If you just let windows install the updates... you get IE7. If you go actually LOOK at what they want to install, you will see ie7 and you can stop that and tell it not to try again in the future.
If people miss that, they CAN uninstall it through control panel, but if they have installed other programs since the update, they may need to reinstall those programs.
I work for a small ISP. I can't count the number of times I had to have people remove this piece of shit just so that they can get internet connectivity back.
First question: Do you have Internet Explorer 7 installed?
Remove it.
Second question: Do you have Windows Live Messenger installed?
Remove it.
Customer: Everything works fine now.
Thanks Microsoft.. once again single handedly reviving the tech industry! What would we do on tech support if we didn't have your help?
They can get photos like this of the rover on Mars, but can't get us any pics of the junk we left on the moon? Pics like these would certainly end the debate on whether we (humans) actually went to the moon or not. NASA? Are you hiding something? Inquiring minds want to know!
"Not even Microsoft is immune to the forces of the market. They do have dominance in a field where migrations away from a product are often expensive and time consuming but, at the very least, if they produce a crap product, people will not upgrade to it."
I agree, I'm still running win2k on an AMD 64 bit 3000+. Microsoft's biggest threat is their own previous versions. I have not yet seen any readon to upgrade to XP let alone Vista. I think this year should be pretty interesting. It looks like a lot of business are hesitant about rolling this thing out and the computer industry on a whole is in decline. (except for laptops). IMHO, most people that want a computer have one and unless there's a pressing need, I can't see lots of people jumping on the Vista bandwagon.
We can only hope for a disaster of Mistake Edition proportions!
I fully understand "hate the sin, love the sinner". I was not implying condemnation. My frustration comes when people in a church (like my mother-in-law)say that homosexuals will get into heaven. The above scripture ref. shows that unless they are saved and repent... they're not getting in.
God loves all of us EXACTLY THE SAME, sinner and saint. I feel that too many times, people think God is just vengeful and wants to smack everybody with a big stick. The truth is that God is Holy and simple cannot tolerate sin.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Go read The Peter Principle if you want to understand how a company gets this way.
Loose quote: "In any Heirarchy, any individual will rise to his or her level of incompetence... and remain there."
My favourite line.." avoid that last fatal promotion!"
This was one of the most enlightening books I've ever read. Just reading this book dropped my stress level dramatically. We've all seen the results, it's nice to learn how it happens.
I think that's rubbish, there's no way a kid under the age of 15 would spot the danger of talking on a cellphone while driving unless it was explained to him/her by their parents althought I don't see a good reason to at that age.
You mean like coming home from grade 7 and trying to talk to my dad about his drinking? We were given a little paper with some questions on it about drinking habits. My dad could answer yes to all of them. I knew at 13 years old that he was an alcoholic. Unfortunately, it took him to almost die before he finally quit 20 years later. He forgets 20 years of his life due to that habit.
Amen Sprocket! Sad part is that the parents will never realize what they're doing till it's too late.
Just talked to a lady yesterday who said her husband regretted not spending more time with his kids. She said the kids were fine, but he regretted spending so much time at work.
No one ever said on their deathbed, "I wish I spent more time at work".
I've gone to the other extreme, I work from home, my wife is at home and we home-school our kids. Gets a bit hectic at times, but we have tons of quality time with our kids. It's also nice to be able to pack enm all in the van and go do something during the week when everyone else is working.
What is the true motivation of the Christian Artist? Are they making music to make money or to Glorify God?
I do venture into a.b.sounds.mp3.christian where this discussion is played out almost weekly. Some of us (in Canada) pay a tax on media which as far as a lot of us are concerned, legalizes downloading.
Another group downloads to try out new music since it doesn't really get played on mainstream radio. Some of us (God forbid) even go out and buy music after we listen to it. I've deleted quite a bit of sampled music so far, and I've bought a lot of cd's. I also go to concerts and spend $200 on tickets, t-shirts and cd's to support artists.
There is also a group of people in there that trade out of print music. I've had the chance to replace old tapes that died many times.
When I can download mp3s, without drm, and get a chance to listen to them before hand, I'll probably leave the newsgroup. Till then, I have no problem downloading music.
The whole point of Christian Music is to spread the Gospel. From another angle you could argue that they're no better than the money changers in the temple if their motivation is strictly money and profit.
