Linux-Advocacy Digest #900, Volume #33 Wed, 25 Apr 01 04:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: MIcrosoft: Words, denial and WTF! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Windows 2000 - It is an excellent product (GreyCloud)
Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft! ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Blame it all on Microsoft (Jerry Coffin)
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: soc.singles
Subject: Re: MIcrosoft: Words, denial and WTF!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:29:00 -0400
Matthew Gardiner wrote:
>
> Yes, this is another look at the Microsoft machine and the arrogance it
> displays. First of all, this all MHO, no more, no less, however, most
> Linux advocates and ex-windows users probably agree with me.
>
> Patches, bug fixes, service packs, normal words in the world of
> computing, no OS are immune to bugs and problems, however, how one word
> these problems is an interesting topic.
>
> Lets look at the SUN, a UNIX power house, they refer to Solaris OS
> updates and bug fixes, as "patches". Thus telling the public, there have
> been some errors in the Solaris (or what ever) product, and here are
> some files to correct the problem, and on top of that, here are some new
> features. Lotus refers to these files as either fixes or patches, thus
> going along the same line as SUN for the reasoning, both have taken
> responsibility for the errors.
>
> Now we come to Microsoft, who don't call them "patches" or "fixes", but
> "service packs", thus avoiding the admittance that maybe in one of their
> products there is a bug. Talk to a Microsoft rep. and they prefer to
> call it an "update", as if to say to the customer that it enhances the
> reliability even more, whilst making sure they don't mention the fact
> that they (Microsoft) were too sloppy to ensure that there weren't any
> bugs in the original code.
>
> Security alerts are even more hilarious, they are not referred to as
> "security holes" or "bugs", instead they are called "security
> vulnerabilities", thus offloading the responsibility for "creating the
> hole" on the shoulders of hackers/crackers/script kiddies, instead of
> taking the responsibility themselves for the error.
>
> The arrogance goes further than mear words, it heads into their
> advertising, there customer service, the whole company culture that
> surrounds Microsoft. You ring up Microsoft because Visual Basic 6 (with
> latest service packs) doesn't work with Microsoft Office 2000, the first
> question you get asked it how you are going to pay for the support! I
> shelled out $350 fucking dollars, why the hell should I shell out even
> more money to line Bill Gates Pockets? I paid for the software, I want
> the support that goes with it. Compare that to SUN, I have a copy of
> SUN Forte Developer 6, I didn't even have a support contract with SUN
> and they still helped me, so it definitely shows where each companies
> priorities lye.
>
> Office XP, yet another over hyped, under performing suite. The people I
> know, who kept with Lotus Smart Suite are quite happy about the fact
> that they aren't on the upgrade tread mill, and the cost of it has
> stayed constant, and in some cases gone down since the original
> purchase. Compare what you get for $NZ300, Lotus Smart Suite,
> w/Database, Browser, Wordprocessor, etc etc, compared to Microsoft's
> $1300 suite which does the same thing! when are people going to wake up
> to the hype, its a black hole, sucking users in with the promise of
> enhanced productivity, however, once sucked in, and have relised that it
> has not delivered, they dare not tell anyone of their stupid decision,
> and they stick with Office, even though Corel Wordperfect Suite 2002,
> Lotus Smart Suite 2000, or StarOffice could have achieved the same feats
> at 1/10th the price.
>
> Matthew Gardiner
>
> --
> Disclaimer:
>
> I am the resident BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell)
>
> If you don't like it, you can go [# rm -rf /home/luser] yourself
>
> Running SuSE Linux 7.1
>
> The best of German engineering, now in software form
I just wanted to see that again.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:30:06 -0400
JS PL wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > JS PL wrote:
> > >
> > > "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > JS PL wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > >
> > > > > > > And your a College Educated Unix Engineer.....who only uses
> > > > > Windows..Pffft..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Even after I explain the deception, he still doesn't get it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Explaining something which is possible isn't proof that your doing
> it.
> > > Your
> > > > > using Windows98 and lying about it. Your worse than Devlin who uses
> it
> > > and
> > > > > claims he's forced to do it.
> > > > >
> > > > > > > After you deal with your own lies, you can begin throwing
> > > accusations
> > > > > > > around.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, what college campus did you trespass upon?
> > > > >
> > > > > SDSU - dropped out after a year, and have never looked back.
> > > >
> > > > LOL. me, a 4 year degree vs. JS PL, a college drop out!
> > > >
> > > > Matthew Gardiner
> > >
> > > I did have a paragraph written in response to your 4 year degree
> bragging
> > > but have decided against posting it. But believe it or not the easiest
> money
> > > is found in places where 4 year degrees mean nothing.
> >
> > AS a fellow college drop-out (financial reasons), I must say
> > that you, JS PL, are an uneducate moron, and Mr. Gardiner's
> > use of logic, facts, and fundamental computing principles
> > indicates that he is a highly qualified authority.
>
> Uneducated, perhaps, I quit for financial reasons myself. I was busy making
> 80k a year racing standarbred horses around the US. We would get a good
> laugh at the supposed "highly educated" lot that couldn't handle the
> business for more than a year, and nearly always left BROKE.
