You’ll have to excuse me. I have to turn on GEEK mode here.
I was looking through some articles/newsgroups about security on Windows XP. Thought it would be a good thing to know what kind of vulnurabilities to expect in this rendition of windows. And lo behold, there it was, the ever going debate on which is better, Linux or Windows.
One conversation discussed how Windows 2000 had less vulnurabilities and bugs than say Red Hat Linux 7.0. Well, while this is true, the nature of the vulnurabilities is what matters. I mean so you have say 100 vulnurabilities that give you “root” or “superuser” access on Windows, but Linux has 10 of those vulnurabilities, but has 1000 other vulnurabilities that are minor such as “apache restarts if blah blah”. Um… Ok, that’s not cool. I’d rather have 1,000 insignificant vulnurabilities than 100 that give you the “I can do whatever I want with your machine now I’m the happy hacker!” types. sigh.
Then there are the folks who talk about how unfriendly the desktop for Linux is. While this is so true, in my opinion, X-windows was never really made to be as such until just recently. I mean it’s made by developers. People who already know where everything is in the operating system. You can’t expect just any user to understand what “root” means. (And no, it’s not about a tree – well kinda. But not like you think.)
Windows isn’t exactly the most user-friendly operating system either. But hey, what OS is there that you can’t say that about? Possibly MacOS. But that’s a different story. 
Now that that’s out of the way, it snowed here today. How lame. I hate it when it snows, then it’s gone. If it’s going to snow, I want it to SNOW! But hey, what can ya do?
