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Re: M$ - so what should they do?
From: Todd Burroughs <todd () hostopia com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:37:22 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
No way! Am I the only person who still uses "copy con filename.txt" to create scripts and such at the command line? Please tell me I'm not?I think the intent is that "con as a special filename in every directory" has to go away - you'd still be able to use copy c:\something\con filename.txt (Remember, us Unix people have had to use /dev/tty and /dev/null and /dev/zero for 3 decades, and never minded that 'tty', 'null', and 'zero' didn't exist in every single directory)....
Does this really matter? On UNIX I can can use /dev/whatever in any directory and I have to have that access to make UNIX work. Not having /dev/null available in every directory breaks things, I rely on it being there... The OS controls my access, I assume Windows does the same thing. Maybe having "magic" names that don't start with '/dev' (i.e., some known prefix) is a mistake, but I think that's a minor issue. Personally, I think the design of the registry and having apps like a GUI and web browser intricately tied into the OS is a very bad design and is at the core of the problem. Another is that MS is a marketing company, so they do things to gain and keep market share. That's been discussed to no end ;-) Microsoft would come a long way, very easily, in security if they made it so that you usually run things as a user, not "root" or "Administrator". Lindows has this wrong and if it gets popular, it will have similar problems. Unfortunately for MS, if they make things harder, Linux starts to look easier... Todd _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Todd Burroughs (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Todd Burroughs (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Aditya, ALD [ Aditya Lalit Deshmukh ] (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Duncan Hill (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Mohit Muthanna (Jun 22)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Ciro Spider-Man (Jun 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Stuart Fox (DSL AK) (Jun 21)
- RE: M$ - so what should they do? Eric Paynter (Jun 21)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? tcleary2 (Jun 21)
- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Eric Paynter (Jun 21)
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- Re: M$ - so what should they do? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 21)