built a miniature version of windows without the fluff
Now if a few guys can do that, why can't MS itself not release a fluffless version of Windows? I think if they did that they'd gain a lot more support and customers, in business and at home. I for one would seriously consider buying that version, even though I run almost anything at home on FreeBSD.
*lol* Yet it is exactly that which makes me feel more productive under FreeBSD. It's not so much the applications or the desktop, but the feeling of safety while using it. I dread to have to use IE surfing the net looking for information because I expect popups and weird scripts to fsck up my machine or being attacked by the next Windows Worm(TM). Ever since using FreeBSD I don't worry and waltz over anything malicious I encounter, find what I need and can do my job and not spend most time cleaning up.
Cd's like these are very useful, even in our Windows-centric company. One laptop had a fried harddrive, Windows crashed upon starting. First I tried the recovery console which was no help because the disk was beyond repair, then I tried a BartPE XP cd but that wouldn't recognize neither the nic in the docking nor a USB nic (no, I didn't want to have to add all sorts of drivers etc. to it first). Downloaded a FreeSBIE cd and it worked perfectly. The guy was very happy about his saved data, the shmuck. *goes off to browse the site*
It does. I'm running 5-STABLE on my laptop (Dell C810). (as far as I know:-P) I run a cron job daily to update ports and source for RELENG_5. As an aside, I've heard 6-CURRENT runs pretty decently already and is set for "release" in june or july.
I'm not sure if that'll beat the 10Mbps up and down optical connection I'll be getting for free for a year. Can't wait until they come around to hook me up.
It's good to live in De Kenniswijk. *devious grin*
A great tool. I've been using it for quite a while on Windows 2000 and the only quirk is after setting up how you want it to behave having to shut it down once to store its settings in the registry. I also keep a backup of the registry key for that. Other than that it works great for me, and I'm used to KDE.
If you create a lot of files in the root directory
If you did that you need to be slapped twice as silly and sent to your room without dessert because you deserve it. Besides, in my experience FAT(32) has always caused more trouble than NTFS.
Unfortunately the IT department, which I am part of, has to follow policies we didn't create ourselves, but get dictated from above. But, to be fair, one reason why we can't put Firefox as standard is because we can't control it through Active Directory policies. And we're not about to to start writing scripts to handle any mandatory settings for users either.
I think it would be a lot easier for companies to use Firefox if it also had a way to store user settings in the registry so it can integrate with Group Policies.
*lol* Don't worry, I'm also the only one in the company who managed to replace a crappy Windows fax server with a still running perfectly FreeBSD one, even though the standard is using Windows. I'm also looking into placing another FreeBSD box for synchronising data because the Veritas solutions stinks.
File permissions too? I haven't heard of that, and frankly, I don't even touch XP, let alone XP Home, with a ten foot pole unless I really have to at work.
Oh, only about at least a dozen times when my esteemed colleagues weren't able to get rid of spyware on the pc's of our users. And I'll be doing it more often because IE is the standard browser in our company. Unfortunately. Hopefully that'll change when the reports of our helpdesk system shows a chunk of incidents being caused by spyware.
Why would you want to read/write on your system partition? I dualboot Windows 2000 (at work) and FreeBSD 5.3 and I have absolutely no reason to do something on the ntfs partition.
I've found a quicker way to get rid of those files, identify the executables through task manager and the "run" keys in the registry, then change filepermissions to block the system and user accounts on those files and/or directories, kill processes, remove registry entries, reboot, delete files. No more respawning webrebates etc.. And if you haven't set the filesystem to NTFS, you need to be slapped silly.
But don't expect any ruling in Australia to affect the law in the United States, Still says. "America doesn't pay much attention to Australian law. The legislation in America is slightly different." Seems like me they only paid attention to those parts of the law that wouldn't benefit the US corporations and have them changed through the trade agreement. I wouldn't be surprised to see them sue the Red Cross because they've already sank so low they can't go any deeper.
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Yeah, not now, but how long before it downloads and installs Windows on your unsuspecting pc?
built a miniature version of windows without the fluff
Now if a few guys can do that, why can't MS itself not release a fluffless version of Windows? I think if they did that they'd gain a lot more support and customers, in business and at home.
I for one would seriously consider buying that version, even though I run almost anything at home on FreeBSD.
