Windows requires that users log in with administrative privileges to install software, which causes many to use privileged accounts for day-to-day usage.
This isn't true on a domain where the admin has designated installable packages, and RunAs works fine for installation programs that are written properly.
I really have to comment on this. On a given UNIX system (ok, I admit, I've onlused Linux and a little FreeBSD), you can install, write and basically do whatever, so long as you only do it in your home directory or wherever else you have permission. If you want to install something to another directory, like/bin I guess, you have to do it as a more priveledged user (root, I guess). The same applies to Windows NT: you can install and use what you want, but directories like %programfiles% are off-limits as far as write privs. However, Designed For Windows (or whatever it is) has a set of guidelines for software that makes most of it install nice and clean under Administrator, and make it run perfectly well as a normal user once it's installed. The only time you need to be an admin is when installing the software. The problem lies in MOST software that likes to ignore this and try to do things it shouldn't (thou shalt not write session data to the program directory!).
It's pretty obvious that if you surf on a popular, insecure wireless network, there's a good chance that someone will come along and start sniffing data. When using these networks, you have to act as if someone is sniffing it. One thing you shouldn't do is make important transactions, especially those that involve things like credit card numbers. Sure, there's SSL, but do you really want to take the chance that someone might not be determined enough to try and break it somehow?
You'd be suprised. My father, who works at TRW (oops, I mean Northrop-Grumman), says that they haven't even rolled out Service Pack 2 to all of the Windows XP computers. Some of them still have Windows 2000 (although that may be for slightly different reasons).
Whatever happened to just mashing your fists on the keyboard?
FreeBSD still does this (at least it lets you). In fact, it gives you an opportunity on first boot to hammer away to kick-start the entropy before it generates RSA key pairs.
However, why would they expect people to run Windows on Apple hardware?
Remember that Apple is primarily a hardware company. The profits they make from Mac OS X barely cover the costs of R&D. By allowing Windows to run, Apple can say, "Hey, you can buy a Mac and still run Windows and all of your old programs, PLUS our operating system and programs!" Contrast that to Microsoft, a software company, who would rather see vendors sell Windows and only Windows.
I agree whole-heartedly. Not only that, but the flyer looks like it took five minutes in Photoshop. It's definitely not a flyer that Circuit City's advertisers cook up.
Also, It doesn't specify what KIND of DVDs it copies. Maybe it just copies DVD of your personal data. I've got some anime DVDs (TV rips from before they came overseas, making them legal) that I'd like to back up.
Exactly. I think TCP is great - so long as you actually trust whoever has the other set of keys. It's the day when my computer says, "I'm sorry, but you can't run this program" that I fear.
So why in the world is it called "Windows Genuine Advantage" anyway when it's really just an anti-piracy detector? What conceivable "Advantage" is there for the consumer and why wasn't Windows Update just left well enough alone?
I'll take the bait on this one.
The reason why it's called Windows Genuine Advantage, if you read what's been written about it (this was before WGA became known as the master on/off switch people claim it to be), has to do with piracy. Not piracy like your or I do, mind you. The kind that's done in China and what-not. The kind where groups burn/press/whatever CDs with Windows, print off their own cover sleeves, and sell them for five bucks a pop to unsuspecting (sometimes not) customers. It's this kind that Microsoft is trying to combat, at least initially.
The "Advantage" of being "Genuine" is that you get access to some Windows downloads, such as the DirectX web updater. This was later extended to Windows Update.
You can tell me I'm wrong all you want; this is just what I read when I saw it many moons ago.
I'll admit, I talk on my cell phone on the road. HOWEVER, I only talk for no more than a few minutes ("Hello? Oh, hi. Yeah, I'm on my way up/down. Sure, I'll bring the hookers, too.") And no, I don't pull over while I talk as I've been told many times on Car Talk. I rely on the fact that my phone is within reach in my holster or on the seat next to me. I don't even have to take my eyes off the road; I can pull it right out.
One of those distractions DID get me once, though. I was in my previous car, and I was looking around for something (maybe I was dicking around with the radio, I can't remember), and when I look up, I just see a line of brake lights. I slam on my brakes (despite the fact that I knew full well, even at that moment, to PUMP the breaks) and hit some poor couple in their Corolla.
Moral: Even though I'm confident in my abilities to keep focus, I can still break as easily as anyone else.
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I really have to comment on this.
On a given UNIX system (ok, I admit, I've onlused Linux and a little FreeBSD), you can install, write and basically do whatever, so long as you only do it in your home directory or wherever else you have permission. If you want to install something to another directory, like
The same applies to Windows NT: you can install and use what you want, but directories like %programfiles% are off-limits as far as write privs. However, Designed For Windows (or whatever it is) has a set of guidelines for software that makes most of it install nice and clean under Administrator, and make it run perfectly well as a normal user once it's installed. The only time you need to be an admin is when installing the software. The problem lies in MOST software that likes to ignore this and try to do things it shouldn't (thou shalt not write session data to the program directory!).
