Thanks Mr. B. Goes in my PHB EdjaKayshun folder. I can understand all of it well-enough; no need to fully grok the specific pointers to details beyond my experience (or interest).

Point - so could any Representative in er Congress - and we know that a short attention span can't be a cop-out: you cannot even Get There without an infallible and lengthy memorized list of names of backs to be slapped. OK maybe Not a 60 yo 6-termer - but.. his bright-eyed Aides can damn well grok this style of tech writing.. damn close-enough for government work.

Amazing caveats:
"..Filter out everything but good data instead." Y'know, even in PDP-8 days - I believe we called this a $%^#@ MASK - did IQs drop a lot since then? Buffer overflows.. ain't that another ditto re sloppy thought (at design level) of similar ilk? Interrupt-controlled systems WAIT a lot - gosh is That News too, to modrin designdroids? {sheesh}

And yeah: I looked at *all* the 'services' running by default in W2k.. (not even in W2K-Server). We killed quite a few (hardly the same as grokking How each process works - but you can at least see the obv dependencies) - EZ, moving from Auto to Disable, as tests progressed. And I don't know shit - could there be Paid-Admins who know/care even less?

How to get this screed moving out there.?. preaching to the converted is so like satisfiction.


Ashton
it ain't my job to do everyone else's homework; I can only circulate to a few: WRITE your Influential buddy-list or drown in Ashcroftian ignominy. Imagine that.. M$-DOJ Database of all Databases: now under construction - per other posts just today. This crap is being lumped under panic- National-Security doggerel => No Review by sentient beings.