Clustering for databases

[rsobba at kcnet.com]

Speaking of viruses and worms does anyone know why Microsoft hasn’t been 
sued? They seem to have far more vulnerabilities than any other OS. If any 
automaker delivered such a poor product no one would ever hesitate to sue 
them.

Rick

> Jason Clinton wrote:
> 
> > In the musings department: I wonder if Linux has had anything to do 
with 
> > my loss of patience? Before Linux, I just accepted that sometimes 
> > computers don't work. Now, I see greedy, incompetent corporations 
behind 
> > every bug in software on a Windows system -- I really can't stand to 
> > work on the system once I start thinking like that. Especially if the 
> > bug costs me hours and hours of frustration.
> 
> I used to hate viruses and worms.  In reality I still do, but it gives 
> me a job.  It takes a detailed person (like me) to be able to follow the 
> bug and remove it from every little corner it hides in.  And usually 
> when you remove it you get a chance to lock down the user a little more, 
> fix things that have been neglected (load the latest svc pack and defrag 
> the PC).  You get an opportunity to get one-on-one with the user and 
> explain why they shouldn't trust attachments or HTML mail.  Why they 
> shouldn't forward jokes and junk.  That they should write down error 
> messages and then let you look at it, not read the entire thing to you 
> over the phone pronouncing each letter and number in the blue-screen 
> msg.  Hopefully they don't poke and prod a dying machine before they 
> call or keep screwing w/ it after you are notified, so that the PC is so 
> dead it won't even start up and you can't save their "critical" files.
> 
> Brian
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> I refrained from telling him that I doubted they could find their ass 
> with an electronic ass finder.
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