Hi I have just read an article by a chap named Kurt Seifrieds, which was mainly about security on Debian. I was alarmed and have decided to switch to Red Hat as many experts advises can be used to secure it.
There are a few remarks I want to make as a sign off: Let me paraphrase a chap called Wittgenstein on a sentence like: "This is a blue chair." Many humans could argue about whether the chair is a stool but most humans might start a big row about the correct colour of the object in question. Thus only a computer program might all the time return the same "blue chair" when asked to find it. In ordinary speak one might say that look at your dog or car and I might say who you are. One might then question whether humans which uses computers most of the time might change to believe that what they do or say in a true and scientific manner are actually a scientific truth. As an example take the warming up of the floppy disk drive when writing a boot disk. I have not locked my setting as advised but instead written down all values found when doing it. On two different machines I have found (1700 +/- 80) and (1600 +/- 80), and disks can be read by each drive. Thus the scientific method is wasted on an 'antenna' whose half-width is larger than the possible gap of settings. To hold on to what is proven science and not change might leave you in a pathetic stone age society. Instead you might learn about a natural way of living in 'Chaos' and not believe that the pendulum is fully mathematically mapped and understood. You can start by using the Lorentz contractor as your screensaver. It is then possible that you may be painting yourself into a corner, with your proprietary way of naming standard libraries and down-patching found bugs instead of upgrading. But it is a free choice and you may reign your way. bye guran
