"Charlie Tame" <charlie@tames.net> wrote in message
news:eYXOOqCSKHA.220@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly Known as Nina DiBoy'
> wrote:[color=green]
>> Mike Hall - MVP wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> "aa" <a@microsoft.ru> wrote in message
>>> news:u0YULZo%23JHA.200@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Nobody forced you to buy that HP
>>>>
>>>> Earle, if you read me carefully you will see that I do not complain
>>>> about
>>>> HP.
>>>> My complaint is about MS who forced HP to sell computers with VISTA
>>>> only.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [url]www.ubuntu.com[/url]
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>>
>> Wow, now I've seen everything, Mike Hall suggesting Ubuntu. :)
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>
>
> And not the best time to do it since most Linux has just had it's
> networking ability (With Windows via Samba) destroyed by the Samba
> developers, or at least that is what it looks like from here...
>
> Supposedly a security issue, but all my Windows (Inc Vista) can see and
> manipulate the shares on the Linux machines with no trouble, the Linux
> machines however can't see anything except the workgroup, so the Windows
> machines are made more secure but the linux machines remain blissfully
> ignorant of the fact that they are being observed :)
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Ubuntu 9.04 will see XP shares but there seems to be a problem with Windows
7......