I remember reading somewhere that patches will be available for the 1.0 version to give it the ability to read (not sure about write) the OASIS document formats. Sorry I can't be more specific.
I'm assuming your clients are running Windows: try creating a "Sims" group, adding the limited user accounts to it, and giving it at least "Write" access on the Sims directory under "Program Files" AND go into the registry under HKLM\Computer, find the Sims-related keys and grant the "Sims" group Full Control over them. That usually works for me with games (which tend to be less good about keeping user data in places where user data should be).
If you're feeling especially masochistic, you can download a utility like Sysinternal's "Filemon" and watch what files/directories the Sims fails writing to so that you can then set the appropriate permissions.
I'm in no way associated with the study, but isn't Linspire preinstalled on all those supercheap Wal-mart computers? You gotta figure it's fairly likely that if someone who doesn't know what they're doing is going to bring home a Linux box, it's probably going to be one of those.
I think it's an accessibility thing. Under "Advanced" in the options window, uncheck "Move system caret with focus/selection changes." Incidentally, one of the things I love about Mozilla/Firefox is the ability to select text with the keyboard, even without this setting enabled-- just click somewhere to set the cursor and hold down Shift+Arrow key to select text.
Sweet merciful Christ, I've just outnerded myself.
I think the author was only talking about the domain name part of the URL, which shouldn't have spaces in it in the first place. So, "www.barnes and noble.com" and "www.barnesandnoble.com" are the same, but not "www.mysite.com/some file.doc" and "www.mysite.com/somefile.doc".
I think the OP's problem was that Microsoft has been so vocally against open-source. IBM, at least, makes commercials with Muhammad Ali egging on the children of the corn in support of open-source. The issue is not that they should either open-source everything they do or nothing at all, rather that they should just stop talking shit about it if they're going to "participate."
SUS runs fine on a Win2k server. You can tell it to redirect clients to microsoft's site for the actual downloads (so that you approve what updates are ok to be downloaded, and clients automatically go and download them from MS). All it is really is a couple of ASP scripts. It runs the IIS lockdown tool when you install it (i think that's why they recommend having it on a dedicated server).
The hack to get a windows explorer to run as another user is to start IE (C:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe) and point it to a spot on the local filesystem (like file:///c:/). There's your "windows explorer."
However, this is kind of annoying, so i've just been using one of the windows explorer replacements I found on pricelessware.org (i think it's called 2xexplorer), which works like a charm.
By "does not have permission to access a resource," are you referring to a case where the group just doesn't have an entry on the ACL, or has been explicitly "denied" permissions? NTFS "allow" permissions are cumulative, so that if i'm in the cows group and chickens group, and cows has been allowed "read" access to a file, but chickens has been allowed "write" access, I will have "write" access, despite being a member of a group with lesser permissions. However, "deny" permissions override "allow" permissions, so if the cows group has been allowed read access, but denied write access, i would be denied write access, but allowed read access. whew.
and it seems weird to say after just having written all that out, but it makes more sense to me, as well:-)
does anyone know of any gratis/libre attempts to impose ntfs-like ACLs on linux systems? or is this one of those things that will just never change?
"Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" is available for download via MSDN. It was apparently posted on Sept. 18th of last year. I'm not sure if you can buy it retail yet or if you will ever be able to.
Last I heard, "true" OSX support is slated for the 2.0 release, which is in the 2005-2006 timeline. If you look around on their site you can find the roadmap. I would, but I'm lazy.
Download the XPI file, save it somewhere, in Thunderbird's "Options" window, go to "Extensions," click "Add New Extension," select the XPI file, restart Thunderbird, and there you go!
One problem I've had with ghost is that it's DOS-based, when means you need a DOS driver for your NIC. For most PCI cards, this isn't a problem, but for neato things like Linksys's little USB NIC, this can be a problem (is there an easy way to get USB working under DOS? I know ghost comes with DOS USB mass storage drivers...). And for systems that don't have NICs (yes, there are still some out there) or whose NICs are so new there aren't any drivers except the XP/2K ones on the manufacturer's web site, this little USB NIC is a lifesaver. And what about wireless, etc? In general, I'd say, driver support is better (or at least easier to find) on linux than on a DOS-type platform.
