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> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:26:32PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > As you well know, operating systems and hardware have the concept of > privelege seperation. Certain instructions are not available to user > programs, and certain operating system interfaces likewise without first > becoming a priveleged user. Trouble is, in Windows you pretty much have > to be a priveleged user. That's odd, I'm living happily in XP as a non-privileged user. This has positive side-effects such as thwarting starforce from installing its drivers. And with XP's method of changing users without having to log out completely, this really isn't much of a problem, I just log on as admin and fix whatever I need, while knowing that if I were to get fucked, I would have absolutely no excuses, because whatever I did, I'd judged as safe enough to do as admin. Actually, about the only thing I had to do to make XP liveable as a normal user, instead of admin, was make windows stop insisting I be an admin to change the clock. Why? Because I occasionally doubleclick the clock to see the calendar. That's it. The rest of the time I just work as I used to, and occasionally start installation programs (XP detects that on its own, most of the time) as admin (like sudo, but different). -- -janThere's stuff above here
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