
Jake had his fifteen-month checkup today, and three vaccinations. He's big enough now that shots go in his arms, but he doesn't enjoy them any more there than in his legs.
It seems that every new initiative from Microsoft is greeted with fear, loathing and distrust from the very people Microsoft expects to buy into it.
The few unguarded comments I've seen from Microsoft's developers suggest there's a bit of frustration & bewilderment at Microsoft World HQ. “This is a big problem for users, nobody else is doing anything to solve it, and we're just trying to make life better for our customers. Why won't anybody believe us?”
It's as if the 'Softies are presenting To Serve Man as their corporate bible, only their potential customers are crying, “It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!”
It seems there was an Incident at WRI over the weekend: panicky messages from the users, as the problem was first discovered, followed by equally panicky messages from sysadmin—“Change your password right now. All hands, no exceptions.”
Gee, fellas, I thought unix was secure....
The next time I report a problem to sysadmin and get WINDOZE SUX LINUX IS KEWL in reply, I will remind them of this moment.
There's an Apple Store in Woodfield; on Saturday I had occasion to browse there, briefly. I must confess the iBook is rather appealing: big screen, wireless networking, OS X, the various iXXX applications, etc., etc.
A fully tricked-out iBook runs about $2600. This is—alas!—way beyond my limited means, but considerably cheaper than my last notebook, pox (which in 1998 cost about $4500).
Picked up a copy of the Red Hat Linux 7.3 CDs at work today (and felt just a little guilty at getting them for free instead of paying $60 for a retail copy); one of these days I'll install it on nessus. Hard to say exactly when that might be, but it will happen.
I have just over thirty-four vacation days accrued at dear old WRI. I could take every fourth week off until the end of the year, or take every Friday off until January. (I wonder if they'd let me do that. Probably not.)