It frustrates me to no end, but I don't know what I can do about it save for complain, which I have to them. I know, buy from someone else, roll your own, etc...but I've done that in the past, now I want some kinda 'just works' hardware that I can buy and trust.
I'm just curious why you consider hardware from Dell to work better or more trustworthy? Nothing against Dell, I've spent a lot of money with them over the years, but there are literally dozens of very established online dealers that will let you build a box online and choose every component and won't try to rope you into also buying an OS. Also, you usually get more choices than with Dell - you can of choose from dozens of cases, extras, etc.
One tip if you want to order from Dell and not buy an OS: I've always found it easier to do this through the "Small Business" section rather than the "Home User" section, even if my small business was just myself. In the past, you also got a better price this way, say configuring a "workstation" instead of a "desktop PC."
Ironically, Hotmail is the only webmail service the students in our computer lab have trouble with on WinXP machines. For some reason, attachments in hotmail are usually empty files. They see the attachment name, the size, and the message that it has passed virus scanning - but the attachment can't be opened or downloaded with IE or Firefox. I don't think they're blocked by any of our internal firewalls. I've researched it and the solutions I've found were pretty much "tell people to use a different email service." Another thing that does work is downloading the attachment on one of our Windows 98 machines. There are no problems with attachments in other webmail services such as Yahoo or Gmail.
Theoretical vulnerabilities are bad. Giant screaming voids you could drive a Peterbilt through are worse.
I think you just coined Firefox's next marketing slogan!
If it were easy enough for your average Wal-Mart clerk to scan your fingerprint upon checkout, then that means it would be just about as easy for some tech savvy person to break later.
What about returns? Would the store be able to "mark" the disk "returned" and thereby erase the fingerprint?
What about Childcare providers? Sorry honey - you can't watch your favourite Disney movie because Susie the babysitter doesn'y have the right biometric authorization.
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It frustrates me to no end, but I don't know what I can do about it save for complain, which I have to them. I know, buy from someone else, roll your own, etc...but I've done that in the past, now I want some kinda 'just works' hardware that I can buy and trust. I'm just curious why you consider hardware from Dell to work better or more trustworthy? Nothing against Dell, I've spent a lot of money with them over the years, but there are literally dozens of very established online dealers that will let you build a box online and choose every component and won't try to rope you into also buying an OS. Also, you usually get more choices than with Dell - you can of choose from dozens of cases, extras, etc. One tip if you want to order from Dell and not buy an OS: I've always found it easier to do this through the "Small Business" section rather than the "Home User" section, even if my small business was just myself. In the past, you also got a better price this way, say configuring a "workstation" instead of a "desktop PC."
Ironically, Hotmail is the only webmail service the students in our computer lab have trouble with on WinXP machines. For some reason, attachments in hotmail are usually empty files. They see the attachment name, the size, and the message that it has passed virus scanning - but the attachment can't be opened or downloaded with IE or Firefox. I don't think they're blocked by any of our internal firewalls. I've researched it and the solutions I've found were pretty much "tell people to use a different email service." Another thing that does work is downloading the attachment on one of our Windows 98 machines. There are no problems with attachments in other webmail services such as Yahoo or Gmail.
Theoretical vulnerabilities are bad. Giant screaming voids you could drive a Peterbilt through are worse. I think you just coined Firefox's next marketing slogan!
If it were easy enough for your average Wal-Mart clerk to scan your fingerprint upon checkout, then that means it would be just about as easy for some tech savvy person to break later. What about returns? Would the store be able to "mark" the disk "returned" and thereby erase the fingerprint? What about Childcare providers? Sorry honey - you can't watch your favourite Disney movie because Susie the babysitter doesn'y have the right biometric authorization.
That's brilliant. It's like a digital version of the old surrealist cut-up paper poem generator.