1. Previously unknown problem is found. 2. Microsoft releases patch. 3. User does not install patch.
The solution to this problem is not "Wouldn't it be simpler for Microsoft to fix their system" becuase they already have - see step 2.
The suggestion was not that "every other software vendor on the planet work around the problems with Microsoft software" but that "every other^W software vendor/including Microsoft/ on the planet work around the problems with boneheaded users"
If it was free as in speech, then a group of developers could fork it and keep a free beer version.
A lot of people like free as in speech becuase it gives a good chance of a free beer version existing. The benefits to security et al apply to free beer open source and free speech open source.
Seriously, people know what year it is, so saying "Two-thousand four, May fifth" is a big fat waste of time
Given the context is the written word, and that documents will (hopefully) persist beyond one week - the reader probably won't know that the document was written in 2004 unless the document says so.
Do you blame the buzzsaw if a hobbiest cuts himself on it without RTFMing?
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Would you blame the workman who cuts off his arm with the buzz saw's totally unprotected blade?
I would if he ignored the instructions telling him to protect himself before using it after hearing the horror stories from the large collection of one armed men (watch out Dr Richard Kimble) in the building!
It is nice to see Microsoft open sourcing code under what appears to be a reasonable license.
However, could there be a piece of software less useful to the Linux/UNIX/etc community? We already have a bunch of mostly incompatable ways to install software.
Still, it could prove useful for open source developers targeting the Windows platform, and may provide a boost for cross platform tools such as GAIM.
Some open source projects (e.g. Apache httpd) already distribute their software in MSI form. I wonder how they create their packages - this could be a way for their developers to use less closed source software.
I'm still tending towards the "another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy", but I am a cynic.
My theory is that either 1) the PhDs are being stifled by upper management, 2) the PhDs aren't really as smart as they're meant to be, or 3) Google has something absolutely massive just around the corner... Take your bets, gentlemen.
My bet: 2.
Education isn't everything, and having a PhD doesn't prove much. Joe Burns has a PhD, but I've yet to see an HTML tutorial site that makes more mistakes then his.
Search for 'Dorward' and what do I find at number one? My homepage... with the URI that has been sending a 301 Moved Permanently to another domain for half a year.
A dozen or so a day - and yes, I know this isn't as much as many people, but a little spam a day over time is still a lot of spam, and the filters are working well.
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If releasing patches is not "fixing their system" - what is?
Giving money to victims doesn't do much to stop the problem.
Oh Dear Gawd. I'm actually defending Microsoft.
/including Microsoft/ on the planet work around the problems with boneheaded users"
1. Previously unknown problem is found.
2. Microsoft releases patch.
3. User does not install patch.
The solution to this problem is not "Wouldn't it be simpler for Microsoft to fix their system" becuase they already have - see step 2.
The suggestion was not that "every other software vendor on the planet work around the problems with Microsoft software" but that "every other^W software vendor
No, that's failed implementations of communism. OK, so I've never heard of a successful implementation of it, but it is supposed to be about fairness.
It is only useless without a closed source binary if you do no consider playing Ogg Vorbis and Theora and SMIL 2.0 content 'a use'.
> the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.
Just wait 20 years, we'll get Linux FUD Special Edition.
That is rather my point.
If it was free as in speech, then a group of developers could fork it and keep a free beer version.
A lot of people like free as in speech becuase it gives a good chance of a free beer version existing. The benefits to security et al apply to free beer open source and free speech open source.
Given the context is the written word, and that documents will (hopefully) persist beyond one week - the reader probably won't know that the document was written in 2004 unless the document says so.
What I was going to say:
Eh? Hasn't 2.6 been officially stable for quite a while? Does it run quite of a lot of production systems?
Oooooh!
A two month old article! Well done slashdot!
What I realised just before I hit submit:
Ngggg! Why can't people use ISO date format? That is the silly month/day/year format.
You may have to jump through hoops, but a build for Cygwin is still a build for Windows.
Otherwise we'll just have to say that all those old applications written in Visual Basic aren't Windows builds, they are VBRUN300.dll builds.
There isn't? Oh no! I must do something about my imagination.
"Bloody wanker" - very painful I would think.
Do you blame the buzzsaw if a hobbiest cuts himself on it without RTFMing?
I would if he ignored the instructions telling him to protect himself before using it after hearing the horror stories from the large collection of one armed men (watch out Dr Richard Kimble) in the building!
Looks more like "Scripts people write using PHP and SQL without understanding security issues are being proven more weak every day." to me.
Better then getting it the other way around.
Doctor! You've just transfused him with carbonated soda!
Oooh! GForge looks cute.
(Although I suggest that people using it make that decision based on a more technical analysis)
It is nice to see Microsoft open sourcing code under what appears to be a reasonable license.
However, could there be a piece of software less useful to the Linux/UNIX/etc community? We already have a bunch of mostly incompatable ways to install software.
Still, it could prove useful for open source developers targeting the Windows platform, and may provide a boost for cross platform tools such as GAIM.
Some open source projects (e.g. Apache httpd) already distribute their software in MSI form. I wonder how they create their packages - this could be a way for their developers to use less closed source software.
I'm still tending towards the "another ploy from Microsoft to not look like the bad guy", but I am a cynic.
Quite standard? You can't get more standard then ISO-standard! :)
Its Tremas - easy to remember since its an anagram of Master
My bet: 2.
Education isn't everything, and having a PhD doesn't prove much. Joe Burns has a PhD, but I've yet to see an HTML tutorial site that makes more mistakes then his.
Search for 'Dorward' and what do I find at number one? My homepage... with the URI that has been sending a 301 Moved Permanently to another domain for half a year.
Bah. Google is at least reasonably upto date!
It was a miniture clone of the Doctor and Leela, and they were put inside the real Doctor's brain.
:)
So he only had to know how to hot-wire his own brain
I think it was The Invisible Enemy (where Invisible reads as Very Very Small)
Adam says foo
Bob says bar
Charles says foobar
Dan says foo
75% say foo
50% say bar
Don't mindlessly add up statistics.
A dozen or so a day - and yes, I know this isn't as much as many people, but a little spam a day over time is still a lot of spam, and the filters are working well.