Re: Newbie question: If you don't host a website, and....

On 30 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.computer.security, in article
<1138670171.288853.246890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
q_q_anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Also, when I do play with *nix, i'll use some fully featured thing. Not
>a CD.

By in large, the only "feature" missing from the Live CD versions is the
ability to save files to the CD (given it's a Read Only media, that should
not be surprising). Remember that a Live CD will work in a computer that
doesn't even had floppy or hard disks. The normal distributions - whether
*BSD, Linux, or the "free" version of Solaris would normally require a
partition of their own on a disk, because they don't use the FAT, VFAT,
or NTFS filesystems due to missing capabilities that are otherwise needed
in *nix (ownership, permissions, links). It is also normal to have a 'swap
partition' (though it can be a swap file) to move (currently) unused
segments of programs or data out of RAM automagically so that the RAM
can be used for "stuff" you are doing right now. In the past, this
separation of operating systems was generally done using a "spare"
partition on the existing hard drive, but drives are so cheap today, it's
easier to throw in an extra drive, and install to that.

>I'm not that into linux yet, so may have misinterpreted you, but it
>sounds like a similar system to me then. When I said I have all my data
>in one directory, I didn't mean without subdirectories.

Hard as it may be to believe, DOS started out without the concept of
directories, and there are still a lot of people who think that is the
norm.

>err, 42 actually. DOS includes "." and ".." in its count, when not in
>the root directory. I think.

I suppose it's how you want to count. "." should be included, because you
can actually put stuff in there. ".." should not, because it doesn't
exist at the top of the tree (there is nothing "above" C:\ or D:\), and
below that point (as in C:\DOS\ - or similar), you have to specify it
to reach it - down is fine, up is not a default).

Old guy
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