Have you ever tried to read your old report cards written in cursive or doctor notes, or any cursive? They are undecipherable. Sometimes even to the people that wrote it..
I've said it before and I'll say it again we need a Bill of Rights in the country. Currently we have almost none. Freedom of religion and free opinion of the government. Nothing else... Free speech would be nice.
My users don't have admin rights, elevated privileges via the logon script.
You are totally correct in saying that Office Web components won't be affected, I was just replying to the previous poster. Still anyone worth their weight as an admin wouldn't install Office Web components on anything.
You'd be surprised how many people do it. In fact so many people do it where I work that I put a reghack in the logon script to make it so that all XLS files are opened with excel and not IE.
It really makes me sick that we live in this country and we are not free to play and view what we want. It's the bloody attorney general of SA that is holding back the R18+ rating for games. I'd like to know if there is anything we can do about this apart from wait for the wanker to loose the next election. I don't see how it's not a majority vote..
Still the government can try all they like but they are not going to stop people from downloading "illegal" material, it's like trying to stop people from smoking, you can try but it isn't going to stop the most devoted, and those are the people that will just burn a disk and give it to all their mates...
These people just don't know how the internet works. There is always another way round. Idiots.
It looks promising but having just had to use it to try and resolve a problem with a friends ipod and had problems with crashing and really slow performance on a c2d 2.4ghz and 2gigs of ram.. I prefer to use Rhythmbox, I like the retro look..
Maybe I have a different opinion on what budget is.. Less than $100USD.. Here I was thinking that I'd read a hardware review on slashdot that may actually be useful to me. Alas no.
My sentiments exactly. I use computers all day at work, mostly Windows desktops and servers but a few Linux servers hidden around the place for important tasks. When I get home from work I don't want to tinker around with my machine I want it to just do it's thing. I use Ubuntu on my laptop and it just works, quite literally. It's been ready for the desktop for ages, for general document creation, web browsing, wireless, printers, file sharing, you name it, everything a normal user including myself would do is easily attainable using Ubuntu.
To think that personal computing is going to be taken over by cloud computing and smartphones, this guy obviously hasn't used a smartphone and doesn't give a crap about who has access to his data with cloud computing.. This is totally crazy talk from someone that is supposed to know about these kinds of things. I think he needs to get checked in to a mental asylum.
All this goes to show is how bad Dell tech support is. All they needed to say was that openoffice is compatible and that her internet connection will work, she just might have to call her ISPs tech support as well. It is clearly becoming a problem that these kinds of companies don't make it clear what operating systems they "support". How hard is it to include a guide on the CD to setting up your internet connection in Linux?
What's with all the hating anyway? Isn't this a perfect example of how you can show people the Linux experience? You know, helping other users. The entire philosophy behind Linux. You guys should be ashamed.
Where the fuck is it? I'd vote for any party if they promised to create a bill of rights. Currently Australians have no rights whatsoever.
Labor needs to hang Conroy and this not only stupid but totally wrong idea. If they don't I will be voting liberal next time if I'm still in this fucked up country.
I've been using XBMC for a few weeks now on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with a Dell GX620 SFF PD 2.8ghz 3GB DDR2 and a nvidia 6200. I have to say it works really really well. I haven't had any issues. Plays everything, gets imdb info, really nice interface. What I really want is for the scripts to work on Linux and for an easy way to transcode DVD's to avi's and a way to rip CD's to mp3's within XBMC. It is a great media centre though and I can highly recommend it. I will be upgrading to the new Beta version when I get home tonight. One word of warning to those installing XBMC on Ubuntu, make sure Ubuntu is up to date before you install XBMC. From a fresh install of 8.04 it won't work for some reason, it'll just crash.
I bet your mum hasn't been happier. Neither has mine since I installed Ubuntu on her PC which was originally XP. She doesn't have any problems with it at all and she even recommends it to her friends. Not that she knows it's pretty much impossible to buy a machine with it pre-installed here in Australia (FUCK YOU DELL\HP\GENERIC PC VENDOR). At any rate, I couldn't be happier either as it means I don't have to fix her machine any more.
