[ubuntu-in] Gloat Gloat

[ranjan das gupta]

people i understand none of us on this forum like windows obviously but let
us not make it an ant--windows session. i smell so much of hatred here.We
have to keep our attitude right.We love linux  that is the bottomline

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan
> <ashutoshrishi92 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And also the CAT examinations last year which were completely ruined
> because
> > of a Widows virus. And I don't know if this is entirely true, but I heard
> > from a good programmer that the virus was more prone to unauthorized
> cracked
> > versions of Windows. Kudos to commercial software.
> >
> and this is supposed to me a multi million dollar contract to conduct
> online elections, am sure any LUG could have pulled it off with less
> hassle.
>
> And wonder if the "widows" is intentional - that sounds like a tag
> line - "M$ Widows use it and die" die a cruel painful death ;-)
>
>
> >> 2. German government warns against using MS Explorer
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm
> >> snippet "Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users
> >> was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would
> >> prevent any serious risk.However, German authorities say that even
> >> this would not make IE fully safe. "
> >>
> >
> > They also said that moving to another browser like Firefox will make you
> > more vulnerable and MS IE is still the most secure browser. '"Its just
> one
> > flaw"".
>
> Ok to clarify - are you reading this link from india because some time
> back i had a flame war with some reading the same link from two
> different countries and the contents were slightly different.
>
> No where in the article do they say that using another browser like FF
> will make them more vulnerable. what they did exactly say was
> Start Quote
> "One thing that should be stressed is that every browser has its
> security issues, so switching may remove this current risk but could
> expose you to another."
> end quote
>
> and one must remember that the flaws are a combination of browser and
> OS - yeah linx has its flaws but not with the same regularity and
> implications as on m$ widows
>
> ram
>
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