Re: [JOB] Senior Perl .. etc. etc. Bounce

2001-12-21 Thread Paul Makepeace

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:40:31PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:26:00PM +, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:
> 
> >... while talking to mx09.hotmail.com.:
>  RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> So, he's bought a domain but not any actual mail storage or anything
> tedious like that. Ho hum. Not exactly "professional-looking", is it?
> Give me a demon.co.uk account any day...

I can sympathise with their position -- if you set up your own mail
system (say, MTA+popd) it's a whole lot less accessible than a
hotmail/webmail account. Even if you can get to a cafe' you would then
have to have open access to your pop3d or imapd (gasp!) to the world --
not a pleasant prospect. And you'd still be in the position where POP
sucks compared to webmail.

I think redirecting to a webmail account is perfectly reasonable
thing to do.

YMMV,
Paul

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Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Benson

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:46:55PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> 
> However, in file sharing situations, Unix's (default?) permission system
> is utterly useless, and not nearly fine grained enough to cope with real
> requirements in large offices. I once had a Unix sysadmin guy tell me
> that if my requirements for access to files were more complex than the
> system could deliver, then "I was just being disorganised, I should
> think harder about who really needs access to this stuff". I felt like
> punching the guy.

I quite like the RedHat scheme of one GID for each UID.  Then add users
to the relevant groups.  It breaks when number-of-groups exceeds some 
small power-of-2 but works well until then.
 
> I've never looked into it but I imagine there are third part addons for
> some Unixes that giver better permissioning capability. Anyone know of
> any?

Solaris and HP-UX were mentioned, I'll add AIX.  AIX can do ACLs on NFS too
(but only with another AIX).  As others have said all different.  So what
you really want is a filesystem that is not platform specific: how about
DCE/DFS that has ACLs, works across all Un*x (and  PCs) and has it's
own ACL commands!  And is hugle complex and needs lots of training :-)
-- 
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Antialiased fonts redux

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson


I just thought I'd let people know that I know have a sawfish/gnome
based RH7.1 (XFree 4.mumble) that groks anti-aliased fonts.

Mozilla took one patch and a recompile to do it. AbiWord looks very
pretty.

Shiny.

Dave





Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Devers

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, robin szemeti wrote:

> but would you feel happy mounting your Linux partitions on your WinXXX
> box? .. 

Again, yes. If it's mounted read-only, then that's good enough for me.
You're talking about a Windows virus that manages to screw up Windows so
bad that it can't boot, but if that was my fear then I wouldn't feel at
all having *nix on the same disc as it in the first place, whether or not
it ever got mounted. If this virus managed to trash the disk then the
damage is already done at that point. If the paranoia really runs that
deep, then they shouldn't be allowed anywhere near each other anyhow.

 


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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Nicholas Clark

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 05:09:56PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:27:22PM +, Tom Hukins wrote:
> 
> >It is genuine - it's with sports.com.
> 
> Good lord, they're _still_ tarting that one about? You'd think they'd
> have realised by now that perl+mysql+inn+xml+apache doesn't usually come
> for 25-35K (the range I got from at least three different agents).

So this is stage one of economising? And stage two is to rightsize
development back to the US? That being the "part" bit of "part onsite"? :-)

Why do I have a distrust of satellite development setups?

Nicholas Clark




RE: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Simon Luff

certainly sounds like the kind of job spec we'd have put out, and I do
believe there is an open perl dev vacancy in London.

Simon.
[undoubtably bending all sorts of rules]

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Subject: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom,
London (fwd)

Saw this on perl jobs and thought people might be interested.  Oh, and
Merry Christmas!

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Posted: December 20, 2001

Job title: Senior Perl Programmer

Company name: Open Source People

Internal ID: SS

Location: United Kingdom, London

Pay rate: £30-45K + benefits

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Onsite: some

Description:
Experienced Perl Programmer urgently required by a leading Internet company
with a very flat operational structure. Candidates must have atleast 4yrs
of hands on Perl development experience, must have MOD Perl experience
together with Linux, Apache, MYSQL and XML experience. You will be working
in a relaxed environment with a casual dress policy with like minded
professionals who also share your passion for Perl hacking on opensource
platforms. Does this sound like you? If so then E-mail now.