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Now can we have it in low profile please?
Because they have no idea perhaps?
Have you ever tried to read your old report cards written in cursive or doctor notes, or any cursive? They are undecipherable. Sometimes even to the people that wrote it..
I always thought the Windows flag was Microsoft laying claim to your computer, and everything on it...
I've said it before and I'll say it again we need a Bill of Rights in the country. Currently we have almost none. Freedom of religion and free opinion of the government. Nothing else... Free speech would be nice.
set oShell= Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.CopyFile "u:\scripts\test.vbs", "C:\temp\test.vbs"
oShell.Run "runas /noprofile /user:domain\administrator ""%windir%\system32\cmd.exe /C wscript c:\temp\test.vbs"""
WScript.Sleep 100
oShell.Sendkeys "password~"
Wscript.Quit ()
I thought they had to at least be power user.. may be mistaken, haven't looked at it in years.
You are totally correct in saying that Office Web components won't be affected, I was just replying to the previous poster. Still anyone worth their weight as an admin wouldn't install Office Web components on anything.
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Excel.Sheet.8\BrowserFlags",00000008,"REG_DWORD"
I didn't put it in place for this vulnerability though, just because a lot of people use macros and don't know how to save as.
He'll also wake up alone every morning...
Forget the moon. Mars is where it's at.
You can't be serious.. Just because you don't leave your padded room doesn't mean others don't.
Still the government can try all they like but they are not going to stop people from downloading "illegal" material, it's like trying to stop people from smoking, you can try but it isn't going to stop the most devoted, and those are the people that will just burn a disk and give it to all their mates...
These people just don't know how the internet works. There is always another way round. Idiots.
It looks promising but having just had to use it to try and resolve a problem with a friends ipod and had problems with crashing and really slow performance on a c2d 2.4ghz and 2gigs of ram.. I prefer to use Rhythmbox, I like the retro look..
Just a few random searches will prove that google brings back more relevant results. I'm actually surprised people are still talking about it.
Maybe I have a different opinion on what budget is.. Less than $100USD.. Here I was thinking that I'd read a hardware review on slashdot that may actually be useful to me. Alas no.
As long as the Gimp guys aren't going to change can we make OO look like Gimp?
Thousands of years of evolution is better than a pair of shoes... Crazy talk!
If you don't want people talking to you perhaps you should stay in your basement?
To think that personal computing is going to be taken over by cloud computing and smartphones, this guy obviously hasn't used a smartphone and doesn't give a crap about who has access to his data with cloud computing.. This is totally crazy talk from someone that is supposed to know about these kinds of things. I think he needs to get checked in to a mental asylum.
LOL! Best movie ever! Thanks guys for making my day.
What's with all the hating anyway? Isn't this a perfect example of how you can show people the Linux experience? You know, helping other users. The entire philosophy behind Linux. You guys should be ashamed.
Labor needs to hang Conroy and this not only stupid but totally wrong idea. If they don't I will be voting liberal next time if I'm still in this fucked up country.
I am ashamed to be Australian right now.
I've been using XBMC for a few weeks now on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with a Dell GX620 SFF PD 2.8ghz 3GB DDR2 and a nvidia 6200. I have to say it works really really well. I haven't had any issues. Plays everything, gets imdb info, really nice interface. What I really want is for the scripts to work on Linux and for an easy way to transcode DVD's to avi's and a way to rip CD's to mp3's within XBMC. It is a great media centre though and I can highly recommend it. I will be upgrading to the new Beta version when I get home tonight. One word of warning to those installing XBMC on Ubuntu, make sure Ubuntu is up to date before you install XBMC. From a fresh install of 8.04 it won't work for some reason, it'll just crash.
I bet your mum hasn't been happier. Neither has mine since I installed Ubuntu on her PC which was originally XP. She doesn't have any problems with it at all and she even recommends it to her friends. Not that she knows it's pretty much impossible to buy a machine with it pre-installed here in Australia (FUCK YOU DELL\HP\GENERIC PC VENDOR). At any rate, I couldn't be happier either as it means I don't have to fix her machine any more.