You might not be aware, but the constant annoying security warnings in Vista
are nothing more than 'security theatre' -- i.e. they make you feel safer,
without actually doing anything meaningful. Vista is no more secure because
of these annoying prompts -- coders with malicious intent just work
On 16/07/2008, at 11:47 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
While we're on the subject, AVG's LinkScanner has created a lot of
misery
for me and other people who do web analytics. I've pretty well
decided
never to use their products again.
Problems which other software has also caused over the
On 16/07/2008, at 6:09 PM, Curtis Burisch wrote:
You might not be aware, but the constant annoying security warnings
in Vista
are nothing more than 'security theatre' -- i.e. they make you feel
safer,
without actually doing anything meaningful. Vista is no more secure
because
of
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over nine
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of regulars over
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Problems which other software has also caused over the years. Problems
which AVG have admitted, and they've disabled LinkScanner.
I'm not aware of anything that has caused the kind of problems LinkScanner
produced. One
There are other problems that have nothing to do with one O/S vs another.
A disgruntled network engineer in San Francisco has apparently locked
everyone
out of the city's WAN.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/14/BAOS11P1M5.DTLf
john
Don't be get started on that SOB. He's giving all IT professionals a
black eye with his antics.
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At 02:56 PM Wednesday 7/16/2008, John Garcia wrote:
There are other problems that have nothing to do with one O/S vs another.
A disgruntled network engineer in San Francisco has apparently locked
everyone
out of the city's WAN.
At 06:35 PM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM:
Now how about an actually helpful response for those who do not have
access to another computer at home?
Well, how about this:
Before plugging your new computer into a network
At 08:12 PM Tuesday 7/15/2008, William T Goodall wrote:
On 16 Jul 2008, at 00:24, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 07:56 AM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote:
Charlie Bell said the following on 7/15/2008 4:47 AM:
...and for the 95% of home PC users who buy a PC at PC World or
Walmart or
Try removing the f at the end, see if that works for you.
Julia
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 02:56 PM Wednesday 7/16/2008, John Garcia wrote:
There are other problems that have nothing to do with one O/S vs another.
A disgruntled network engineer in San
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 02:56 PM Wednesday 7/16/2008, John Garcia wrote:
There are other problems that have nothing to do with one O/S vs another.
A disgruntled network engineer in San Francisco has apparently locked
everyone
out of the city's WAN.
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/16/2008 7:13 PM:
None of which means anything to the average non-technical person who
is buying a computer for his/her kids to use for school or a
grandmother finally buying a computer to view pictures of her
grandchildren who live out of state, who
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 06:35 PM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM:
Now how about an actually helpful response for those who do not have
access to another computer at home?
Well, how about this:
Before
On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 06:35 PM Tuesday 7/15/2008, Lance A. Brown wrote:
Ronn! Blankenship said the following on 7/15/2008 7:24 PM:
Now how about an actually helpful response for those who do not
have
access to another computer
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