Get off your high horse about their damn OS. Rather than bitch about the rest of the world being too stupid to breathe your air, go put some effort into making Linux easy enough for my mom to use, so she wouldn't have to worry about it. Quit fucking bitching that people are too stupid to be safe, but while they're at it, they should switch to an incredibly end-user-unfriendly OS to be safe.
Would this make it kind of like a Slashdot for regular/all kinds of news?
So we'd just be hearing about the tsunamis now, but we'd get to hear about it all over again for the next 3 days, and then randomly in 2 years? All while passing it off as breaking news? Great!
First, there have been NO reports of anything in the sky, such as a fireball, which would be seen, especially in a populous area such as India.
Second, the seismic signature is very different between an earthquake & an asteroid. If you know how to read them, a seismometer can show the difference between a diesel pickup and an 18 wheeler driving nearby. An earthquake would show slippage of the faults (several seconds long) while an asteroid would be a sudden impact. Sort of the difference between sliding a stone across a hard floor, and dropping it straight down. See the difference?
One thing you might want to check is that the Plug and Play service is running (Start > Run > services.msc). If this isn't going, Windows has no idea what's happening all around it.
I read it as someone saying SP2 sucks because they had their head up their ass - sorry about that.
As far as kicking console logins, that's something screwy with the setup. It may be a problem with using it on the domain, I'm not sure. I use RDC with all of my machines at home (no domain), and the console gets the option to deny the RDC login. If they don't respond, they get booted after a timeout. The only time this doesn't happen is when Administrator is connecting on RDC, which shouldn't actually happen, because obviously it's stupid. I think the only way to deny this is via policy editor - XP doesn't have a specific 'Deny' for RDC users, you can only 'not allow' them. However, admins default to allowed RDC access. So it's more of a half-assed RDC implementation issue than a firewall/SP2 issue.
As far as the local files, the only location he possibly shouldn't have access to is your My Docs folder, as that the only folder inherently 'owned' by you - everything else is machine-wide. Again, this can be set, but it's a bitch to do, even through policy editor.
That's not SP2. RDC is off by default in XP, when you turn it on, the firewall opens its port (3389). Just because your admins can't use Group Policy to turn off RDC across the domain doesn't mean SP2 inherently sucks.
his account was magically created on my system and the default policy was to allow him the access to modify all the files on MY HD
DUH. That's the whole purpose of a domain - he logs on with an AD UN, he gets the same permissions on whatever machine. Again, your admins should be using permissions to provide you with protected storage on a central server, NOT on your machine. If you want stuff stored on your machine, safely, then setup your own damn permissions.
xpect VoIP, video phones, X10 over IP alarm systems, http-baby-monitors, (the list goes on) to clog up
But everything running over IP will coexist a lot better than all those running over their own proprietary protocols (ie current cordless phones)
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Get off your high horse about their damn OS. Rather than bitch about the rest of the world being too stupid to breathe your air, go put some effort into making Linux easy enough for my mom to use, so she wouldn't have to worry about it. Quit fucking bitching that people are too stupid to be safe, but while they're at it, they should switch to an incredibly end-user-unfriendly OS to be safe.
Wow....drunk much?
Wikinews tries to at least appear unbiased? :)
Would this make it kind of like a Slashdot for regular/all kinds of news?
So we'd just be hearing about the tsunamis now, but we'd get to hear about it all over again for the next 3 days, and then randomly in 2 years? All while passing it off as breaking news? Great!
First, there have been NO reports of anything in the sky, such as a fireball, which would be seen, especially in a populous area such as India.
Second, the seismic signature is very different between an earthquake & an asteroid. If you know how to read them, a seismometer can show the difference between a diesel pickup and an 18 wheeler driving nearby. An earthquake would show slippage of the faults (several seconds long) while an asteroid would be a sudden impact. Sort of the difference between sliding a stone across a hard floor, and dropping it straight down. See the difference?
I'll get myself ready to hide in library to burn books and steal condoms from a Russian ship.
Obviously as a Slashdotter you don't have much experience here, but if you need to repopulate the world after this, condoms WON'T HELP!!
I give you a few examples for countries on this continent: Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, the USA (United States of America).
So we merged with South America?
One thing you might want to check is that the Plug and Play service is running (Start > Run > services.msc). If this isn't going, Windows has no idea what's happening all around it.
Dumbass.
I read it as someone saying SP2 sucks because they had their head up their ass - sorry about that.
As far as kicking console logins, that's something screwy with the setup. It may be a problem with using it on the domain, I'm not sure. I use RDC with all of my machines at home (no domain), and the console gets the option to deny the RDC login. If they don't respond, they get booted after a timeout. The only time this doesn't happen is when Administrator is connecting on RDC, which shouldn't actually happen, because obviously it's stupid. I think the only way to deny this is via policy editor - XP doesn't have a specific 'Deny' for RDC users, you can only 'not allow' them. However, admins default to allowed RDC access. So it's more of a half-assed RDC implementation issue than a firewall/SP2 issue.
As far as the local files, the only location he possibly shouldn't have access to is your My Docs folder, as that the only folder inherently 'owned' by you - everything else is machine-wide. Again, this can be set, but it's a bitch to do, even through policy editor.
That's not SP2. RDC is off by default in XP, when you turn it on, the firewall opens its port (3389). Just because your admins can't use Group Policy to turn off RDC across the domain doesn't mean SP2 inherently sucks.
his account was magically created on my system and the default policy was to allow him the access to modify all the files on MY HD
DUH. That's the whole purpose of a domain - he logs on with an AD UN, he gets the same permissions on whatever machine. Again, your admins should be using permissions to provide you with protected storage on a central server, NOT on your machine. If you want stuff stored on your machine, safely, then setup your own damn permissions.
Furthermore "washing" should be carried out at temperatures from 30-90 degrees
That could be touh, as the washing machine would be turning a solid block of ice...
xpect VoIP, video phones, X10 over IP alarm systems, http-baby-monitors, (the list goes on) to clog up But everything running over IP will coexist a lot better than all those running over their own proprietary protocols (ie current cordless phones)
Apparently the music channels made you a bit slow... it took so long to click the reply link that it linked to the next story :-p
So somewhere where the prevailing winds would blow it into population centers, rather than over an open ocean?