[LINK] Users tackling 10 new vulnerabilities a day

[Howard Lowndes]

Two options IMO.

1. Contact Con Zymaris, who is on this list.  He claims that his 
company, Cybersource, has just the product for you.

2. Get the 4 CD set of Fedora Core, boot from CD1 and follow the Yellow 
Brick Road.


Mike Shearer wrote:
> Various contributors have written
> 
> "i think that anyone who has worked in any kind of tech-support role is 
> painfully aware of just how computer-illiterate(*) most people are.
> :(*) and worse, most of them are wilfully and deliberately ignorant (as 
> in "i don't want to know that" or "why should i bother learning that?")  
> rather than just stupid or incapable of understanding.  And the higher 
> up in the organisation you go, the more wilfully and
> deliberately ignorant they become."
> 
> I am one of those who could be fairly judged as wilfully and 
> deliberately ignorant.  I'm not high up in the chain making decisions 
> about platforms to buy etc.  I'm a user, and the middleman between a 
> great many other users and the suppliers of applications software.  For 
> us the IT facilities are just a tool for getting non-IT things done.  A 
> tool that has become incredibly over-complicated, over-demanding and 
> over-dictatorial.  I could stop being an expert in the applications we 
> run and try to reduce my IT ignorance.  But I choose to not do so, 
> because there's too much catching up to do, it doesn't interest me, and 
> the rate of change overwhelms me.
> Why isn't there an idiot's guide to being master of your own PC?   A 
> single source that tells me how to get rid of Windows on my personal 
> laptop and install Linux.  That explains how to replace all of the 
> MS-oriented applications with equivalent Linux and OS ones.  That 
> explains what to do about being a part of the internet without being 
> terrorised by it.  I started to write one - and gave up.  The ground is 
> shifting just far too fast.  There's too much for an outsider to master.
> 
> I shall continue to be wilfully and deliberately ignorant.  I shall 
> continue to depend on other experts to protect me and to ensure that my 
> tools do not become dangerous in my hands.  I shall probably continue to 
> be disappointed that those experts seem to never have the time nor 
> inclination nor (I suspect) the intellectual trait to be able to explain 
> matters in ways that would help me to confidently lose some of my 
> ignorance.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

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