"an moron"?!?
Is there any chance we can get "Anonymous Coward" changed to "Anonymous Moron"?
And while I'm at it, how about a different type of post, one that is clearly distinguishable visually, and is exempt from the compression filter? It could be used for short quips, relevant URLs (without the need for extended explanation), etc.
First of all, ehintz is absolutely right about the Macintosh Business unit. (i didn't know they were in the SF Bay...) And anyone who's been to a recent Mac event (like Macworld NY) knows that this 'somewhat independent...arm' seems to have real pride in bringing better solutions to the Mac platform than their 'big brother'.
More importantly (and relevant to the original post), as far as the security risk goes, it appears that the Classic environment adheres to the uid/gid rules of the X environment. So a Classic app can't alter mach.sym for instance (you can recover text in Word read-only). The same does not hold true to a seperate Mac OS 9 volume however. So this does pose significant risk.
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"an moron"?!? Is there any chance we can get "Anonymous Coward" changed to "Anonymous Moron"? And while I'm at it, how about a different type of post, one that is clearly distinguishable visually, and is exempt from the compression filter? It could be used for short quips, relevant URLs (without the need for extended explanation), etc.
How about ATM machine, or better yet, take a look (if you dare) at the startup screens from Win2K... "Built on NT Technology"
First of all, ehintz is absolutely right about the Macintosh Business unit. (i didn't know they were in the SF Bay...) And anyone who's been to a recent Mac event (like Macworld NY) knows that this 'somewhat independent...arm' seems to have real pride in bringing better solutions to the Mac platform than their 'big brother'. More importantly (and relevant to the original post), as far as the security risk goes, it appears that the Classic environment adheres to the uid/gid rules of the X environment. So a Classic app can't alter mach.sym for instance (you can recover text in Word read-only). The same does not hold true to a seperate Mac OS 9 volume however. So this does pose significant risk.