[bookport] Re: Administrative Questions
- From: "Robert Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:32:46 -0800
Hi Larry, I am the verage user Marlena was writing about. Please don't
leave us behind. The strengh of the Book port is that guys like me can use
it easily and comfortably.
----- Original Message -----
From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Administrative Questions
> Good question! We certainly don't want to make things more difficult
> for the average user, but at the same time, we don't want to enable a
> potentially serious upgrade for just anyone, say a student in a
> classroom.
>
> What brought this all up is that we want to correct any errors on the
> flash card before sending the firmware code to the card, and in order to
> correct the errors, Windows demands that the user has administrative
> privledges (which makes sense).
>
>
>>>> marlaina@xxxxxxxxxx Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:28:30 PM >>>
> Hi Larry. That would be no issue here, but I wonder if it would be an
> issue
> for the average, not high powered user who either is not the admin, or
> doesn't know what the heck that's all about. What benefit would be
> gained
> by this change?
>
> Marlaina Lieberg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:17 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Administrative Questions
>
>
>> How many of you on this list do _not_ run your PC as an
> administrator?
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>> This question only applies to Windows XP.
>>
>> We are thinking of requiring administrative privledges to perform
>> firmware updates, and we would like to get an idea of how this would
>> effect the general user.
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