Ubuntu has UAC?

[Dale]

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]

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]

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

Dale

 

[Nina DiBoy]

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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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 CUNTS LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."

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

 

[Pipboy]

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?

Yep, basically the same thing but Ubuntu doesn't annoy you just because you
want to move a file from one folder to another.

 

[Daniel E Jameson]

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

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Daniel Jameson
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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!

 

[Lang Murphy]

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

 

[Nina DiBoy]

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 CUNTS LIKE YOU too stupid to work it out. Thank
the bittorent brigade."

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

 

[Thor]

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

Duh?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

I think Linux is derived from Minix which is based on Unix.

 

[Daniel E Jameson]

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

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Daniel Jameson
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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!

 

[Dale]

I have had Ubuntu installed for two weeks and have had updates multiple
times. The last updates broke the Internet connection; I can no longer use
any internet connection on my Ubuntu.

I want my money back.

Dale