1. Wine might work for some of your applications.
2. If you emulate windows in linux, you still pay the microsoft tax.
3. Too high a learning curve for what you're doing.
4. Many different distros make their money on support. Fedora, Suse to name a couple.
5. I've used many different flavours of Linux. The faster the computer the better. Linux just never seems to be as fast as I want. It's not really the linux but the desktop (KDE or Gnome) that are the processor hogs.
6. Printers.. good luck.
7. Windows Apps.. good luck.
8. Real World. Windows on the desktop, linux in the server rooms.
Honestly, I hate Microsoft the company with a passion. I'm currently using the best thing they ever made and that's windows 2000. I've tried, Lord knows I've tried to use Linux. I have 10 computers at home and probably 50 Linux distros on cd that have made it onto a machine at one time or another. I have yet to see one distro do everything I want. I either get printing problems, or it doesn't want to play with my windows network, or it's slow or it crashes. You'll hear tons of fanboys in here probably mod me down for such remarks but the cold stark reality is that Linux right now is only good for home users who want to surf and check email or as a server platform. None of those dumb Windows screensavers, games, apps etc. that users like to download will work. Very few games will work and not many home users are proficient enough to play with emulators.
Linux is remarkable in the server areas though. They just blow windows away. I'll never use anything else for a webserver again. SME server is an excellent replacement for a windows domain controller.
Bottom Line: Most businesses use accounting software that is not compatible with Linux. That reason alone is enough to seriously curtail any large scale Linux adoption. Therefore, since it's gonna be a while before Linux really makes it into the real world, and your students WILL be using Windows when they leave school, and it's a fair learning curve to administer Linux machines... forget Linux on the desktop for a while. When software companies start writing their accounting software for Linux, then it's worth it to start.
Disclaimer: All the above is only MY opinion. You may not agree. Use at your own risk!
Thanks but I'd never be able to afford the shipping or the power consumption. When mine went down due to drive failure (was playing with raid 0 ) I left it off for a month. My power bill was $35 cheaper that month:-). It's been on once since then. Now I just put a 160 gig drive in an old dell box.
Pretty low tech compared to some of the geniuses here..
I had a welding shop at the time and I took a front seat from an old Lincoln car and attached it to a steel frame. I made it swivel and all the other adjustments were already in the seat. I had the keyboard and mouse mounted right on the chair. The keyboard would flip up out of the way to get in and out. The computer was in a cabinet with the 17" monitor on top. It was by far the most comfortable thing I ever used. I have since made another one that looks better, but not near as comfortable. (left the original 2000 miles away.. no room in the truck)
Just about everyone that saw it thought it was pretty cool.
Hmmm, maybe because of their monopolistic practices which almost killed off all other competitiors? Since they had no real competition unitl firefox ( and arguably still doesn't) they should be held accountable for the shitty software they release. Since they can "force" people through their automatic updates to install IE7, (they should also therefore be able to fix their browser)so I would think that they should be held accountable for the pain and suffering the internet has had to put up with for the last 5 or so years. Botnet anyone?
I can't count the amount of machines I've fixed that just had Internet Exploder on it. I would put on another browser and they'd never have another problem. Internet Explorer and outlook express are the two biggest problems on the web.
I use MS products every day. I like my win2k box.. but I absolutly despise their shitty business practices. I'd love to see these arrogant pricks knocked down a few pegs.
I'll second or third this. IBM are awesome. A couple years ago I was looking for this dumb little card to snap on to a server board. I have a PC 704 server. Thing is monstrous. Fun to learn on but a power pig. I wanted to put in the other 2 cpu's. I needed this little card to make them work. Went to IBM site, found the manuals, found the part number, thought "What the hell?" and called their parts dept. Not only did they have the thing in stock (this computer was made before 1999) they would gladly ship it to me asap. The part cost $5 and they were laughing as they told me shipping was about $14.
I simply love their laptops. I've had about 8 or 9 (kept selling my personal machine and would have to replace it with something faster)of them and have been very happy with all of them. Easy to work on and lots of documentation on their website.
You'll also know that the riaa (or their canadian equivalent)hasn't been able to convict anyone in Canada of Copyright infringement due to the fact that the levy basically legitimizes (sp) downloading. You can still get spanked for uploading, but from what I've seen, every time they try that intimidation shit up here our courts give the end users more rights.
