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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Hap on October 01, 2007, 09:55:20 PM
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http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=741891990
A funny A/V spoof of Vista.
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Can't watch it. It requires a Flash player and ActiveX to be enabled.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Can't watch it. It requires a Flash player and ActiveX to be enabled.
Who's afraid of a little activeX and some fishy flash .... :noid
(Beater pc hint hint )
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Speaking of ActiveX, I'm surprised to see it used on certain home page. :noid
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Wasn't my idea and you can disable the auto-stream in Windows Media player. I have it disabled on my systems.
Not worth the potential of getting something nasty on my local area network Rosco. I really enjoy not having to run all that gawd awful software on my computer such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-Internet, blah, blah, and blah.
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yea yea ... I can hear ur pc squeeking all the way over here .... It wants out like a 15yr old on a friday night .
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Can I disable activex and are there alternatives?
I took a class last semester that mentioned ActiveX briefly, Not my vocation but it was an Overview IT auditing class. I guess I should have studied that in more detail. Now I will. I passed though.
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In IE, go to Tools, then Internet Options. Click on the Security tab, then "Custom Level". I think all of the ActiveX stuff can be turned off there.
Short version of why I don't use ActiveX- Skuzzy says it's evil, and apparently a popular way to wind up with all sorts of spyware, viruses, malware, etc.
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Make sure you turn off java too then, and flash, oh and don't read PDF files, or look at images (GIFs or JPGs).
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Hehe, Just use LYNX under Linux and be done with it. :D
Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does. :)
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that video was hilarious, but just before it ended my system lock me out the boged down and crashed. I think that it is all a plan by Gates to make you mad. RED HAT is the only way to go for me at the moment. open code for all.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Hehe, Just use LYNX under Linux and be done with it. :D
Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does. :)
Skuzzy, Absolutely right on about Adobe! Plus it's a resource hog. Dumped it long ago...and Foxit just recently updated itself for the better on a number of fronts. :aok http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Hehe, Just use LYNX under Linux and be done with it. :D
Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does. :)
dude THANKS for that one, love it! it is a ton faster and easier to use... and get. at my company I have been distributing acrobat reader 7.0 as 8 was even worse...
this is going to be rolled out company wide this week I think!
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Oh, and stop using Adobe Acrobat, for crying out loud. Foxit is much smaller, faster and is not prone to phoning home like Acrobat does. :)
gonna check that out too. I'm a heavy user of AA.