On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 12:41, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 20:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > ''People need to do a better job about fixing vulnerabilities,'' Schmidt > > said. > > > > ... > > > > ----------------------- > > > > Some of you might remember that, before taking the position of > > cyber-security czar, Schmidt was chief security officer for Microsoft, > > which undoubtedly explains his penchant for blaming the user, not > > the source. > > > > rday (from the RH list) > Furthermore, given that some patches really messed up the systems they > were supposed to fix, we know have a one month "wait-and-see" policy > before applying any patch. Crossing the fingers and praying that within > this month no worm-trojan-whatever appear.
What truly kills me in this whole "comedy of errors" with Microsoft is that back in the early to mid-nineties when the Windows desktop was the client and AIX, SunSolaris, HPUX, Netware and OS/2 were the servers, there was never anything as frigged up as the server game that Microsoft now plays. You could apply a fix or upgrade to a Netware server, reboot and that was that. Fixed. No problems. Same with OS/2 and LanMan...just worked. That was that. The UNIX based systems - well, I don't have to say anything about them - they just worked (and still work). With the stance that Microsoft has - especially in as much as system/software patches is concerned, and with the discontinuation of support for NT 4.0 and Win95 - they're truly showing that they don't give a rat's ass about anything except for "sell more software, don't fix bugs" - bug fixing is NOT a high priority for them at all. Unless someone REALLY makes a noise about something, they don't give a care. (Rant is over now) -- Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:45:00 +1100 12:45pm up 9 days, 22:28, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.09 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
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