>> Again, to be fair, Windows XP /can/ be shut down / rebooted from the >> command line. there is a command called shutdown that does this. It >> will also shut down / reboot a remote machine if you have the >> privilege. There are also commands to list processes and kill them >> etc. Win2K didn't have these commands (I don't think). > > That is just good old-fashioned Unix creep, which windows has been > doing for quite some time now.
That is so very true. Just today I went digging around for the hosts file in windows. If you're wondering it's in C:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc. Is it true that they're using a BSD network stack now? I heard that for a while if you tried to fingerprint a windows box with nmap it would tell you it's a FreeBSD box. Then someone ran strings on some dlls and found the "Regents of the University of California..." copyright string somewhere. That may all be rumors. Of course that's the kind of thing the BSD license was designed for. I'm not sure I buy into the viral properties of the GPL either. Ah, but I digress. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
