Re: Re: Lame
Meh, angles on the story...
Fail for me and my spelling and my autocorrect
Posts by ChrisM
169 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jul 2009
Revealed: Inside Apple-bothering Proview's crumbling factory
Southwest One gets £10m IBM loan amid 'staggering' losses
Friday 17th February 2012 09:27 GMT
Proper Post Mortem Needed
First, what was the original tender specification.
Second, what was the final org design
Third, what CR's were submitted during build that meant a fundamental change to that design.
That should give us an idea of what went wrong.... Usually these problems start with a poorly specified task and the rest is knock on....
Heartland Institute documents leaked
LibreOffice debugs and buffs up to v.3.5
Wednesday 15th February 2012 00:34 GMT 
The problem is.....
No one cares, unless you have a FOSS fan in the family or your company has taken the leap into the unknown world outside the Microsoft bubble then for most people productivity software = MS office.....
The other problem is that even if people have heard of it then most of them will not change out of inertia. The thought of learning the differences (perceived, I know from trying it out that the interface was perfectly usable with only a few small ones) means that most won't bother and will continue either pirating or buying the home office version of MS.
Anonymous hackers leak Scotland Yard-FBI conference call
US tweet deportation: Chilling behind-the-scenes photos
10 years ago today: Bill Gates kicks arse over security
Sunday 15th January 2012 22:16 GMT
Thankyou for making my point in a more eloquent fashion than I could. The tone of your comment and the 'pull your head out of your arse' comment has automatically made me less likely to trust what you have to say even though you may be a world reknowned expert on information security for all I know.
You misunderstood the 'bedroowm warrior' part by seeing that as an ad hominem when it was a plain appeal to improve the level of debate on this subject.
Nowhere do I endorse the windows security model and even contrast it by the more easily securable *nix (nothing is completely secure unless you remove the user from the equation), hell its better than it was but would you prefer to still have autorun by default, no prompts and checks about running install programs and wide open ports. Who in their right mind would?
Sunday 15th January 2012 14:46 GMT
The security debate is necessary (and not that boring). What is boring is the vitriol and bile spewed out, the use of examples from years if not decades ago to make a point about the security position of a product now.
It appears to me that the windows product is trying to lock down the product without losing usability whereas the various Linuxes (Linii?) Are working at the same problem from the opposite direction. That movement benefits us all... The mindless namecalling just makes you look like a bedroom warrior and cheapens any valid points you may have
Biting the hand that feeds IT
