New Things, Holey Microsoft

Published on July 17, 2004 By averjoe In Personal Computing

I have a 128-megabyte USB thumb drive. This drive is 28 megabytes larger than my old Zip drive. It is solid state and some say it can take a beating without loosing data. I find this amazing. It’s good to see technology in data storage advancing so nicely.

I wonder how far away from having larger capacity storage devices that could replace the present type of hard disk drive with all those moving parts that can become more easily damaged than the Scandisk camera cards or the USB thumb drive.

I have a new Micro 108 keyboard. It is kind of small and I am having quite a time getting use to it. It feels like a laptop keyboard. I’m sure I will adjust in time but until then my typing speed will suffer.

Holes in Windows: The patches for Windows operating systems 98, Me, 2000, and XP keep rolling out. Well, I have said before that the Windows operating systems have many security issues. It almost seem like it was by design. Microsoft is not alone in its holey software. There is a lot of software with security issues. I think I mentioned the free version of Zone Alarm and Symantec’s Norton anti-virus, among others.

I think I can do the public a service and inform them that even with these latest patches Microsoft Windows 2000 is still being penetrated so I guess I’ll just wait until some more patches come out.

I’m waiting for Bill Gates to say, “ f**k it, I’m building a whole new operating system”----Oh!! He did that with Windows XP……….

Comments

Peter North

on Jul 18, 2004

"He did that with Windows XP"
No, really, you know better. Perhaps a 'pure' XP would only have the security problems of Vax VMS, but this site especially, should accept that 'network effects' mandated that XP inherit the security holes of...
- DOS
- DOS4
- OS/2 1.3
- Windows 3.1
- Citrix
- NT 4 SP6 (yeah, it had some securoty problems of it's own in registry permission inheritance, for example);
it's been said before ... "compatability means having the same bugs".

averjoe

on Jul 18, 2004

Good point but that is not the way XP was advertised. Everyone was encouraged to upgrade to XP not only because of its ease of use with various types of media but it was more secure and less prone to bugs.

on Jul 18, 2004

Everyone was encouraged to upgrade to XP not only because of its ease of use with various types of media but it was more secure and less prone to bugs.

Exactly. Windows IS easier to use and has less bugs.

Xenodox

on Jul 21, 2004

Which begs the question: what operating system has more bugs than Windows?

Because I'm not aware of any.

messybuu

on Jul 21, 2004

Linux does, although it's excusable in their case since Linux is still in its alpha stage.

on Jul 22, 2004

Linux is still in alpha stage.. for how many years?

Mac OS is simply not used by that many people, so it's not as huge a target as Microsoft Windows is. When you're crafting a sinister virus or trojan, etc, which does you prefer, 2% or 95% of computers?

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