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RE: lame b!tching about xpsp2
From: "joe" <mvp () joeware net>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:18:10 -0400
Your computers can have different OSes on them, Your OS can run on different brands of computers, you can run different Office Suite packages on your different Oses (even Windows). Contrariwise, I can't run diesel in my gasoline engine, can't run jet fuel either. I can't easily take the heads from a Chevy and put them on a Ford. I can't put a bar of Ivory in my dishwasher and expect my dishes to turn out very clean. What is your point here. Shooting for computers as appliances for a majority of the users out there is a good and noble thing. They are, after all, simply tools. I personally don't want an appliance, but I am not a normal user like the vast majority of the users. To bring this back to security and the topic at hand. SP2 does not make it so a machine doesn't require patching. It is an attempt to reduce the rush sometimes required for patching. It may or may not fail in that regard but at the very least it is an attempt in that direction. All of your griping is simply griping against someone trying to make the environment better. If anything you should be pushing this update. You aren't going to get people to dump Windows no matter how much you rant about it. You might as well be tilting at windmills instead of Windows. Even if this updates doesn't fix everthing you think it should fix and in the way you think it should fix it, at least it is an attempt to fix it. So you don't have to cheer it or tell people it is the greatest thing, but you should tell people that their Windows machine is more secure with it than without it. joe -----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of devis Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 11:39 PM To: Joshua Levitsky; Full-disclosure Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] lame b!tching about xpsp2 Do you buy devices ( car or dish washer ) that takes only one kind of petrol or one kind of washing powder ? No ? Cause that was the point made. And btw, nice signature Joshua, but i bet you get that all the time. lmao. ------------------------------------------------------------ "- Oh i see, one of those on 'need to know' basis job, is it ? - Exactly, you get to know only what you need to know !" _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- RE: lame b!tching about xpsp2 James Patterson Wicks (Aug 13)
- Re: lame b!tching about xpsp2 Joshua Levitsky (Aug 13)
- Re: lame b!tching about xpsp2 devis (Aug 13)
- RE: lame b!tching about xpsp2 joe (Aug 16)
- Re: lame b!tching about xpsp2 devis (Aug 13)
- Re: lame b!tching about xpsp2 Barry Fitzgerald (Aug 16)
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- RE: lame b!tching about xpsp2 James Patterson Wicks (Aug 13)
- Re: lame b!tching about xpsp2 Joshua Levitsky (Aug 13)