--- Adam Bower abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Earl Brannigan wrote:
What makes M$ worse in my opinion is that they don't appear to have a webpage dedicated to security with things spelled out clearly, what patches you have to apply to each bit of M$ software you have installed etc.
And the hisious licensing on the MS stuff etc...
/me refuses to pay for software.
This is a good reason to use Unix and free software, people don't bury their heads in the sand like the Windows world.
Hurrah!
Adam PS I don't think I have any freinds as I havn't had any interesting Sircam docs sent to me :-(
Check your inbox, and be careful what you wish for.
maybe I should start the open source Sircam whereby you send me a couple of your private files and I add them to my home dir, and then I mail some people random files from my home directory, think of it as an alternative to freenet with much less software development required ;-)
This Reminds me of the Irish Virus, comes as content type:Text/plain and reads along the lines of "This is the Irish Virus, please could you delete the contents of drive c:" etc...
Thanks
D
PS Again be very Careful what you wish for.
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