> The acre and a half of popups on my screen can attest to that.
Amen brother! Although, thankful that CTRL-W works quite nicely. What about all those "honest" activex popup porn-dialer installers that people stupidly, though ignorantly, give permission to install to view some of these "honest" businesses. Or the flood of beasty, kiddie, sicko, etc stuff that arrives in peoples inbox. Who are these people?
With all the delays in SP2 and Longhorn, I now see why they started there software assurance scheme to pry money out of companies without selling them an OS ever 2 years.
I updated my XP laptop to SP2 via WindowsUpdate V5 over a week ago. Loved changes made to IE (eg ability to never trust software made by company x for activex popups!). Loved it!
However, after a few days my TCP/IP and NetBios was screwed. DHCP service couldn't start due to dependancies. Netbios over TCP/IP was not working. Settings showed it was already enabled. All the googling and TCP/IP stack fixes failed. Giving it a static IP worked ok, but confused why DHCP failed. No strange settings were changed. Manually trying to start DCHP client service failed with error. "Ipconfig/renew" failed. Right-clicking the adapter and selecting "repair" gave a list of reasons why the repair failed.
Removing SP2 didn't fix either. The only thing that fixed was a complete restore to an earlier restore point. That brought her back to life.
Now I am not really keen to be a SP2 guinea pig again. Well, not for a while anyways/
Hence ActiveX modem dialer installer that popup online and say "click yes to install this app - site cannot be view if you click no" and rack up huge toll bills over night when the user stupidly installs it....
Call me old fashioned, but I just don't like having to sign in online to any application, especially a media player of all things! Roll on a Windows port.
Aren't the Sony DVD writers just a re-packaged Lite-on? Or vice versa? Pretty much the same writer I read somewhere, just comes with a different logo and software package.
That is total BS. I installed SuSE 8.1 on a pc with Windows XP installed on a single NTFS partition. SuSE installer resized the NTFS partition and setup a GRUB dualboot for me. All I had to do was choose 1 of the 3 options it gave me. I must admit that the 1st option was to wipe the XP install and replace with SuSE. Very clever. The 2nd or 3rd was a dual boot with magic resize. As SuSE is now up to 9.x, I'd say this is a non-issue.
In New Zealand this problem was recently on primetime TV. In response, one of our tollcall providers has implemented a change where a confirmation message is played upon dialing a certain few countries, and the caller has to press a key in response. This is simple enough to implement and would be pretty affective. Porn-Dialers would have to be a little more clever to get around this.
Yeah and people have to send the RAM in first. Many people cannot afford to be without their laptops while they wait for HP to process their returned RAM. Depending on which model laptop, the laptop might still boot with the onboard RAM, but with Windows XP the laptop is useless until the new RAM arrives.
2) Is it *really* more secure, or does it just invite fewer attacks? Yes, I know Outlook is terrible, but that's not the actual Windows OS, nor does it need to be installed.
Let not forget that so many worms/viruses exploit security holes in pre-existing in Windows 2000/XP. Many just by being connected to the internet. I have fixed so many computers over the last year that were infected with Blaster, Gaobot, et al, just for being connected to the internet with a Windows 2K/XP pc. The patches had not been out that long when I first had to fix these. Others had not connected their pcs to the internet for quite some time. The MS Security CD is a great idea, but long overdue and not all Windows users are aware of its existence, or even know the url to obtain it from.
While I concur that SuSE is an awesome distro, I disagree about Debian being too hard. My first Linux install was a purchase of 4 Debian Potato 2.2r4 CDs. While I did mess up my system very quickly (ahhh newbie meets the power of root), 2nd install was great. Woody even easier. I must say though, my distributor gave me a printed guide on how to install Debian. Following that was a doddle. Real easy.
I use SuSE on a Laptop, just for a quick install with oddball hardware, etc, Debian is on my desktop.
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> The acre and a half of popups on my screen can attest to that.
Amen brother! Although, thankful that CTRL-W works quite nicely. What about all those "honest" activex popup porn-dialer installers that people stupidly, though ignorantly, give permission to install to view some of these "honest" businesses. Or the flood of beasty, kiddie, sicko, etc stuff that arrives in peoples inbox. Who are these people?
I rather have it slip than having a shitty product on my pc
;-)
Sir, that's too late if you run MS Windows.
