With these latest security flaws being taken advantage of on MS products I thought I should audit some of our machines here at work.
It was laughable reading the MS blurb regarding NT Service Packs. They went from SP1 through to SP6 then there was SP6a and they said there would probably be a SP7. Then they said there were fewer problems with the mature product so SP7 would not be coming. Now they have launched "NT4 Service pack 6a security rollup" Is NT deprecated? It has certainly depreciated. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 August 2003 2:24 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "depreciated" deprecated I hate to be pedantic, but I am, and not getting at anyone in particular, its a universal problem, the word is "deprecated" not "depreciated",and this sentence is too long and bad english. depreciation is an accounting term. you buy an asset, it depreciates and becomes worth less money, as in "I paid $250 for this windows 95 license and now I can only sell it for peanuts, thats depreciation for you" deprecation is a term of disapproval, you invent a better method of command substitution and deprecate the old method (these words are often referred to in the context of a feature that will be removed at some point, as in "support by this manufacturer for microsoft operating systems is deprecated in favour of open source software, and support for microsoft may be removed entirely in future versions without warning"
