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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk!dps96r From: dps96r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Duncan Simpson) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 6 Apr 1997 18:41:14 GMT Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Lines: 39 Message-ID: <5i8qoa$ou9@wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <3347c8e9.0@131.162.2.91> NNTP-Posting-Host: feynman.ecs.soton.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19914 comp.os.linux.misc:168451 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38642 kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca (Kevin Swan) writes: >Goatboy (lcappite@sprynet.com) wrote: >: 1) I could care less about Java. It's slow, inefficient, and all hype >: and no content. I hope it does just like beta. >Get a clue. Java is not just all hype. It is popular because of hype, but >if you knew ANYTHING about programming and actually tried it, you'd know >how off base you are. Its slow because it is new. The technology is still >in its infancy. >: 2) MS has made computing easier. To install a prog in win95, u insert >: the cd, and the install prog runs. >Then you reboot, and you're off and running. Until it crashes. Then you >reboot again and pick up where you left off, hoping you saved in time. This is a major reason for *avoiding* win 95 like the plague. Cheap CD writers are avialable these days and that program that runs can do practically anything. Thus it is quite possible you insert the CD and find that all your files have been *irreversably nuked* and the disc blocks have been filed with random junk just to make sure, possibly by overwrting the files with random junk before nuking them. Also evil CDs look like an ideal way of spreading virii and such. Win95 has no security to stop such programs either. Maybe it even does something along the lines of the Choas Computer club's active control. Somehow I was very glad than my CD was a samba network drive when I had a win 95 box on my desk (no autoplay to get things wrong and a chance to actually check the program before it runs). Oh, yes and there where plently of occasions when I did *not* want to run the install program. Anyone who thinkjs autolay is a a good feature should learn something about security before posting. Duncan (-: