Medium Flame:Re: fPCGI vs. Windows 2003 ==>> bottom post

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:11:42AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> >From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Jay Ashworth shouted:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 11:01:37PM -0400, Robert Haussmann wrote:
> > > Which is better--who's to say?
> > 
> > Everybody repeat after me, now: 
> > 
> > "The one the paying customers want to use."
> 
> To a point.  I can't wholeheartedly back that statement, because the paying
> customers seem to want to use Windows in general, and you know how much I
> love Microsoft.
> 
> To be fair, we recently got a system that has w2k on it, and it's far
> superior to the 95/98 that I'm used to.  Still...it has some issues.  Not
> many here for personal use.  But for corporate use, the security factor
> is...  *sigh*  Don't start me.
> 
> So anyway Jay, are all -those- people right?

Certainly they should be allowed to go to hell in their own way.

Whether they should be allowed to connect their fundamentally insecure
computers to *MY* Internet is another matter entirely.  :-)

(My machine runs Linux, as does every customer machine I'm responsible
for that's directly connected to the Internet -- including a dozen or
more SnapGear routers that hide ... what's the collective noun for
Windows boxes?  Insanity? ... insanities of Windows boxes.)

Cheers, 
-- jra
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