Sorry abt that, the link I wanted to include was:
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/crap/
This was supposed to be on a "patched" windoze box.
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:52, Analabha Roy wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:09, Doug McLaren wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:24:49
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> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:09, Doug McLaren wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:24:49AM -0600, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> >
> > | When I see announcements like the below, I get really angry and I think
> > | (to myself) stuff like...
> > |
> > | (1) the security problem is that peopl
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:24:49AM -0600, William L. Jarrold wrote:
| When I see announcements like the below, I get really angry and I think
| (to myself) stuff like...
|
| (1) the security problem is that people use windows.
|
| (2) If everyone switched to unix/linux systems would be 99% (90
Most people argue that windoze is more user-friendly than linux, and
that's why they would rather use that (despite all the security
vulnerabilities) than Linux.
This claim is completely bogus.
Linux is already very user friendly, once it has been configged
appropriately (THAT is not easy to do
> (4) e.g. one such misfeature is that Winblows thinks that every file is a
> program to be executed. unix/linux, by contrast, implements the
> distinction between executable and non-executable files.
>
Bill,
I dont disagree when you say that Linux /BSD is probably more secure
than Windows. But
Rather than starting endless flare wars that come to no conclusion, what
I would like to see try to obtain an official response from UT ITS from
creating ever microsoft based computer services on this campus.
Microsoft announced end-of-support for NT4 server (and its domain based
architecture)
William L. Jarrold wrote:
Hi,
When I see announcements like the below, I get really angry and I
think (to myself) stuff like...
(1) the security problem is that people use windows.
(2) If everyone switched to unix/linux systems would be 99% (90%???,
99.9%???) more secure.
(3) Windows has serio
first off, i am a total linux lover, user, and advocate. but i am also
a software developer and i am frankly embarassed at the apparent quality
of our industry. though it is not my "fault" that software breaks so
often, i am ashamed of the reality that software and computers are tools
whose usage
Hi,
When I see announcements like the below, I get really angry and I think
(to myself) stuff like...
(1) the security problem is that people use windows.
(2) If everyone switched to unix/linux systems would be 99% (90%???,
99.9%???) more secure.
(3) Windows has serious misfeatures and bugs re
