In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [H]omer
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on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:49:11 +0100
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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.
Indeed. What software did they use to trace the calls?
Admittedly, I can't say I have a lot of experience with
software measurement metrics, but there are a fair number
running about.
The blog entry points to Sana Security's homepage but I don't know
if their software is the ones doing call traces.
>
> 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.
>
Words might have been worth more back then too. :-)
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