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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is sources unreachable?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:56:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308270755110.12604-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <847c8b7fc679b6f8f33d5056ca449956@plan9.bell-labs.com>

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> Of course, you have to count that against the man hours it sonsumed, which was
> sizable.  Also, it doesn't seem to be affecting anyone's attitude towards
> depending so heavily on one very vulnerable OS.

yes, it's odd, but people equate "computers" with that OS. As in,
"computers get viruses like this and that's the way it is". They have
trouble understanding that, in fact, that's the way it is for that
vulnerable OS.

Too bad.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-27  5:46 lucio
2003-08-27 12:17 ` Jim Choate
2003-08-27 12:37   ` lucio
2003-08-27 12:45     ` Jim Choate
2003-08-27 13:45   ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 12:49     ` David Presotto
2003-08-27 14:06       ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 13:48         ` David Presotto
2003-08-27 13:56           ` ron minnich [this message]
2003-08-27 15:57             ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 15:39               ` matt
2003-08-27 21:41                 ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 21:58                   ` matt
2003-08-27 23:33                     ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 22:44                       ` matt
2003-08-27 23:51                         ` northern snowfall
2003-08-27 14:29           ` Wes Kussmaul

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