Great secure OS you designed Microsoft

[DanS]

This is a "microsoft" and "windows" and "vista"
discussion, and without your help perhaps 99.99% of readers here
already know that linux is an option,

99.99% !?!?!?! Doubt it. Come on. Who are you kidding.

Does this 99.9% include the people that think this is a forum on whatever
web page they are using (MS Communties, Google Groups, etc.) ?

Does it include the people that think MS Word comes with Windows ?

Does this include the people that say they 'downloaded' a program to
their PC, whe nthey really mean 'install' ?

Does it include the people that think a CPU is the case w/PS, HD, and
other drives ?

and where to learn more
about it.
Bluntly, you do not belong here, are not welcome, are
not needed, and you know it.

The fact that you persist suggests that something irrational is
driving you. You probably have difficulty finding satisfaction
elsewhere, so seek missionary status by shining the light of
linux upon the darkness of Microsoft.

However, like most of history's savages who met people like you,
I have a choice.

And yet you seem to make the choice to read Alias' posts.

That's you problem.

While I won't broil you for dinner, I
definitely can figure out how to use the kill filter on this
news client -- and will.

At least your using a real newsreader....well...maybe not, you're using
an pseudo-newsreader e-mail client.

 

[DanS]

Just say no as Linux has done? Unfortunately this means that you can't
view some HD content in Linux. Would you like to explain to someone
who has just purchased their new media pc why they can't play a high
def DVD they just bought? At least with Vista they have a chance at
playing it. With Linux the only way to play it would be if someone
developed a program that defeated the DRM built into the content.
Given the DMCA in the US (which I don't agree with or support)
Microsoft's only choices were to toe the line with the RIAA and others
or be locked out of playing the content. I hate DRM and wish Microsoft
had fought it but I am also a realist and understand that with the
DMCA they really don't have a choice unless they move their company
out of the US.

Well Kerry, as the RIAA has found out, it's not as easy as they think.

And there supposedly is a program to defeat DRM.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-
defeated-a-week-before-release.html

Of course, this is old news, from 5/17/2007, but what I find interesting is
that, if you'll notice in the url, defeated-a-week-before-release.

Now THAT is funny.

There's been a utility to rip DRM out of MP3 files for a while now.

 

[Frank]

Well Kerry, as the RIAA has found out, it's not as easy as they think.

And there supposedly is a program to defeat DRM.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-
defeated-a-week-before-release.html

Of course, this is old news, from 5/17/2007, but what I find interesting is
that, if you'll notice in the url, defeated-a-week-before-release.

Now THAT is funny.

There's been a utility to rip DRM out of MP3 files for a while now.

Excuse me but I don't get your point? You seem to be implying that
everyone affected by DRM has used the crack to defeat DRM and therefore
DRM is totally ineffective?
Is that your point?
Frank

 

[Kerry Brown]

Well Kerry, as the RIAA has found out, it's not as easy as they think.

And there supposedly is a program to defeat DRM.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070517-latest-aacs-revision-
defeated-a-week-before-release.html

Of course, this is old news, from 5/17/2007, but what I find interesting
is
that, if you'll notice in the url, defeated-a-week-before-release.

Now THAT is funny.

There's been a utility to rip DRM out of MP3 files for a while now.

Of course DRM will be broken. That's besides the point. Because of the DMCA
no US company can legally do this. If you want to legally sell (or give
away) a player for HD DRM encrypted content in the US you have to adhere to
the laws and implement DRM rather than try to bypass it.

 

[Kerry Brown]

WPA and WGA/N are not products of the music industry!

I'm not sure what WGA has to do with this thread. Have you seen this?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5744&tag=nl.e539

WGA obviously inconveniences some users. I don't particularly like it. It
does seem to be catching some rather large pirates.

 

[Adam Albright]

Excuse me but I don't get your point? You seem to be implying that
everyone affected by DRM has used the crack to defeat DRM and therefore
DRM is totally ineffective?
Is that your point?
Frank

If you're going to insist on building your goofy Strawmen at least
learn how you clueless Bozo.

