[SunRescue] OT: need MMJ cable for vaxstation

[Devin L. Ganger]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Brian Dunbar wrote:

<me>

> >Properly run, a Windows box is no more crash-prone than your favorite
> >variant of Unix, all jokes and Microsoft bashing aside.  It takes,
> >perhaps, a bit more work to *get* there initially.<
 
> I'd disagree . .  it's *easy* to get a Windows machine to be stable -
> barring installation chaos they're that way out of the box (mostly) - but
> it's far to easy to add junk here and gewgaws there and I'm always seduced
> by the GUI into not-thinking when I go to do something.

I consider part of stable to be secure -- as in, it can't be pushed down
by other people.  WIndows out-of-the-box is *not* secure; hence, it is
not stable.

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
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