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RE: [inbox] Re: Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11


From: "Exibar" <exibar () thelair com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:15:26 -0400

Exactly.  Some idiot decided to program the entire system to shut down after
49 days.  What an idiot, why not just setup a maintenance program to perform
a scheduled re-boot of the system instead of having an automated proecess
shut down the system and then have to schedule a work around for this by
scheduling a manual boot every 30 days (which someone forgot).

  This whole thing wasn't Windows' fault, but an idiot
programmer/manager/whatever fault.

  Exibar

-----Original Message-----
From: ASB [mailto:abaker () gmail com]
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 10:56 AM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
Subject: [inbox] Re: [Full-disclosure] Windoze almost managed to 200x
repeat 9/11


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Next time, please read the thread in context.
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The context of the thread is that an application issue is being
incorrectly interpreted as an OS issue.


-ASB

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:43:53 -0400, Barry Fitzgerald
<bkfsec () sdf lonestar org> wrote:
ASB wrote:

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Where issues like this relate to the OS is in the fact that the OS
itself shouldn't be brought down by a poorly designed app.
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And where in that article did you read that the OS was brought down by
a poorly designed app?



I didn't... I was reponding to a point that was made about applications
being reponsible for system failures.


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Was it MS Windows that actually held the code that brought
the system down?


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The article was pretty clear:

<snip>

How you managed to read "OS failure" into this is rather astounding...




How you manage to get up in the morning is rather astounding.

Next time, please read the thread in context.

Also, if you think that that's a detailed assessment of the problem,
you're not too bright.

So try and think a little harder next time, and not be so abbrassive.
You may be having a bad day (most likely due to your poor attitude) but
don't take your own misunderstanding out on others, mmkay?

            -Barry

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