*lol* Yet it is exactly that which makes me feel more productive under FreeBSD. It's not so much the applications or the desktop, but the feeling of safety while using it. I dread to have to use IE surfing the net looking for information because I expect popups and weird scripts to fsck up my machine or being attacked by the next Windows Worm(TM).
Ever since using FreeBSD I don't worry and waltz over anything malicious I encounter, find what I need and can do my job and not spend most time cleaning up.
We could always call it an UNDEAD cd. :-P
Don't hit me, I use FreeBSD at home and work...
Cd's like these are very useful, even in our Windows-centric company. One laptop had a fried harddrive, Windows crashed upon starting. First I tried the recovery console which was no help because the disk was beyond repair, then I tried a BartPE XP cd but that wouldn't recognize neither the nic in the docking nor a USB nic (no, I didn't want to have to add all sorts of drivers etc. to it first). Downloaded a FreeSBIE cd and it worked perfectly. The guy was very happy about his saved data, the shmuck.
*goes off to browse the site*
It does. I'm running 5-STABLE on my laptop (Dell C810). (as far as I know :-P) I run a cron job daily to update ports and source for RELENG_5.
As an aside, I've heard 6-CURRENT runs pretty decently already and is set for "release" in june or july.
I'm not sure if that'll beat the 10Mbps up and down optical connection I'll be getting for free for a year. Can't wait until they come around to hook me up.
It's good to live in De Kenniswijk. *devious grin*
Shirts like that are stupid anyway... Why pay a corporation to wear their logo?
Same here, although I don't game too often, and I've got a Terratec card that has no *BSD driver.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virt-dimension/
A great tool. I've been using it for quite a while on Windows 2000 and the only quirk is after setting up how you want it to behave having to shut it down once to store its settings in the registry. I also keep a backup of the registry key for that. Other than that it works great for me, and I'm used to KDE.
So, did you file a bugreport to the Netsky developers?
If I had modpoints I'd mark you as funny.
Hilarious. :-D
With adverts like this they'd get the attention of the certain group of one-handed internet surfers and could get a 90% share on the web. :-)
The thing with nudity is that it causes more things to go up than down. :-)
If you create a lot of files in the root directory
If you did that you need to be slapped twice as silly and sent to your room without dessert because you deserve it.
Besides, in my experience FAT(32) has always caused more trouble than NTFS.
Unfortunately the IT department, which I am part of, has to follow policies we didn't create ourselves, but get dictated from above.
But, to be fair, one reason why we can't put Firefox as standard is because we can't control it through Active Directory policies. And we're not about to to start writing scripts to handle any mandatory settings for users either.
I think it would be a lot easier for companies to use Firefox if it also had a way to store user settings in the registry so it can integrate with Group Policies.
*lol* Don't worry, I'm also the only one in the company who managed to replace a crappy Windows fax server with a still running perfectly FreeBSD one, even though the standard is using Windows.
I'm also looking into placing another FreeBSD box for synchronising data because the Veritas solutions stinks.
you would have to have a PhD in Windows OS internals
:-D ;-)
Which is where I come in.
File permissions too? I haven't heard of that, and frankly, I don't even touch XP, let alone XP Home, with a ten foot pole unless I really have to at work.
Heh, heh, you've never done this, have you?
Oh, only about at least a dozen times when my esteemed colleagues weren't able to get rid of spyware on the pc's of our users. And I'll be doing it more often because IE is the standard browser in our company. Unfortunately.
Hopefully that'll change when the reports of our helpdesk system shows a chunk of incidents being caused by spyware.
Why would you want to read/write on your system partition?
I dualboot Windows 2000 (at work) and FreeBSD 5.3 and I have absolutely no reason to do something on the ntfs partition.
I've found a quicker way to get rid of those files, identify the executables through task manager and the "run" keys in the registry, then change filepermissions to block the system and user accounts on those files and/or directories, kill processes, remove registry entries, reboot, delete files. No more respawning webrebates etc..
And if you haven't set the filesystem to NTFS, you need to be slapped silly.
But don't expect any ruling in Australia to affect the law in the United States, Still says. "America doesn't pay much attention to Australian law. The legislation in America is slightly different."
Seems like me they only paid attention to those parts of the law that wouldn't benefit the US corporations and have them changed through the trade agreement.
I wouldn't be surprised to see them sue the Red Cross because they've already sank so low they can't go any deeper.
I am relieved that I misread. At first I thought it said 10 million years and paniced.