Was there a point in there? Or, was that just an exercise of complete bollocks?
On Thursday, November 2, 2000, at 12:05 PM, guran remberg wrote: > 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > >
