When you change homes, your banker/broker/phone/cable companies will come to your old home, and destroy all records pertaining to your relationship wiht them, so that your move to the new house is "safe".
Puhleeze. Your PC is your posession. Protect it as you would your wallet/safe/wife/significant other etc.
I agree that a lot of drivers under windows can be flaky as well. However, let us distinguish between "availability" vs "quality" of drivers. I think dvorak was referring to the former. We all agree that just because drivers are available doesnt mean that they are of good quality, and it is true for drivers under any OS.
However, what MS does well here, is by using the WHDL quality control for 3rd party drivers, they ensure (for the most part) that drivers are of good quality. The tools like driver verifier help driver writers in this area. Linux lacks this, and that is why the driver quality & quantity is not up to the par with windows.
I say BS to your arguments. You are alleging being born to a rich family is mutually exclusive to being a self-made man. You can be born to a rich family and still be self made. He didnt inherit a running business from his father, he built it from the ground up.
Secondly, if you see Robert Cringleys PBS show "Triumph of the nerds", you will see that the IBM lawyers said clearly that bill pointed them to Gary Kildall, but he was out flying and his wife wouldnt talk with them. Thats when they came back to Microsoft.
So check you facts before you post.
Lets not be naive. This is the NSA we are talking about. They can analyze billions of phone conversations, emails, faxes, cellphone calls, you name it.
Also, they are considered to be 10 years ahead of the latest public research in cryptography.
Also, hiding encrypted text is not that easy. There are tools available, which, given a binary blob, can detect if it was created using encrypted text. It uses entrophy. Encrypted text looks different than randomly generated crap.
In the O'Reilly book "Open Sources", ESR made some claims in the last paragraph of his article. One of them was "Win2K will be dead on arrival when it ships" implying that it will die a painful death.
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When you change homes, your banker/broker/phone/cable companies will come to your old home, and destroy all records pertaining to your relationship wiht them, so that your move to the new house is "safe".
Puhleeze. Your PC is your posession. Protect it as you would your wallet/safe/wife/significant other etc.
I agree that a lot of drivers under windows can be flaky as well. However, let us distinguish between "availability" vs "quality" of drivers. I think dvorak was referring to the former. We all agree that just because drivers are available doesnt mean that they are of good quality, and it is true for drivers under any OS.
However, what MS does well here, is by using the WHDL quality control for 3rd party drivers, they ensure (for the most part) that drivers are of good quality. The tools like driver verifier help driver writers in this area. Linux lacks this, and that is why the driver quality & quantity is not up to the par with windows.
I say BS to your arguments. You are alleging being born to a rich family is mutually exclusive to being a self-made man. You can be born to a rich family and still be self made. He didnt inherit a running business from his father, he built it from the ground up. Secondly, if you see Robert Cringleys PBS show "Triumph of the nerds", you will see that the IBM lawyers said clearly that bill pointed them to Gary Kildall, but he was out flying and his wife wouldnt talk with them. Thats when they came back to Microsoft. So check you facts before you post.
Lets not be naive. This is the NSA we are talking about. They can analyze billions of phone conversations, emails, faxes, cellphone calls, you name it. Also, they are considered to be 10 years ahead of the latest public research in cryptography. Also, hiding encrypted text is not that easy. There are tools available, which, given a binary blob, can detect if it was created using encrypted text. It uses entrophy. Encrypted text looks different than randomly generated crap.
In the O'Reilly book "Open Sources", ESR made some claims in the last paragraph of his article. One of them was "Win2K will be dead on arrival when it ships" implying that it will die a painful death.