With all the delays in SP2 and Longhorn, I now see why they started there software assurance scheme to pry money out of companies without selling them an OS ever 2 years.
What's wrong with using http://members.webs.net/pages/k/a/t/katy/index.htm for a book title? :-)
I updated my XP laptop to SP2 via WindowsUpdate V5 over a week ago. Loved changes made to IE (eg ability to never trust software made by company x for activex popups!). Loved it!
/renew" failed. Right-clicking the adapter and selecting "repair" gave a list of reasons why the repair failed.
However, after a few days my TCP/IP and NetBios was screwed. DHCP service couldn't start due to dependancies. Netbios over TCP/IP was not working. Settings showed it was already enabled. All the googling and TCP/IP stack fixes failed. Giving it a static IP worked ok, but confused why DHCP failed. No strange settings were changed. Manually trying to start DCHP client service failed with error. "Ipconfig
Removing SP2 didn't fix either. The only thing that fixed was a complete restore to an earlier restore point. That brought her back to life.
Now I am not really keen to be a SP2 guinea pig again. Well, not for a while anyways/
Hence ActiveX modem dialer installer that popup online and say "click yes to install this app - site cannot be view if you click no" and rack up huge toll bills over night when the user stupidly installs it....
Call me old fashioned, but I just don't like having to sign in online to any application, especially a media player of all things! Roll on a Windows port.
Imagine the size of the pc case needed to mount one of these LD drives. ;-)
Nope. No solution. Please post back here if you find out more.
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Complains that my non-US zip code and phone numbers are invalid!!!
The "STATUTORY DAMAGE FUND CLAIM" is US centric. It won't allow anything but US states and phone numbers!
...a tool no admin should be without. Combine mc and man and you have the killer combo!
Aren't the Sony DVD writers just a re-packaged Lite-on? Or vice versa? Pretty much the same writer I read somewhere, just comes with a different logo and software package.
I for one, welcome our new RFID patent holding overlords! Does that mean I can stop wearing my tinfoil hat now?
...or do the people who post at MovieMistakes.com remind anyone of Comic Book Guy?
That is total BS. I installed SuSE 8.1 on a pc with Windows XP installed on a single NTFS partition. SuSE installer resized the NTFS partition and setup a GRUB dualboot for me. All I had to do was choose 1 of the 3 options it gave me. I must admit that the 1st option was to wipe the XP install and replace with SuSE. Very clever. The 2nd or 3rd was a dual boot with magic resize. As SuSE is now up to 9.x, I'd say this is a non-issue.
In New Zealand this problem was recently on primetime TV. In response, one of our tollcall providers has implemented a change where a confirmation message is played upon dialing a certain few countries, and the caller has to press a key in response. This is simple enough to implement and would be pretty affective. Porn-Dialers would have to be a little more clever to get around this.
Thanks dude. :-)
"..and after mailing in the current stick, receive a replacement..."
c all/
ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/26/hp_ram_re
Yeah and people have to send the RAM in first. Many people cannot afford to be without their laptops while they wait for HP to process their returned RAM. Depending on which model laptop, the laptop might still boot with the onboard RAM, but with Windows XP the laptop is useless until the new RAM arrives.
The reward for ripping off software, is price reductions and less bloated software? What message is Microsoft giving here?
2) Is it *really* more secure, or does it just invite fewer attacks? Yes, I know Outlook is terrible, but that's not the actual Windows OS, nor does it need to be installed.
Let not forget that so many worms/viruses exploit security holes in pre-existing in Windows 2000/XP. Many just by being connected to the internet. I have fixed so many computers over the last year that were infected with Blaster, Gaobot, et al, just for being connected to the internet with a Windows 2K/XP pc. The patches had not been out that long when I first had to fix these. Others had not connected their pcs to the internet for quite some time. The MS Security CD is a great idea, but long overdue and not all Windows users are aware of its existence, or even know the url to obtain it from.
>I have also tried Debian (too hard)
While I concur that SuSE is an awesome distro, I disagree about Debian being too hard. My first Linux install was a purchase of 4 Debian Potato 2.2r4 CDs. While I did mess up my system very quickly (ahhh newbie meets the power of root), 2nd install was great. Woody even easier. I must say though, my distributor gave me a printed guide on how to install Debian. Following that was a doddle. Real easy.
I use SuSE on a Laptop, just for a quick install with oddball hardware, etc, Debian is on my desktop.
Okilie dokilie doo. :-)