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Tom Scola - Apr 17, 2008 8:39:28 am PDT #5767 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
omnis_audis - Apr 17, 2008 8:15:08 pm PDT #5768 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Mac vs PC shootout in Popular Mechanics: [link] First blush says Mac has unfair advantage, with a slightly faster processor (2.2 GHz vs 2.4 GHz) The interesting thing I saw was, they tested Vista on the Mac hardware. Generally speaking, Vista ran better on the Mac. And Mac OS-X ran better than Vista.
(not wanting to start a us vs them war here, just pointing out that it's interesting... even if I think the test situation was less than matched). My favorite quote tho is:
Our biggest surprise, however, was that PCs were not the relative bargains we expected them to be. The Asus M51sr costs the same as a MacBook, while the Gateway One actually costs $300 more than an iMac. That means for the price of the Gateway you could buy an iMac, boost its hard drive to match the Gateway’s, purchase a copy of Vista to boot—and still save $100.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2008 11:12:12 pm PDT #5769 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have a fresh Vista install. I made a set of recovery disks so that I could swap out the drive that came with the box for a smaller one. I then recovered onto the smaller drive and proceeded about reinstalling apps--but now I'm having problems with an .msi file--it tells me that "The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."
No I didn't! It's exactly the same security as the first time I had the system setup. I can't work out how to make it go away. I have only the one user, and I've been able to install many other programs--I don't know if it's balking because it's a yaddayadda.msi instead of setup.exe.
Does this set of a flag for anyone?
DCJensen - Apr 18, 2008 5:51:19 am PDT #5770 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
sounds like a job for secpol.msc.
I've only used it a few times myself, but here's a MS page on the command: [link]
§ ita § - Apr 18, 2008 6:56:21 am PDT #5771 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I ended up rolling back to a restore point--which isn't flawless, and seems to have left me unable to uninstall some applications (I guess because the app files are gone because I uninstalled them before the restore), but I want the entries out of my installed programs view.
Vortex - Apr 18, 2008 10:57:36 am PDT #5772 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I have a DVD question -- if I burn a DVD in an HD DVD Burner (like my laptop), will it play on a blu ray player?
Tom Scola - Apr 18, 2008 10:59:13 am PDT #5773 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I have a DVD question -- if I burn a DVD in an HD DVD Burner (like my laptop), will it play on a blu ray player?
A regular DVD? Probably.
Vortex - Apr 18, 2008 11:11:23 am PDT #5774 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
A regular DVD? Probably.
it won't be super fancy HD?Blu Ray clear, but it will play?
omnis_audis - Apr 18, 2008 11:29:12 am PDT #5775 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Not sure where to post this, so tech thread seems best bet of those I subscribe to.
Seems HBO is sending out stop orders to IP addresses that are bit torrenting their content. So, should anyone be doing illegally d/l HBO stuff, you might want to reconsider.
I learned, because or organization got such a letter. Seems one of the visiting artists accidentally still had BitTorrent open in the background. So when she plugged in here at work, she started to seed from our IP. Made for an interesting morning.
amych - Apr 18, 2008 11:41:13 am PDT #5776 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I learned, because or organization got such a letter. Seems one of the visiting artists accidentally still had BitTorrent open in the background. So when she plugged in here at work, she started to seed from our IP. Made for an interesting morning.
My boss got one the other week, for torrenting John Adams (which she wasn't) -- best theory is that they traced it to her by IP, because the torrenter was connected to the looniversity-wide wireless at an access point that happened to be registered in her name.