What microsoft has to say about XP

[Dotan Cohen]

I think that more people mould move away from WIndows if they read the notices 
on the microsoft website:
"The simple act of visiting an Internet site can be extremely damaging to the 
system"

from:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/...

Important to note that the article quoted's purpose is to convince the user to 
create and use a standard account, and not the system's default Administrator 
account. What this means is that the system's default beaviour is to make the 
simple act of visiting an internet site extremely damaging to the system. Why 
on earth would people use such an OS?

[Steven Pasternak]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 08:52, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>  I think that more people mould move away from WIndows if they read
> the
>  notices on the microsoft website:
>  "The simple act of visiting an Internet site can be extremely damaging to
>  the system"
>
>  from:
>  http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en
> -us/windows_security_whynot_admin.mspx
>
>  Important to note that the article quoted's purpose is to convince the user
>  to create and use a standard account, and not the system's default
>  Administrator account. What this means is that the system's default
>  beaviour is to make the simple act of visiting an internet site extremely
>  damaging to the system. Why on earth would people use such an OS? 
Marketing. Dos/Windows was big and popular before the rest because it was easy 
and UNIX was big and expensive. Once enough people realize that paying $600 
just for the OS and Office is a rip off, linux/unix will get REALLY big.

[Gordon Keehn]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> I think that more people mould move away from WIndows if they read the
> notices 
> on the microsoft website:
> "The simple act of visiting an Internet site can be extremely damaging to the 
> system"
>
> from:
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/...
>
> Important to note that the article quoted's purpose is to convince the user to 
> create and use a standard account, and not the system's default Administrator 
> account. What this means is that the system's default beaviour is to make the 
> simple act of visiting an internet site extremely damaging to the system. Why 
> on earth would people use such an OS?
>
>   
>  
    And how does this differ from the warnings against logging into 
Linux as ROOT?  The only difference that I see is in the fact that most 
malicious web content is (at the moment) directed at Windows.  Don't get 
me wrong;  I carry no love for Microsquat or for Windows, but if you are 
going to criticise, at least pick an issue which doesn't apply to both 
sides.  As my buddy Joe Friday used to say, "Only the names were changed 
to protect the guilty."
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

 The only difference that I see is in the fact that most
>  malicious web content is (at the moment) directed at Windows. 
actually the only difference is IE 
-- 
Regards,
Rahul Sundaram

[Walter Francis]

Who cares?  Wrong list.

playing audio CDs on FC4

[Gerhard Magnus]

Hello All,

	I'm running FC4 with a KDE desktop on a new Pentium 4 dual booting with
Windows XP.  Under Windows I can play and rip CDs on the DVD drive using
Windows Media Player without anything unusual happening.  (I mention
this only to eliminate the obvious hardware issues.)
	With FC4 the system recognizes my soundcard:
	Vendor: Intel
	Model: Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/RW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller
	Module: snd-hda-intel
and plays the usual test tune.
	The mixer KMix shows all the outputs turned on with 75% volume (except
for PCM which doesn't seem to have a mute function.)
	The CD players xmms and KsCD both appear to be playing from the drive
but I can't get any sound.

Thanks for the help,
Jerry