At 01:16 PM 5/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >On 2003.05.06 09:47 Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > You can locally store and deploy Windows updates as well. And sure, I like > > Debian or Your-Distro-Goes-Here better than Windows for a lot of things. > > > > >Can you? I read somewhere about some odd problems doing that. Oh well, >one day they might make things easy. Nahhhh, they make too much money the >other way and that is the reason so many windows boxes sit unpatched. > >I've heard otherwise reasonable people tell me that they consider it >normal and routine to rebuild their windows machines once a month. I >doubt they bothered to apply fixes after going through the whole stick in >a floppy/CD reboot multiple times ordeal.
Are we still discussing the failure of security in Linux desktops? This seems to have moved to another topic altogether. :) In all honesty I agree that you need to reinstall a Windows 95/98/ME machine often. I haven't needed to reinstall Win2k (well, I did install Win2k over XP because of personal preference), but I haven't had this laptop for a year either. Who knows, I may end up needing to. Oh, and yes, you can install Windows updates from local archives. By Windows I mean Windows NT, Win2k, or XP. I don't even bother with Windows 95/98/ME machines. They are junk. Junk I tell you! --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
