[ale] Mojave experiment

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 10:20:17 EDT 2008


http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple-getamac-security_480x376.mov

Hah hah.

-- CHS


On 8/5/08, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>
> One of my favorite Mac vs PC commercials deals with Vista security and
> ends with:
>
> You're coming to a sad realization.
> Cancel or Allow?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Greg
> Freemyer
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:59 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Mojave experiment
>
>
> My last negative experience with Vista:
>
> I visited a client and needed to copy several GB of data off a blade
> server.  They had misplaced their dongle that provides USB
> connectivity.
>
> No problem, I'll connect up my external drive to one of the
> workstations and share it out.  Then map the drive from the blade and
> copy away.
>
> I spent an hour trying to figure out how to get Vista to share my
> external drive.  Never did figure it out.
>
> Later on one of our people told me it is a common problem caused by
> Vista's security model.
>
> Greg
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Forsaken <forsaken at targaryen.us> wrote:
> > On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:44 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> >
> >> Lol
> >>
> >> Vista not bad for normal end users?
> >>
> >> Meaning normal end users never try to get printers and other devices
> >> that worked flawlessly with their older XP system but now can't be
> >> made
> >> to work on Vista even with a gun pointed to its head?
> >
> > When I say normal end users, I'm talking about the folks who sit down
> > in front of their computers, check their email, do their online
> > banking, visit ebay, and maybe print a few lolcats here and there.
> > Honestly, I haven't heard of that many problems with printer drivers,
> > but the folks I know all use HP printers, so I'm not really surprised.
> > Most of the folks I know bitching about Vista are the ones with high
> > end systems with high end video cards and sound cards that they built
> > themselves (ie, power users). Not your average housewife who went to
> > Wal-Mart and bought an HP computer off the shelf.
> >
> >> Your parents may have been lucky or maybe just do minimal things.
> The
> >> few people I know that have tried Vista (including at least one
> >> professional Windoze Admin) think its sucks wind.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I said that anyone with a clue knows better when it
> > comes to Vista ;) The professional windows admin you referenced
> > probably qualifies as that (or maybe not, most windows admins I know
> > are secretly linux geeks and just admin windows boxes to pay the
> > bills!) My old laptop came with Vista pre-installed (and only a gig of
> > RAM as well.. wtf were they thinking?). It never got a chance to boot.
> > First thing I did was insert and XP disc and boot that (and, of
> > course, after that install was done, a boot off of an Ubuntu disc
> > immediately followed)
> >
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