That doesn't get installed until you install acrobat Reader, I
thought...  

Puzzled,

--jms

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of john beamon
> Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [brlug-general] security through obscurity
> 
> 
> 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
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
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