'NetscapeEngineersAreWeenies' wasn't a backdoor, it was a rather silly thing to put in public code but it didn't allow anyone access. About the same time Redhat had to admit they shipped 6.2 with a real backdoor (in the pirania component) but no one noticed.
'cause the Soviet elite thought they would do better under capitalism, by and large they were right. Though you can't say the same thing about ordinary russians.
Yes. But if I go and throw a custard pie at a British politician, Oxford university aren't go to pay my legal bills. If this student had just written controversial then the university should defend him. If he wants to do something illegal then he should take responsibility for it himself.
Alan Gray denied in another post to the same newsgroup that he said anything about education not controversy. I would also add that this student wanted to engage in civil disobedience and piss off the MPAA. Fine. But if protests are to mean anything there has to be some sort of risk. If a university web page is used then its them who will be sued and they (and other students) who will suffer as a result.
Good point. No one has to sign or read anything to be bound by copyright. The GPL allows you extra rights you wouldn't have otherwise if you agree to the license.
Maybe for linux. The driver model for NT has remained stable since the earliest versions. Of NT4-era drivers can't take advantage of newer features in Windows 2000 like plug-and-play but they still work.
> It was written in a diferent culture with a > different target and a different purpose ( make > B.G. richer?). Two of the base assumtions you > can make are that NT is not modular you cannot > plug in a new file system because the rest of > the OS expects an "NTFS" file system to be > there, "NTFS" specific calls are embedded in MFC > classes, and, therefore most programs. The > second assumption is that the underlying file > system and the widley distributed MFS classes > will be subject to change at the whim of > engineers in Redmond. > As far as I know, NT can happily access FAT, EXT2, SMB and Netware filesystems.
Windows NT filesystem development, particularly for distributed systems (so you need to interface with a network transport as well), is very tough. I'd recommend using a company like OSR (http://www.osr.com) rather than trying to do it inhouse.
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NT can quite happily handle case sensitively in filenames, for example all posix programs have this behaviour. But the designers made the decision that Windows programs would be case insensitive. Doubtless one could argue whether it was a good decision or not, but it is a feature not a bug.
But once you know the password for an nt user with permission to run user manager and alter privileges (and are in a permission to login) then you can do whatever you like too. For example you assign yourself the backup privilege which allows you to access any file on the disk.
And for anyone who doesn't regret doing so... Large companies like Unisys are powerful politically entities, isn't there a right to tell their representatives how you feel, just like writing an angry letter to your congressman/MP or whatever.
Strictly speaking nothing in user-land is allowed access to the hardware in any version of nt, but after version 3.51 the code that implements the gui was moved into kernel mode. In any version of nt sections of the graphics drivers lived in kernel mode and had access to the hardware, what was apparently slowed nt 3.5/3.51 was the code path for gui calls which had to go to another process, in nt4 they go directly to the kernel.
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Did you try turning on auditing?
Perhaps he could make a living selling support
'NetscapeEngineersAreWeenies' wasn't a backdoor,
it was a rather silly thing to put in public
code but it didn't allow anyone access. About the
same time Redhat had to admit they shipped 6.2
with a real backdoor (in the pirania component)
but no one noticed.
'cause the Soviet elite thought they would do
better under capitalism, by and large they
were right. Though you can't say the same
thing about ordinary russians.
s/infinity/arbitrary large number/g
> Indeed, a lot of the needed stuff won't run
> under Terminal, can't add users and so forth
Aaaargh! So you can't administrate OS X
remotely.
Yes. But if I go and throw a custard pie at a
British politician, Oxford university aren't go
to pay my legal bills. If this student had just
written controversial then the university should
defend him. If he wants to do something illegal
then he should take responsibility for it himself.
Alan Gray denied in another post to the same
newsgroup that he said anything about education
not controversy.
I would also add that this student wanted to
engage in civil disobedience and piss off the
MPAA. Fine. But if protests are to mean anything
there has to be some sort of risk. If a
university web page is used then its them who
will be sued and they (and other students) who
will suffer as a result.
If NNs are more powerful than TMs does that mean
Church's thesis is wrong? Or am I just totally
confused.
Good point. No one has to sign or read anything
to be bound by copyright. The GPL allows you
extra rights you wouldn't have otherwise if
you agree to the license.
But most linux distributions don't come with
'bin/sh' enabled in their mailcap files.
The Bastille hardening script adds this to
/etc/motd. The script claims it gives you a
better chance of intruders being prosecuted.
> I say make napster freeware and open source
> and then see if they can shut it down
And move the servers to North Korea as well
> while (!horse)
>
Is a horse of integer type?
Maybe for linux. The driver model for NT has
remained stable since the earliest versions. Of
NT4-era drivers can't take advantage of newer
features in Windows 2000 like plug-and-play but
they still work.
It wouldn't be very good news for a company
that just produced Windows, Microsoft sell
Windows 2000 at a loss. They make all their
money from Office.
4 girls, a freezer full of sperm and a turkey
baster
Isn't the idea of free speech that you defend
even when you find the speech in question offensive, irrelevant or even trival.
> It was written in a diferent culture with a > different target and a different purpose ( make > B.G. richer?). Two of the base assumtions you > can make are that NT is not modular you cannot > plug in a new file system because the rest of > the OS expects an "NTFS" file system to be > there, "NTFS" specific calls are embedded in MFC > classes, and, therefore most programs. The > second assumption is that the underlying file > system and the widley distributed MFS classes > will be subject to change at the whim of > engineers in Redmond.
>
As far as I know, NT can happily access FAT, EXT2,
SMB and Netware filesystems.
Windows NT filesystem development, particularly
for distributed systems (so you need to interface
with a network transport as well), is very tough.
I'd recommend using a company like OSR
(http://www.osr.com) rather than trying to do it
inhouse.
NT can quite happily handle case sensitively
in filenames, for example all posix programs have
this behaviour. But the designers made the
decision that Windows programs would be
case insensitive. Doubtless one could argue
whether it was a good decision or not, but it
is a feature not a bug.
Enver Hoxha
But once you know the password for an nt user
with permission to run user manager and alter
privileges (and are in a permission to login)
then you can do whatever you like too. For
example you assign yourself the backup
privilege which allows you to access any file
on the disk.
And for anyone who doesn't regret doing so...
Large companies like Unisys are powerful politically entities, isn't there a right to tell their representatives how you feel, just like writing an angry letter to your congressman/MP
or whatever.
Strictly speaking nothing in user-land is allowed
access to the hardware in any version of nt,
but after version 3.51 the code that implements
the gui was moved into kernel mode. In any
version of nt sections of the graphics drivers lived in kernel mode and had access to the hardware, what was apparently slowed nt 3.5/3.51
was the code path for gui calls which had to
go to another process, in nt4 they go directly to
the kernel.