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| Roy Culley |
 Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:29 pm |
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<nE4Rf.1501$TB1.794@bignews4.bellsouth.net>,
TheLetterK <theletterk@spymac.nosppam.com> writes:
Quote: Ben Cartwright wrote:
flatfish+++ wrote:
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/100_i386.html
No wonder my Suse security icon is red every other day, or more.
Linux more secure than Windows?
Looking at all these hits makes me wonder.
Maybe Linux hasn't been targeted yet because there aren't enough
people using it to make it noticeable?
Their are many security holes in Linsux. The geeks in the server
room hate Linsux because they need to apply security patches every
24 hours. Thats how often bug fixes for this crap OS come out.
Fortunately, applying those patches is trivial, and causes virtually
no downtime.
I admin several Linux servers in mission critical production environment.
I can assure you these systems seldom need patching. Certainly far less
than for Windows systems which require their monthly critical patches
and reboots.
Just because security bugs are found and fixed in the thousands of OSS
apps only shows that the OSS community takes security seriously. Very
few of these bugs affect people who use Linux as a server. As I'm also
a Linux desktop user most of these bugs don't even affect my desktop
as I often don't have the apps installed.
Windows is insecure by design and because of the interdependencies of
the SW and the incredible bloat even MS know it is all but unmaintainable.
Linux is very modular. There is far less interdependency among the parts
of the system. This leads to much easier maintainability. Windows is just
a joke from a security point of view. A very very expensive joke. |
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| Ian Semmel |
| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:20 am |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:12:40 +1000, HawkEye <sunbed@rocketmail.com> wrote:
Quote: flatfish+++ wrote:
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/100_i386.html
No wonder my Suse security icon is red every other day, or more.
Linux more secure than Windows?
Looking at all these hits makes me wonder.
Maybe Linux hasn't been targeted yet because there aren't enough people
using it to make it noticeable?
**plonk**
You will have to forgive me, but I haven't been hanging around in linux
newsgroups for long.
What is this '**plonk**' stuff that appears. Is it supposed to be some
ultimate insult like "so's your mother?" |
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| Ian Semmel |
| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:24 am |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:11:48 +1000, Stew <antwun@yahoo.com> wrote:
These were the dates they were fixed, not when the flaws were found. |
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| Walter Mautner |
| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:40 am |
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Ian Semmel wrote:
Quote: **plonk**
You will have to forgive me, but I haven't been hanging around in linux
newsgroups for long.
What is this '**plonk**' stuff that appears. Is it supposed to be some
ultimate insult like "so's your mother?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk
Btw., there is also a article about the sense and nonsense of excessive
crossposting
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html
For not attracting trolls (another item you will find about on wikipedia), I
have trimmed the advocacy groups from the list.
Actually, the question is totally OT on the groups you posted. I would
recommend alt.usenet.newbies instead.
Also, because of the OT nature of your posting, I changed it to the top
level group (absolutely no ralation to SuSE, much less to XP).
Have fun on usenet 
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| Wolf Kirchmeir |
| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:01 am |
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Ian Semmel wrote:
Quote: On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:12:40 +1000, HawkEye <sunbed@rocketmail.com> wrote:
flatfish+++ wrote:
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/100_i386.html
No wonder my Suse security icon is red every other day, or more.
Linux more secure than Windows?
Looking at all these hits makes me wonder.
Maybe Linux hasn't been targeted yet because there aren't enough people
using it to make it noticeable?
**plonk**
You will have to forgive me, but I haven't been hanging around in linux
newsgroups for long.
What is this '**plonk**' stuff that appears. Is it supposed to be some
ultimate insult like "so's your mother?"
It means that the poster has put the sender of the plonked message into
his killfile. IMO, a public plonker is as vain and egocentric as the
person he's plonking. (And that comment will likely get me plonked by
someone. Maybe even publicly. Heheh.)
Me, I give an offensive poster a couple of chances, because every one
has a case of the growling grumps once in a while. But persistent or
repeated offensiveness causes a plonk. I just don't bray about it.
I have noticed that on some newsgroups public braying about plonking is
more common than on others. On one NG I subscribe to it's never done.
C'est la vie. |
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