Can't get over how cool firefox is

[ELIZAeffect]

I use firefox exclusively on my Fedora box. However, my favorite web browser is Safari. Just waiting for the RSS version.

Just curious, when I used windows briefly, I was led to believe that IE was linked with the OS shell explorer. This made it impossible, virtually, to uninstall. I only used windows for a little while though so I am probably wrong. Can someone elaborate on that?

 

[graphic7]

I use firefox exclusively on my Fedora box. However, my favorite web browser is Safari. Just waiting for the RSS version.

Just curious, when I used windows briefly, I was led to believe that IE was linked with the OS shell explorer. This made it impossible, virtually, to uninstall. I only used windows for a little while though so I am probably wrong. Can someone elaborate on that?

Yes, that's correct - IE is pretty much Windows Explorer. I know they have separate executables, but IE is basically a superset of Windows Explorer. Because of this, IE usually has very fast start-up times, compared to Firefox or Mozilla. Firefox and Mozilla, both, have improved their start-up times, and are nearly comparable with IE's times.

 

[franznietzsche]

hehe.

Have any of you actually been infected with a linux virus ? Isn't there a few lurking around?

Linux viruses are rare, and generally not an issue because they can't do any damage without access to the root directory, which means generally you'd have to run them logged in as root.

 

[graphic7]

Linux viruses are rare, and generally not an issue because they can't do any damage without access to the root directory, which means generally you'd have to run them logged in as root.

If the executable is ran SUID, it can do damage to the root directory.

 

[franznietzsche]

If the executable is ran SUID, it can do damage to the root directory.

i would consider super user and root login the same, but yes.

 

[graphic7]

i would consider super user and root login the same, but yes.

Thank you for confirming that, but the confirmation was not needed.

SUID does not imply the user being 'root.' I can change the root username to 'foo.' As long as it as a UID of 0, that implies it's SUID.

In fact, you can setup aliases to the user root, where multiple users can share UID 0.

 

[franznietzsche]

Thank you for confirming that, but the confirmation was not needed.

SUID does not imply the user being 'root.' I can change the root username to 'foo.' As long as it as a UID of 0, that implies it's SUID.

In fact, you can setup aliases to the user root, where multiple users can share UID 0.

I think anyone using a linux system knows what root login is regardless of the name, its the same thing, and everyone knows what you're referring to.

"A rose by any other name..."

 

[gazzo]

And anyone who does run an executable they got from www.whoknowswhere.com as SUID deserve to get their system totalled.

I ran a long perl command someone gave me as root not a good idea - tried to delete /*

or another time when rm -rf ~r[tab] just happened to delete the /root directory instead of the intended one.

aaahh.. we've all had our bad [stupid] experieneces havn't we?

.. atleast I hope it's not just me

Time to find that Windows CD, if it still exists.

 

[franznietzsche]

And anyone who does run an executable they got from www.whoknowswhere.com as SUID deserve to get their system totalled.

I ran a long perl command someone gave me as root not a good idea - tried to delete /*

or another time when rm -rf ~r[tab] just happened to delete the /root directory instead of the intended one.

aaahh.. we've all had our bad [stupid] experieneces havn't we?

.. atleast I hope it's not just me

Time to find that Windows CD, if it still exists.

Why voice control software is bad:

Office rival walking by shouts: 'rm dash rf slash enter!'