William Ballard wrote: > ... >>I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor >>in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it. > > > But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk > space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need? > Why fight broken upgrades on things?
It's also about minimising the number of security bugs that actually affect you. I used to work on HP-UX servers, and i routinely deleted the audio subsystem on them because they didn't have audio hardware. Everyone thought i was crazy, until one day a trivially exploitable security bug was announced. Then i got to thumb my nose at all the people who thought i was being anal, and i saved our team a lot of time in security patching. -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. -- Thomas Jefferson <http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/1770> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
