__/ [ Richard Rasker ] on Thursday 21 December 2006 20:14 \__
> We all know most hardware makers are quite clueless when it comes to
> supporting anything but the most insecure OS on earth. We also know that
> lots of Windows software still requires admin rights to work properly.
> And now D-Link comes up with this:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/dlink_wlan_lusers/
>
> So in order to use the single most insecure type of network connection on
> the single most insecure OS, one has to use the single most insecure type
> of account there is. My brain hurts.
>
> Poor, poor Windows users. And my poor, poor mail account, with a new
> record of 1500 spam messages in one day - courtesy of Microsoft's "great
> software" ...
Heh. Don't believe it 'till you see it. This afternoon a friend of mine sent
this latest weird discovery.
http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/12/11/xara-xtreme-pro-crippled.html
You can only draw if you have sufficient rights
'A vector drawing program that requires Administrator rights to even make a
simple drawing, would you call that Xtreme? Well Xara LTD seems to have no
problem at all releasing such software, and even call it "Xtreme Pro".'
I keep telling his to migrate to Linux. He was on the verge of picking
Ubuntu. He used to do a lot of RISCOS and GNU.
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