Dr. Rice is very smart and talented, and, earned the position she has. The color of her skin and where her reproductive organs happen to be located were 'fringe' benefits for the Bush campaign.
-Bart
When you work in an organization as large as the one I work in, (10's of thousands of windows desktops) and something like over 10,000 windows servers, you need the 'official' fix. Most of our desktops are patched automatically and our servers are patched per schedule. However, we test the patches as they are releasd from M$.
I have wasted many a saturday doing MS-Patchathons because of an urgent fix that was rolled out. This is the way of things.
If you are running an unsupported O/S like win98 then get a clue and upgrade. Yes Linux is an outstanding alternative since it runs on just about anything, but in my experience, those who are running unsupported O/S's like Windows 98 simply don't have the experience to run something like linux. There's nothing WRONG with linux its just that getting up to speed on it takes more time than the average casual computer admin has time for. You know the casual admin who does that job because they're the only person who can do it, they actually have anohter job to do like accountant or maintenance person, etc.
Hey there's one guy i work with who swears by BSD and runs it on the oldest most obsolete hardware he can find, and you know what, that's fine. But 99.9999999999% of the general computing population is just not going to want to learn how to fix dependicies in a gcc library to get the 'X' version of tetris to run.
-Bart
"With your ignorance of geography, I can only assume you're American. My sympathies. Nice work on that whole "War on Terror" thing, by the way."
[Message enclosed]:
Kiss my ass! We clean up your shit all the time. If it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German and paying homage to the 3rd Reich right now.
Uncle Sam
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes
[talking about the Time Machine]
Marty McFly: [looks through a camcorder] This is uh... This is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh... does it run, like... on regular unleaded gasoline?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - plutonium.
Marty McFly: Uh... plutonium? Wait.
[lowers the camcorder by his side and points to the DeLorean]
Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Hey, hey, hey. Keep rolling. Keep rolling, there.
[Marty looks through the camcorder again]
Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need.
Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off?
Dr. Emmett Brown: Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shoddy bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts! Come on! Let's get you a radiation suit. We must prepare to reload.
What we need is an automatic bullshit detector filter on slashdot... We could put on the server side and before any post makes it all the 'bullshit' is marked in brown, fact in green, supposition in red and unknown text in courier font 12cpi. Perhaps we can write the software in Perl and sell to DHS!
-Bart
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I'm sorry I can't post my opinion here...this is not a secure line. *Click*
Dr. Rice is very smart and talented, and, earned the position she has. The color of her skin and where her reproductive organs happen to be located were 'fringe' benefits for the Bush campaign. -Bart
When you work in an organization as large as the one I work in, (10's of thousands of windows desktops) and something like over 10,000 windows servers, you need the 'official' fix. Most of our desktops are patched automatically and our servers are patched per schedule. However, we test the patches as they are releasd from M$.
I have wasted many a saturday doing MS-Patchathons because of an urgent fix that was rolled out. This is the way of things.
If you are running an unsupported O/S like win98 then get a clue and upgrade. Yes Linux is an outstanding alternative since it runs on just about anything, but in my experience, those who are running unsupported O/S's like Windows 98 simply don't have the experience to run something like linux. There's nothing WRONG with linux its just that getting up to speed on it takes more time than the average casual computer admin has time for. You know the casual admin who does that job because they're the only person who can do it, they actually have anohter job to do like accountant or maintenance person, etc.
Hey there's one guy i work with who swears by BSD and runs it on the oldest most obsolete hardware he can find, and you know what, that's fine. But 99.9999999999% of the general computing population is just not going to want to learn how to fix dependicies in a gcc library to get the 'X' version of tetris to run.
-Bart
"With your ignorance of geography, I can only assume you're American. My sympathies. Nice work on that whole "War on Terror" thing, by the way." [Message enclosed]: Kiss my ass! We clean up your shit all the time. If it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German and paying homage to the 3rd Reich right now. Uncle Sam
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes
[talking about the Time Machine] Marty McFly: [looks through a camcorder] This is uh... This is heavy duty, Doc. This is great. Uh... does it run, like... on regular unleaded gasoline? Dr. Emmett Brown: Unfortunately no, it requires something with a little more kick - plutonium. Marty McFly: Uh... plutonium? Wait. [lowers the camcorder by his side and points to the DeLorean] Marty McFly: Are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear? Dr. Emmett Brown: Hey, hey, hey. Keep rolling. Keep rolling, there. [Marty looks through the camcorder again] Dr. Emmett Brown: No, no, no. This sucker's electrical, but I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 jigawatts of electricity I need. Marty McFly: Doc, you don't just walk into a store and buy plutonium. Did you rip that off? Dr. Emmett Brown: Shhhhhh. Of course. From a group of Libyan nationalists. They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shoddy bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts! Come on! Let's get you a radiation suit. We must prepare to reload.
What we need is an automatic bullshit detector filter on slashdot... We could put on the server side and before any post makes it all the 'bullshit' is marked in brown, fact in green, supposition in red and unknown text in courier font 12cpi. Perhaps we can write the software in Perl and sell to DHS! -Bart
Just saw your post, might be a double but have you tried http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm
-Bart