Sean Miller wrote:
> I must admit that I wondered why it was so important to keep the
> children off the internet... my daughter is now 13 (going on 18) and
> needs the internet for her school homework... the expectation from her
> teachers is that she will have access and there are websites tha
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:40:13AM +0100, Christopher Chatfield wrote:
> I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years.
> I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra
> special game about to be released, that will only play on windows.
>
> I want to run windows in par
I must admit that I wondered why it was so important to keep the children
off the internet... my daughter is now 13 (going on 18) and needs the
internet for her school homework... the expectation from her teachers is
that she will have access and there are websites that she specifically has
to acce
Kris Douglas wrote:
> Additionally, anyone can circumvent a windows xp admin account with
> less than 10 mins of work, I have done it in genuine situations where
> a password was lost.
Same goes for Linux too - just reboot into recovery mode or boot from a
recovery CD. It'd be a very brave person
On 4/7/08, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kris Douglas wrote:
>
> > Additionally, anyone can circumvent a windows xp admin account with
> > less than 10 mins of work, I have done it in genuine situations where
> > a password was lost.
> >
> >
>
> I did this on my other half's laptop when I
Kris Douglas wrote:
> Additionally, anyone can circumvent a windows xp admin account with
> less than 10 mins of work, I have done it in genuine situations where
> a password was lost.
>
>
I did this on my other half's laptop when I was trying to print a CD
using my Windows only CD printer sof
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher Chatfield wrote:
> > I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years.
> > I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra
> > special game about to be released, that will only play on wind
Christopher Chatfield wrote:
> I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years.
> I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra
> special game about to be released, that will only play on windows.
>
> I want to run windows in paranoid mode, but there are other members
>
Christopher Chatfield wrote:
>
> How do I permanantly disable networking in windows XP so that
> my savy teenage children will not be able to enable it.
>
>
If you have savvy teenagers Christopher then you are probably wasting
your time!
It was having tech savvy parents in my teenage years tha
Sean Miller wrote:
> Couldn't you just uninstall the network drivers? There must surely be
> network drivers?
Yes, but it'll scream blue murder until someone re-installs them (nag
screens up the wazoo).
A similar but less nag-prone method would be to mark the network
hardware as disabled in D
Couldn't you just uninstall the network drivers? There must surely be
network drivers?
Sean
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Christopher Chatfield wrote:
> How do I permanantly disable networking in windows XP so that
> my savy teenage children will not be able to enable it.
Check that the game can run without being administrator. If the game can
only run as administrator, then you're sunk. (Note the difference
betwee
I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years.
I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra
special game about to be released, that will only play on windows.
I want to run windows in paranoid mode, but there are other members
of my household and I cannot afford a ded
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