[Coco] Interested in FTP access on my server?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 14 July 2007, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 12:50 AM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Interested in FTP access on my server?
>
>> M$ will screw around for a couple of months and then in all
>> probability will issue a broken patch such as they just did for their
>> .NET,
>> their answer to a problem that didn't exist before they started the .NET
>> project.  With friends like that, you don't need any enemies...
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>
>Yiks. You mean that all the problems with  .NET I have had in the past few
>days is not a messup on just my system?

Fraid not Stephen, the problems are well known on the net by now, and I've no 
idea how M$ will fix this one.  Back up a couple of days on slashdot.org, 
there's a story there that tells it better than I can.

>I cannot not even do the super powerful uninstall to get back to the
>previous version!!!!

You may be able to re-image the drive from the factory image, but you'll need 
to do a backup somehow of just your data unless you're good at kissing it 
goodby.  OTOH, I'm _not_ a windows expert, so I'm sure there are far more 
knowledgeable folks who can help you with that.

Until a bit over a year ago, the only machines I ever owned that had anything 
Bill's people wrote was the coco's.  I bought a lappy for one of my Michigan 
trips that came with xp, and I immediately shrunk that partition down to 20GB 
and put fedora core 5 on the other 80GB.  That's been updated to F7 now.  The 
only reason I've kept the xp partition is so I have a reservoir of hardware 
drivers I can use for the wireless in it, and so Circuit City's people can 
verify a hardware failure should one occur, like the lightscribe dvd burner 
that only burnt one lightscribe disk.

Its probably been a year since I actually let the xp install anywhere near a 
firewalled net connection & never without a good firewall I wrote the rules 
for until I rigged up an old x86 box to run dd-wrt.  I was gonna do an XP 
update way back then but aborted it when the update had to have WGA before it 
would install anything else.  As that's (WGA) well known spyware, including a 
keylogger, I hit the power switch and rebooted to linux.  There isn't 
_anything_ xp can do that I can't do equally well, and a heck of a lot more 
securely with linux.

Humm, I lied above, the basic I had on my amiga back in 1992 that came with 
amigados1.3 was an M$ product.  It lasted about a week taking up space on my 
hard drive as Bills people broke every coding rule Commie gave them, 
guaranteeing that it would only feebly run on a 68000.  One of the things 
they did was store data in the upper byte of a 32 bit address word (unused on 
a 68000 cpu), so the instant the cpu started using more (68020+ cpu's) than 
24 bits of address space, the results were best described as undefined.

Yeah, one could claim I'm a bit anti-M$...

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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