Reply With QuoteDuh...it's windows...what more could you expect? That is why I really like Linux. You have to really try to crash it. With windows...I merely have to open a program (such as, let's say for the sake of argument, windows) to crash it.
Hooray for Windows! It's so powerful and secure! And fast, too!
Ugh :
I installed Cygwin on one of the library computers at my school. I was done playing with it, and I decided to delete it.
Deleting Cygwin crashes windows and takes down the entire school network*.
Now I mean, we all know very well that windows is bad and crashes over the dumbest things, but this is the first time I've ever heard of a computer crash that takes down the whole network! Augh!!
* When I delete the cygwin directory, Explorer stops responding, and then nobody is able to log in on any computer for the following 5-10 minutes. WTH is up with that??
Duh...it's windows...what more could you expect? That is why I really like Linux. You have to really try to crash it. With windows...I merely have to open a program (such as, let's say for the sake of argument, windows) to crash it.
I hope you had the admins permission to install it >
Was it installed on the local drive? I can imagine it b0rking on a network drive.
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sorry went into work mode there, actualy I'd be chuffed if one of the kids wanted cygwin
Oh, I've heard of that game!Hooray for Windows! It's so powerful and secure! And fast, too!
Is chuffed a good thing or a bad thing?...actualy I'd be chuffed ...
Good!
Is chuffed a good thing or a bad thing?
/me makes mental note to stop useing Brit slang..... again
Nope, but I don't need the admin's permission for anything, really. The computers are all (effectively) dickless workstations because they wipe the drive and replace it with a 'known-good' image every time the computer boots. I can install anything I want and it won't matter, reboot and it's all gone. That's the only aspect of the system's security that I haven't managed to break. It takes me 10 seconds max to kill DeepFreeze, get a command prompt, and then open an explorer window browsing the (supposedly locked) C: drive.I hope you had the admins permission to install it >
Actually, it was on a networked disk. And the server was running Win2K.Was it installed on the local drive? I can imagine it b0rking on a network drive.
I don't know if I actually brought the system down, but I did effectively DOS the entire network just by deleting a file. Isn't that stupid?
O'Reilly' - How to b0rk Windows in 117 different ways, By Feztaa
LOL!O'Reilly' - How to b0rk Windows in 117 different ways, By Feztaa
I love those 'supposedly' hidden drives. We had some moron lab techs that thought if it didn't exist in the start menu, it wasn't installed. I never had to reinstall all my apps, just kill the startmenu entries....
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