What does one have to do during the setup procedure, to allow ALL folders and ALL files to be accessible? I hate "access denied" messages even tho i am the only person using the system and by default am the administrator.
There are ALIASES to the folder you want access to (My Documents, etc.)
You use the alias, not the direct link to the folder.
Stop being a friggin' 'fixer'. Kill off all the users,and leave it alone.
Or do you WANT a virus?
If so, just go back to an older OS and neglect to update it.
It is a very bad idea to work with administrator privileges always enabled and facilitates various forms of Trojan and malware attacks.
He can't realistically update any modern MickeySoft OS - the download time on his piece of wet string would exceed the MTBF of the hardware.
Regards, Martin Brown
Which, despite what he said,is NOT the default setup.
It is a power user with many admin privileges. he system has protections in place now. Isn't hard to log off your weak user and log on to the admin user to add a printer or whatever.
OR, if you have a wireless router in front of your cable modem, you can use the firewall built in to it and always use your admin login.
Still that has certain vulnerabilities, which is why he is fighting some of the protections that were inflicted upon us.
Now that's funny. So which element is the bottleneck? ;-)
PS Listen to Lary Fast's (Synergy) "Sequencer" album cuts "Chateau" or "Cybersports" (circa 1976)while you are removing your fix attempts.
On a sunny day (Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:07:17 -0800) it happened Robert Baer wrote in :
Use Linux, run as root. Been doing it since 1998 or so.
You want to know something funny? I bought a Samsung 46 inch 3D TV. It takes as long to start up as an old tube set. I wondered why (136 MB firmware). Then yesterday I went to look for a Samsung 3D Blu-Ray DVD player. It had written on it: "Powered by Java". That explained Samsung's speed to me. I was out of there. Will try to get an other make Blu-ray burner for in the PC, and write the 3D stuff in Linux myself. In C. So what do we learn from this? Financial bubbles, software bubbles, must go bust some day. Sell your Samsung shares. Somebody will [hopefully] do better, you are being conned with ever more useless bloat. Stay clear of it. MS wants your money, they do not want you to have better software. The more broken and incomplete it is, the more likely the sucker is to buy an update, You fell for it buying Win7. Now wait for the service pack that breaks everything. And start saving for win8, eeh 9, ehhh 10 ... etc etc. They will have to pass up on win 98, we already had that, and 2000 too. But that is still 97 x 100$ for you, or 1999 x 100$ x inflation. Hope this helps is what they usually say:-)
Probably very difficult to achieve. If you have programs which write files to their install directory, make your own directory for such programs, e.g. 'Progs'.
I think you'll find that all Blu-Ray players are "powered by Java" -- it's a mandatory part of the spec.
That being said, the reason it's in there is so that Blu-Ray *discs* can run little programs that are purpotedly of some value -- while it's surely possible the player's own operating system could contain a bunch of Java, I guess I'd be a little surprised if that turned out to be the case.
There's really just an insane amount of technology crammed into a Blu-Ray player -- both at the hardware and the software levels.
---Joel
Yes, and you can use your power tools without all those annoying guards, too. Not recommended.
On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:39:48 -0700 (PDT)) it happened cassiope wrote in :
Weakling.
On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:39:25 -0700) it happened "Joel Koltner" wrote in :
Probably, I did the whole thing for DVD, wrote most soft for it too, contributed the subtitle part to Linux DVDauthor. Also added the 8 channel audio to tcmplex. So I know, or rather knew, how DVD works. Blu-Ray is just a stream, all the fancy tricks related to buttons and the rest is probably not much different than normal DVD. I have some old specs of the 3D format, when I find the time and inspiration...
It's far more powerful. For instance, you can run, oh, say... a Java program. :-)
Seriously... with the functionality a Blu-Ray player is required to provide, a Blu-Ray disc could include a full-featured Internet browser if it felt like it -- a feat well beyond what a DVD disc can do.
(There is why, AFAIK, Blu-Ray players themselves can't provide a "resume playback from where you were when you hit the power button"-feature like many DVD players do -- a disc might have set up a very fancy environment for itself to get to that particular playback point, that'd be very difficult or impossible for the player to re-create. ...although I suppose a player could just "freeze" everything in memory when you hit the power button, just like a PC in standby does.)
On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:24:15 -0800) it happened Robert Baer wrote in :
update,
Why copy MS stuff? You can run staroffice or openoffice (libre office??) these days. LTspice runs perfectly under wine, there is eagle for PCB layout, a lot more stuff, PCB, etc. I had servers online for 7 years 24/7, never a successful attack. Openoffice has a spreadsheet.
On a sunny day (Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:26:44 -0700) it happened "Joel Koltner" wrote in :
Yea, OK, and that is exactly what I do not want:-) These things can call home too to see if your disk is licensed etc. Firmware updates with new (blacked out) keys, what not. If I get inspired by some good 3D content maybe I will have a closer look.
3D games can be fun though.
InkScape
Openoffice Calc or gnumeric
Openoffice Writer or abiword
No it is not.
-- John Devereux
Not only that, but a disc can be set to playback a particular sequence of frames such that the Blu-Ray player's manufacutrer and model can then be unquely determined -- the idea being that sequence of frames would have little enough "action" that regardless of which particular sequence was used, someone watching the movie wouldn't notice anything different, but if you then take the video and make it available as a file or similar, the MPAA or similar* can then check this "watermark," monitor which players are being used for such activities and, if they decide that a particular player has been compromised, black-list it.
(Granted, they're not completely clueless -- while they have the "nuclear option" to prevent specified players from playing any newly released discs, the intended course of events is that they instead get the manufacturer to release new firmware that patches their DRM vulnerabilities and thereby "only" require customers to upade their firmware to watch newly released discs. That's fine in theory, but it doesn't really pass the "grandmother" test. I expect they figure that while the nuclear option would surely expose them to a lot of lawsuits they might very well lose -- especially in Europe, where consumer protection laws tend to be stronger --, the "you have to upgrade your firmware regularly!" approach might just keep them safe.)
---Joel
I already use the old OS solution: Win98SE and that works very nicely; rootkit junk cannot live in it.
Since i do only dial-up (no financially viable alternative), there is no wireless router. So i should be a bit better off.
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