One for Apple users

Tony Raven said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3741871.stm

Apple users have been updating their software to close a security hole which
could, in theory, expose their computers to attack.

I've just put a helmet on top of mine so I'm completely safe.

John B

On Mon, 24 May 2004 18:05:34 +0100, Tony Raven
<[email hidden]>

was popularly supposed to have said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3741871.stm

Apple users have been updating their software to close a security hole which
could, in theory, expose their computers to attack.

And we Solaris/SPARC users simply sit here and look smug...

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Dan Holdsworth PhD [email hidden]
By caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, By the beans of Java
do thoughts acquire speed, hands acquire shaking, the shaking
becomes a warning, By caffeine alone do I set my mind in motion

Dan Holdsworth said:

On Mon, 24 May 2004 18:05:34 +0100, Tony Raven
<[email hidden]>

was popularly supposed to have said:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3741871.stm

Apple users have been updating their software to close a security hole
which could, in theory, expose their computers to attack.

And we Solaris/SPARC users simply sit here and look smug...

For the moment ;-)

Tony

On Mon, 24 May 2004 23:03:00 +0100, [email hidden] (Dan
Holdsworth) wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

Quoted message said:

And we Solaris/SPARC users simply sit here and look smug...

How smug, exactly? <url:http://tinyurl.com/2usep>

Guy
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Dan Holdsworth <[email hidden]> wrote:

: And we Solaris/SPARC users simply sit here and look smug...

Have you seen the size 8_Recommended.zip recently?

Arthur

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"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
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Arthur Clune said:

Dan Holdsworth <[email hidden]> wrote:

: And we Solaris/SPARC users simply sit here and look smug...

Have you seen the size 8_Recommended.zip recently?

Not only that, but I download the bugger on a reasonably regular basis
:-( Still not nearly such a drain on my time as Windows security
fiascos though.

Pete.
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Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Peter Clinch said:

Windows security

<whoop!> <whoop!> Oxymoron alert!

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch said:

Windows security

<whoop!> <whoop!> Oxymoron alert!

Well, to be fair, you overtrimmed.

It said "Windows security fiascos", which are a subset of "Windows fiascos".

And that's a tautology, not an oxymoron.

Now visualising the release of Microsoft Fiasco 2.6
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Mark South
Citizen of the World, Denizen of the Net
<<Tiens! Ce poulet a une grenade!>>

Just zis Guy, you know? <[email hidden]> wrote:

: <whoop!> <whoop!> Oxymoron alert!

Sigh. Believe me, there's plenty of *completely* clueless linux users out there. I
should know. We have enough of them wanting to run their own web servers.

PHP security anyone? There's an oxymoron for you.

MS is bad, but most of the rest are as bad. That apple bug was very poor - it's
a straight out of MS's book thing. Too much automation = security flaw.

Arthur

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"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
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