Ah yes, and the black helicopters are watching us and the moon landings were faked and Elvis isn't really dead, he was abducted by aliens and taken to Area 51 for experiments.
Gee, I work for a company (Vericept) that is successfully selling a network monitoring appliance based on Linux. I guess we gotta recall our product now and go back to the drawing board. The same goes for eSoft and some of the other folks we know of using Linux for embedded systems.
Random lockups, crashes and security holes imply that its just simple buggy code.
Carefully timed crashes and/or lockups that cause maximal data loss and crafty security holes imply that someone engineered these flaws.
Windoze always crashes just before I hit save with important data and all we ever hear about is yet another security hole that MicroSmersh couldn't find but some cracker has exploited.
Q.E.D. Terrorists engineered bugs and holes into Windoze.
If every program were written over a period of years by a dedicated team of engineers backed by serious budgets, there wouldn't be nearly as much crappy software.
There is this company in Redmond, WA who seem to disprove this assertion on a regular basis.
I seem to remember a copyright infringement case with IBM going after Phoenix for doing the initial non-IBM BIOS back in the early days of the PC. If I remember the case correctly, the gist of their argument was that the only way Phoenix could have created a compatible BIOS was by copying the IBM original thus infringing on the IBM copyright.
The first time I tried to fire up the Mail client, it segfaulted. Played around with it for a bit and then gave up since it was getting late. Came back in today and brought Mozilla up as root and then fired up the mail client to see what other file had incorrect permiossions. Couldn't find anything that had been touched so I went back to "regular user" and brought up both Mozilla and the mail client with no problems. Not sure what changed and now I can't recreate the problem.
Gee, it seems to run just fine for multiple users if you just chmod/usr/local/mozilla/component.reg to 666. This comment was posted from the copy of mozilla I just installed as root using the binary distribution but I am now running as a regular user.
It WOULD be nice if this were documented... even nicer if it were fixed.
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Gee, I work for a company (Vericept) that is successfully selling a network monitoring appliance based on Linux. I guess we gotta recall our product now and go back to the drawing board. The same goes for eSoft and some of the other folks we know of using Linux for embedded systems.
S I G H ! ! !
So much for my stock options.
Then the story must be true!
Random lockups, crashes and security holes imply that its just simple buggy code.
Carefully timed crashes and/or lockups that cause maximal data loss and crafty security holes imply that someone engineered these flaws.
Windoze always crashes just before I hit save with important data and all we ever hear about is yet another security hole that MicroSmersh couldn't find but some cracker has exploited.
Q.E.D. Terrorists engineered bugs and holes into Windoze.
How would we know the difference?
There is this company in Redmond, WA who seem to disprove this assertion on a regular basis.
Bzzzzzzttt!!! Grammar Error!!!
I think, "If this is true then we have a log time to wait..." would be grammatically correct.
HeHe.
Dave
The first time I tried to fire up the Mail client, it segfaulted. Played around with it for a bit and then gave up since it was getting late. Came back in today and brought Mozilla up as root and then fired up the mail client to see what other file had incorrect permiossions. Couldn't find anything that had been touched so I went back to "regular user" and brought up both Mozilla and the mail client with no problems. Not sure what changed and now I can't recreate the problem.
It WOULD be nice if this were documented... even nicer if it were fixed.
Dave