Clustering for databases

rsobba at kcnet.com rsobba at kcnet.com
Mon Sep 15 18:15:59 CDT 2003


Speaking of viruses and worms does anyone know why Microsoft hasn’t been 
sued? They seem to have far more vulnerabilities than any other OS. If any 
automaker delivered such a poor product no one would ever hesitate to sue 
them.

Rick

> Jason Clinton wrote:
> 
> > In the musings department: I wonder if Linux has had anything to do 
with 
> > my loss of patience? Before Linux, I just accepted that sometimes 
> > computers don't work. Now, I see greedy, incompetent corporations 
behind 
> > every bug in software on a Windows system -- I really can't stand to 
> > work on the system once I start thinking like that. Especially if the 
> > bug costs me hours and hours of frustration.
> 
> I used to hate viruses and worms.  In reality I still do, but it gives 
> me a job.  It takes a detailed person (like me) to be able to follow the 
> bug and remove it from every little corner it hides in.  And usually 
> when you remove it you get a chance to lock down the user a little more, 
> fix things that have been neglected (load the latest svc pack and defrag 
> the PC).  You get an opportunity to get one-on-one with the user and 
> explain why they shouldn't trust attachments or HTML mail.  Why they 
> shouldn't forward jokes and junk.  That they should write down error 
> messages and then let you look at it, not read the entire thing to you 
> over the phone pronouncing each letter and number in the blue-screen 
> msg.  Hopefully they don't poke and prod a dying machine before they 
> call or keep screwing w/ it after you are notified, so that the PC is so 
> dead it won't even start up and you can't save their "critical" files.
> 
> Brian
> -----------------------------
> I refrained from telling him that I doubted they could find their ass 
> with an electronic ass finder.
> 
> 
> 
> 




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