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On Monday 03 February 2003 07:37, Jesse Kline wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 19:20, Bogi wrote:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/01/microsoft.security.reut/index.
> >html
> >
> > The words are their, bandwidth is king :-)
> > Cheers
> > Szemir
>
> "Microsoft placed responsibility on computer users who failed to install
> a patch that had been available since at least last June."
>
> That's funny because the last two times I tried to use Windows Update
> (on Windows 98 and XP), it would download the update, start installing
> it and then just stop. So much for that idea :-).
even worse, this patch apparently required hand-editting registry entries.
something many people are not comfortable doing. add to that that many people
are plain afraid of MS service packs due to unknown interactions with other
software and/or service packs.
anyone who complains about how many individual packages there are to update
for a Linux distro needs to examine the effectivity of the MS strategy of
"tons of fixes in this 'black box' update, have fun dropping into your
non-package-managed system" for keeping systems up to date between upgrades.
there may be dozens or even hundreds of updates for a full Linux install, but
there are tools that automate the process 100% and you know what each fix
does and that each fix will (most likely) work.
of course, anyone who puts a database server on a public network accepting
random connections hither and yon is just asking for trouble. there's really
no reason for that sort of set up.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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