[Gloucs] February's Presentation - this Tuesday

[William Roe]

On Monday, Feb 24, 2003, at 18:32 Europe/London, Mark wrote:

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> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 17:59, Guy Edwards wrote:
>> On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 10:02, Jill Tovey wrote:
>>>> Anyone else alive other than Sean, Guy and My little self?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Signs of life are apparent in the Tovey household today,
>>> however faint..
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>> While we're talking about tomorrow......
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>> Mark do you need any kit (projector etc) it's half term so borrowing 
>> the
>> kit's no problem? Also does anyone want the Zaurus to play with (for 
>> the
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> projector please if possible!
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>> meeting only)?
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>> As a footnote I'll be wanting to ask some BSD related questions if
>> there's going to be any BSD knowledgable people at the meeting.... I
>> tried installing it today... makes the Debian installer look good in
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> Oh cripes stay away from BSD (if you thought Linux has security
> Issues..!) forget the hype over BSD being more secure.. MAJOR holes
> within the kernel that STILL havent been patched, and at last check
> werent all that possible to keep it like BSD an patch.

That last bit lost me a bit - not sure if those words are in the right 
order ;)

What about OpenBSD, they audit their code for security bugs regularly,
so they fix them before they become a problem. They call this 
'proactive'
security which makes them sound like clueless marketing morons
though ;)

Will
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> Good to get everyones hopes up!
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> Mark
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