Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1570

How profound. :-)

The idea that anyone could send you an email, with executable content inside has got to be one of the worst they have come up with, and that is saying something. It ought to be the grounds for a *mbuttive* clbutt action lawsuit.

You are missing the forest for the sake of a couple posts that you didn't like. You think Microsoft has only nits to worry about now? Then why is XP Home still on the market? It is impossible to share a directory over a network and buttign any access permissions. If it's shared, EVERYBODY can see it. Why? So they can make an extra $100 getting people to upgrade to get one that has security. So, they want to charge extra for security, yet fail publicly every time they try to claim that their new version of whatever is more secure. Windows 2003 Server was supposed to be completely "overhauled" by developers that had all been trained on secure programming practices, and it was out a few days before the first holes showed up. It's not just about Mary Jones' laptop getting an email virus. The real MS security holes are on the server side, and when they get hit, it costs millions, not a Ghost restore for Mary.

MS is by no means the only company with security problems, and the fact that 90% of those trying to break systems are working on breaking windows platforms doesn't help. Still, their claim of super-robust software, the type of software that simply cannot be produced by "amateurs" in OSS projects just doesn't hold water any better than a spaghetti strainer.

You really think focusing on one comment, and buttuming that is all that is being tried is a fair analysis? Come on.

Why shouldn't it? It was modeled after a server operating system. All those high-margin server licensing agreements keep the cool research projects running in Redmond. Taking server market share away is the right approach. That's where most companies sink costs, not on the desktop, where the OS comes bundled for free with a $399 PC. The backoffice license fees alone are astronomical.

I happen to run this newsreader because it is the best one I know of, often from a VNC session on a Linux machine. Years ago, nn, then xrn were the newsreaders of choice, but they have lost the battle against time and active maintenance.

I suspect somebody will put out a really good X newsreader again, and it will all change.

By using Firefox, OpenOffice, Gravity and gvim, you can almost turn Windows into a reasonably secure platform, provided you aren't running XP Home. It still takes about twice the RAM and 4X the hard disk space to get there, and isn't free.

I for one don't want to see "mainstream Linux on the desktop", because for that to happen today, it will have to turn into the same sort of bloated, paperclip-happy, animated icon, winamp as shell mbutt-market moron festival windows is to get the attention of the mbuttes, and that's the last thing serious PC users need.

-- Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR) "Making it hard to do stupid things often makes it hard to do smart ones too." -- Andrew Koenig