OT: Vista's "ultimate" security :)

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Only Bill Campbell would say something like:
> This isn't anything new.  It goes back to the issue of dumb terminal
> function keys, programmable from the computer.  Imagine programming the F1
> key to do something like ``rm -rf /'' or perhaps ``sudo rpm -rf /''.

We actually did something a bit less destructive (just rude messages) at
university with the z49's.  I loved the z49's, actually.  I set mine up for
common commands and I was pretty much the only one in the lab that I
configured this one that ever used that terminal and knew what the keys
did.  Ah, those were the days..  

> Actually one of the more fun projects was to write a shim that ran between
> the user's terminal/keyboard and the FilePro appliation.  It's the only
> time I've had to write a program that did a fork exec, with two processes
> handling the i/o mapping the function keys to his codes, and changing the
> mapping in response to the DT-100 codes received from the computer.  This
> is the only time I've ever had a program that really required using shared
> memory as that's where I handled the function key mappings.

This you consider "fun", eh?  :)  Is that the real "fun" or the sarcastic
as hell "fun", like, "Boy, I just -love- this DOM that's fighting me tooth
an nail.  Fun fun fun!"?

That project sounds like it was a royal PITA.

I looked into shared memory once, but I've never actually needed it for
anything.

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