On 4/15/07, Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130717-pg,1/article.html > I also read Slashdot. This is a month old and already fixed. Gus
From the PCWORLD article:
""You may be vulnerable if you do not manually patch your MadWi-Fi driver," said Butti. Before making it public, he shared the flaw with the MadWi-Fi development team, who have released a patch. However, not all Linux distributions have yet built the patch into their code, said Butti." Useful information, from an article dated April 15 (today). Gus, is this information no longer relevant? The fix has made it in to all the Linux distributions (since this article was written, sometime before April 15, I imagine)"? What I wish to know, is if PCWORLD Online is really that bad off, or if letting people know (in a post) that they may need to manually apply the "fix" (that you mentioned above) is superfluous and simply a waste of everyone's time -- OR, if you were just having a bad day, and felt that if Lan's post was worthless to you, then it was worthless to everyone. OR, you were having a *REALLY* bad day, and simply wanted to remind everyone that you are awesome, and can know that nobody needs to see that article, and so you made sure they didn't, by claiming it is not current, so that nobody goes and reads it. Or is it that everyone who subscribes to this list MUST be using the same distro as everyone else, and the "List Distro" has already been patched. I figure that it's gotta be *one* of these; and the thing is, I've given up reading mailing lists because of all the negativity and the way that people treat each other like they are lesser than themselves... The thing is, the article clearly stated that the bug had already been patched; so why was it so important to tell everyone that it was "a month old and already fixed"? And why inform us that you read Slashdot also? I "get" why you said it -- you think that Lan got the link from there; but THE LINK WAS TO PCWORLD -- what does the origin of the link have to do -- with *anything*? And did you know that I already read the article at PCWORLD two hours ago, because I was reading PCWORLD? I was looking for something else, but I wanted to know what my new Nokia N800 was using for its' WiFi -- do I have to apply the patch in my new Internet Tablet? Funny, I come back to read the San Diego Linux list to see if I can find some useful info, and to learn what's happening with the people I know on the list, to find that there's all this "Post Police" fear going on -- people apologizing for their posts before they even say what they wanted to share with the list; and now someone criticising posts before they even read what the link had to say... Everyone seems to be afraid of their own shadows here! MY GOD don't take it all so seriously--it's just a mailing list, and if there is nothing positive to contribute (the article had everything you (Gus) posted, and more, so there was nothing tangibly useful about your post) -- if there's nothing good to post, and something about a post you read irritates you, just hit the DELETE ] key, and move on. The dynamic between people who are joined together on a mailing list such as this one, is a very fragile thing. Try to understand what you're NOT saying, but implying, before you touch that SEND key... And don't post when you're having a bad day! :) --mVIIs (Mark VII) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