Required skills:
Perl, mod_perl, Linux, Apache, MySQL and XML





Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Cross

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:54:33PM +, Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:27:22PM +, Tom Hukins said:
> > It is genuine - it's with sports.com.
> 
> Who've just bought Sportal. So they'll be working with Dave Cross's old
> code then. 

Which would be huge pleasure I'm sure :)

Although I thought that Sports.com only bought the Sportal brand, not 
actually any of the codebase.

>Although AFAIK (cos I'm now working with an Ex-Sportal
> company) - most of their stuff runs on WebMacro.

It was all Vignette when I was there - tho' I steered well clear of that!

Dave...

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Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread David Cantrell

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:46:55PM +, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Chris Benson wrote:
> > But surely this discussion is pointless since everyone logs in as
> > Administrator[*1] and leaves the permissions as they are, don't they.
> Nix and NT share this trait. There are a number of common tasks that
> should be do-able as a user but you actually have to be root/admin to do
> them.

Such as?

Mounting CDs and floppies? the automounter does it
setting up a PPP connection? your sysasdmin should have configured the
  appropriate setuid root stuff
Installing software? if you can't install it in your home directory, then
  a user has no business trying to install it

I use a Solaris machine as my desktop at work.  I don't have root.  I rarely
need root.  When I do it is to do things like install extra software for
testing, or so I can do networky things.  Every single one of those cases is
legitimate development work, and I do it on a dev server where the admins
will do that for me.

Even on my own personal Linux desktop, where I do have root, I have used
that capability [looks at logs] just once in the last 24 hours*.  Today is
not unusual.

>   Then people get into the habit of (for instance) always installing
> new software as root/admin rather than checking to see what permissions
> are _actually_ required.

That's a people problem, not an OS problem.  But on Windows this is more
likely to be required.

> However, in file sharing situations, Unix's (default?) permission system
> is utterly useless, and not nearly fine grained enough to cope with real
> requirements in large offices.

Same as NT.  Having a PDC and BDC and domain accounts is most definitely
not the default, and it's a bugger to administer too by all accounts.  On
'nix we have NIS to do that job, and whilst it's a bugger to set up
properly and securely (some would argue that it *can't* be set up securely**)
it is at least easy to administer once it has been.

* - sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

** - I say that it depends how secure you need to be.  It can certainly be
secure enough for us to use at work for well over a hundred users, with
probably the worst user demographic possible from a security PoV.

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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl .. etc. etc. Bounce

2001-12-21 Thread Roger Burton West

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:26:00PM +, Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote:

>... while talking to mx09.hotmail.com.:
 RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

So, he's bought a domain but not any actual mail storage or anything
tedious like that. Ho hum. Not exactly "professional-looking", is it?
Give me a demon.co.uk account any day...

R

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French-Canadian opera singer in the witness protection scheme. They
fight crime!




Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Tom Hukins

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 04:01:08PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> Tom Hukins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > It is genuine - it's with sports.com.
> 
> OK, and how many people round here have NOT interviewed at sports.com?
> Taking the spread of people hereabouts I know who _have_ interviewed
> there I doubt there is a person in existence who would match their
> criteria.

Okay, perhaps I should rephrase what I wrote:  The vacancy is
genuine, but it may or may not be filled. ;-)

Tom




Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Roger Burton West

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:27:22PM +, Tom Hukins wrote:

>It is genuine - it's with sports.com.

Good lord, they're _still_ tarting that one about? You'd think they'd
have realised by now that perl+mysql+inn+xml+apache doesn't usually come
for 25-35K (the range I got from at least three different agents).

-- 
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everyone believes is mad. She's a time-travelling hypochondriac former
first lady from a family of eight older brothers. They fight crime!




Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Ball

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:54:33PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Who've just bought Sportal. So they'll be working with Dave Cross's old
> code then. Although AFAIK (cos I'm now working with an Ex-Sportal
> company) - most of their stuff runs on WebMacro.

