Did this make sense to anyone? Cause I sure as hell did not get it. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:05:25 +0000
>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 > >
