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Getting MS security patch notifications is
like getting utility bills... you hate them, but you're never surprised that
they keep coming. Windows XP has auto-update checking, but you can configure it to ignore
updates, download them automatically and not install them until you review
them, or auto-download/auto-install. MS also rolled that out for Win 2000
earlier this year. Red Hat does something similar with Red Hat Network. For the average user, it's not a bad thing, but yeah, you're definitely
held hostage to Microsoft. But hell, as soon as you install their OS you're
held hostage to them, so more chains on top of what I already wear won't make
much of a diff. ;) I just know that one of these patches is going to hork my product activation, I just know it... _______________________________________________________________ "A government operating in the shadow of secrecy
stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the framers of our
Constitution." - Judge Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth
Circuit Detroit Free Press, et al. v. John Ashcroft, et al.
(August 26, 2002) -----Original Message----- > For all you poor suckers out there forced to use windoze, among
whom to my > eternal sorrow and shame I must be numbered, here are links to the
newest > security patches for Office XP and IE 5.01/5.5/6.0: I thought this was a feature introduced for NT around 1995 by
microsoft, they called it "Patch and Pray" or something like that? Although personally i think of it more like a trading game. You patch
your NT box to see which services and applications you can break, for the
ones fixed by the 'patch'. Throw on top of that a couple of new licensing agreements that won't let you sue them if it brings your business to a grinding halt, but won't let you install the patch unless agree to the license. Aw, geez, those microsoft guys always playing games. (*chortle,snort*). Cheers, sach -- "...rights are won, not granted, and power will seek any
opportunity to reduce them." - Noam Chomsky _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits |
