Absolutely not a joke.
Ray Dillinger
bear at sonic.net
Tue Jan 30 11:45:43 PST 2001
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Me wrote:
>Of course it will be faster and more stable, he will never run a single
>program on it.
>
>I'm sure your message was a joke, but, he won't get it and everyone else first
>heard it years ago.
Not a joke: I was dead serious. Windows/Outlook is the preferred
platform for viruses. If he wants to run a virus free system, he
should get a system that is not the preferred platform for viruses.
Windows is also built to be insecure; there are backdoor keys for
law-enforcement types to stick "trusted" trojans on the system,
broken security programs that leave unencrypted temp files lying
around, "encrypted" systems that just XOR the plaintext with a
short repeating key, etc ad nauseam. And this is just the stuff
that auditors have been able to find without recourse to source
code. If you want secure systems, get a system that you can read
the source code for and *see* what the hell is going on -- or *fix*
it if you find something broken.
Finally, it's really nice to have a comprehensive system of permissions,
etc -- that way some idiot running zork can't trash out anything that
the system actually depends on, even if he runs a virus-infected zork.
And let's not forget the "autoregister" feature in Whistler. Isn't
it nice that I'll be able to upgrade hardware without buying a new
operating system?
>Also, if you are running W2K and are suffering regular crashes the problem is
>operator error, not Windows.
>>
bear at bolt~>uptime
11:27am up 46 days, 21:30, 76 users, load average: 0.31, 0.28, 0.16
<<
The last downtime, a month and a half ago, was for a hard drive upgrade.
The one before that was four months prior, and that was for physically
relocating the machine. I don't even remember the last time it crashed;
I don't think it ever has in the five years I've been using it.
Bear
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