Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:14:41 -0800 Accessing inernet when you are logged on as administrator is like inviting AIDS (sorry, this sounds drastic but it is :) ). That is true, but the point is that you don't have to be logged in as an admin to be

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:38PM -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: A friend who supports a lot of small businesses is predicting that by the end of this year, Windows will essentially be unusable on the Internet. This seems extreme to me, but I don't keep track of these things, he does, and he has

Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread Ben Tilly
While you can't uninstall IE, you can reduce its exposure to the web. A friend of mine developed a lockdown approach that included installing Mozilla, removing all visible signs of IE, pointing IE at a proxy server, and creating a login script that continually repoints IE at said proxy server.

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:02:51 +, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:38PM -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: [...] A fun issue is popups. Everything works fine and then someday there is an unexpected error and a popup stops everything in its tracks. Sure, you can

[Boston.pm] Reseach on Open Source Developers

2005-03-22 Thread Amedeo Guffanti
Hi, I'm Amedeo Guffanti, a 22 years old Italian student at Bocconi university in Milan, I' m doing a research to write a work about Open Source Movement, in particular, about the developers. I try to collect the opinions of developers like you. My little poll is at this page :