Posted on 07/02/2007 7:38:03 AM PDT by Salo
"So basically if I didn’t click “No” when I set up my Vista, then MSFT can pull any sort of data they want?"
Far as I know if you refuse the DLA it won't install.
I hate all that stuff too. Not that I’m doing anything a reasonable person would object to, but (1) it’s none of their business, reasonable or not, and (2) where is my ironclad guarantee that everyone that ever sees any of this information will be reasonable, by MY definition?
Oh, my. It’s Doctor in a Potty.
I’m at 127.0.0.1.
I hate you.
Dang! My firewall is configured to give you full access!
Adopting policies that routinely go shutting down users for no reason, or limiting people from doing what they want to do on their computer is contrary to that end. They'll lose customers.
Why start down that slippery slope now when we can avoid it altogether?
What is the slippery slope, in your opinion? Automatic updating? You can turn that off, but I think you'd be stupid to.
That's just the beginning! If you look, you'll see that I've even given one of your computers my IP address!!
Muahahahaha!
All your base are belong to us.
You are on your way to destruction.
You have no chance to survive make your time.
Hahahhahahaha.
I think there are many potential dangers in this age of computers and the Internet. It is good to be on guard at all times. I’m just not going to complain until I see a real threat.
You explained all that better than I did. ;-)
Gee, non routable.
Mine’s 10.1.1.256.
When did microsoft become interested in better software?
The files saved by the latest MS orifice are unreadable by earlier versions. Pages and pages of total gibberish.
If you 'save as' an earlier version, you can at least recover the text in an earlier version, too bad about the formatting, though.
Sounds like you failed to save it. Surely you wouldn't want MS "Saving" things you don't tell it to save... if they did you'd be ranting about THAT.
Oh, and MegaSuck Office Basic 2007 doesn't include PowerPoint. They did keep the malware LOOKOUT!, I mean, Outlook, though.
Powerpoint is a very specialized software most people don't need. If they included it in the BASIC version, people would bitch about THAT.
As for Outlook... I've used it for years without any problem. It's better than any other mail/calendar/contact manager I've seen.
Mine’s 10.1.1.256.
Yeah, that's another (Class A) one. We use that here at work, though the 192.168.x.x one would have sufficed.
Your home router assigns 10.x.x.x addresses? I haven't seen any myself that use it.
Do you mind saying what brand it is?
Oh, and MegaSuck Office Basic 2007 doesn't include PowerPoint. They did keep the malware LOOKOUT!, I mean, Outlook, though.
Powerpoint is a very specialized software most people don't need. If they included it in the BASIC version, people would bitch about THAT.
As for Outlook... I've used it for years without any problem. It's better than any other mail/calendar/contact manager I've seen.
I used to put a PC out there to see all the script kiddies go nuts. A machine named finance01 must be enticing;).
Behind my NATTED firewall, it (the fiewall) would log the attacks on the public side. Literally a 100 a day. I got so many I turned off the SNMP alerts I received for every one. Since I could modify the router's MAC address on the public side I used to change the public IP address I got and I still got hit with the kiddies. The plus side to a public address is I could set up a Citrix server for when my wife traveled.
Now that I have DSL, they stop outside access at the edge router and if you want to be able to get to your assigned IP address, guess what, it costs more!
That's always been the case. No software can read documents that were created on versions that did not exist when that software was written. And if you save it down, the only formatting that should be lost is formatting that was not possible in the earlier version.
It is a Netgear, I forget the model, it’s also wireless. The old Netgear came in a metal box, this one has a sleek plastic case and it only has one antenna.
If you turn off DHCP, you can assign probably any address you want of the non routable type although it would be pretty funny if it let you assign any address.
Did you not notice my funny in previous address?
They also thoughtfully totally changed the GUI interface, offering me an opportunity to re-learn how to use a familiar application.
I’m not bitching about that because it looks like once I do get the hang of it, it will actually be an improvement.
(Besides way back when, if you tried to close an application they would prompt you to save any documents, rather than assuming you didn’t want to save hours of work)...
localhost - WFM... ;)
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