On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 08:52:03PM +0100, Holm Tiffe wrote:
MikeS wrote:
---- Original message:
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100
From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de>
Files should have an header wich describes what
type of data the file
represents.
Why?
What is so terribly wrong with using the file's _name_ to describe the type
of data a file represents, so that those "humans" that you seem to disdain
elsewhere can also know and work with its type, not just the computer?
You ask me what's wrong? Never heard of a file called "your_win.jpg.exe"
for
example and was most Windoze users are doning with such a file and how its
name is displayed on most windoze machines?
Wasn't Windoze NT DOD certified for security with the included restriction
that the computer has to stand in a closed room without any network connected to
itand without access from people to his Console?
Nobody has read the footnotes it seems, it was certified, so what..
Well, that one was a particularly silly joke, IIRC:
- Windows NT 4.0
- on a specific Compaq machine that is now long out of production (yes,
the certification was for the entire setup)
- no network
- no printer
- no removable media (i.e. CDROM, floppy)
- only keyboard, mouse and monitor attach
- %SYSTEMROOT% write-only, therefore
- the printer spool system doesn't work (fine, there is no printer
attached anyway)
- you cannot, for instance, install Microsoft Office since it
want to drop files there
- What _can_ you do with it? Log in, smile at the auditors, log out.
Or read about the Navy smartship project and the USS
Yorktown...
The solgan was "Why you need a Saiddam when you have a Bill?"
Alternatively, since around that time the CGI work for the Titanic movie
was done on Linux renderfarms: "Linux renders ships. Windows renders
ships useless." ;-)
Do you think there was change in their Quality of
Software since then?
How many percent of compute power world wide is used for virus scanners
only now? There are many older computers that are unusable now only
because of the compute power that the virus scanner is needing, slowing
down the entire thing.
And then there are silly requirements from "above" to run online virus
scanners on Unix servers ... BTST.
Kind regards,
Alex.
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