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Re: Update for Windows Vista (KB933872)

  • Subject: Re: Update for Windows Vista (KB933872)
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:49:11 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <6070874.I8qeGAbS0y@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Slated.org
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> __/ [ Robin T Cox ] on Wednesday 25 April 2007 19:07 \__

>> Update for Windows Vista (KB933872)
>>
>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a726d33e-d184-4b21-b77f-910c2442c813&displaylang=en&tm=
>> Brief Description
>> Install this update to resolve an issue where the default gateway setting
>> is lost when you wake a computer running Windows Vista from a sleep state.

> Sleep mode affects networking? It's like the .ANI flaw whose fix broke some
> device drivers. See the diagrams here:
> 
> Why Windows is less secure than Linux
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said
> | it. The simple truth.
> | 
> | Many millions of words have been written and said on this topic.
> | I have a couple of pictures.
> `----
> 
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311

That is one of the most uniquely interesting things I've seen in a long
time.

Like the clever man said, a picture is indeed worth a million words.

Although I note that even proverbs are apparently subject to inflation
... it used to only cost a *thousand* words ... back when the expression
was first coined in 1921.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
`----

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux) on sky, running kernel 2.6.20-1.2312.fc5
 08:48:03 up 9 days,  6:20,  2 users,  load average: 0.16, 0.21, 0.32

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