From: "Joe Barr" 



Are you still sexually abusing your children?



On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 12:10:03 +0000, Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius wrote:


> Like I said, you do more damage than good.
>
> Be honest: Is it that you have an issue with anger management, or do you
> have a problem with drugs or alcohol? You show to characteristics of both.
> I've had to deal with both in my employ, and they tend to react in the
> same manner you do.
>
> My money is chemical dependency, likely an angry drunk.
>
> RTM, BG
>
>
> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> news:3decd525$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>
>> Hey, if you liked the Microsoft sponsored report from Aberdeen claiming
>> LinuLinux is less secure than Windows - probably written by Richard
>> Shupak
>>  especially for all the stupid fucking morons that buy into MS sponsored
>> reports - you will love the (MS sponsored) IDC report proving that W2K
>> is cheaper than Linux.
>>
>> Later today, reports revealing that Black is White, Up is Down, and Bill
>> Gates is an honest man will be offered at deep discounts for the
>> mindless idiots who believe Redmonian propaganda.
>>
>> Don't miss out!!  Get some for Ronnie!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:32:18 +0000, Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius wrote:
>>
>> > Now you're getting my point, and why I needled ol' Joe. All he wants
>> > to do, it seems, is hurl invectives and four letter words. It seems
>> > he's more interested in turning people off to Linux than on to it.
>> > That manner will do nothing to sway minds.
>> >
>> > RTM, BG
>> >
>> >
>> > "Geo."  wrote in message
>> > news:3debc7e7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >> "Ronnie T. Mungo, Boy Genius"
 wrote in message
>> >> news:3deb85e6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >>
>> >> > Rather strange. Either the numbers were right or wrong.
>> >>
>> >> It's all in how you count. For example I have people try
to prove to
>> >> me
>> > that
>> >> Linux is more secure than NT by quoting numbers for one distrib of
>> >> Linux without Apache or any other addons and then quoting
numbers for
>> >> NT4 + W2K
>> > +
>> >> XP + W9x + IIS + Outlook Express + Internet Explorer and when I
>> >> called
>> > them
>> >> on it they claimed "they all came from MS but Apache
didn't come from
>> >> the Linux distrib group".
>> >>
>> >> It's far too easy to fudge the number counts without an exact
>> >> description
>> > of
>> >> what exploits they are counting.
>> >>
>> >> Also, do you count a trojan as an exploit? I mean if the
user has to
>> >> run
>> > it
>> >> I could probably code up about a million exploits and
really screw up
>> >> the counts.
>> >>
>> >> If you really want to discuss the Aberdeen Group's numbers, get a
>> >> list of what exploits they counted for each side and I'll
be happy to
>> >> review it
>> > and
>> >> leave comments to try and give a fair count. My personal opinion is
>> >> that when you compare apples to apples the numbers are
probably very
>> >> close to equal between one version of NT and one distrib of Linux.
>> >> Likewise if you add some stuff, Linux/BIND/Apache probably comes
>> >> close to NT/msDNS/IIS.
>> >>
>> >> Geo.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> --
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>>

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