us!" Not very likely to happen... Interesting none the less.
I don't even have a machine that can run it. The best machine I have was bought 3 months ago. (Other two in the household are both from 2003 and work 100% fine!) It has XP Media Center and was on sale. It does have a sticker saying "Vista Capable" - removed by now- but the fine print on the packing box said pretty much "you won't be getting any of the fancy stuff that Vista does even if you install it on this machine". I should have taken a picture of that text, it was priceless.
So, I wouldn't dare to say "no one", but you have to probably spend close to 1500€ for a Vista machine that won't lag. My 799€ machine doesn't lag on XP... It was cheap, has the oompha I need, and will last me some years...
I do not know what it is exactly, but it seems just sluggish in comparison to 1.5.x. I have a fast machine (Nice Core 2 Duo, oodles of RAM) at work and I have FF 2.x.x and I still find it sluggish. At home I even didn't bother upgrading... FF 1.5.x is quick, responsive and stable. I hope that that branch will live on, but as far as their website says it will be discontinued soon.
I do, on my own server (IMAP) and I use GMails POP3 service.
Oh, and you can bet that you use SMTP servers. All those webmail services use SMTP in background...
I just hope that Thunderbird 2.0.0 is good, because Firefox 2.0.0 wasn't and still isn't. The 1.5.x range is much better.
That means that you have a copy. I can't even say that. I played it at a friends place when CD-Rs were still very expensive and as such I could not make a copy.
Apparently one can still buy it, but I'm not that desperate ;-)
Why would you get modded down for mentioning The Dig. It was a very cool game, and I'd really like to play it again...
Knowing about The Dig actually confirms your nerd status... Being an old game that is quite obscure.
In other words it's not "giving away". It's "get the first one free"... and you know what kind of people actually use that technique.
Most of that "advertising" consists of free drugs they give to doctors to distribute to the poor and eldery. [...] A little more than half is the aforementioned drug donations.
I really have a hard time believing that. Why would they do that? I don't see any help in brand recognition, nor development of consumer loyalty (they are poor and sick, chances are they will never be able to afford the drug). There is no rationale for spending advertisement that way.
I really need a link to a reputable source to even consider your post truthful.
You may have a point there... but how much do a P-IV bring these days on eBay? Not that much, I guess.
I'll take a closer look at what they do with the CDs next time that I'm there. Promised. Still, if one googles fro CD Recycling, it seems to exist.
Oh, they weren't happy to find out when I got caught dumpster diving. Now, I just look around if there are any employees around. I don't understand it either: re-use should be better.
Tell that to, for example: Bavarians....
I bring them to the recycling centre like almost every other plastic I collect. Nobody ever complained. I'll look if they have a separate container for it next time I go there. There are employees that do the sorting for us. (I like going there, especially for dumpster diving in the electronics container. Nuggets I found there are a P-IV 1.9GHz and an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz... both in working order. I don't even bother taking P-III class machines anymore... *grin*)
I don't live in Denmark though...
That's pretty cool.... You have proven me wrong on at least one female name. I actually tried my wifes first name, despite being at work and I was surprised to find that it wasn't a NSFW site.
That's not the same thing... Nationalities are label, you speak about culture. You can have different cultures within the same nationality.
The people having the least problem feeling themselves as a "part of the EU" are those EU citizens that do not live in their own country. For most of my life, I have been a foreigner in the country I live and I had no problem identifying myself as a "European Citizen". Heck, I thought that it would be a good idea to drop all nationalities and call ourselves "Europeans". I still think that (but it will never happen), and now I have adopted the nationality of my host country.
I still am not a real national in the eyes of the people living here. My accent gives me away every single time. Heck, even parts of my in-laws family call me the "Dutch Guy" (albeit jokingly), even though I have never been Dutch. Sure, I speak Dutch, but I am not from the Netherlands.
Nationality is a tricky thing and personally, I feel as if I have none. European would be closest, even if my passport doesn't say so.
Also an EU resident here. Haven't seen a single one.... I pretty much only see country tlds and the generic ones (.com, .net and .org). Especially that my country is very small and still has a lot open names. My dad has one (our last name), but I don't: they simply are extremely expensive in comparison to the generic ones. For the same amount my dad has one domain, I've got three.
Actually, I'd consider buying my wifes first name as a present within my countries tld, because it's still free. On a generic, I'm pretty sure it would end up in a NSFW site ;-) (Before you say anything: pretty much all common female first names as a domain end up in NSFW sites)
Which is very funny, because I left teaching as fast as I could... I'm back in IT now.
IT staff at schools are notoriously bad. I worked a while as a "computer" teacher (and as such had no control over the IT infrastructure) Their "fancy" squid filter did keyword filtering in the URLs + blocking of certain domain names. So, stuff with "game", "sex", whatever was blocked as was stuff like myspace.
The workaround? Simple: use the IP address directly: immediate pass. No, I didn't tell the IT staff that they should fix it. I did tell my students how to get around it, hoping that the IT staff would notice it in the logs and fix the damned thing. In the 1.5 years I was there, nobody fixed that flaw.
Do not expect good IT staff at schools...