On Thursday October 10 2002 01:54 pm, Robin Turner wrote: > shane wrote: > > many a tech feels like the CTO of my wifes company, a fortune 500 > > company told me he feels: "we always knew their security was bad, > > but 6000 patches later we get hit by bugbear. so what did those > > patches do?" > > That is a fine quote! > > Sir Robin
My brother is the latest bugbear victim (yesterday). Tho I gave him a computer with Mandrake installed over a year ago (dual boot) ... his whole (computer) world revolves around Windoze. He can't imagine anything else. Even tho I've pointed out to him that the $$$$'s he's invested (squandered) on M$ applications can easily be replaced by free software that runs on Linux, boot Winsux only to play games that won't, and never ever use anything M$ to connect to the Net. Dan (my brother) is afraid of his computer. He's not even capable of installin Windoze without a _lot_ of hand holding. He's saddled with mostly self derived misconceptions and M$ FUD. Sadly he's a typical windoze user. Since he rates right up there with most M$ users, he believes he's computer literate. He emailed me askin if he should delete kernel32.dll since it was causin' all the illegal operation errors. (I was tempted to say 'good idea' ;) Dan, "But I didn't open any email attachments" <hehehe> He's got Zone Alarm and Norton AV runnin, thought he was protected <misconception>. So here's my take. Dan's typical of 90% of M$ users, most of which don't even know there's alternatives other than Macs. With M$ havin a 90% share of all desktop users.... 90% of 90% means that M$ will at least keep ~80% of the desktop business, no matter how good the alternatives get, how bad and greedy M$ gets, for a long time to come. Unfortunately many CEO's who make IT procurement decisions are in the same boat with Dan. MOF, till he retired last year, he was one. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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