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Re: [Anti] Vista Blog

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From: The Ignorant Asian
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:44
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"Luc The Perverse" <sll_noSpamli...@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message 
news:rl64d4-7ni.ln1@loki.cmears.id.au...
> "The Ignorant Asian" <ste...@nodomainname.com> wrote in message 
> news:45ff52c9$1_1@news.tm.net.my...
>> "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.
>
> No you have to be full of shit and have hundreds of millions of dollars to 
> do that.
>
> Now stop insulting Bush or he will invade your country.
>
> Heil Bush!

Somehow that remark of "Heil Bush!" with an exclamation mark is more 
sarcastic and insulting towards Bush than mine ;)

>>>> 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.
>
> Forgive me for shouting but A USER SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTROL HIS 
> DESKTOP EVEN IF HE IS NOT AN ADMIN!!!  Ok I feel better now.

We don't mind if the users is able to take care of his/her own desktop and 
when things go wrong they know how to recover.

>> </EVIL ADMINISTRATOR>
>> "It's not about restriction, ITS KEEPING THOSE DARN USERS IN LINE!"
>> <EVIL ADMINISTRATOR>
>
> Your mixed up the </TAG> is supposed to go at the end

Which is why *I* am the manager and you are the programmer :p

>>> 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.
>
> Thank you
>
>>> 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
>
> Vista is quite hard to rip off comparitively.

Though not impossible ;)

>>>> 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.
>
> We are both lost.  Please don't leave me Mr Bean!

Okay now I am not lost, but confused. What has Mr. Bean has to do with this 
conversation? :(

And,... I haven't heard from Mr. Bean since what...? 1999?

>>>> 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.
>
> Lightweight, standalone SSH client.  I use it log into remote linux boxes 
> (IE Chris' box)
>
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
>
> Of course you could also be thinking of silly putty
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_Putty

Sounds kinda technie... :(

-- 
Steven Ung
Return of the Ignorant Asian! 
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