Archive for category Windows
Windows 2003: Prevent user login via the console
You’d think that “Deny logon locally” would do it right? Even the documentation suggests that this is the case. But of course you can’t apply that policy to administrator account (presumably because any user called ‘administrator’ must be dumb), so it’s completely useless.
The perfectly obvious and not at all in any way obfuscated way to do it is actually to add the user in question to ‘Remote Operators’ group.
Wonderfully clear isn’t it. Windows I mean.
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The Defragmentation Brigade
These people epitomise all that is bad about computer-care.
- They read a book once, it had ‘Technical’ in the title.
- They read a website once, it had ‘Tweaks’ in the title.
- They fix their mom’s computer, installing realms of free anti-spyware software when doing so.
- They enable the windows firewall on a trusted lan, and install another firewall for good measure.
- They use the words ‘Anti-Virus’, ‘Anti-Spyware’ and ‘Firewall’ interchangeably.
- They say things like ‘fix it in the bios’.
- Their favourite piece of software is called ‘Super Extra Registry Clean Optimizer’ (order of adjectives varies).
- They know all about ‘l-eye-nux’: It’s fast, efficient, wonderful. Some day they know they’ll try it too.
- And they honestly believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that defragmenting a computer hard disk fixes issues.
So, if you ever have a computer problem, and someone gives you some advice containing the word ‘defragment’, consider running away, very fast. God has a special level of hell reserved for these people, and you don’t want to be near them when he sends them there.
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Mac vs PC – advertisements from Apple
Following on from my earlier post about PC vs Mac vs Linux, these are a selection of the (many many) Mac vs PC ads from Apple.
Full credit to apple, their advertising department is exceptional (and this has nothing to do with the fact that I work for them!).
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PC, Mac… meet Linux – advertisements from Novell
A series of advertisements from Novell, promoting SUSE.
In all my years working with it, I never knew Linux was a woman – stunned I was.
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Safari 3 for Windows
Still in beta, but certainly stable enough to use, Apple‘s highly acclaimed web browser, Safari, has hit the PC. They’re billing it as
The fastest web browser on any platform, Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.
and in my brief usage of it, this does seem to be true (it is certainly faster than ie7 anyway).
But in that same period some of it’s bugs have shown their heads (malformed http POSTs, ignoring certain stylesheet properties, limited (no?) DOM support), so this speed does not come for free.
It’s still beta though, so hopefully they’ll fix those problems.
Available for free download now from www.apple.com/safari.
Popularity: 9% [?]