Everything IT related everywhere is perpetually broken. Thats the marketing model of all the smart companies. Name one peiece of software anywhere, ever, that does everything perfectly? It doesnt exist. If it did exist, Microsoft would buy it and supress it and probably 'hush up' anybody who tried to unsupress it with a large wad of money, if necessary ton's of large wad's of money used as a bludgeoning weapon, because it would kill their marketing strategy.
The question is just the degree of brokenness. If its sufficiently unbroken that it does what it needs to, you ignore the brokenness. When upgrades or fixes come out, they invariably leave something broken, to allow for the next upgrade. The question with any software is 'does it fix enough of my problems to justify what it breaks?' the question with upgrades is always "is what it breaks worth what it fixes." Any presumption that begins with 'If it ain't broke' doesnt apply when dealing with IT. -----Original Message----- From: samcfug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 19 March 2003 12:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: WebDAV exploit? Hmmm Difficult to argue with well-formed masochism and logic! So "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" Got ya! ===================================== Douglas White group Manager mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.samcfug.org ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 7:30 PM Subject: Re: WebDAV exploit? | Apart from licencing costs? performance concerns? Recode issues with a few | thousand CF sites? legacy constraints? Prior to updater 2 incredible | security concerns regarding shared servers and factory services? | | Well I thought about it. But instead I thought I'd just sever my own limbs | with a plastic spork coated in salt if I ever got that masochistic again. | | New builds will be CFMX, assuming we don't find any more gaping issues that | require disabling half of the core functionality for our apps to lock down.. | | As far as regclean? That goes under if severing my own limbs isn't | masochistic enough. Scripted reg changes that aren't written inhouse, don't | run on our servers. Windows makes a fine platform, as long as you rip its | guts out, kick its head in and stomp its brains untill it behaves. | | Letting microsoft 'clean', 'tweak' or otherwise alter your system | configuration if you've already configured it is somewhat akin to stabbing | yourself in the stomach repeatedly to reach that itchy spot on your back. | | The issues it solves don't begin to encompass the issues it causes. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
