I am trying to install one fucking application over a slow ass remote desktop link and have spent 15 minutes realizing that:

1. It wants me to add the URL of the mirror for the download to the trusted sites zone before it will allow it to proceed

2. The URL of the mirror changes every fucking time I click the link

3. There's no easily located option to disable this shit

Ironically, the URL is the download URL for Firefox.

Microsoft, please die in a fucking fire.

Microsoft fan boys that think I give a fuck that they know where the option to disable this is hidden, do not bother posting, you have missed the point of the thread, please jump into the previously mentioned fire.

2/21/2009 4:24:20 PM

damn son. angry much?

2/21/2009 4:48:24 PM

ibtl

2/21/2009 4:55:00 PM

uninstall the windows component called hardIE (add remove programs)

win

[Edited on February 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM. Reason : curl + nightly trunk that has static address]

2/21/2009 5:15:20 PM

Quote :

"damn son. angry much?"

My anger subsided when I located the Firefox installer on a network share, but yes I was quite upset

2/21/2009 5:30:20 PM

^^dont do that.

Just turn off IE ESC. Get your app, turn it back on (or not).

Server Manager -> Summary -> Configure IE ESC -> Off.

Just because you don't understand the system you work with, doesn't make it a bad system. People don't bitch and moan about learning linux, they just fucking learn it before trying to do something. Yet somehow nothing in Windows should ever require any background domain or product knowledge, God forbid you understand the system you are using on an ENTERPRISE SERVER PLATFORM.

[Edited on February 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM. Reason : .]

2/22/2009 8:07:03 PM

^

2/22/2009 10:53:58 PM

oh, noen, when will you ever learn... this is tech talk... the fact that it's made by microsoft makes it inherently bad.

that, and no amount of water pressure can wash all of the sand out of some people's vaginas

2/22/2009 10:56:59 PM

Neon won.

2/22/2009 11:10:02 PM

lulz

2/22/2009 11:15:54 PM

Quote :

"Just turn off IE ESC."

2/23/2009 12:18:31 AM

2/23/2009 4:36:36 PM

Quote :

"Just because you don't understand the system you work with, doesn't make it a bad system. People don't bitch and moan about learning linux, they just fucking learn it before trying to do something. Yet somehow nothing in Windows should ever require any background domain or product knowledge, God forbid you understand the system you are using on an ENTERPRISE SERVER PLATFORM."

damn

talk about a smackdown

2/23/2009 4:42:23 PM

^^ I'll bet he's wanking off. Just like all the Linux kids, they talk trash, but when they arrive at the Mecca, they nerdgasm just like everyone else

2/24/2009 3:56:13 AM

Noen, any insider info on whether MS is going to run the Windows Feedback Program again for Windows 7? I'm totally digging the free copy of Vista Ultimate they sent me

2/24/2009 7:24:48 AM

I don't have any inside scoop, but I would say it's possible, but I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't one for Win7. Unlike Vista, Win7 is being dogfooded internally big-time so there's a mountain of user feedback that was a much more difficult sell for Vista.

Not to say it won't happen, so make sure you are an active feedback user in the Beta

2/24/2009 4:23:20 PM