On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:52:24AM +0000, Dave wrote: > > ...and users never do things they're not supposed to, and always > > follow all the rules, and all of the world's jails are completely > > empty, because everyone does what they're supposed to do all the time. > > You're getting off-topic. Not at all... users behaving themselves, or not, is an essential aspect of system security. But you don't get that, any more than you get that virtually no one thinks like you do about using computers, and don't want to use them the way you do. That's fine; I'll leave you to your happy fantasy world. > Check this out: > $ cat --version > cat (coreutils) 5.2.1 > Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman. > > Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > Hey, this is a three-year-old program that still does its job right today. That's a really amuzing example of just how wrong you are. It's not a 3-year-old program at all... If you read the source code for GNU cat.c in the textutils package, you'll discover that the first copyright date is 1988. It's a 19-year-old program, less than 1000 lines of code, which has gone through revision after revision after revision, and yet still does pretty much the same thing it always did. Apparently, even simple programs are not so simple, after all... Oswald is right; you're a lost cause. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
Attachment:
pgpphaNztqGA9.pgp
Description: PGP signature