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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:30:47 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu> Date: April 18, 2006 2:17:12 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Well. *this* doesn't bode well...According to the AP, yesterday's "maintenance" by Turbotax was a reboot to
prepare for the filing deadline rush: Intuit spokeswoman Julie Miller equated the move to the rebooting of a PC and said the company decided to do the ''preventative maintenance'' before the system could potentially slow to a crawl for the inevitable thousands of last-minute tax filers. ''If we see the system slowing down, we take proactive steps to get ahead of it,'' Miller said. (From http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Intuit-Tax-Day.html)To me, that smells of buggy code, and probably a resource leak. Of course,
I don't know if it's Intuit's software or the underlying OS. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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