[Gllug] MS grumbles (was: take a lookat my photos on Facebook)

[Avi Greenbury]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:28:28 +0000
John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:04:15 +0000 Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 6 Nov 2009, at 10:07, John G Walker wrote:
> > > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:56:58 +0000 Dan Kolb <gllug at eco.li> wrote:  
> > [...]
> > > That's fine. Its a good attitude to take to selling a cheap
> > > product that
> > > doesn't do very much. What's shocking is that this remains the
> > > core of a multi-user, networked computer.  
> > 
> > ... albeit one that is more typically only used by a single person  
> > with occasional guest usage.
> 
> Probably true for a home user. But home users are not the only people
> who use Windows.
> 
> I use it at work, and I've yet to find how to lock the computer when
> I'm away from it, for example,
> 

<start><l> as you leave?
Or set the screensaver to require a password when you get back. It's
not ideal, but I'm not aware of a better alternative for any other
platform (though that using-the-mic-as-sonar thing that appeared on
slashdot the other week looked interesting).

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