[hblug] [OT] Vista Fun

[Daniel Faulknor]

This is of interest.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/26/vista_copying_bug/

turns out its a bug in vista!

Daniel Faulknor wrote:
> chris morris wrote:
>> Daniel Faulknor wrote:
>>> As people may remember, at the last meeting we were talking about 
>>> people getting locked out of their (vista) computers when vista 
>>> detects that they are doing something illegal.
>>> I have just proved that this is true.  Imaged my windows xp cd to my 
>>> hard drive, and hey presto! a locked up system (even 
>>> numlock/capslock etc had frozen) only fix was to reboot my system.
>>>
>>> Now if that isn't an invasion of privacy, i don't know what is.
>>>
>>> Apart from the glaringly obvious DRM/anti-piracy things, vista is no 
>>> worse (i wont say its better, though it probably is in some aspects) 
>>> than windows xp. Aero is pretty cool, not that it couldn't be done 
>>> with linux.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
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>> M$ are going to alienate a lot of their existing customers - which 
>> can only be good for Linux ( and Mac )
>> They are effectively branding you a criminal without proof that 
>> you've done anything illegal. In their eyes you "might" be doing 
>> something illegal so we'll step in and stop you.
>> It would be interesting to see if it would let you ISO a CD or DVD of 
>> other material ( home movies or personal data)  - or does it just 
>> forbid making ISO's of any kind?
> Most isos work fine.
>> I've been told it wont let you install any p2p software either ( even 
>> though there are non- illegal uses for p2p software )
> I have uTorrent, frostwire etc installed, no problems
>> Care to try it Dan and let us know?
>>
>
> Oh.. and it did it when i was copying PHP files too (ones that i have 
> written)
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