Am I being a jerk?

[shilala]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat
The simple answer is no, your not being a jerk.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Specop 007
This is why God made Ghost software.
Do a fresh install, updateit and make a ghost copy.
Then, reformats are 20 minutes away.

And get a password on it.

God is a programmer?

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
I don't let anyone on my computer, they can use my old one instead 🙂

Yep, I leave an old 550mhz in the corner of the living room for just this purpose. The default user account has access to Word, and Firefox, and the shared Laser Jet printer (which we all split paper and toner costs) The computer isn't great, but its fine for doing research/typing a paper if they are having computer problems.

 

[drinkmorejava]

lol
This is what I am going to do. First, I'd have my main account, then I'd have a Media Center Account that is bascially locked down. It would boot into Media Portal and if you exit or do anything, the thing would just shut down. For all the other crap that someone might want to do on the thing, I'd have a seperate hard drive that they can boot into and screw everything over on. The other hard drives would simply be windows encrypted and user locked so they wouldn't be able to screw them over.

For now, just kick him off, but a seperate HD would never be too much trouble.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Kibbo86
Personally, I think that letting people google on your computer is almost a point of etiquette. Not doing so is like having a phone and not letting people make quick calls on it.

Downloading anything onto someone else's computer is a serious no-no, though. It's like making 3 hour calls to Sri Lanka.

That's a... unique approach. I suppose it makes a little sense.

I can think of *very* few people that I would ever allow to use my PC... I can only think of one person that I would allow to use it while I'm not there, and there is less than a handful of people I would allow to use it while I *am* there. I guess I'm just picky about my computers and who can see/do what with my stuff. However, if I'm with friends (or whatever) and someone asks me to look something up for them, I'd have no problem with that.

As for the cell phone analogy... I don't quite think it compares. I'd let any of my friends use my cell phone for any reasonable amount of time if they needed to for some reason.