Excellent Brian! yeah i can relate to a lot of that. you know you
cannot delete msie cookies? there is an undeleteable index.dat file
that summarizes them and restores them when you restart. but i found
out how - boot to dos prompt - delete them when windows is not
running. another invasion of privacy file is that user.dat. drag that
file over wordpad sometime and look inside it - it has a record of
everything you/your computer has ever done since its first boot. i
deleted that thing too. and you know that login window for microsoft
networking that comes on when you boot? never use your real name in
that window. it attaches to your cookies and sends them out to every
advertiser on the internet. better to use something like root or admin
or billgates. and system.dat - that is a huge file - storing every
little thing your computer does, that really isn't necessary. ever
been online with no windows open but all the sudden you see data
transmitting? C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WUCRTUPD.EXE - sending those private
files back to M$. open up scheduled tasks you will find it there. hard
to delete too. it says:
This task is created by
Windows Critical Update Notification program
and should not be modified or removed.
uh huh. sure M$. i don't think so. go to the advanced menu in
scheduled tasks and select STOP.
heheee
Kireau Kendrick
The Cybercafe Search Engine
Cafe Cybercaptive, San Mateo, CA
http://cybercaptive.com
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Brian TheGreat wrote:
> Yes of coarse it will affect us. It will be more money
> paid by the customer to microsoft intsead of the
> cafe's. Why do you suppose M.$. is doing it. It's the
> big "sell nothing but services" game. That way you pay
> and pay and pay and.... Get it? So this is something
> to avoid like the plague. Imagine a world without
> ownership? It's a story of total dependancy. Not only
> of momopolistic operating systems, but of all
> software. I can't even buy a gateway computer without
> a microsoft operating system. It wouldn't even work if
> I tried to use UNIX instead, because the modem is a
> "win" modem. If I get a computer these days, I have to
> choose a windoze machine or specially order/build it
> myself out of special peices. It won't get better,
> only worse, till we all vote with our pocketbooks.
> They are getting into this now, but next move will put
> the software rented in the former customers home and
> you are brushed aside. In the end, everyone will pay
> more. Look at the ludacrous prices M.$. elready
> charges for their entrenched software. Of coarse it's
> cheap to free to educators. That's so they can
> indoctrinate the future to a microsoft view of
> computers. What are those other strange programs
> anyways? Avoid M.$. where-ever possable. They are
> selling perceptions and brand rather than efficiency
> and self control or flexability. M.$. wants it all:
> The internet, OSes, Apps,... Imagine them controlling
> Intel? We already almost don't have any choice. It's
> their way or the highway. Lack of a choice is a lack
> of freedom. M$ is already too powerfull considering
> their monopolistic behavior. It's not about being the
> best at something anymore, it's about being the
> nastiest at everything. What's wrong with Paradox for
> a local database & Oracle for network database? Lotus
> 1-2-3 for a spreadsheet? What software are students
> taught by default? What software does the Govt. use?
> What about writeing a letter with the wonderful
> application called WordPerfect? (probably the best
> word processor and not a microsoft product)
>
> Are M.$. OSes/Apps.:
>
> cheaper? no.
> More efficient on system resources? Insufficient
> memory to answer question.
>
>Faster?...........................................................................................
> Compact? bloat bloat bloat.
> Secure? Ha ha ha.
> More stable? "It should be called windows Blue Screen
> of Death."
> Can you control what's happening to your machine, etc.
> better? Not a chance.
> Do you like haveing IDs attached to your documents? Do
> you like haveing I.E. grab control from netscape and
> refuse to let it back? What nasty little things are
> happening inside your computer that you can't see
> happening? What is the reason you just about NEED to
> have 64meg of ram on your computer these days. (other
> than CAD or other Graphics rendering software) On this
> licenseing thing...if we snoose, we die as an industry
> unless we just want to be a restaurant with computers.
> Imagine if you bought a boat and were told you
> couldn't rent it or loan it to others? What if you
> were sold a horse and told that only one person could
> ride it? So what gives software sellers the right to
> say how you can use the computer you bought? Why can't
> you send the disc back to the company for a refund if
> you don't agree to that agreement that you never could
> read without: buying , opening, and beginning to
> install the software. Microsoft wouldn't keep tabs on
> your useage and information for
> marketing(advertisers), and strategic planning while
> you use their software online right? Oh...did you
> think you could use it offline? Maybe...it might wait
> till you connect again to report back to daddy Gates,
> or just decide to connect for you. In any case, I'm
> sure cookies, active-X, java, and such would probably
> be required. Imagine how my firewall would act...
> By the way, isn't ASP supposed to stand for Active
> Server Pages?
> I send this to you through M.$.I.E. on a win'95
> computer over a win-modem through the ISPs M$N.T.
> machine to yahoos' M$IIS machine to your M.$.N.
> account where you read it on your win'98/winME/win2000
> machine with M.$. Outlook/express and cut& copy it to
> your M.$. Word document and it is assigned a secret
> ID#
> I know it will be directed over seas (at least to the
> UK) where it is filtered by the echelon spy network (I
> will reject 2 persistent cookies when I click send,
> but first I must re-logon to AOheck because it boots
> me every 3.47 minutes if I lock my firewall)
> This all makes me so weary.
>
> Brian Frasier.
> NorthEast Digital.
>
> --- from skyblu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Below is a VERY interestint article about Microsoft.
> > Do you think they will
> > work with smaller cafes? I wonder how this will
> > affect all of us???
> >
> > Karen
>
>
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