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This is a good example of why you shouldn't be able to copyright a TV guide.

Though the EPG isn't the only part of WMC that's lacking in Australia. I'd absolutely love Microsoft to partner with Austar and encourage them to release some PCI[e] card that we could plug in to a home brew WMC machine that can be used to directly watch and record Pay-TV. We have MyStar which is good, but really buggy. We seem to always have problems with it.

I already have something like this with my ISP, they called it the 'Friends' system.

Basically, you setup rules that state messages with a suspected spam level are held on the mail server, while an automated email is sent to the sender asking them to click a link which proves their a human being (Bots don't click them, so that eliminates almost all spam). Once the recipient clicks the link, they are added to the safe senders list and any held messages from them are automatically added to the queue to be downloaded.

The system works great, and in the 4 years I've had it, I've never had a single spam email, plus it's easy to check held messages to manually allow if the sender is too lazy, but often they aren't. It also sends a log every month that states any held messages, so you don't have to check for held messages, it tells you when it happens, which is also great.

mstefan wrote:

Out of curiousity, what kind of work do you do with VS2005 that requires that you run the IDE with elevated privileges? I run it normally, and haven't run into any issues so far with SP1 and the Vista update installed.

If you need to debug Windows services, you'll need to elevate for that. Attempting to attach the debugger to a Windows service w/o elevation causes an access denied error I think (Some error anyway).

That's it. More specifically, it's the organisation.

I hate that they took away the ability to enter the registered name in setup for Windows Vista. It is really annoying changing it every time you install software that retrieves the values from the registry (For various reasons).

Worst part is, if you run the x64 versions, you have to change it twice (Regular and Wow6432Node). It's also not set to the name you use during the OOBE-esque experience. While the regular one is set, the Wow6432Node version isn't and if I remember correctly, it sits as name: "Windows User" company: "Microsoft Corporation".

While I know enough about the registry to change it for myself, you can't expect everyone to know how to do this, plus the dangers involved.

W3bbo wrote:


Or do what more progressive places are doing and offer a relativly "unrestricted" service somewhere else, like kiosks in the cafeteria. Sure, block all the pr0n you want, but leave MySpace, Messenger, and other "social" websites available. It's not a classroom, it won't be a disruption. We've been doing that at my place with no issues (heck, the IT guys are even rolling out a free-for-all wifi service in their DMZ)

I tell ya, you would love every school in NSW in Australia then. Ever since the Department of Education and Training decided to act as the state's dictator on which parts of the internet are child safe, and which parts aren't, all control on the internet in schools has been taken away and sites are blocked at the source, the state's proxy. Things like Messenger are therefore banned in every school, and sites parents and teachers deem inappropriate are banned at the state level (Including that RateMyTeacher mentioned earlier). Also, under the scheme, the DET provides email accounts (Using Exchange, thank god for that) to all users and cuts off all web mail accounts.

The filter is also so out of whack that it detects lots of legitimate sites as bad for various reasons. RDP, LogMeIn and various other remote access sites/protocols are also banned (Including online proxies), and there is really no getting around it, short of signing up for your own ISP subscription, which is not going to happen at all.

All this came about two years after I had a very efficient ISA Server setup going really well for our school. We could provide local filtering, logging, caching, access banning and all sorts of things that suited our needs, then the DET brought in this internet nonsense and killed it with their upstream servers, forcing us to rebuild the server as another terminal as it was effectively dead.

Other things it kills, Google image searching is a no-go for anyone under year 11 and there are various other PITA things with it.

So before you start complaining about how bad filtering might be, think of the millions of students in NSW who are screwed at the source for their education.

I've seen the spam. When I setup a very old laptop with Windows 2000, I saw the popups within an hour of connecting to an unprotected network.

I don't think net send will ever be back, the service is completely gone in Windows Vista.

My 2 year old Vista laptop takes less than a second to resume from sleep, so it's not a macos exclusive feature.

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ZippyV wrote:

It even stinks for normal users. A couple of weeks ago I set up the backup so that it would take a weekly backup. The only thing that should be backed up is my C:\Users\ folder. I selected every option so that it would certainly backup every file from the users folder (like my emails (*.pst).
I started the backup and after 2 hours it was still backing stuff up. I cancelled it, removed the option to backup 'other files' so only documents, images, music, ... would be selected. I started the backup again and I noticed that it looked for pictures in the Program Files folder. I got a couple of games installed which have high-res textures in tga format so that's why my backup was taking so long and becoming so big.

Huh, I didn't know that. I went through the wizard and when it wanted to save and start the backup w/o actually selecting files/folders, I gave up on it.

I thought that was nice too. It's also nice that it shows it in the time and date dialog regardless of how long you have until DST starts/ends, and in which direction it goes.