Re: [CGUYS] Mac Administrator

2007-10-14 Thread Jeff Wright
AdmitMac is a useful crutch when faced with clueless Windows system admins. Rather than fighting with them to configure their network correctly we install AdmitMac and get the Mac to mimmic whatever mistakes they are running with. Orwell lives! Incorrect? Only if you're one of the 3

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance

2007-10-14 Thread Jeff Wright
Which only proves the point that Windows security is poor and that you are so sold on the MS way of doing things that you can't get your brain around the concept of better security. All it proves is how ignorant you are of things other than those blessed by the Glorious Leader. Windows'

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance

2007-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user as the admin. Don't run as an admin and security problems vanish. Now, if we can only get these idiot developers to stop coding their products to only run if the user is an admin. The problem is only partially idiot developers. I would

[CGUYS] Security Ignorance

2007-10-14 Thread John DeCarlo
On 10/14/07, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which only proves the point that Windows security is poor and that you are so sold on the MS way of doing things that you can't get your brain around the concept of better security. Windows' biggest problem is installing the default user

[CGUYS] UPS Question

2007-10-14 Thread Chrperson
I know UPS issues have been covered in the past. As many of you may know, I'm an advocate of using them. Recently (within the past 2 weeks!) we have begun having UPS issues: To wit: Sometimes, in the middle of the night (2 am - 4 am), two of our UPS's begin to click / beep. Not sound an alarm,

Re: [CGUYS] UPS Question

2007-10-14 Thread gerald
A UPS will also get unstable and noisy if the voltage goes up. appliances and electronics will be unhappy also. get a line meter from radio shack(i am not a part of radio shack). If the meter is bouncing up, and up a lot, call the power company, and tell they you have lost your neutral.

Re: [CGUYS] Grabbing domain names of well-known persons?

2007-10-14 Thread Tom Piwowar
Uncle Ben? thestraightdope.com reports that there really was an Uncle Ben -- a rice farmer from Houston. * == QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in == * == the body of an email send 'em to: [EMAIL

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance

2007-10-14 Thread Jeff Wright
Absolutely, don't login as admin, etc. It shouldn't be needed for day to day use for normal office applications. Would MS Office need to be admin to be usable? No. Every staffer runs as a lowest permission user at my .org. Office runs just fine.

Re: [CGUYS] boot G4 or Intel Mac from flash drive?

2007-10-14 Thread b_s-wilk
Techtool Protoge is on a FireWire, not USB drive. http://micromat.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=34Itemid=49 Haven't seen a tiny FW drive like that before. Can I get one without the TT software? Can I boot a PM G4 from a USB2 flash or micro drive? How about an Intel Mac? Or a

Re: [CGUYS] MacIgnorance

2007-10-14 Thread Jeff Wright
1) pretending they have a mulit-user OS when they really don't. This is demonstrated by your complaing of too many steps. Windows does not need these steps because there is no real security there. It is like a kid's computer you buy for $10 at Toys-R-Us: lots of dials and buttons, but