re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 6:24 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) sekirt wrote: |Thanks for the article. Very informative. | I'm very impressed with that author. |I wouldn't switch to Linux now for sure. |I want to flip a switch and do what I want to do with my computer. | There's nothing that says you **can't** run as root with ANY OS --though it's foolish and anyone with the slightest sense avoids it.[1] It is the OPPOSITE condition that is too often not available. As noted, Win9x and Puppy are examples which DON'T offer a secure option. ...and really, how hard is it to change a file's attributes once in a blue moon? [1] The only reason running as root is even an issue is that so many Windoze developers are so incompetent at their jobs --oh, and the fact that Micros~1 built such a lame permissions model to start with. (In ~1986, when M$ was getting started on Windoze, *n?x had one of those that had been working right for well over a decade.) Written in response to: re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 2:37 pm) Responses to this message: re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7:46 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 2:54 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (Steve: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 6:42 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Wed, Oct 7, 2009, 10:20 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 6:58 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:15 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (Steve: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 11:47 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 1:57 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (sekirt: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 5:37 am) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 2:05 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (sekirt: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 11:20 pm) re: Another serious blow delivered to the validity of EULAs (gewg_: Mon, Oct 19, 2009, 12:02 pm) The single biggest problem on the 'Net (was:...EULAs) (gewg_: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 7:28 pm) INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 2:03 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 2:37 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 6:24 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 7:46 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 10:53 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Wed, Nov 11, 2009, 11:20 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (gewg_: Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 8:25 pm) re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed (sekirt: Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 9:02 pm) "Ridiculous" (gewg_: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 12:31 pm) re: "Ridiculous" (sekirt: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 7:00 pm) re: "Ridiculous" (gewg_: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 8:54 pm) re: "Ridiculous" (sekirt: Wed, Dec 9, 2009, 11:50 pm) The relative ease of tasks under ______ (gewg_: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 9:13 am) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 9:30 am) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (gewg_: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 10:27 am) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 3:38 pm) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (gewg_: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 5:31 pm) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Thu, Dec 10, 2009, 10:04 pm) re: The relative ease of tasks under ______ (sekirt: Sun, Dec 13, 2009, 3:52 pm) Browsers (More thread drift) (gewg_: Sun, Dec 13, 2009, 7:33 pm) The "only has security via obscurity" thing debunked once again (gewg_: Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 3:58 pm) re: The "only has security via obscurity" thing debunked once again (sekirt: Fri, Jan 21, 2011, 8:06 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum