2010 December 10 archive at Robert Pogson

Archive for December 10th, 2010

Lump of Coal for M$’s Customers

Published by Robert Pogson December 10th, 2010 in technology. 4 Comments

It is said that Santa Claus leaves a lump of coal in the stockings of naughty children. I wonder what M$’s customers have done to deserve software running their IT systems with 40 vulnerabilities like “remote code execution” or “privilege escalation”? Is it that they did not choose better software such as GNU/Linux? Is it that they did not rebel at the lack of choice offered in retail markets?

see December 2010 Patch Tuesday will come with most bulletins ever

Most people in that category are still using XP. In 10 years, shouldn’t they have fixed those vulnerabilities by now???

- Robert Pogson

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.