Vista - Re: Ubuntu has UAC?

Yep! You can't access the "root" without elevating your privileges with your
root password.

And Symantec want unlimited access to the Vista kernel. Hopefully not in my
lifetime.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
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>A recent thread on how to turn off UAC reminds me of another lesson I
>learned in my recent Ubuntu tests. Ubuntu has UAC. Am I mistaken or is
>Vista's UAC one of the oft-mentioned reasons for using Ubuntu instead of
>Vista?
>

Sort of like Side-bar gadgets getting complete access to your file system.

Dale

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yep! You can't access the "root" without elevating your privileges with
> your root password.
>
> And Symantec want unlimited access to the Vista kernel. Hopefully not in
> my lifetime.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
> news:eLuepcKTHHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>A recent thread on how to turn off UAC reminds me of another lesson I
>>learned in my recent Ubuntu tests. Ubuntu has UAC. Am I mistaken or is
>>Vista's UAC one of the oft-mentioned reasons for using Ubuntu instead of
>>Vista?
>>
>

Richard Urban wrote:
> Yep! You can't access the "root" without elevating your privileges with
> your root password.
>
> And Symantec want unlimited access to the Vista kernel. Hopefully not in
> my lifetime.
>

Yet another excellent linux feature that MS borrowed to improve windows.

--
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Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"Nope. Just CLUELESS ****S LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot

Of course, it never could be that linux copied it from unix, could it?

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It's so he can benefit at the expense of you!


"Nina DiBoy" <nin@di.boy> wrote in message news:eqjklj$373$1@aioe.org...
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> Yep! You can't access the "root" without elevating your privileges with
>> your root password.
>>
>> And Symantec want unlimited access to the Vista kernel. Hopefully not in
>> my lifetime.
>>
>
> Yet another excellent linux feature that MS borrowed to improve windows.
>
>
> --
> Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
> http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html
>
> Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
> "Nope. Just CLUELESS ****S LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank the
> bittorent brigade."
>
> "Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
> - T. S. Eliot

Man, oh, man! For real! What's the point of locking down the OS if you're
going to let 3rd party vendors have access to the kernel? Crazy!

Lang

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:esC%23DpKTHHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Yep! You can't access the "root" without elevating your privileges with
> your root password.
>
> And Symantec want unlimited access to the Vista kernel. Hopefully not in
> my lifetime.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
>
>
> "Dale" <nospam@nospam.ever> wrote in message
> news:eLuepcKTHHA.1036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>A recent thread on how to turn off UAC reminds me of another lesson I
>>learned in my recent Ubuntu tests. Ubuntu has UAC. Am I mistaken or is
>>Vista's UAC one of the oft-mentioned reasons for using Ubuntu instead of
>>Vista?
>>
>

Daniel E Jameson wrote:
> Of course, it never could be that linux copied it from unix, could it?
>

That is quite correct. Linux was never copied from unix, linux is unix
ported to the x86 architecture.

--
Priceless quotes in m.p.w.vista.general group:
http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"Nope. Just CLUELESS ****S LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot

Nina DiBoy wrote:
> Daniel E Jameson wrote:
>> Of course, it never could be that linux copied it from unix, could it?
>>
>
> That is quite correct. Linux was never copied from unix, linux is unix
> ported to the x86 architecture.
>
Duh?

I think Linux is derived from Minix which is based on Unix.
--
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"Thor" <vlahalla@sweden.comm> wrote in message
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> Nina DiBoy wrote:
>> Daniel E Jameson wrote:
>>> Of course, it never could be that linux copied it from unix, could it?
>>>
>>
>> That is quite correct. Linux was never copied from unix, linux is unix
>> ported to the x86 architecture.
>>
> Duh?

That is true. I hacked a shared memory system into Minix as a class project
way back when.

--
Daniel Jameson
·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·
If the man tells you to hate another,
It's not so you can benefit at the expense of the other...
It's so he can benefit at the expense of you!


"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I think Linux is derived from Minix which is based on Unix.
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "Thor" <vlahalla@sweden.comm> wrote in message
> news:ec4SaXZTHHA.388@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Nina DiBoy wrote:
>>> Daniel E Jameson wrote:
>>>> Of course, it never could be that linux copied it from unix, could it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> That is quite correct. Linux was never copied from unix, linux is unix
>>> ported to the x86 architecture.
>>>
>> Duh?
>
>