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| Thread ID: 37190 | 2003-08-31 06:22:00 | Survey: Do you update windows? | thehobbit (4483) | Press F1 |
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| 171955 | 2003-09-01 00:44:00 | Godfather,all respect to ya(you are the godfather after all :D ) but not once did i mention replacement,Please read the words written before ripping it apart,and yes if my newly purchused vechicle had a severe fault where the outcome would be possible complete ruin and/or ongoing problems i would be seeking a refund. no doubt about it.... Yes yes,that aint exactly how i worded it in the prior post,but elaborating on a point for the purpose of clarification ain't no crime. I cant imagine being satisfied with any product that was sold in the state of windows,and i cant imagine any other company getting away with such practices. |
metla (154) | ||
| 171956 | 2003-09-01 01:23:00 | "*sarcasm may or may not be present in this post" Surely not????? |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 171957 | 2003-09-01 06:08:00 | *cough* To my eternal shame :8} on the weekend I updated W98 on Old Faithful for the very first time ever. Ialso downloaded all (relevant) patches for W2K including SP4, but I almost regretted it. The download took no time really (jetstream) but the install took well over an hour to complete. :O :O :O :O :O :O :_| :_| X-( X-( :) The progress bar inched along at one bar every 5-6 minutes, so slow that I thought it was a gonner. To date there have been no adverse side effects from my excursion to the bleeding edge of MS technology, but there is time yet.:| Cheers Billy 8-{) [b][pre]No worries though:D I made fresh images of both HDDs before advancing to go. Just being careful:p |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 171958 | 2003-09-01 08:24:00 | Hmmm MS has been known to produce doggy updates by reintroducing vulnerabilities that where sorted by previous patch. This is well documented. No wonder sys admins are reluctant to installl updates without testing........... | mark.p (383) | ||
| 171959 | 2003-09-01 08:47:00 | > > I also keep my Red Hat updated > i'm just queries > i've played with RedHat & Linux > who makes the Updates? > how often do they have critical updates? > i thought Linux didn't have floors/flours {witch > one?} Hi sc0ut Red Hat (amongst other distro's) has an inbuilt updater which works kind of like Windows Update. It allows to you update various programs (general updates as well as security fixes). The updates for registered users comes from here (rhn.redhat.com). You can get them for free for one system using a Demo entitlement (if you answer a very quick survey every 6 weeks). Yes Linux has flaws, which when found are quickly notified to registered users and the fix available for downloading. This is part of a recent notification that I received as an example: Security Advisory - RHSA-2003:265-05 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary: Updated Sendmail packages fix vulnerability. Updated Sendmail packages are available to fix a vulnerability in the handling of DNS maps. Description: Sendmail is a widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA) which is included in all Red Hat Linux distributions. A bug has been discovered in the handling of DNS maps in Sendmail 8.12 versions before 8.12.9. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to crash the instance of Sendmail dealing with the request. We believe that the nature of the bug would make remote exploitation of this issue difficult, if at all possible. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0688 to this issue...... |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 171960 | 2003-09-01 10:14:00 | Yes I update. Am currectly running XP Pro with SP1 - fully updated to the last time the automatic update ran (which I think was last week sometime). Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 171961 | 2003-09-01 12:22:00 | Me too Beetle. All software I use is kept up to date. If an update stuffs the computer then I go back to my backup. For Beetle only.... I hope I never offended you by my reply to your post a couple of nights ago. There was no need to apologise to me as I can see your point. Just as a matter of interest Beetle.... Have you ever tried finding out whether there is a CUG (Computer User Group) near you? We have one of these groups in Tokoroa. You may find that this will help as someone just may say that they will come and help you. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 171962 | 2003-09-01 13:47:00 | run 98se--have never updated in 5 years--run AVG free and zonealarm. never had any probs. One virus that avg zeroed a couple of years ago but--no probs. |
dum dugie (432) | ||
| 171963 | 2003-09-02 06:59:00 | Elephant , its just been pointed out to me you sent message in this post sorry havent replied............. no big deal....... i had a bad week month year and to top all off cat got run over so brain is not working well, have not tried anything.... computer wise.... spare time is short and if have any its usually used for sleeping.....LOL and forgot what i said in the post what youre talking about anyway.... thanxs otherwise elephant and no it wasnt you..... :) im not the best person to read thingslike this and not always understand what others mean and do take things to heart when its been a particularly bad day... which has been a lot lately. and thanxs susan b i had missed it, need to borrow your toothpicks....... :D :p thanxs beetle. |
beetle (243) | ||
| 171964 | 2003-09-02 09:53:00 | Yes Updated from M$ to Linux ByeBye Billy for good... |
rmcb (164) | ||
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