--- Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> File and Registry Virtualization (also known as
> FARV) was included in
> Windows Vista to caulk over a long-standing security
> hole in Windows'
> architecture. It's part of a more comprehensive
> aspect of the
> operating system called User Account Control (UAC).
[WS:] Thanks, Dwayne, that was very useful. As i understand, the Vista solution to attack threats is to institute an overall national security state that inconveniences every user to prevent a few inept terrorist attacks, as more skilled terrorists will be able to bypass these preventive measures anyway.
Needless to say that I donot favor that approach in principle, on philosophical grounds, not to mention the ordinary aggravation of not being able to find my own files. I am not sure, howver, what a better approach would be.
Another point: Vista may be crap, but that is the way industry is going, and compatibility is an important part of my work. My IT department will not support anything but Windows OS, so I have little choice not just what machines I use in my office, but also what I am buying privately, because compatiblity and support are important to me.
>From a philosphical point of view, this is akin to the
19th centure debate over utopian socialism. Like
Utopian socialists, the Linux/Ubuntu crowd are unhappy
with the state of capitalist mainstream society (and
righfully so!), from which they seek to escape to
thier own little world. A Marxist approach to that
problem, however, is that such escapism is futile.
The way to go is the transformation of teh capitalist
mainstream system. Today, that means, turning the OS
into a publicly owned public good that serves the user
instead of being a vehicle of planned obsolescene
promoting private profits.
Wojtek
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