What's WebMacro?  I think I recall seeing that sportal uses Vignette for
content, while writing a parser for their stories.

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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Hodgkinson

Tom Hukins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It is genuine - it's with sports.com.

OK, and how many people round here have NOT interviewed at sports.com?
Taking the spread of people hereabouts I know who _have_ interviewed
there I doubt there is a person in existence who would match their
criteria.

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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Simon Wistow

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:27:22PM +, Tom Hukins said:
> It is genuine - it's with sports.com.

Who've just bought Sportal. So they'll be working with Dave Cross's old
code then. Although AFAIK (cos I'm now working with an Ex-Sportal
company) - most of their stuff runs on WebMacro.

Simon





Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Dean S Wilson

- Original Message -
From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> Then people get into the habit of (for instance) always installing
> new software as root/admin rather than checking to see what
permissions
> are _actually_ required.

How many people run 'make tests' as root? ;)

> The sudo command can be helpful
> in these situations, and I'm not aware of anything in NT that
operates
> like the sudo command (although I guess you could write one).

Runas is built into Win2k and does all the basic stuff sudo does. NT4
has a version of sudo in the resource kit i think (Its been a while
since i've needed it.) Also there is a perl Win32 module by Dave Roth
that lets you kick of process's as another user with the other users
rights and enviroment so you could write wrappers in that if you
needed to. Sudo is amazingly sophisicated though and i doubt you'd get
full emulation, only thing sudo lacks i'd like to see is the ability
to specify an MD5 checksum or similar for the binaries that the user
is allowed to run, but then again i have the source...

> However, in file sharing situations, Unix's (default?) permission
system
> is utterly useless, and not nearly fine grained enough to cope with
real
> requirements in large offices. I once had a Unix sysadmin guy tell
me
> that if my requirements for access to files were more complex than
the
> system could deliver

> I've never looked into it but I imagine there are third part addons
for
> some Unixes that giver better permissioning capability. Anyone know
of
> any?

Sun and HP have ACL add ons but I've not yet had the chance to play
with them. The thing discourageing me is that they work differently
and I'd have to learn a new scheme per unix. Something that makes us a
lot more tied to a vendor than I'd like.

Dean (An ex Windows boy)
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Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Dean S Wilson

- Original Message -
From: "Chris Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> But surely this discussion is pointless since everyone logs in as
> Administrator[*1]

How many people post to Linux groups as root? This is a user education
issue more than a technical one, although i will conceed that Winws
makes it stupidly difficult.

> Every NT box I've ever seen has worked like this.  And apparently XP
users
> default to administrative rights??

XP Bad. Win 2K better.

> *1 because they need to be able to *do* things other than play
Solitaire!

One of the topics that came up at a GLLUG (Weird place to discuss
Windows but hey :)) was bolting down a staff members PC. A demo laptop
was shown running the whole of Office, MSProject and a couple of utils
like IE and Outlook and the user had no admin rights, a tight profile
and no ability to make OS changes without getting very inventive,
something that the staff were not going to do, they didn't have the
need nor the right to install new software on the machine.

Windows can be made less than wide open it just requires a bit more
work. And its worth it in support costs if nothing else ;)

Dean
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Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Dean S Wilson

- Original Message -
From: "Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>VMWare is rather expensive,

Being able to make a disk non-persistent and rolling back after new
software is added can be a godsend for testing OS patches and similar.

> but try out win4lin.

The last version of Win4Lin i saw required you to patch the kernel
source and then recompile, making it a bit tied to the curent
'supported' versions. Haven't looked at it in a while but i was more
impressed with VMWare, which i still use on a daily basis.

>> Why? Read-only access to other filesystems seems like a Good Thing
to me,
> > unless you really like rebooting just to open a file on that
partition...

Use VMWare and set up Samba on the machines internal network :)

> > BeOS, which I think you can still download for free [? yes], comes
with a
> > stripped down version of PartitionMagic

Some of the Linux Caldera sets came with a cut down Partition magic
but it could only deal with 8GB or smaller drives before it had to be
registered.

