From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 11:25:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04702 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA04697 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13905; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:21:52 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704211821.LAA13905@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) To: bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net (mika ruohotie) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:21:52 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199704210819.LAA29137@shadows.aeon.net> from "mika ruohotie" at Apr 21, 97 11:19:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Unless you are talking about NT 3.51, you're wrong: it does not need > > a reboot, just an undocumented call into an undocumented DLL. Microsoft > > just likes to ask for reboots because their change flag doesn't have > > the necessary granularity to distinguish between "changes needing a > > reboot" and "simple changes" -- all they see are "changes". > > and information about that can be found from? Disassembling NT with Sourcer(tm) from V Communications, Inc.. > is that probably a new feature still on the level of "experimental" and > "not fully implemented"? or just there? It's what they use themselves, but won;tshare with you. Basically, it's an anticompetitive covert interface. I'm really surprised the FTC never does anything to Microsoft... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.