On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:26:50 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > >> >No explaination why Sante Fe officials had not patched the city's >> >computers in the three months since Microsoft announced the vulnerability >> >and released the software updates. Nor why Sante Fe didn't have up to >> >date anti-virus programs running on its computers. >> >> Nor why they were using such rubbish software for a mission- >> critical system. >> >Because for people outside our little industry the software is a tool to get >a JOB done, not the job itself. > >Alex
A perceptive comment, but not actionable. This incident is what happens when non-tool oriented people must use tools. Our responsibility is to teach; theirs is to learn. Some people spend too much time sharpening their tools. Others too little. Neither is innocent when the job fails to get done. /kenw
