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Old 22nd March 2009 | 20:57
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Indeed; I love the way it prohibits me (the system purchaser and owner) from accessing certain directories.

Hello?

Billy Gates sure does have a serious hangup where privileges are concerned......
He's just trying to catch up with Unix/Linux, which for decades has delighted in not letting you do things because you "don't have permission" ... when you own the ****ing machine and really don't want it to tell you what's allowed ... on an ordinary day things just fail, on a really really good day you might be told "access denied" (without being told what access was denied to which file, of course, as that would be too wordy for Unix/Linux) and asked to "contact your systems administrator", as if there was such a person, a hangover from the days when Unix was a multi-user system running on a PDP7 with a full time BOFH to keep it running.
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