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Open Letter to a Digital World
jg21 writes "Exasperated after spending 5 hours removing spyware and trojans from his wife's Windows PC, sysadmin Chris Spencer has written an impassioned Open Letter to a Digital World. In the letter he reviews the 'elephants in the closet' - i.e. unfixed bugs and glaring security vulnerabilities - that Microsoft in his view hopes ordinary users will ignore, including some discussed in previous Slashdot stories."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Linux fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Linux box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Linux box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Mozilla will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Linux machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Linux box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Linux machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Linux is a "superior" machine.
Linux addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Linux over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
Bunch of girly men!
Civilisation has survived uncountable years living in the wild with fugly bugs trying to eat them alive.
Now that you nerds have your intarweb toy you think everything should fit perfectly in your dorky little world, especially when you get it for free as in beer, err I mean kool aid, paid by your mommy. Well, if I ever meet you, I'll kick your ass!
Dear Sir, We have already addressed your issues. Buy a Macintosh. Love, The Digital World.
There is a rage in me to defy the order of the stars, despite their pretty patterns.
Me think she was making a lot of "friends" on Yahoo Personals using IE, without sharing her browsing history with her husband who's been busy lately.
Note that a few months back there was a worm going around that hacked IIS web servers and dropped a spyware installation crack into all the HTML files on the server. There are probably plenty of legit sites that unknowingly install spyware on IE users' computers these days.
Why do these gayboys always feel the need to cover for their S.O. by referring to him as "wife"? It would be more honest and refreshing if he just came right out and said "longtime companion".
Who is insecure....?
http://www.lwn.net/Alerts
That is what I thought. Get a clue. If you install Linux, not only will you have a very crappy time trying to find good software, you will be running the most insecure OS available.
OSX you say? The neoclowns return under a new banner proclaiming their new ultimate OS? Read it and weep: http://secunia.com/product/96/ OUCH!
BTW, here is a clue for you and your porn loving wife: sfc.exe Next time get an MCSE and not a clown cert.