It's a tax assuming that we download so how can they expect to charge anyone with infringement if they are being compensated already. (and personally, I don't really give a shit if it's enough compensation)
The music industry asked for the levies and got them. The courts here don't seem to have much sympathy for them.
Not sure. The guy can be out to lunch on a bunch of issues but he does seem to have decent evidence on peak oil.
The one thing that he did stress though, was that we will never KNOW we've hit the peak until after we've crossed that point. It's going to be easier in hindsight to verify if the world production cannot exceed 85 million barrels a day, which is his point in this article.
Lots of other factors weigh in, but the bottom line is that what we are paying for gas now may be the cheapest we will ever see again. I know for certain that I'll never be able to buy gas for 39 cents a litre like I did ten years ago. Soon a buck a litre may be a deal.
We have literally hundreds of these Big Windmills in Southern Alberta. The farmers do make a ton of money on them. I've heard of plans for about 400 more.
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If people miss that, they CAN uninstall it through control panel, but if they have installed other programs since the update, they may need to reinstall those programs.
First question: Do you have Internet Explorer 7 installed?
Remove it.
Second question: Do you have Windows Live Messenger installed?
Remove it.
Customer: Everything works fine now.
Thanks Microsoft.. once again single handedly reviving the tech industry! What would we do on tech support if we didn't have your help?
They can get photos like this of the rover on Mars, but can't get us any pics of the junk we left on the moon? Pics like these would certainly end the debate on whether we (humans) actually went to the moon or not. NASA? Are you hiding something? Inquiring minds want to know!
After seeing thousands of "IANAL", it's refreshing to actually hear from a lawyer that's in the trenches!
I agree, I'm still running win2k on an AMD 64 bit 3000+. Microsoft's biggest threat is their own previous versions. I have not yet seen any readon to upgrade to XP let alone Vista. I think this year should be pretty interesting. It looks like a lot of business are hesitant about rolling this thing out and the computer industry on a whole is in decline. (except for laptops). IMHO, most people that want a computer have one and unless there's a pressing need, I can't see lots of people jumping on the Vista bandwagon.
We can only hope for a disaster of Mistake Edition proportions!
Who was it that said, "The first thing we should do is kill all the lawyers?"
Oil industry logic at it's finest. Charge us MORE money for NOT putting lead in unleaded gas.
God loves all of us EXACTLY THE SAME, sinner and saint. I feel that too many times, people think God is just vengeful and wants to smack everybody with a big stick. The truth is that God is Holy and simple cannot tolerate sin.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals,[a] nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
Loose quote: "In any Heirarchy, any individual will rise to his or her level of incompetence... and remain there."
My favourite line.." avoid that last fatal promotion!"
This was one of the most enlightening books I've ever read. Just reading this book dropped my stress level dramatically. We've all seen the results, it's nice to learn how it happens.
You mean like coming home from grade 7 and trying to talk to my dad about his drinking? We were given a little paper with some questions on it about drinking habits. My dad could answer yes to all of them. I knew at 13 years old that he was an alcoholic. Unfortunately, it took him to almost die before he finally quit 20 years later. He forgets 20 years of his life due to that habit.
Sad..
Just talked to a lady yesterday who said her husband regretted not spending more time with his kids. She said the kids were fine, but he regretted spending so much time at work.
No one ever said on their deathbed, "I wish I spent more time at work".
I've gone to the other extreme, I work from home, my wife is at home and we home-school our kids. Gets a bit hectic at times, but we have tons of quality time with our kids. It's also nice to be able to pack enm all in the van and go do something during the week when everyone else is working.
I do venture into a.b.sounds.mp3.christian where this discussion is played out almost weekly. Some of us (in Canada) pay a tax on media which as far as a lot of us are concerned, legalizes downloading.
Another group downloads to try out new music since it doesn't really get played on mainstream radio. Some of us (God forbid) even go out and buy music after we listen to it. I've deleted quite a bit of sampled music so far, and I've bought a lot of cd's. I also go to concerts and spend $200 on tickets, t-shirts and cd's to support artists.
There is also a group of people in there that trade out of print music. I've had the chance to replace old tapes that died many times.
When I can download mp3s, without drm, and get a chance to listen to them before hand, I'll probably leave the newsgroup. Till then, I have no problem downloading music.