And your horse racing experience makes you an expert in computing how, exactly?
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:31:03 -0400
Chad Everett wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:40:10 -0400, JS PL <hieverybody!> wrote:
> >
> >"Edward Rosten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:9c3h9m$bo6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > I did have a paragraph written in response to your 4 year degree
> >> > bragging but have decided against posting it. But believe it or not the
> >> > easiest money is found in places where 4 year degrees mean nothing.
> >>
> >> That would be working at McDonalds. You require no degree, no skills and
> >> little more than a brain stem. Has to be the easiest source of (not very
> >> much) money.
> >
> >I wouldn't call working at McDonalds "easy money". It looks like a pain in
> >the ass to me.
> >
>
> Well one thing that really chaps me is the state to which the profession
> of grocery bagging has fallen. Grocery bagging used to be an honored
> skilled job for many a high school and college student. It is an
> art that requires proper techniques of load balancing and weight
> distribution. Cokes don't go on top of bread and eggs, etc. etc.
>
> At least in the town I live in, grocery baggers have become a pathetic
> breed of pea-brained gorillas who couldn't load a decent bag of
> groceries if their life depended on it. A monkey from the zoo
> could bag groceries better than these neandrethals they have
> working the local grocery stores.
Now THERE's an idea....
...and they work for peanuts!
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:31:37 -0400
JS PL wrote:
>
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > JS PL wrote:
> > >
> > > "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > >
> > > > > And your a College Educated Unix Engineer.....who only uses
> > > Windows..Pffft..
> > > >
> > > > Even after I explain the deception, he still doesn't get it.
> > >
> > > Explaining something which is possible isn't proof that your doing it.
> Your
> > > using Windows98 and lying about it. Your worse than Devlin who uses it
> and
> > > claims he's forced to do it.
> > >
> > > > > After you deal with your own lies, you can begin throwing
> accusations
> > > > > around.
> > > >
> > > > So, what college campus did you trespass upon?
> > >
> > > SDSU - dropped out after a year, and have never looked back.
> >
> > Says it all, really.
>
> Says what? I was making more at in my twenties way back in the 80's than you
> claim to make now!
And racing horses in your twenties makes you a computer expert how, exactly
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:34:12 -0400
Weevil wrote:
>
> Aaron R. Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Chad Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > No wonder you guys are MS haters. You were brainwashed for 4+
> > > years about the evils of Corporate america while you were taught
> > > archaic technology and then dumped into a Corporate america with
> > > no real skills, but lots of knowledge but computer systems which
> > > haven't been used in 15 years.
> >
> > If that were the case, then we would hate Sun, HP, Oracle, SGI,
> > Informix, etc.
> >
> > Purdue didn't say fuck about corporate vs. non-corporate stuff.
> >
> > We were taught good ENGINEERING, and also how *not* to be bad engineers.
> >
> > The reason I hate Mafia$oft is because all of their products
> > fail to pass basic design laws and quality tests.
> >
>
> That's not a reason to hate them; that's a reason to pity them.
Not when they PROHIBIT OEM's from installing better OS's and software
instead.
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
------------------------------
From: GreyCloud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 - It is an excellent product
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 00:33:51 -0700
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>
> "Chronos Tachyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message news:nJoF6.27388$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Tue 24 Apr 2001 05:23, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> >
> > [Snip]
> > >>
> > >> Hint: "Run As Different User" is not the same as setuid. Under Linux,
> > >> you don't need to know the root password to burn a CD using this
> method.
> > >> I currently use the "Run As" kludge on the Win2K box I maintain for a
> > >> friend when he wants to burn CDs.
> > >
> > > You can certainly create an adminstrator account that doesn't allow
> > > logging in to use for this purpose.
> >
> > So, let me get this straight: I create a new account, give it membership
> > in the Administrators group, make sure that I've disabled *every* possible
> > way of abusing it (including logins, SMB, and remote access), then give it
> > a zero-length password. Then, when the user double-clicks on a shortcut
> > with the "Run as different user" option, have them manually type in the
> > name of this special account, leave the password blank, and click on OK.
> > Yeah, real intuitive.
>
> Who said anything about intuitive? Like changing permissions of on the
> device files are intuitive, or making something setuid is intuitive.
>
> > If I've erred in any way, please tell me exactly what I'm overlooking. I
> > really wouldn't mind Win2K so much (other than the ridiculous price) if it
> > didn't seem so thick-headed compared to Linux.
>
> You're bitching about intuitiveness, then claiming that Linux is somehow
> more intuitive?
>
> I've got one for you. How do you DENY access to a file or device to someone
> that is in a group that has access to that device? You can't in any
> unix-like permission structure.
>
Well, FWIW, I use ASET. Solaris 8 can deny any user from any device.
When I first started up solaris I had a hard time getting my regular
user account to print to a local printer. It kept coming up with "no
access permission to lp". I had to go into root and use ASET to change
permissions there. I was later told that all I had to do was change any
permissions to either lp or ghostscript, which I'm using.
