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{ Daily Archives } Monday, March 2004

Are YOUR systems secure? (Who cares about others)

A friend of mine was mentioning to me the recent “study” that mentioned Linux seems to get more attacks and that supposedly the BSDs (and OS X) were the most secure OS. After thinking about this a little bit more (5 seconds) I realized something. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Linux, Windows, Oberon 2 or […]

Joel Forums on outsourcing

Joel’s Software Forums have an interesting discussion on outsourcing with a lot of very well thought out responses on the topic. In general I agree with Joel’s assessment. If you understand your core competency DO NOT outsource that. Here’s a snippet of one post: Grisham does not have some super-secret word arranging technology that calculating […]