Re: How To Abandon Microsoft

TomFoolery wrote:

>>>>>In Microsoft systems a end user can change the operating system itself,
>>>>>just load some program or virus and suddenly the machine is destroying
>>>>>data or some such nonsense ...
>>>>
>>>>Not when the machine is locked down. NT-based operating systems can
>>>>be tightly secured.
>>>
>>>
>>>And this is through ... MULTIPLE USERS.
>>
>>No through User *ACCOUNTS*.
>>
>>Users are apes with two arms. Most modern computers only have one user.
>>
>>An administrator account that allows the loading of software and a
>>network administrator account that allows a centralised administrator to
>>remotely upgrade the computer are very useful.
>>
>>Note home users need the ability to load games from normal accounts.
>>
>>Andrew Swallow
>
>
> You're admitting that there are differing permissions for each
> 'account'. It's obvious you know what's going on and you're playing
> dumb. How does one 'user' gain access to permissions he doesn't have?
> By executing commands as another 'user' who does have those
> permissions.
>
> You're playing a word game.
>
Time sharing systems allow several users to be running programs at the
same time, normally from different visual display units. We are
sufficiently far into the operating system that the difference matters.

Andrew Swallow
Received on Thu Sep 29 21:58:03 2005