To whom it may concern,
I just joined this mailing list recently because I didn't think I had much to say. I don't know anything about UNIX. The tube on the 333Mhz Mac that I had for nine months burned out so now I have a H-P running Windows Vista.
The Gambit version I had on my Mac was 3.0. I downloaded the latest of this version on the new machine and found out that when you type a ( or ) you get angle brackets. So I downloaded 4.0.0 and a few later versions and found out in every case you get warnings from Microsoft that they never heard of these people, they don't have the right kind of code and they won't install it.
I assume some other people had have this problem. Why can't some of your people tell your ambassador to the United States tell our people that this is against NAFTA.
Does anyone know anyway of getting Microsoft's 'security' shield off the Gambit icon I've got?
Frank Gizinski
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On 30-Apr-09, at 4:13 PM, Frank Gizinski wrote:
I assume some other people had have this problem. Why can't some of your people tell your ambassador to the United States tell our people that this is against NAFTA.
Ha! Now I know April fool jokes can be pronounced on the last day of April too!
Marc
Frank,
(It's a little difficult to divine from your message exactly what you're encountering. I'm taking a scientific wild-assed guess here.)
Vista UAC presents those warnings when Vista launches an executable image that doesn't contain a code signature. You will see a lot of these when working with free software such as Gambit. If it's any solace, I encounter the same popup every time that I launch Emacs from Vista's interface.
You can choose either to ignore the warning popup and press "Continue," or else to avoid it by running gsi.exe from the cmd.exe command prompt.
Alternately, if you have Windows development tools and a valid code signing certificate for same (qv http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537361.aspx), you could build a custom gsi.exe image that contains the signature necessary to make Vista happy. Or you could <strike>castrate</strike> disable Vista UAC on your computer, but that's beyond the scope of gambit-list.
Ben
Frank Gizinski wrote:
[...] I downloaded 4.0.0 and a few later versions and found out in every case you get warnings from Microsoft that they never heard of these people, they don't have the right kind of code and they won't install it. [...]
Does anyone know anyway of getting Microsoft's 'security' shield off the Gambit icon I've got?
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