RE: [Nolug] making windows more secure

--- Chris Reames <chris@drugfreemro.com> wrote:
> Ron,
> I think your slightly off on the corporation stands behind Windows.
> Its the whole corporate lemming thing again. The corporation
> doesn't get
> too close to Windows because there afraid they might fall out...and
> you know
> what that leads too.

It was supposed to be humorous/sarcastic. Guess I try harder
next time.

> It all started when the President got a corner office.
> I have windows, so if you want to be as important as me you have to
> get
> Windows too.
> Of coarse we all know Presidents don't do any work...they just want
> it to
> look "spiffy"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Ron Johnson
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:16 PM
> To: NOLUG ML
> Subject: RE: [Nolug] making windows more secure
>
>
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:11, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> > Even though it is possible to set up windows to retrieve and
> install all
> the patches from microstuff automatically, it is not receommended
> in many
> cases.
> >
> > For example one of the latest patches completely screwed up my
> AVID
> XpressDV program. After I uninstalled the patch, everything started
> to work
> normally.
>
> But, but, but... That can't happen, since a corporation stands
> behind Windows!!!!
>
> > Petri
> >
> > "Chris Reames" <chris@drugfreemro.com> wrote ..
> > > You forgot the Backup your registry every time you install new
> programs.
> > > Oh, and my favorite off the wall thingy, Install Windows to a
> CD-R or
> > > RamDrive.
> > >
> > > I did have a self extracting zip of windows 95 on a bootable CD
> (small
> > > Lab
> > > project), that is until I kept haveing to reinstall the newer
> versions
> > > of
> > > Office and IE. Pbbbbbth
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net
> [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> > > Behalf Of Joey Kelly
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 07:13 AM
> > > To: nolug@joeykelly.net; General@brlug.net
> > > Subject: [Nolug] making windows more secure
> > >
> > >
> > > Can anyone suggest anything I've overlooked on this page? Any
> help is
> much
> > > appreciated :-) You can add your comments on the site.
> > >
> > >
>
http://joeykelly.net/cgi-bin/scratchpad/index.cgi?MakingWindowsMoreSecure
>
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> Jefferson, LA USA
>
> "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever
> stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty
> must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted
> with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de
> corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual
> oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening
> into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be
> kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be
> smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when
> the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like
> a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom"
> Wendell Phillips
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