It's pretty obvious that if you surf on a popular, insecure wireless network, there's a good chance that someone will come along and start sniffing data. When using these networks, you have to act as if someone is sniffing it. One thing you shouldn't do is make important transactions, especially those that involve things like credit card numbers. Sure, there's SSL, but do you really want to take the chance that someone might not be determined enough to try and break it somehow?
You'd be suprised. My father, who works at TRW (oops, I mean Northrop-Grumman), says that they haven't even rolled out Service Pack 2 to all of the Windows XP computers. Some of them still have Windows 2000 (although that may be for slightly different reasons).
A Fox riding in a Motorboat then speeds by...
You mean a pengiun.
I say she should not be allowed to own or operate a computer or touch-tone telephone until her 18th birthday.
I'm getting a Woody just thinking about this!
Whatever happened to just mashing your fists on the keyboard?
FreeBSD still does this (at least it lets you). In fact, it gives you an opportunity on first boot to hammer away to kick-start the entropy before it generates RSA key pairs.
However, why would they expect people to run Windows on Apple hardware?
Remember that Apple is primarily a hardware company. The profits they make from Mac OS X barely cover the costs of R&D. By allowing Windows to run, Apple can say, "Hey, you can buy a Mac and still run Windows and all of your old programs, PLUS our operating system and programs!" Contrast that to Microsoft, a software company, who would rather see vendors sell Windows and only Windows.
Apple did it better on the surface, and under the hood while Microsoft did it better in the engine.
What's under the hood of my car? Oh gee, it's an engine! Who would've thought!
You also seem to have invented a way to net double the karma than with a single comment.
I agree whole-heartedly. Not only that, but the flyer looks like it took five minutes in Photoshop. It's definitely not a flyer that Circuit City's advertisers cook up.
Also, It doesn't specify what KIND of DVDs it copies. Maybe it just copies DVD of your personal data. I've got some anime DVDs (TV rips from before they came overseas, making them legal) that I'd like to back up.
Now, where have I heard this before? Oh yeah:
Surely you mean an engagement token ring...
So how much is that in Imperial bits?
Exactly. I think TCP is great - so long as you actually trust whoever has the other set of keys. It's the day when my computer says, "I'm sorry, but you can't run this program" that I fear.
This is the kind of stuff you do in Uplink.
"A biosystems engineering professor has just announced a "ripeness sticker" for fruit."
Already saw it twice on Beyond Tomorrow.
Fry's and, to a lesser extent, some places like CD shops, but most definitely Fry's.
Only the hottest will do!
So why in the world is it called "Windows Genuine Advantage" anyway when it's really just an anti-piracy detector? What conceivable "Advantage" is there for the consumer and why wasn't Windows Update just left well enough alone?
I'll take the bait on this one.
The reason why it's called Windows Genuine Advantage, if you read what's been written about it (this was before WGA became known as the master on/off switch people claim it to be), has to do with piracy. Not piracy like your or I do, mind you. The kind that's done in China and what-not. The kind where groups burn/press/whatever CDs with Windows, print off their own cover sleeves, and sell them for five bucks a pop to unsuspecting (sometimes not) customers. It's this kind that Microsoft is trying to combat, at least initially.
The "Advantage" of being "Genuine" is that you get access to some Windows downloads, such as the DirectX web updater. This was later extended to Windows Update.
You can tell me I'm wrong all you want; this is just what I read when I saw it many moons ago.
Mekka lekka hi, mekka hiney you're under arrest.
I see you haven't played GTA3 and tried to fly this thing. I guess there's a reason why they called it the Dodo.
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it's a NASA device that's about 6-12ft long (can't remember).
I don't buy very much locally anymore, and I get to save a huge amount that the State would usually get.
The last time I bought something from Newegg, I still had to pay my 7.25% tax. Disclaimer: I live in California, and Newegg is based in California.
I'll admit, I talk on my cell phone on the road. HOWEVER, I only talk for no more than a few minutes ("Hello? Oh, hi. Yeah, I'm on my way up/down. Sure, I'll bring the hookers, too.") And no, I don't pull over while I talk as I've been told many times on Car Talk. I rely on the fact that my phone is within reach in my holster or on the seat next to me. I don't even have to take my eyes off the road; I can pull it right out.
One of those distractions DID get me once, though. I was in my previous car, and I was looking around for something (maybe I was dicking around with the radio, I can't remember), and when I look up, I just see a line of brake lights. I slam on my brakes (despite the fact that I knew full well, even at that moment, to PUMP the breaks) and hit some poor couple in their Corolla.
Moral: Even though I'm confident in my abilities to keep focus, I can still break as easily as anyone else.