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By nvettese · Posted
Although I never owned one, I always thought MS has a great design and UI for their phones. I wish they would reconsider coming out with a Windows 11/12 phone. -
By +Eternal Tempest · Posted
This keeps happening with Intel Arc drives, since intel keeps releasing newer non-whql revisions. -
By +sphbecker · Posted
Is that the experience of a local account? I don't recall signing out of Edge being an option for them on Microsoft accounts. At the time, the MS default settings blocked 3rd party browsers like Chrome because they had no way to limit what was done without that browser. You are right, there isn't really a way to prevent someone from installing their own OS if they have local access to the system and the knowledge to do so. If someone is willing to go to the lengths of reinstalling an operating system, then you are really beyond protections like this. It would be like hoping a basic spring-loaded privacy lock can contain someone with lock someone with lock picking skills. My personal advice for a situation like that is that parenting isn't only about creating barriers, it is about growing, teaching, and trust. You don't want to see your kid as a hacker that you are trying to contain, you want to see them as someone who you trust to use a computer. If you don't feel that trust is justified, then maybe they shouldn't have unsupervised access to the computer. Even if you do have to set restrictions, there is an element of trust to those restrictions. When someone is grounded from leaving the house, you don't accomplish that by tying them down, you do it by setting expectations. The same applies to the digital world, you can set expectations that you expect them to follow, even if they are not digitally enforced. If they violate that trust, then the answer isn't to try different parental controls, it is to create consequences such as taking the device away for a few weeks. -
By JUANMAS7ER · Posted
Jokes on you, i hate Apple. -
By +sphbecker · Posted
I can't help but feel like MS is giving Windows 11 a spit-shine to get it ready for all the inbound displaced Windows 10 users. They still refuse to give people the things they actually want, but I guess they think silly options like this will at least make it look like they have options.
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Guest deadzombie
After my recent dive into Win32 open source software, I was thinking the community might benefit from a list of quality freeware/ open source applications.
Office Suite: OpenOffice (MS Office)
Photo Editor: The Gimp (Adobe Photoshop)
Browser: Mozilla (Internet Explorer)
Web Server: Apache (IIS)
Remove Access: TightVNC (Remote Desktop)
P2P File Sharing: Gnucleus (KaZaa)
FTP Client: SmartFTP (Any Commercial FTP Client)
TelNet/ SSH Client: Putty (Data transfer)
Compressed file extraction: ExtractNow (Winzip, Winace, Winrar)
Download manager: Star Downloader (Gozilla, Download Accelerator)
Network / System montor: Samurize (DU meter, Sysmeter)
bulletin board:Invision Board (vBulletin)
Compressed File Extraction:UltimateZip (WinZip, WinRAR, WinACE)
Download Manager:NetAnts (GoZilla, DAP)
IRC Client:BersIRC (IRC)
P2P Client:WinMX (Napster)
Anti-Virus:AVG Anti-Virus (Norton AV)
Image Viewer:SlowView (ACDSee)
Picture Editor:20/20 (MS Paint)
Office Suite:SOT Office (MS Office)
Icon Editor:Icon Sushi (Icon Workshop, IconXP)
As people post good freeware/ open source applications I will update this list. Please only post applications that have a known commercial equivialant.
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