 

[Gladiator]

One solution would be to go 64-bit as a 32-bit process is allowed the full
4GB address space unlike the 2GB limit on 32-bit

Yes, and that is what I am about to do in ten minutes as my E6850 cpu
was delivered topday. But that doesn't help the majority of Vista
users.

 

[Frank]

If you're going to insist on building your goofy Strawmen at least
learn how you clueless Bozo.

Do you have point or are you just slobbering all over your keyboard (as
usual!), huh?
Frank

 

[Gladiator]

I have an HD service and view HD programming on my HD TV. I am impressed.
It's great. The reason you are probably not impressed is because it's hard
to view HD on a 17" TV 20 years old. Just doesn't work!

Agree. A froend of mine just got HD Satellite last week and it's much
better than SD TV on a big screen. On a small screen the puixels are
more compacted so it is not as noticeable. Even SDTV upscaled to
1280x1024 via my Viewsonic N6 makes a noticeable difference and that
is not even HD content.

 

[Gladiator]

YOU are ***NOT*** a customer.

As I posted in another post. I have XP/Vista/Win2KPro/WinME all
running on various PC's right now. That makes me a very good Microsoft
cutomer. Even have a copy of Dos 6.2 laying around if I want to
install that. QDOS = Quick and Dirty Operating System. And it made
Microsoft rich. The mind boggles.

 

[Gladiator]

Go to Filehippo and download Firefox 2.0.0.5, quit using IE7
http://www.filehippo.com/

Then download the update checker (top right) and run it.
Update all of your installed programs.

OK. will do, thanks. I do use FF on XP but was trying to see how Vista
is out of the box with no 3rd party browsers. Already had one virus
try to smack my PC down but AVG caught it before Vista had a chance
to. With FF and noscript plugin it would never have even been able to
try to infect my PC.

 

[Gladiator]

Right. But he is saying that he can't see you tube videos in Vista. Of
course he can't because he isn't running Vista. So - technically he is
correct - but he is still a troll.

Wrong once again. This is a well known issue on Vista and is fixable
but if I admitted to that then then I wouldn't be a very good troll,
right?

 

[Gladiator]

Youtube works just fine in Vista Ultimate & IE7.
Frank

Not with Vista out of the box it doesn't.

 

[Gladiator]

http://www.tweak-uac.com/

Ok, thanks, will download it now.

But for your YouTube problems I think you need to look elsewhere,
maybe at your Adobe Flash installation, or lack of such!

I have flash installed. I think I just need to update to the latest
version. Or else it is because I set IE7 security settings too high. I
think I know what it is now. Some supposed Vista guru told me to turn
off active scripting and that is what is causing my issue. No worry as
am about to format and install Vista 64bit so will sort it then if I
need to.

 

[Alias]

Maybe if you spent more time with your wife and business you could possible
scrape up enough euros to purchase a copy of Vista. Better yet, you could
spring on a vacation and get away from the vista.general users group for a
week and go deep into the African jungles and spread the Ubuntu word.
People in Africa need to know about the improtant features of the all
knowing all doing Ubuntu. Remember, you ARE their marketing department so
don't disappoint them.

Have you always had this problem?

Alias

 

[Alias]

giggle...Henry so poetically and succinctly nailed you and your
"problem" yet as expected, your ignorance and self-centered arrogance
knows not what to do.
Ha!
Frank

As if.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Yeah...right...and that makes you a Vista expert.
Yeah....
Frank

NO ONE is a Vista expert.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Youtube works just fine in Vista Ultimate & IE7.
Frank

I don't believe it! A Frank post without an insult!

Alias

 

[GO]

Yet another good reason to wait on Vista. I suppose the music and film
industry put a gun up to MS' head and forced them to include DRM in
Vista ...

Alias

Exactly. It's MS's OS. They have enough power to listen to (or in this
case not listen to) whomever they please.

 

[Rich]

Yet another good reason to wait on Vista. I suppose the music and film

industry put a gun up to MS' head and forced them to include DRM in
Vista ...

Good point, wait until you know how to use the OS.

Why use something that aggravates you?

Rich