From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 17 00:37:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00498 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA00489 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA00535 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:37:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07899; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:25:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970615162516.FH27182@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:25:16 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FREEBSD ON TELEVISION PROGRAM References: <199706131748.NAA00646@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706131748.NAA00646@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from Joel Ray Holveck on Jun 13, 1997 13:48:52 -0400 Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > This *is* Irix, after all. It's probably the most GUI-oriented Unix > around. It's probably also the most insecure Unix around, by time of shipment. You can even open a window already on the login screen (including an input-only window sniffing the password). Of course, you can do it from any machine in the Internet if you're stupid enough to put such a machine with the default setup directly onto the Internet... As you can see, i didn't learn to love IRIX very much. I hope they did it better with IRIX 6, version 5 was a plain horror story. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)