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scott wrote:
> Of course that will only work if you copy the drive images to identical
> hardware,
It doesn't work then either. You still have to change internally-generated
"security identifiers" in the registry that identifies the machine to the
domain and such.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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somebody wrote:
> (*) If you ask the user the year first, month next, it's trivial to validate
> the day.
I used to work on systems where the questions asked depended on previous
answers. And not just simple stuff like not asking the names of the children
if you said you have no children, but stuff like applying interest charges
and volume discounts, and if the result was enough extra money, asking how
to refund it, for example. Or asking which portfolios it was to go into.
Given the clients, it would have been a nightmare had we not been able to
drive the whole thing. (Since it was back in DOS days and hence all text,
the question never came up.)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Invisible wrote:
> I mean, really, how am I supposed to know if I want to add a new account
> until I've checked what ones are already there? That's just silly. And
> why do I need a 1-page "wizard" to "help" me perform this highly trivial
> task? Give me a break...
For every IT task, there is a set of people who cannot do it because
they lack a sufficient grasp of the relevant concepts. MicroSoft
regards these people as their primary user base.
Regards,
John
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John VanSickle wrote:
> For every IT task, there is a set of people who cannot do it because
> they lack a sufficient grasp of the relevant concepts. MicroSoft
> regards these people as their primary user base.
And indeed, that was part of what made Microsoft such a powerhouse. For
about a dozen years, the user base was doubling every year. That means that
the majority of your customers were noobs, for years and years.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Invisible wrote:
> Vista seems to have less of this brain-deadness. But I haven't explored
> too far yet...
I haven't tried Vista. I tried Windows 7 on a VM.
I noticed it was *annoying*.
UAC asks me to allow something, and there are two links cluttering the
dialog: "help me decide" and "choose how often you see these
notifications".
I go to the Games folder to see what it's about, and a dialog pops up asking
if I want to enable a feature that automatically downloads content from the
Internet related to the games I have. Interrupting me on my task: exploring
the Games folder.
I open Minesweeper. "Your 3D acceleration is off" WTF? I need 3D
acceleration for Minesweeper now?!
Minesweeper opens. Half the game grid is instantly covered with
instructions. I manage to get rid of it.
I play and lose. A dialog box larger than the game window opens to inform me
that I lost, and asking me if I want to quit the game or play again.
What is Microsoft smoking?
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scott wrote:
> I have the business version of Vista, and no it didn't have any games
> installed, but I easily fixed that by going to Add/Remove windows
> components
> and adding them. And yes it also has Windows Movie Maker and WMP
> installed by default too.
Windows 2003 server has WMP installed by default. Explain me that one.
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:29:18 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> What is Microsoft smoking?
Old Windows for Workgroups diskettes, and WinME CDs.
Jim
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Windows 2003 server has WMP installed by default. Explain me that one.
COM interfaces. How are you going to have the server transcode audio
uploaded to it?
Plus, WMP not only plays media but serves media and metadata. In other
words, WMP *is* a server. How do you think things like Media Center
synchronize playlists and such?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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Darren New wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Windows 2003 server has WMP installed by default. Explain me that one.
>
> COM interfaces. How are you going to have the server transcode audio
> uploaded to it?
Do you need the shiny UI to be installed for that?
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Do you need the shiny UI to be installed for that?
I don't know. What do you mean by "installed"? You don't have to actually
display the shiny UI for it to work as a server or a COM object.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!
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