1) stop abusing monopolistic powers
2) stop releasing product before it is ready
3) teach your porgrammers how to program ROBUSTLY
4) IMPROVE STABILITY DAMNIT! Sure it is profitable for me to go and reinstall windows for someone every six months at the tune of $60 and hour, but I sure get tired of doing it.
5) Play nice with the competition
I have a cable modem in Louisiana and I have had _0_ downtime since it was installed 8 months ago. It is a very necessary part of my job. I live an hour away from work and when something goes wrong, I do not have to drive up there to fix it since I have had broadband.
Perhaps I am just lucky, but my experience has been great!
I work at an observatory run by CalTech and MIT. We are funded through the NSF, which is of course taxpayer money. We use tons of linux and Solaris. In fact our entire data analysis group writes their software for linux.
We currently have 4 linux beowulfs. I convinced them to start buying the beowulf nodes from penguin computing.
Also, since we use the GNU software all the time, we bought a couple of complete GNU software manuals. Still cost less than it would have to buy someone elses software, and we have some nice manuals.
When possible I contribute to the developers of software that we use.
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... trying to run our lives. Most of the politicians making tech based laws have no idea of the technology for which they are making legislation.
Wrong... ssh uses it's own login implementation. Even the CERT announcement said that... but then I guess you did not read it.
You better check your info again bud.... It is patched. at least Sun and IBM.
Besides, anyone not using ssh rather than telnet and rlogin is not very worried about security anyway.
Uhhh.... How to fix MS's reputation:
1) stop abusing monopolistic powers
2) stop releasing product before it is ready
3) teach your porgrammers how to program ROBUSTLY
4) IMPROVE STABILITY DAMNIT! Sure it is profitable for me to go and reinstall windows for someone every six months at the tune of $60 and hour, but I sure get tired of doing it.
5) Play nice with the competition
I have a cable modem in Louisiana and I have had _0_ downtime since it was installed 8 months ago. It is a very necessary part of my job. I live an hour away from work and when something goes wrong, I do not have to drive up there to fix it since I have had broadband.
Perhaps I am just lucky, but my experience has been great!
I work at an observatory run by CalTech and MIT. We are funded through the NSF, which is of course taxpayer money. We use tons of linux and Solaris. In fact our entire data analysis group writes their software for linux.
We currently have 4 linux beowulfs. I convinced them to start buying the beowulf nodes from penguin computing.
Also, since we use the GNU software all the time, we bought a couple of complete GNU software manuals. Still cost less than it would have to buy someone elses software, and we have some nice manuals.
When possible I contribute to the developers of software that we use.