re: INFECTIONS: The old wives' tale put to bed
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by sekirt
(297 messages posted)
quote: "--though it's foolish and anyone with the slightest sense avoids it."
Um...thanks for saying I don't have the slightest sense.
You forget...IF I never had any security problems with Win98
and no security problems with Vista, then your comments are
only boogeyman stories and nothing more.
You may also want to warn me about elephants that will
trample my house. Like I should built a stronger house.
quote: "...and really, how hard is it to change a file's attributes once in a
blue moon?"
On average, I'd say 3 or 4 times a week. I already hate
zipped files, Linux would just be adding one more item.
OT
Let me ask you one question, because you probably know.
Can you view a directory (unsorted) in the order the files
were put onto the hard drive? So if I have 3 files, A B C
and I copy them to a directory in this order C A B, can I
see them in that order? The sorting that Windows does,
is what I don't like the most about NTFS systems. That is
my biggest complaint. Not at all concerned about security
but seeing the files the way I want to see them might be
enough to switch sometime in the future.
sekirt
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 6:24 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>sekirt wrote:
>|Thanks for the article. Very informative.
>|
>I'm very impressed with that author.
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>|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.
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>...and really, how hard is it to change a file's attributes once in a blue moon?
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>[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.)
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