While we're on the subject of M$... after opening up my Dell yesterday to install a new hard drive and LE2005 (which went relatively w/o a hitch), I didn't get around to booting my windows drive until today.
For some reason when I boot into windows now, my Logitech wireless usb mouse don't work. XP comes up with a notification about installing non-M$ signed drivers, and if I hit "continue anyways", it asks me for the location of a file named something like "Lusbsys.lib". Luckily I had a usb/PS2 adapter laying around that provided a minimally functional workaround (scroll button doesn't work). Could it have anything to do with the fact that I opened up my machine yesterday and/or installed LE2005? Is there a list of "known issues" like that I can check somewhere? Or was it completely coincidental and my disabling of the XP SP2 firewall finally caught up with me and I now have some "malware" resident? (Stupid SP2 screwed up all the security settings and software I previously had installed and it pretty much wouldn't let me re-enable any of it, in typical M$ fashion. My computer was running fine, don't know why I ever "updated" it, and now those stupid security notification/updates bubbles are always coming up on startup.) Luckily the only thing I need my win drive for is printing (Canon doesn't support Linux) and the occasional EQ2 session; I just have to put the adapter on when I boot XP and suffer w/o the scroll functionality. Are there any workarounds if your printer is not explicitly listed in the CUPS supported printers list? There are Multipass printers listed, just not my model (Multipass F60). I was wondering if I could "force" one of the similar ones. ============================================================ From: Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2005/05/26 Thu PM 07:56:57 EDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows anyone ? On Thursday 26 May 2005 05:51 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: >>> snip > Well, I already impressed my pal with Knoppix, demonstrating that > his hardware is OK. Right now we're discussing the possibility of > his box being infected with some malware - aside from Windows. > > Tomorrow will be an interesting day. > > Kaj Haulrich. Kaj: Well, for some real laughs, hook that puppy up straight to the outside world without any form of firewall and see how quickly it gets owned. IIRC, the record is somewhere down around 20 or 30 seconds. -- cmg ============================================================
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