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  • #1

    Windows bullshit

    Yes, this is a topic that go on forever, but I just have one question. I have two XP machines, one was a pre-loaded E-machine, and one is a Pentium 4 XP that I loaded from media.

    Each of these machines has four drives that are shared onto my laptop. The first time I shared them, I had to put in my username and password (on both machines), and now the E-machine drives don't require a password, but the Pentium 4 drives do. You don't have to tell me that an E-Machine is a piece of shit. I just need to know why I have to put the password in to connect the Pentium4. The drives are there, they just say "disconnected" until I click on them, then they want a password. The E-drives already say "connnected.

    Is there a setting somewhere?

    thanks
    Tags: bullshit, windows
  • #2
    OK, I was wrong

    All I had to do was double-click to connect the P4 drive, but the E-machines drives were already connected...so I had to open an extra window for each drive on the P4. It's still a pain in the ass, though.



    Whatever happened to Lindows? Lindows? Prooooooot!

    Did you ever fart while you were standing on the scale and lose three pounds?

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    • #3
      OK, there is a security tab that is on the sharing properties of one machine but not on the other. Does that help? Some different security is on the other machine.

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      • #4
        OK, I see how it works now. Your only choices are to set the view options to simple, which gives you no security, or turn this off, which means you always have to log in. It's kind of a pain in the ass, but it protects your data.

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        • #5
          Lindows became Linspire, sounds like you figured everything else out for yourself.

          I'm working on educating myself on OpenBSD so I can have the most secure OS and get away from this horrible one. The unfortunate thing is that windows is where all the application support is.

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          • #6
            Exactso, on all points. But now I have a print server, a media server and a laptop all hooked together with cute little pictures, I think I'll keep it. I do have access to a UNIX command line thanks to a generous person, but I don't fire up my 4-processor 2100 with three shelves, because it's enough to heat the neighborhood, and I can't afford the electric bill!

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            • #7
              I would be more than happy to take such a power-hungry annoying appliance off your hands for you

              Actually my websites run on a dual PIII 450MHz machine with half a gig of ram, and OpenBSD. All of the specs are listed at http://www.scary-guy.com/hitech.php although I just realized that I do need to update a few things.

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              • #8
                How would you get it home? I flew to California and put it in the back seat of the airplane. It just exactly fit. The seller said that it weighed 85 pounds, but it was actually more than 200. There are still dents on the wing from where we shoved it up there to put it in. I had taken the passenger seat out before I started, so that was where I put the monitor, with the seat belt around it.

                That was before I had the shelves and thirty or so drives. I threw the monitor out because you can use any monitor, but it still weighs 300 pounds, at least. I did save the special keyboard with the VAX and VMS keys on it. It will fit in a coach if you have a center bier pin...I've hauled it that way from work many times, and I always left the hearse in front of the entry door with the table pulled out the side for an hour or so.

                I've been hoping that a facility with the exact same equipment would buy it. There were still much slower ones running the labs when I left. I'll take any generous offer for it, though.

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                • #9
                  I'd find a way, although I was half joking when I said it, it was only half. If anything my geeky friend Paris would be down for a roadtrip in his landrover. He wanted me to go to Canada with him to pick up an SGI Onyx. The very one that rendered the wave ripple effect in the gate in Stargate SG1 (or so he was told) free, as they just didn't want it anymore. Honestly though I'm trying to save up for a new coach.

                  Oh and you've probably seen it but http://fun.drno.de/flash/howto_turn_...into_linux.swf

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                  • #10
                    That was pretty funny. I hadn't seen it.

                    thanks-d

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