Re: firewalling

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren  wrote:

>>it's created a sheep-like acceptance in the corporate world of a
fascist computing regime<<
All too true, but what puzzles me is why all those bottom-line-
worshipping, benefit-cutting, outsourcing CFOs tolerate the man-hours
wasted wrestling with bugs, threats, and malware. I work in the office
of the local weekly two, sometimes three days a week. There is hardly a
week goes by that someone doesn't call me over to her PC and say "It's
saying something strange"; "It's locked up"; "It won't let me open the
file"; etc. This is a very small business. But I'm sure that goes on in
Very Big Corporations too (except that they have a real IT staff to deal
with it, not one amateur).
Very often the person with the problem apologizes; "I must have done
something wrong." Well, sometimes he or she has. But all too often I
tell them, "No, you did nothing wrong. A man named Gates and his
irresponsible cohorts have done LOTS of things wrong." OK, granted, this
is "the toy opsys." But that was all we had for years, and XP causes
more problems than it solves.

Patricia M. Godfrey