Posts by Juha Saarinen
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__All these Windows messages sound annoying. They should have a setting that lets advanced users switch to a lower level of messages - only telling you if something's gone wrong, for example.__
On Vista, I can disable the UAC thingy. Doing so however turns off Protected Mode in Intarweb Exploder 7 (in theory a good thing to have) and... it makes Security Centre put up annoying alert bubbles about my system being in danger. So you go looking for the reason your system is "ïn danger" and find that it's because you turned off the UAC, and then you let out a long low moan that would pleasure Germaine Greer intensely.
I can turn off those Security Centre warnings too, but it's blanket setting - it means all those handy "Danger! Your computer will self-destruct in five seconds!" messages go as well.
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I've been to Neiman Marcus a few times, which makes it a little strange to read posts by Marcus Neiman.
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Oh yeah... we had Gravatars (that name sounds like Skeletor's bunk buddy) on Geekzone, but as you say, the whole thing ground to a mincing halt.
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I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning properly.
No, not really. I lie.
Un-copacetic coincidence of the day: HAL is stock symbol for Halliburton.
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Seriously though, there's no end of distracting and ultimately useless chattering in Windows. Microsoft unfortunately decided that there wasn't enough of it in XP, so it added even more for Vista.
The User Access Controls (UAC) is a good idea that will drive people mental with unnecessary dialogs that ask you for permission. Permission? For what? I'm just trying to change the paper size for the printer... why do I need to click through four dialogs asking me if I want to continue to do that?
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Nat and Peter Gutmann's talks yesterday were real eye-openers to say the least. It was good of InternetNZ to put together that conference, although a bit of me would like to grizzle at it being held just a couple of days before the deadline for the Select Committee submissions...
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Perhaps they had an urgent and simultaneous urge to micturate
... upon the Citizens and Ratepayers of Auckland from a great height?How come you have a picture but the rest of us got a target practice cut out? Hmm?
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The car is part of an "eco-system" that will culminate in toll roads soon. These will provide income both for the road builders and the by extension, the government. If you introduce rail or any kind of efficient public transport, you'll take out a big chunk of the money flowing into that system, which is one reason it won't happen.
There's no national railway system as such either...
We don't need to look to Europe to find better public transport than Auckland, incidentally. Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei are three places that I've been to that all have far better public transport - and they've had it for a long while. Even Kuala Lumpur has an MTR now. Yes, you can make all kinds of excuses as to why there's functioning public transport in every other city in the world bar Auckland but the main reason is... it's because none of the cities are Auckland.
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Leaving Teutonia aside and going back to Russell's post and Matt Nippert's very good story, it reminded me of this LA Times one about the Gates Foundation.
I guess it's very had indeed to Do No Evil...
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I've been a tiny bit active with this stuff... which ties up with the above. Not a substitute for Tuuli attack missile hovercrafts, but maybe not a bad idea?