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Security

 Wednesday, July 31, 2002

Ah, the Freedom of the Press

HP has threatened action under the DMCA for exposure of some problems with OSF/1 DEC UNIX Tru64 UNIX. Since the author of the c|net article is Declan McCullough, he's included numerous helpful signposts, including one to the source code in question.

Go, First Amendment, Go!

10:36:00 AM # Google It!
categories: Industry, Law, Media, Security, System Administration

Scheduling Maintainance

So Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 will be out on Thursday. Couldn't get it out on a Monday, could they?

Build your systems so that unless you have a catastrophic failure, no one will notice. Make changes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Clean up on Thursday, and Friday if you really must. Have a nice weekend.

Where in that routine does it mention installing an operating system upgrade on Thursday or Friday?

10:11:00 AM # Google It!
categories: Dear Microsoft, Security, System Administration