Dean
--
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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Tom Hukins

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:57:40PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:21PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
> >
> >Saw this on perl jobs and thought people might be interested.  Oh, and
> >Merry Christmas!
> 
> This may well be genuine, but I've been pretty unimpressed with OSP
> before now, and Paul in particular (in fact I have no indication that
> OSP is anyone other than Paul) - lots of vague stuff like this job
> description, but getting very quiet when it came to specifics (like
> "where in London").

It is genuine - it's with sports.com.

Tom




Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Dominic Mitchell

"Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've never looked into it but I imagine there are third part addons for
> some Unixes that giver better permissioning capability. Anyone know of
> any?

Most commercial Unixes, Linux (and soon FreeBSD) implement ACLs to
supplement basic permissions.

They all work differently.

None of your existing backup systems know how to deal with them
properly.

They are all difficult to manage.

In short, you might be able to use ACLs on *nix, but it's going to be
a bumpy ride.

Actually, I think that there may be a POSIX standard for ACLs under
Unix, but I don't know how well adhered to it is.

-Dom

P.S.  Anybody fancy writing a GNOME/KDE file manager extension for
dealing with ACLs?  :-)

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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl .. etc. etc. Bounce

2001-12-21 Thread Jonathan Peterson

"Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)" wrote:
> 
> Hmm.. They don't seem very reliable do they?  I exceeded his quota with my
> itsy CV attachment.

Oh I don't know, with the job market like it is, yours was probably the
500th cv in the last hour :)

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Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, +44 (0)20 7383 6092
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Jonathan Peterson

Chris Benson wrote:

> But surely this discussion is pointless since everyone logs in as
> Administrator[*1] and leaves the permissions as they are, don't they.
> Every NT box I've ever seen has worked like this.  And apparently XP users
> default to administrative rights??

Nix and NT share this trait. There are a number of common tasks that
should be do-able as a user but you actually have to be root/admin to do
them. Then people get into the habit of (for instance) always installing
new software as root/admin rather than checking to see what permissions
are _actually_ required. I think NT is worse than Nix in this regard,
but there's not _that_ much in it IME. The sudo command can be helpful
in these situations, and I'm not aware of anything in NT that operates
like the sudo command (although I guess you could write one).

However, in file sharing situations, Unix's (default?) permission system
is utterly useless, and not nearly fine grained enough to cope with real
requirements in large offices. I once had a Unix sysadmin guy tell me
that if my requirements for access to files were more complex than the
system could deliver, then "I was just being disorganised, I should
think harder about who really needs access to this stuff". I felt like
punching the guy.

I've never looked into it but I imagine there are third part addons for
some Unixes that giver better permissioning capability. Anyone know of
any?


-- 
Jonathan Peterson
Technical Manager, Unified Ltd, +44 (0)20 7383 6092
[EMAIL PROTECTED]




Re: Roleplaying

2001-12-21 Thread Greg McCarroll

* Natalie Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:25:52PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > p.s. if this doesnt work out or indeed if there is a huge number of
> > interested parties i may run a PBEM
> 
> Any chance you could run a PBEM as well?  I really like that idea.
> :)
> 

its probably just one, i don't have the time to do both well

-- 
Greg McCarroll http://217.34.97.146/~gem/




[JOB] Senior Perl .. etc. etc. Bounce

2001-12-21 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)

Hmm.. They don't seem very reliable do they?  I exceeded his quota with my
itsy CV attachment.

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Re: [JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London (fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Roger Burton West

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:21PM +, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
>
>Saw this on perl jobs and thought people might be interested.  Oh, and
>Merry Christmas!

This may well be genuine, but I've been pretty unimpressed with OSP
before now, and Paul in particular (in fact I have no indication that
OSP is anyone other than Paul) - lots of vague stuff like this job
description, but getting very quiet when it came to specifics (like
"where in London").

Just my experience, past performance is no guide to blah blah blah.

Roger




[JOB] Senior Perl Programmer (part onsite), United Kingdom, London(fwd)

2001-12-21 Thread Lucy McWilliam


Saw this on perl jobs and thought people might be interested.  Oh, and
Merry Christmas!

