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Black Screen of Death Not Microsoft's Fault
Barence follows up to the ongoing Black Screen of Death Saga by saying "Microsoft says reports of 'Black Screen of Death' errors aren't caused by Windows Updates, as claimed by a British security firm. The software giant claims November's Windows Updates didn't alter registry keys in the way described by Prevx, which said that the Microsoft Patches caused PCs to boot with just a black screen and a Windows Explorer window. Microsoft is now blaming the problem on malware. Prevx has issued a grovelling apology on its own blog."
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The malware is Windows 7.
so, is that why
$ touch ~/privates /home/some-other-user/privates
works, but
$ touch
gives me a rights error!?
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
When users are happy to type "sudo rm ...", it doesn't really matter how impervious the system is.
I get "rm: cannot remove `...': No such file or directory"
However, I'm just trying "sudo rm ../." though and it s
/etc/ So shut the fsck up -_-
If Windows used /etc/ I imagine it would look something like this..
sjkHFG12.cnf
2874asdf.dat
virsdefs.cfg
MYMLWARE.CNF
MSOFFI~1.cfg
MSOFFI~2.cfg
You know, full of highly detailed filenames with standardized extensions clearly indicating what programs they belong to.
Ubuntu protects you from malware in the same way that a Geo protects you from carjackers.