Vinnie wrote:

Tim,.I am suprised to hear you whining with such a liberals voice.. I always thought that demanding memory protection in an OS is a lot like demanding that the government is responsible for protecting you from anything that might go bad.. If applications are well written, then you really dont need the memory partitions in a personal computer.

Hi Vinnie. I'm with Tim on this one. While I have strong feelings about locking up people, I have no compunctions at all about locking up program-instances. If I can contain the instances, and especially keep them limited in their file access, I can do a bunch to control viruses and other nasties. (BTW - Linux, like all Unixes is piss poor at limiting file system access.) Best Regards - Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | The Internet was designed | Periwinkle -- Consulting (408)356-8506 | to protect the free world | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | from hostile governments. | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA