Re: [RDD] Updates WAS updated to 2.3.0, lost ASI cards

2013-01-10 Thread James Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/01/2013 00:20, Cowboy wrote: > I have at least one ( Slack 9 ) machine hard on internet that has > not been updated, nor compromised, since 2004. It does what it was > built to do, so what's the point ? > > ( it's the artificially intelligent,

Re: [RDD] Updates WAS updated to 2.3.0, lost ASI cards

2013-01-09 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 09 January 2013 05:53:57 pm Wayne Merricks wrote: > The only two pieces of advice I have is never update your production machines > first and always have backups somewhere so that you can recover in a bad > situation. HEAR ! HEAR ! > If you're never going to update things, at leas

Re: [RDD] Updates WAS updated to 2.3.0, lost ASI cards

2013-01-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, On an isolated network, updates are definitely a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" deal however the reality is this is a rarity these days. Something somewhere will have the Internet. Linux is pretty solid when it comes to problems by not updating but its not immune. Rivendell uses MySQL