Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:52:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net>, Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0104141551180.5404-100000@aphex.newgold.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010414134832.0499ff00@localhost>
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As time has gone by the Registry has become (little by little) more dependable. People who don't regularly export their registry (by the same token, people who don't back up /etc often) are taking the chance, any NT administrator who _doesn't_ know that, should _not_ have that job. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:42 AM 4/14/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >And what would you call the Windows registry? > > > >The only thing people can do if the registry is damaged is reinstall > >everything. That's always an option on any operating system, but > >(except in some bizarre situation) you never have to resort to that on > >FreeBSD. > > The Windows Registry is an abomination. It puts all of a system's > eggs in one fragile, insecure basket. > > --Brett Glass > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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