[bookport] Re: Administrative Questions
- From: Paul Henrichsen <paulh52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:19:08 -0800
Hi, Larry. Plus you wouldn't want a student updating the transfer software
without the knoeledge of the instructor or the computer administrator.
At 3/23/2005, you wrote:
>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?
> >
> > 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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