To this day I still carry around with me a copy of Word 95 on my USB. It's been trimmed down to the point where it only uses around 15MB, doesn't need any additional software on any PCs, and will run without installation.
Office 12? No thanks. Micrsoft Office, and specifically Word, has been more than complete and fully functional for years. How ironic it is that a certain piece of Microsoft software is just so good that nobody cares to upgrade unless forced to.
What do you do when a user needs to access a page that is IE-centric, and does not render correctly for them? Honestly curious here. I have a couple users that occasionally access government web sites that generate incorrect URLs in their CGI when used with Firefox. I've had to block off all sites from IE, and allow them to use IE for only these specific domains. So far, that's all I've been able to do until some of these webmasters make their stuff more generic.
Nine out of ten software installation programs will let you install do your home directory. Unfortunately, some still want to do dumb things like write to global keys in the registry.
Hmm.. Ballmer was right with the developers thing. Developers, fix your install wizards!
I certainly don't disagree. Most programs I use behave correctly, and are aware of multiple users. There are still many that are not, mostly games and such.
Software that "doesn't run" on an unpriveleged user account is usually fixable by modifying permissions on the program's installation directory, but this is certainly not desirable.
Write a trojan that can install itself into the system directory on my Windows system, despite the fact that I am running as a limited-access user, and have no write access rights to anywhere in the filesystem but my user's profile directory. Right, you can't.
Without also making use of some privelege escalation flaw in an Administrator-level process, you can't do this on Windows, either. The problem is that 99% of Windows users will never bother using a limited-class user in Windows, and instead just use Administrator-class accounts, because it's easier.
NT security is, as a whole, pretty good. The biggest hole in Windows at this moment is how user accounts are configured, and Microsoft's reluctance to force better security practices on users. This should be changing in Vista.
Some software won't run unless you're an admin (biggest pissoff).
Learn to use 'runas' to run certain applications with Administrative priveleges. Most of the time, a program that "wants" to be run as Administrator only wants full R/W access to its installation directory and registry keys. Setting full access rights to the folders and registry keys for your limited-level user will usually solve this, and allow you to run said program without having to use runas.
No, it was not a RISC chip by the true sense of the word. The Pentium was, however, essentially a RISC chip internally, translating incoming CISC instructions to RISC microcode.
Intel still has datasheets lying around on their FTP site, if you're that interested. Honestly, I haven't read them in many moons, but the last I checked, the Pentium Pro was not the first in the Pentium line to translate to RISC internally.
Personally, I remember when the Pentium Pro released, and many businesses were loading Windows 95 onto them. They then wondered why their older 486 machines were beating them out. The Pentium Pro was created with 16-bit compatibility as an afterthought.
Explain how Microsoft is forcing users to upgrade to SP2. There are still many users of SP1, and even pre-SP1, many who willingly refuse to upgrade to SP2 for a myriad of reasons.
What irony? The guy was offering to provide correct information through a private means of communication. He wasn't telling the parent to "please stay quiet."
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To this day I still carry around with me a copy of Word 95 on my USB. It's been trimmed down to the point where it only uses around 15MB, doesn't need any additional software on any PCs, and will run without installation.
Office 12? No thanks. Micrsoft Office, and specifically Word, has been more than complete and fully functional for years. How ironic it is that a certain piece of Microsoft software is just so good that nobody cares to upgrade unless forced to.
North Korea said there is no mirror. Tomorrow, however, they will say they never said that.
Whippersnappers.. we called 'em units of earth rotation, and they were damn good units of earth rotation, too.
What do you do when a user needs to access a page that is IE-centric, and does not render correctly for them? Honestly curious here. I have a couple users that occasionally access government web sites that generate incorrect URLs in their CGI when used with Firefox. I've had to block off all sites from IE, and allow them to use IE for only these specific domains. So far, that's all I've been able to do until some of these webmasters make their stuff more generic.
Nine out of ten software installation programs will let you install do your home directory. Unfortunately, some still want to do dumb things like write to global keys in the registry.
Hmm.. Ballmer was right with the developers thing. Developers, fix your install wizards!
Mainly because XP Home cannot directly join a Windows domain.
Heh.. Well even though some of the stories here are a bit stale if you read some of the other sites, the discussion here is usually more in-depth.
Yeah, just about every story I've seen on /. in the past few months, I've seen on digg days beforehand.
I used to beat up the kids that made fun of me when I moved the controller to turn faster.
Saturn be representin' the second largest plizzy in the sizzolar system, yo.
I certainly don't disagree. Most programs I use behave correctly, and are aware of multiple users. There are still many that are not, mostly games and such.
Software that "doesn't run" on an unpriveleged user account is usually fixable by modifying permissions on the program's installation directory, but this is certainly not desirable.
The big 6xxMP cabinets are still awesome if you can find dual 200MHz Ross Hypersparc mbus modules that are compatible.
Write a trojan that can install itself into the system directory on my Windows system, despite the fact that I am running as a limited-access user, and have no write access rights to anywhere in the filesystem but my user's profile directory. Right, you can't.
Without also making use of some privelege escalation flaw in an Administrator-level process, you can't do this on Windows, either. The problem is that 99% of Windows users will never bother using a limited-class user in Windows, and instead just use Administrator-class accounts, because it's easier.
NT security is, as a whole, pretty good. The biggest hole in Windows at this moment is how user accounts are configured, and Microsoft's reluctance to force better security practices on users. This should be changing in Vista.
Some software won't run unless you're an admin (biggest pissoff).
Learn to use 'runas' to run certain applications with Administrative priveleges. Most of the time, a program that "wants" to be run as Administrator only wants full R/W access to its installation directory and registry keys. Setting full access rights to the folders and registry keys for your limited-level user will usually solve this, and allow you to run said program without having to use runas.
No, it was not a RISC chip by the true sense of the word. The Pentium was, however, essentially a RISC chip internally, translating incoming CISC instructions to RISC microcode.
Intel still has datasheets lying around on their FTP site, if you're that interested. Honestly, I haven't read them in many moons, but the last I checked, the Pentium Pro was not the first in the Pentium line to translate to RISC internally.
There was no NT 3.3. NT 3.1 -> NT 3.5
The Pentium was also internally a RISC chip.
Personally, I remember when the Pentium Pro released, and many businesses were loading Windows 95 onto them. They then wondered why their older 486 machines were beating them out. The Pentium Pro was created with 16-bit compatibility as an afterthought.
Theo de Raadt couldn't give less of a crap about Linux.
Even on the GEM web site, there's no option for doors on this thing. I guess it doesn't rain in Treehugger Country.
Do they do anything else besides cause problems?
So, the ideal release of Windows was version 3.1?
Explain how Microsoft is forcing users to upgrade to SP2. There are still many users of SP1, and even pre-SP1, many who willingly refuse to upgrade to SP2 for a myriad of reasons.
What irony? The guy was offering to provide correct information through a private means of communication. He wasn't telling the parent to "please stay quiet."
I don't disagree at all. Developers need to catch up and learn how to place configuration info into user's directories.
Winamp doesn't NEED to be run as Admin, you just need to give your user Full Access rights to Winamp's directory.
Duh!
I have a number of Fujitsu 1-8GB drives that still run flawlessly. It seems their quality must have slipped in later years.