The only thing I would add is that, at least in my experience, most vertical-market software tends to be *very* expensive, and suck hard w/r/t usability.
Seriously, some of this stuff looks like it was designed by a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
I thought the whole point of OSS was for people to build upon the work of others for the betterment of the community. If a company wants brownie points for marketing this neato stuff to the rest of the world, more power to them, provided they give back to the community (which, as Nvu is MPL, it looks like they will?).
But, I mean, would it hurt them to call it something like "Web page designer program," or some other *descriptive* name? What the hell is a "Nvu?" Oh, wait. Never mind. Though I guess "Dreamweaver" doesn't describe exactly what the product does, it's at least catchy and it's easy enough to guess that it's some kind of artsy-fartsy thing.
Ah well, I've been eating halloween candy for the last hour or so, excuse me if I'm not exactly lucid.
You are, of course, exactly right. But, at least where I work, now that workers have gotten used to having the full power of a real pc at their disposal (by which I mean they are able to browse the web at anytime, play solitaire, or go on AIM), it's going to be like pulling teeth to get them off of them. I have nightmares about switching a few of our users, who get mad if we even try to patch "their" windows machines (though we've recently moved over to AD & SUS for that, it's only a slightly smaller pain-in-the-ass than going around to 150 desktops & patching manually).
Is there any good way to emulate a CD burner in windows? I mean, could I point iTunes at an emulated burner, have it "burn" an audio cd to my hard drive, and then rip that back to mp3? I just don't want to waste so many cds...
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Try deleting a file from a mounted volume in windows explorer. It won't work. It has to do with the fact that Windows creates a seperate "Recycle Bin" for each volume, and can't figure out where to send things when the volume is mounted to a folder on another volume. This isn't such a big deal for the server market, it's just an annoyance for dorks like me with nothing better to do than kludge a unix-like structure into windows.
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I remember reading somewhere that patches will be available for the 1.0 version to give it the ability to read (not sure about write) the OASIS document formats. Sorry I can't be more specific.
I'm assuming your clients are running Windows: try creating a "Sims" group, adding the limited user accounts to it, and giving it at least "Write" access on the Sims directory under "Program Files" AND go into the registry under HKLM\Computer, find the Sims-related keys and grant the "Sims" group Full Control over them. That usually works for me with games (which tend to be less good about keeping user data in places where user data should be).
If you're feeling especially masochistic, you can download a utility like Sysinternal's "Filemon" and watch what files/directories the Sims fails writing to so that you can then set the appropriate permissions.
I'm in no way associated with the study, but isn't Linspire preinstalled on all those supercheap Wal-mart computers? You gotta figure it's fairly likely that if someone who doesn't know what they're doing is going to bring home a Linux box, it's probably going to be one of those.
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I think it's an accessibility thing. Under "Advanced" in the options window, uncheck "Move system caret with focus/selection changes." Incidentally, one of the things I love about Mozilla/Firefox is the ability to select text with the keyboard, even without this setting enabled-- just click somewhere to set the cursor and hold down Shift+Arrow key to select text.
Sweet merciful Christ, I've just outnerded myself.
I think the author was only talking about the domain name part of the URL, which shouldn't have spaces in it in the first place. So, "www.barnes and noble.com" and "www.barnesandnoble.com" are the same, but not "www.mysite.com/some file.doc" and "www.mysite.com/somefile.doc".
The race is between Chris Gregoire (D) and Dino Rossi (R), both vying to replace the outgoing Gary Locke.
I think the OP's problem was that Microsoft has been so vocally against open-source. IBM, at least, makes commercials with Muhammad Ali egging on the children of the corn in support of open-source. The issue is not that they should either open-source everything they do or nothing at all, rather that they should just stop talking shit about it if they're going to "participate."
SUS runs fine on a Win2k server. You can tell it to redirect clients to microsoft's site for the actual downloads (so that you approve what updates are ok to be downloaded, and clients automatically go and download them from MS). All it is really is a couple of ASP scripts. It runs the IIS lockdown tool when you install it (i think that's why they recommend having it on a dedicated server).
