Re: Windows XP

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From: Jan Martin Mathiassen
Subject: Re: Windows XP
Date: 18:55 on 06 Jul 2006
> 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).

-- 
-jan

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