The whole point of Christian Music is to spread the Gospel. From another angle you could argue that they're no better than the money changers in the temple if their motivation is strictly money and profit.
/flame on!
2. If you emulate windows in linux, you still pay the microsoft tax.
3. Too high a learning curve for what you're doing.
4. Many different distros make their money on support. Fedora, Suse to name a couple.
5. I've used many different flavours of Linux. The faster the computer the better. Linux just never seems to be as fast as I want. It's not really the linux but the desktop (KDE or Gnome) that are the processor hogs.
6. Printers.. good luck.
7. Windows Apps.. good luck.
8. Real World. Windows on the desktop, linux in the server rooms.
Honestly, I hate Microsoft the company with a passion. I'm currently using the best thing they ever made and that's windows 2000. I've tried, Lord knows I've tried to use Linux. I have 10 computers at home and probably 50 Linux distros on cd that have made it onto a machine at one time or another. I have yet to see one distro do everything I want. I either get printing problems, or it doesn't want to play with my windows network, or it's slow or it crashes. You'll hear tons of fanboys in here probably mod me down for such remarks but the cold stark reality is that Linux right now is only good for home users who want to surf and check email or as a server platform. None of those dumb Windows screensavers, games, apps etc. that users like to download will work. Very few games will work and not many home users are proficient enough to play with emulators.
Linux is remarkable in the server areas though. They just blow windows away. I'll never use anything else for a webserver again. SME server is an excellent replacement for a windows domain controller.
Bottom Line: Most businesses use accounting software that is not compatible with Linux. That reason alone is enough to seriously curtail any large scale Linux adoption. Therefore, since it's gonna be a while before Linux really makes it into the real world, and your students WILL be using Windows when they leave school, and it's a fair learning curve to administer Linux machines... forget Linux on the desktop for a while. When software companies start writing their accounting software for Linux, then it's worth it to start.
Disclaimer: All the above is only MY opinion. You may not agree. Use at your own risk!
Thanks but I'd never be able to afford the shipping or the power consumption. When mine went down due to drive failure (was playing with raid 0 ) I left it off for a month. My power bill was $35 cheaper that month :-). It's been on once since then. Now I just put a 160 gig drive in an old dell box.
I had a welding shop at the time and I took a front seat from an old Lincoln car and attached it to a steel frame. I made it swivel and all the other adjustments were already in the seat. I had the keyboard and mouse mounted right on the chair. The keyboard would flip up out of the way to get in and out. The computer was in a cabinet with the 17" monitor on top. It was by far the most comfortable thing I ever used. I have since made another one that looks better, but not near as comfortable. (left the original 2000 miles away.. no room in the truck)
Just about everyone that saw it thought it was pretty cool.
I can't count the amount of machines I've fixed that just had Internet Exploder on it. I would put on another browser and they'd never have another problem. Internet Explorer and outlook express are the two biggest problems on the web.
I use MS products every day. I like my win2k box.. but I absolutly despise their shitty business practices. I'd love to see these arrogant pricks knocked down a few pegs.
I simply love their laptops. I've had about 8 or 9 (kept selling my personal machine and would have to replace it with something faster)of them and have been very happy with all of them. Easy to work on and lots of documentation on their website.
Priceless... I LOVE slashdot!
It's a tax assuming that we download so how can they expect to charge anyone with infringement if they are being compensated already. (and personally, I don't really give a shit if it's enough compensation)
The music industry asked for the levies and got them. The courts here don't seem to have much sympathy for them.
I hate you, You hate me, We're a dysfunctional family!
This needs an obvious tag. Next they'll be telling us that record sales are down.
The one thing that he did stress though, was that we will never KNOW we've hit the peak until after we've crossed that point. It's going to be easier in hindsight to verify if the world production cannot exceed 85 million barrels a day, which is his point in this article.
Lots of other factors weigh in, but the bottom line is that what we are paying for gas now may be the cheapest we will ever see again. I know for certain that I'll never be able to buy gas for 39 cents a litre like I did ten years ago. Soon a buck a litre may be a deal.
The peak was December 2005 @ 85 mbd. It's been decreasing since then. We are on the bubble and it will only get worse. http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck _nation/2006/10/swan_dive.html
We have literally hundreds of these Big Windmills in Southern Alberta. The farmers do make a ton of money on them. I've heard of plans for about 400 more.