Re: Filesystems (was My First Computer)

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Rupert Pigott wrote:

>"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.

In my experience, nothing finds system bugs better than a developer
who is unfamilar with it.  And, conversely, the seasoned developer
is least likely to find a hole in the system.

You can pretty well bet that the Microsoft IE programmers were not
highly experienced with Un*x and its APIs, but they instinctively
know how to handle Windows interfaces with kid gloves.  ;-)

-michael

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