From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 10:45:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8721E16A41B for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAAD13C45D for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:45:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so118110wxd for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.98.3 with SMTP id v3mr717059agb.1192702718774; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:18:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? ( [67.189.206.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d36sm924603and.2007.10.18.03.18.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:18:47 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <20071017234423.GA14106@parts-unknown.org> References: <20071017222348.GE834@gilmour.subvert.org.uk> <20071017234423.GA14106@parts-unknown.org> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20071018061434.044D.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.30.04 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:45:05 -0000 On October 17, 2007 at 07:44PM David Benfell wrote: [ ... ] > But I believe Firefox is also one of the few pieces of software > that can be installed on a Windows system without administrator > privileges; you just install it in the user account space, and > the Windows system will remember it with the rest of the "user > account settings" and not trouble other users of that system > with it. Please define 'administrator privileges' and how it is used at your place of employment. I know of several instances where simply using a piece of software that was not pre-authorised by the proper personnel, usually the SA, will get you fired. Most system administrators do not want their systems polluted with software that they did not install or authorized for use. The reasons are quite obvious -- Gerard