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Microsoft is a good company, really
emh:
By the way, I was curious what Lindows people said about it running as root by default, and it actually does not run as root by default:
http://info.lindows.com/askmichael/question9.htm
quote:
We leave the option of running as root or not up to the computer owner. During the installation (or easily from the Settings menu after installation), LindowsOS makes it easy to maintain and add user accounts which do not run as root.
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So basically, you can create user accounts at installation just like any other distro.
Zombie9920:
You didn't dislike making more money. You disliked what you had to do to get it.
You are right about not being happy with a job that you can't get into. However, not liking your job and not liking the money are 2 differnet things. I bet that at your current job that you seem to enjoy you are happy every time you get a raise. Right? The extra money helps you enjoy your outside life more on the same schedule that you are accustomed to. If you truely don't care about the money you would turn down a raise(nobody does that...LOL!!!). The higher income gives you more $$$ to do things like eat out at expensive restaraunts with your family, take your family to an expensive fun park/theme park, buy stuff to better your home and property, buy a better vehicle, buy really nice gifts for your wife/kids, etc.
Anyways, about Lindows. What do you think an OEM would do if they pre-installed Lindows on machines? They would pre-install it to run as root. Not everybody would know that they could change that(alot of people don't even know about user accounts in Windows XP for crying out loud).
As a matter of fact, some OEMs already pre-ship Lindows machines that run in Root by default(those $200 Lindows boxes@walmart made for the average joe consumer trying to save money).
[ September 28, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
Laukev7:
Don't forget that the same Walmart you're talking about also sells computers with Mandrake Linux, which provides users by default.
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by Viper:
You didn't dislike making more money. You disliked what you had to do to get it.
You are right about not being happy with a job that you can't get into. However, not liking your job and not liking the money are 2 differnet things. I bet that at your current job that you seem to enjoy you are happy every time you get a raise. Right? The extra money helps you enjoy your outside life more on the same schedule that you are accustomed to. If you truely don't care about the money you would turn down a raise(nobody does that...LOL!!!). The higher income gives you more $$$ to do things like eat out at expensive restaraunts with your family, take your family to an expensive fun park/theme park, buy stuff to better your home and property, buy a better vehicle, buy really nice gifts for your wife/kids, etc.
Anyways, about Lindows. What do you think an OEM would do if they pre-installed Lindows on machines? They would pre-install it to run as root. Not everybody would know that they could change that(alot of people don't even know about user accounts in Windows XP for crying out loud).
As a matter of fact, some OEMs already pre-ship Lindows machines that run in Root by default(those $200 Lindows boxes@walmart made for the average joe consumer trying to save money).
[ September 28, 2003: Message edited by: Viper ]
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But the point was that the more money you have the happier you are. He had more money back then and wasn't as happy as he is now with less money. so he was right in saying that the original post was incorrect.
Laukev7:
quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
But the point was that the more money you have the happier you are. He had more money back then and wasn't as happy as he is now with less money. so he was right in saying that the original post was incorrect.
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However, one could argue that given the same work conditions, one with a higher salary would be happier than the one with the lower salary.
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