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From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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Subject: Re: I'm really upset with my new computer
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Quoting "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:09:15PM -0500, Craig Reyenga wrote:
>> I've heard that Sony and Dell don't support UNIX permissions on their
>> proprietary hard drives. Stick with WinXP for now until a patch is committed
>> into the source tree.
>
> I'm a little confused on how a hd from dell or sony could prevent unix
> permissions from working as any hd with store whatever kind of data you
> tell it, they no nothing about what that data means.  The UNIX
> permissions are handled entirely in software.  I've never heard of any
> kind of problem like this before, perhaps you could enlighten me?
>
If I'm not mistaken, he was joking.

Ken