The hack to get a windows explorer to run as another user is to start IE (C:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe) and point it to a spot on the local filesystem (like file:///c:/). There's your "windows explorer." However, this is kind of annoying, so i've just been using one of the windows explorer replacements I found on pricelessware.org (i think it's called 2xexplorer), which works like a charm.
By "does not have permission to access a resource," are you referring to a case where the group just doesn't have an entry on the ACL, or has been explicitly "denied" permissions? NTFS "allow" permissions are cumulative, so that if i'm in the cows group and chickens group, and cows has been allowed "read" access to a file, but chickens has been allowed "write" access, I will have "write" access, despite being a member of a group with lesser permissions. However, "deny" permissions override "allow" permissions, so if the cows group has been allowed read access, but denied write access, i would be denied write access, but allowed read access. whew.
:-)
and it seems weird to say after just having written all that out, but it makes more sense to me, as well
does anyone know of any gratis/libre attempts to impose ntfs-like ACLs on linux systems? or is this one of those things that will just never change?
"Windows XP 64-Bit Edition" is available for download via MSDN. It was apparently posted on Sept. 18th of last year. I'm not sure if you can buy it retail yet or if you will ever be able to.
That's why we have unicode ;-)
Last I heard, "true" OSX support is slated for the 2.0 release, which is in the 2005-2006 timeline. If you look around on their site you can find the roadmap. I would, but I'm lazy.
W., is that you?
Download the XPI file, save it somewhere, in Thunderbird's "Options" window, go to "Extensions," click "Add New Extension," select the XPI file, restart Thunderbird, and there you go!
One problem I've had with ghost is that it's DOS-based, when means you need a DOS driver for your NIC. For most PCI cards, this isn't a problem, but for neato things like Linksys's little USB NIC, this can be a problem (is there an easy way to get USB working under DOS? I know ghost comes with DOS USB mass storage drivers...). And for systems that don't have NICs (yes, there are still some out there) or whose NICs are so new there aren't any drivers except the XP/2K ones on the manufacturer's web site, this little USB NIC is a lifesaver. And what about wireless, etc? In general, I'd say, driver support is better (or at least easier to find) on linux than on a DOS-type platform.
The only thing I would add is that, at least in my experience, most vertical-market software tends to be *very* expensive, and suck hard w/r/t usability.
Seriously, some of this stuff looks like it was designed by a million monkeys with a million typewriters.
I thought the whole point of OSS was for people to build upon the work of others for the betterment of the community. If a company wants brownie points for marketing this neato stuff to the rest of the world, more power to them, provided they give back to the community (which, as Nvu is MPL, it looks like they will?).
But, I mean, would it hurt them to call it something like "Web page designer program," or some other *descriptive* name? What the hell is a "Nvu?" Oh, wait. Never mind. Though I guess "Dreamweaver" doesn't describe exactly what the product does, it's at least catchy and it's easy enough to guess that it's some kind of artsy-fartsy thing.
Ah well, I've been eating halloween candy for the last hour or so, excuse me if I'm not exactly lucid.
You are, of course, exactly right. But, at least where I work, now that workers have gotten used to having the full power of a real pc at their disposal (by which I mean they are able to browse the web at anytime, play solitaire, or go on AIM), it's going to be like pulling teeth to get them off of them. I have nightmares about switching a few of our users, who get mad if we even try to patch "their" windows machines (though we've recently moved over to AD & SUS for that, it's only a slightly smaller pain-in-the-ass than going around to 150 desktops & patching manually).
Is there any good way to emulate a CD burner in windows? I mean, could I point iTunes at an emulated burner, have it "burn" an audio cd to my hard drive, and then rip that back to mp3? I just don't want to waste so many cds...
Try deleting a file from a mounted volume in windows explorer. It won't work. It has to do with the fact that Windows creates a seperate "Recycle Bin" for each volume, and can't figure out where to send things when the volume is mounted to a folder on another volume. This isn't such a big deal for the server market, it's just an annoyance for dorks like me with nothing better to do than kludge a unix-like structure into windows.
The release notes for thunderbird mentioned something about IMAP support getting way, way faster...
trust me, you're better off.