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re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Tom — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:09:00 GMT

I ran in to this same problem at my company. Something with our standard image under both win2k and xp prevented users from starting and stopped the service. A standard user on a fresh install was able to start and stop the service with no problem. It took me WEEKS to figure out that there was a service installed...it was literally the last place any of us thought to look...

So, I "solved" the problem by making the service automatic, just as you did.

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Gabe — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:34:00 GMT

You might also be able to give BUILTIN\Interactive permissions to start and stop the services.

re: Internet Explorer 7

yahia — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:40:00 GMT

thankuuu

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Jenni Merrifield (strawberryJAMM) — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 22:16:00 GMT

Adobe guy:

That's all well and good, and I absolutely have no problems with a software company's desire (and even need) for an activation process. The problem here is that Adobe's process for Photoshop CS, AS IMPLEMENTED, forces users to run the application under and administrator's acount. This, in turn, encourages users to always run as an admin account because then there are less hassles to worry about.

How Adobe is enforcing their activation is where the problem lies, not that they are enforcing it. There are many ways that the activation process for Photoshop CS could have been implemented that would not require users to run with an Administrator account or to enable a non-essential service for continuous background operation.

re: Adobe Photoshop CS activation doesn't play well with LUA

Adobe guy — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:30:00 GMT

Photoshop is pirated a lot more than Illustrator or ImageReady, so the activation is more strict

re: Internet Explorer 7

Walid — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 06:45:00 GMT

I personaly believe that Internet Explorer is smoother than any other web browser. If you check the new Netscape 8 Beta -you'll see that you can change the page format that you see between Netscape and Internet Explorer! We are talking about one of the leading Browsers in here -Surely FireFox is pretty good, but we shouldn't talk about security in here... have you seen Ocean's 12? Everything can be cracked!

re: Internet Explorer 7

Jenni Merrifield (strawberryJAMM) — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:47:00 GMT

<quote who="John">Who Cares.</quote>

Well, obviously, John doesn't.

<kidding>

We can tell this is true because he took that extra half a minute out of his day to make sure the rest of us knew that the topic was completely beneath his notice.

;-)

</kidding>

All kidding aside, I care - if for no other reason than that providing an even more secure version of IE to the general public makes the entire internet that much safer for everyone. The harder it is for the Bad Guys(tm) to expliot *any* specific internet facing software, the smaller the problems become for the whole internet community.

And, presumably, at least *some* of the people responsible for the more positive of the 647 comments[*] against Dean's post at the IE Blog also care. ;-)

[*] As of 4:37pm PST, Feb/16/2005