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Re: [Anti] Vista Blog

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From: The Ignorant Asian
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:20
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"Luc The Perverse" <sll_noSpamli...@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message 
news:v1s2d4-rmf.ln1@loki.cmears.id.au...
> "The Ignorant Asian" <ste...@nodomainname.com> wrote in message 
> news:45fe6b3d_1@news.tm.net.my...
>> If there is such a feature, I am intrigue to know more. Folder and user 
>> rights permissions is what we administrators have been dreaming off since 
>> day one. For corporate environment, the users are not supposed to have 
>> administrator's account. THE IT DEPARTMENT IS THE LORD AND MASTER! :
>
> I highly doubt it.  It was probably hard coded somewhere by some intern 
> programmer.

You're misleading. It is lucky that you're not yet the President of the 
United States.

>> BAH! Big deal! Even if I were to have read your ranting thus far, I would 
>> still agree with Bill Gates and install Vista anyway. Users need to be 
>> controlled (with an iron fists if I may add :P) and that is final!
>
> I said I can understand such a restriction being an option.  What I cannot 
> understand is it being denied by default.  That is messed up.

If it is not a default option, lazy administrators like me won't even be 
bothered to set it up as the time to issue a new PC to the users are like 
2~3 hours upon delivery of the PC.

</EVIL ADMINISTRATOR>
"It's not about restriction, ITS KEEPING THOSE DARN USERS IN LINE!"
<EVIL ADMINISTRATOR>

> I'm sure there are a lot of sadomasichistic people who would love to 
> install an OS that lets them do nothing.  Of course, it is cheaper to have 
> no OS at all ;)

I agree.

>> We administrators gets kinda edgy whenever a user calls up and says that 
>> their icon to the ERP system is missing from their desktop. It makes you 
>> feel like taking out a shot gun and blow them away in pieces. Of course 
>> if the request were to be coming from your computer illiterate boss, you 
>> have to be happy to oblidge (with some self swearing).
>
> Touch�e.   Keep in mind, Vista is currently being shoved down home users' 
> throats - Windows XP can still be sold as business machines without threat 
> of loss of kickbacks.

Excuse me but since when do home users have to pay for Windows OS :p

>> What feature is that? My time spend with Vista was kinda limited.
>
> You lost me somewhere.

Technically speaking since you started it, YOU are the one who made me get 
lost.

>> Well, you're not supposed to play with Codecs at work :p
>
> I wasn't at work ;)
>
> Putty just as easily could have been a D.O.S. client, or a password 
> grabbing trojan horse

The word Putty sounds awefully familiar.
-- 
Steven Ung
Return of the Ignorant Asian! 
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