I notice XP comes with "My eBooks", a proprietary format that has not been opened up to Unix or even Mac (when I last heard about it, may be fixed). I'm waiting for a "My Disney Trailers", right there on the desktop. Something that requires a reg edit to go away. I've already got "My Received Files", so there should be subdirs for "My Worms" and "My Macros". It's only reasonable, after all, to have this vendor specify a dir tree for the most common data this platform will deal with.
-- -j John Beamon On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jerald Sheets wrote: > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:26:05 -0500 > From: Jerald Sheets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > "My Sandbox" > > ...you just kill me, you know it? > > :-) > > --jms > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john beamon > > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:23 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > > > The Unix user base is anything but small. Most of the > > doctor's offices > > and small hospitals in this area run SCO; the biggest one > > runs AIX with > > PC's connected to it. Every interent account at EATEL or NTG > > is a Unix > > user account. I know one would think that POP and personal web space > > doesn't make one a "user", but that's the word the system > > uses when you > > add them. Of the millions of Linux desktop users out there, > > there are > > precious few who've ever been wormed by Lion or that thing > > ZDNet keeps > > saying jumps back and forth between Linux and Windows. What a load. > > People who run Linux all day logged in as root like that > > shoot themselves > > in the foot. That goes back to my suggestion that Windows > > really ought to > > have users work in a "My Sandbox" and prompt them for an > > Admin password > > when anything tries to make system changes. Unix doesn't > > have viruses > > because-and-when people don't run it as root. The famous > > sendmail worm of > > so many years ago hit sendmail because it runs as root, case > > in point. > > It's impossible for anything in my Linux email to infect a > > system binary, > > period. I could lose $HOME, but that's about it. > > > > -- > > -j > > > > John Beamon > > > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, mat branyon wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:52:30 -0500 > > > From: mat branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [brlug-general] security through obscurity > > > > > > i know the whole security through obscurity crap that microsoft is > > > trying to sell is crap. but if you think about it, *nix > > doesnt really > > > have many viruses because the user base is small (compared to M$). > > > you could say that well, ok, and i agree, the user base is > > also has a > > > minimum iq requirement, but then, i havent heard of mac viruses > > > either... just thought i would share a thought > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
