We've been using sendmail+sophos at our big customer sites for well over 18 months now, and it's great. We sailed through the various virus storms (Melissa, klez, etc) without a hiccup.
When we get the monthly update CD we need to do three installs. One is the mail server update, one is the file server update, and one is the user update. The user update is easy, because it's done to the file server, and all user workstations simply update themselves from that. WinNT/2k workstations do it in the background via the system service, and the few Win9X workstations do it next time they log in.
Between the monthly installs we use wget and a couple of trivial scripts to go out to their website every 2 hours and pick up the latest virus definition files. These are automatically applied to each installation, so we're never more than 2 hours behind in the latest virus info.
We haven't yet had a situation where we've heard reports of some new virus that isn't already known to both the server and desktop based virus scanning.
Early Borland/Turbo C++ bug
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The very early versions of Turbo C++ for DOS had an wonderful object destruction bug. If you constructed an object on the stack in a destructor, like this:
There's nothing about the Open Source model that makes it any more or less artistic than any other software development model.
As for the debate about software being engineering or art, it's always both: it's just a matter of where it sits on the scale between the two.
Most posts are relating the art to pictures hanging in galleries, but I don't think this is a valid analogy, because pictures serve no functional purpose: they're pure art, and exist for no other reason that to give pleasure through perceived asthetic beauty.
Software, on the other hand, is required to be functional as well. I rather think that the art in software is closer to architecture: you need to the scientific fundamentals underneath you to make the thing work and hang together, but once that's established, you've got an amount of creative freedom with which you can express yourself.
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We've been using sendmail+sophos at our big customer sites for well over 18 months now, and it's great. We sailed through the various virus storms (Melissa, klez, etc) without a hiccup.
When we get the monthly update CD we need to do three installs. One is the mail server update, one is the file server update, and one is the user update. The user update is easy, because it's done to the file server, and all user workstations simply update themselves from that. WinNT/2k workstations do it in the background via the system service, and the few Win9X workstations do it next time they log in.
Between the monthly installs we use wget and a couple of trivial scripts to go out to their website every 2 hours and pick up the latest virus definition files. These are automatically applied to each installation, so we're never more than 2 hours behind in the latest virus info.
We haven't yet had a situation where we've heard reports of some new virus that isn't already known to both the server and desktop based virus scanning.
The very early versions of Turbo C++ for DOS had an wonderful object destruction bug. If you constructed an object on the stack in a destructor, like this:
...
Foo::~Foo()
{
Bar b;
}
then the destructor for "b" was called TWICE.
There's nothing about the Open Source model that makes it any more or less artistic than any other software development model.
As for the debate about software being engineering or art, it's always both: it's just a matter of where it sits on the scale between the two.
Most posts are relating the art to pictures hanging in galleries, but I don't think this is a valid analogy, because pictures serve no functional purpose: they're pure art, and exist for no other reason that to give pleasure through perceived asthetic beauty.
Software, on the other hand, is required to be functional as well. I rather think that the art in software is closer to architecture: you need to the scientific fundamentals underneath you to make the thing work and hang together, but once that's established, you've got an amount of creative freedom with which you can express yourself.
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How true it is that version 2 is always the first
good release. Always plan to throw one away.