Thursday, May 26, 2005

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Why does Windows share the root of your drive?

Larry Osterman's WebLog : Why does Windows share the root of your drive?:
"Out-of-the box, a Windows system automatically shares the root of every hard drive on the machine as $ (so you get C$, D$, A$, etc).

The shares are ACL'ed so that only members of the local administrative group can access them, and they're hidden from the normal enumeration UI (they're included in the enumeration APIs but not in the UI (as are all shares with a trailing $ in their name)."

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...