-- Forwarded message --

Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/180

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Posted: December 20, 2001

Job title: Senior Perl Programmer

Company name: Open Source People

Internal ID: SS

Location: United Kingdom, London

Pay rate: £30-45K + benefits

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Length of employment: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Onsite: some

Description:
Experienced Perl Programmer urgently required by a leading Internet company
with a very flat operational structure. Candidates must have atleast 4yrs
of hands on Perl development experience, must have MOD Perl experience
together with Linux, Apache, MYSQL and XML experience. You will be working
in a relaxed environment with a casual dress policy with like minded
professionals who also share your passion for Perl hacking on opensource
platforms. Does this sound like you? If so then E-mail now.


Required skills:
Perl, mod_perl, Linux, Apache, MySQL and XML

Contact information:
Paul Pike
Tel 0870 202 2020
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]










Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Chris Benson

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:58:05AM -, Ivor Williams wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: Dave Thorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> 
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:34:17AM -, Ivor Williams wrote:
> > 
> > This uses a 16 bit mask: (System:RWED,Owner:RWED,Group:RWED,World:RWED)
> > 
> > RWED bits are Read, Write, Execute and Delete.

But surely this discussion is pointless since everyone logs in as 
Administrator[*1] and leaves the permissions as they are, don't they.
Every NT box I've ever seen has worked like this.  And apparently XP users
default to administrative rights??

*1 because they need to be able to *do* things other than play Solitaire!
-- 
Chris Benson




RE: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Ivor Williams

-Original Message-
From: Dave Thorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 December 2001 10:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual boot


On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:34:17AM -, Ivor Williams wrote:
> 
> This uses a 16 bit mask: (System:RWED,Owner:RWED,Group:RWED,World:RWED)
> 
> RWED bits are Read, Write, Execute and Delete.

so if you have Write but not Delete you can truncate the file and
get much the same effect?

Correct. You can nobble a file completely, but not remove its directory
entry.


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Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Dave Thorn

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:34:17AM -, Ivor Williams wrote:
> 
> This uses a 16 bit mask: (System:RWED,Owner:RWED,Group:RWED,World:RWED)
> 
> RWED bits are Read, Write, Execute and Delete.

so if you have Write but not Delete you can truncate the file and
get much the same effect?

-- 
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RE: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Ivor Williams

NT inherited its file security strategy from Digital's VMS.

This uses a 16 bit mask: (System:RWED,Owner:RWED,Group:RWED,World:RWED)

RWED bits are Read, Write, Execute and Delete.

As far as I know, NT uses the same scheme.


Also, they have an equivalent of Access Control Lists, which allow a
complete other layer of permissioning unrelated to the UID/GID of the owner.
Individual people are granted 'rights', which work a bit like groups. Files
can have access control lists, which provide different RWED permissions for
holders of rights, compared with non-holders.

Using ACLs slows down your file opens and directory scans significantly. So,
unless you're paranoid or working with potential hackers, it's usually not
worth bothering.

Ivor.

-Original Message-
From: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 December 2001 10:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual boot

[...]

Mmmm, yes.  Cacls.  More sophisticated permissions does not
necessarily mean "better".  I have yet to see a decent explanation of
NT permission bits and how they interact and functions with NT system
calls (the 12 unix permission bits are difficult enough).


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Re: Dual boot

2001-12-21 Thread Dominic Mitchell

Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:47:37AM +, robin szemeti wrote:
> > Windows
> > Virus
> > "No effective file permisions system"
> 
> Windows NT has a more sophisticated file ownership/permissions system
> than *nix by a lng way. (Win 9x/ME suck of course.)

Mmmm, yes.  Cacls.  More sophisticated permissions does not
necessarily mean "better".  I have yet to see a decent explanation of
NT permission bits and how they interact and functions with NT system
calls (the 12 unix permission bits are difficult enough).

-Dom

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Re: Roleplaying

2001-12-21 Thread Natalie Ford

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:25:52PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> p.s. if this doesnt work out or indeed if there is a huge number of
> interested parties i may run a PBEM

Any chance you could run a PBEM as well?  I really like that idea.
:)

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