> > [Snip]
> > >>
> > >> Um, huh? I've never seen ACLs on individual device drivers anywhere in
> > >> all the time I've tinkered with Win2K.
> > >
> > > Haven't tinkered much then, have you. *EVERY* file in the filesystem
> has
> > > individual ACL's. What do you think the security tab is for?
> >
> > Oh, so by "change the ACL on the driver", you mean "go hunt for
> cryptically
> > named *.SYS files under C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS". Do you change
> > permissions on aspi32.sys, or atapi.sys, or cdrom.sys, or ..., or all of
> > the above?
>
> And how is that any different from hunging down a cryptically named /dev
> file?
>
> aspi32.sys is the file. atapi or cdrom.sys or scsi.sys should already be
> started.
>
> > For the record, I managed to get things working as non-Administrator. I
> > already had C:\WINNT readable/executable by Everyone, and I enabled
> > loadable drivers per your suggestion. Thanks.
>
> You're welcome.
>
> > >> Besides, this Linux option grants
> > >> exactly one program (the CD writing software) the right to directly
> > >> access the drive, whereas what you suggest gives that right to ALL
> > >> programs run by the permitted user(s). Given the fact that CD-R drives
> > >> are somewhat notorious for causing flakiness (under any OS), I would
> > >> think that the ability to restrict access to a trusted program or two
> > >> would be a wise thing, especially if you didn't fully trust the
> user(s).
> > >
> > > And the Run As option does just this.
> >
> > Not to my knowledge. Any user can create a shortcut to any program with
> > the "Run As" box checked and try to run it as "Administrator"
>
> Not if you deny them access to the "Run As" service.
>
> > Better yet, you can make a program setgid to a special group, then alter
> > the permissions on whatever file you want to protect to permit access only
> > by that group. The beauty is that, once set up, it's all automatic and
> > transparent to the users.
>
> You can do the same with setting the permissions of the driver to a specific
> group.
>
> > >> I'm not familiar with any way in Win2K that you can use a script to
> grant
> > >> or revoke membership in an arbitrary group based on whether or not a
> user
> > >> is logging in locally. Perhaps you could elaborate?
> > >
> > > You can use a script to check for interactive access, then add or remove
> > > their account from a group that is given access.
> >
> > What language is this script written in?
>
> Any Windows Scripting Host script, such as VBScript, JScript, Rexx, Perl,
> etc...
>
> > Does it have to reside in a certain directory?
>
> Why would it?
>
> > Do you need to alter the registry to tell it where it is?
>
> Why would you?
>
> > How does it determine if the user is interactive or not?
>
> By calling a function to determine so.
>
> > Does it run with Administrator permissions
>
> During login, yes, it can. If it didn't, login scripts couldn't be used to
> modify the computers environment that the user would not normally be able to
> do.
>
> > Does the altering of group permissions by an Administrator
> > take affect immediately, and if not, does the login process halt while the
> > script runs?
>
> This makes no sense.
>
> > Does the script continue to function if the user's account is
> > stored remotely in a domain? Can you post some example source code, or a
> > link to some?
>
> If you don't know anything about NT login scripts, why don't you say so.
--
V
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Justice Department LOVES Microsoft!
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:34:38 -0400
"B.B." wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> @You're making the mistake of assuming the JS PL ever attended college
> @in the first place.
>
> On the upside, his .sig is of a fairly reasonable length.
>
And your point is?
> --
> B.B. --I am not a goat! [EMAIL PROTECTED] @airmail.net
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: Jerry Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.theory,comp.arch,comp.object
Subject: Re: Blame it all on Microsoft
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 01:36:09 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
[ ... ]
> AT&T (multi-platform OS,
MULTICS predates UNIX. Though AT&T was one of the contributors to
MULTICS, they didn't originate it. IBM had a number of multi-
platform OSes prior to MULTICS anyway.
> Texas Instruments (first IC chip)
And contrary to your statement below, the first microcontroller as
well.
> Intel (first Microprocessor)
> MIT (share your code with your friend (original "hacker")/Open Source culture)
Nonsense. Ward Christen (an IBM employee) was giving XMODEM away
when RMS was still just an obnoxious, pretentious loudmouth. Oh wait
-- RMS is an obnoxious pretentious loudmouth to this day...
> MOSTEK (microcontroller)
Not so. This originated at TI, largely by a guy named Gary Boone.
It was argued for years (in court) but MOSTEK wasn't in the running
in any case -- the choice was between TI and a guy who had a patent
on a computer system, that he later rewrote to include wording saying
the system would be built on a single chip. The courts noted that
there was no indication that he'd even contemplated that part until
after TI did it, so they ruled that TI had rights to it.
> DEC (standardization of the 8-bit byte as the standard base memory unit)
What DEC computer used 8-bit bytes before the IBM 360 series did?
> US DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) TCP/IP
DARPA itself mostly provided funding. The people they funded are the
ones to blame for this particular mess.
--
Later,
Jerry.
The Universe is a figment of its own imagination.
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