Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

["Rupert Pigott" <roo@dark-try-removing-this-boong.demon.co.uk>]

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Rupert Pigott wrote:
> > "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> wrote in message
> > > "Glen" <lpepicel@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
> > >
> > > > I used to used to admin an AIX server... it did not crash once.
> > > > Z-e-r-o times.  And this thing was doing some real work too.
> > >
> > > This will probably be a shock to, well, nobody.  I use a Sun
> > > workstation at work.  Solaris something or other.  The only time
> > > I've ever crashed the thing was running (here's the shocker)
> > > Internet Explorer for Unix.
> >
> > IE crashed your UNIX box ? Whoa...
>
> Proving that anything from Microsoft has unlimited capabilities.
> I didn't know such a thing existed, but if it does it is probably
> designed to cause as much trouble as possible.

My guess is that it managed to find a way to bust up the XServer
so bad that the XServer barfed on some priveledged address-space.

Pretty awesome piece of exploit h4x0ring from MS though. Shame
that they don't have that team destruction testing their own
products so that they might find all the exploits before release.

Cheers,
Rupert