amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) (08/26/85)
> Mr. Streeter loaded into his computer a program that > was billed as enhancing his IBM program's graphics; > instead it instantly wiped > out the 900 accounting, word processing > and game programs he had stored in > his computer over the years. All that was left was a taunt glowing back > at him from the screen: "Arf! Arf! Got You!" "Can you say "back-up", boys and girls? Ah knew you could..." I'm not endorsing the actions of the arf! arf! posters, but any twit that doesn't back-up his files gets what he deserves. Andy Cohill {allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc
rlk@chinet.UUCP (Richard L. Klappal) (08/27/85)
In article <245@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes: >I'm not endorsing the actions of the arf! arf! posters, but any twit >that doesn't back-up his files gets what he deserves. > >Andy Cohill >{allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc I repeat BULL!! Backup or no backup, anyone who intentially posts anything that intentionally destroys information, and misrepresents it as something worthwhile deserves the greatest prosecution the law allows, and the parents should be responsible for the actions of their malicious (sp?) little brats if they try to hide under "juvenile". Maybe make them pay for re-entering and verifying all of the data (they have to figure out how to verify it if no backups are avail. They destroyed it.) PS: Any proceeds from the brats book go to the Olde Programmers Home and Relief Fund. (S)He don't get nuthin'. sh: uucpret: execute permission denied Richard Klappal UUCP: ..!ihnp4!chinet!uklpl!rlk | "Money is truthful. If a man MCIMail: rklappal | speaks of his honor, make him Compuserve: 74106,1021 | pay cash." USPS: 1 S 299 Danby Street | Villa Park IL 60181 | Lazarus Long TEL: (312) 620-4988 | (aka R. Heinlein) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
T.MOORE%MIT-EECS@MIT-MC.ARPA (Andrew Moore) (08/30/85)
Misunderstanding -- I thought you were talking about -my- message reguarding backups. -drew NOT to be confused with Andy Corhill (sp?) NO LONGER confused with Andy Corhill " -------
drews@utrc-2at.UUCP (Drew Sullivan) (09/12/85)
One way that I have found to test programs whos nature is untrusted is the following: On my cp/m 80 system, I run a copy of a special version of my CP/M 3 that knows only about the floppy disks. The worst that can happen is it trashes the floppies and I have to diskdup them again. On my MS-DOS XT, My hard disk is formatted for MS-DOS 3.0. When I boot of off a MS-DOS 2.1 floppy it doesn't reconize my harddisk and won't work with it. But I also run a vdisk from 3.0 that sets up C: to be a 340k floppy and my autoexec.bat copies all of my standard tools to the C:vdisk. I can then open the A: drive and now there are no real disks left available on this "virtual system". -- Drew.