Re: XP: Cool feature with a weakness

"Wally" <wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
C246AA4D.323B9%wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/14/07 12:57 AM:


Um, Wally... with all your nit picking, lying, claims that you are blind to
Steve's dishonesty and your other long winded babbling you forgot to really
make any meaningful point other, perhaps, than to show you are trying to be
as stupid and dishonest as he is.

The points are still in all my posts Snit! go at it tear them apart..I dare
you!

Why not just show your ignorance in the very post I am responding to.... no
need to dig!

In the end my view does not change one whit:

it is not a good thing for a non-admin user to be able to
mess with other users on either OS X or XP...

They cannot!

Not on OS X... not as far as I know anyway. Yet Carroll claims otherwise.
I had noted about XP machines in a lab:

Here is the weakness: I can change the orientation from my
user account, even a non-Admin, and the orientation will
stay altered even when I log out...

As I discussed that, Steve stated:

> Do you have any thoughts on the fact that, at least in the case I
> described, a non-Admin user can alter settings for other users?
As can they alter settings on a Mac. Big f*cking deal.

But, as you note above, on OS X a user cannot do that. Steve was simply
wrong. Steve also said, of OS X:

I can, from a user account, hold down the control, option
and Apple keys on a modern Mac while pressing the number 8
and it will "screw with" others (who may want to run
graphics apps or whatever)... and it'll stay that way when I
log out. There is no video card in this equation... but I
guess you'll say it's OK due to the 'consistency'. LOL!

But, again, Steve is wrong, at least based on all accounts from others - if
a user presses the control+option+command+8 and goes to "black on white"
mode, the effect does not carry over to the login screen.

unless you consider having specific settings stick after a
restart 'messing with'? I do not!

Nor do I. Nor have I suggested I did. That is your mistaken (and ignorant)
insinuation.

at least in some cases on XP this does happen (stock standard Dells,
for example)

Settings stick on XP just as they do on OS X?.....WOW!

As noted above, they act differently: on OS X the settings do not carry over
to the login screen.

but there is no reputable example of this *ever*
happening with OS X.

You have stated that you have not tried it on XP switching users,

"I did not test to see if it carried over to other users. "-Snit

therefore you must be talking about the same account!

No. You are simply wrong... will you admit to it?

anyone can do as I did and try it on their Mac and they will get the same
result as I did...that sounds reputable to me!

Do you now see where you comments are not on topic? The question is not
about persistence of settings from one login to another... you simply have
not understood the debate!

If, however, some Macs have the flaw

What flaw?

Do you now understand that the flaw in question is or do you remain ignorant
still?

Steve claims they do then, yes, I would note it as a flaw...
there simply would be no reason not to.

I seriously doubt you or your co-trolls will be able to change my mind on
that... no matter how much you troll and lie. Good luck trying!

Arguing with you is not about changing your mind Snit...after all that would
entail you admitting it! are you serious? ROTFL!

Your trolling is noted, but remember I have been very specific about how I
would test what Steve claimed and comment on it: if it turns out that Steve
is right and that on newer Macs the black-on-white setting is applied to the
login screen when it is set from a non-admin I will openly admit that the
newer Macs share a similar weakness with the XP machines in question. Why
would you think otherwise, Wally, other than the fact you are a very, very
poor judge of character and you frequently feel the need to lie about me and
troll and flame me.


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? OS X is partially based on BSD (esp. FreeBSD)
? OS X users are at far less risk of malware then are XP users
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