[LINK] Dramatic rise in botnet-controlled PCs

[matthew at sorbs.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: grove at zeta.org.au
Date: Friday, September 5, 2008 1:54 pm
Subject: Re: [LINK] Dramatic rise in botnet-controlled PCs
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Danny Yee wrote:
> 
> Windows 95 and IE was the step too far...   Once MS balkanised 
> the web by producing MS specific websits "best view in IE" that is 
> when the rot was set.


...and that was the fault of all those out there that continued to
promote (and still promote) Windows World Wide Web instead of sticking
to the standards and telling people to get a real browser... yes we only
have ourselves to blame for that one. 

My current employer will uninstall all browsers it finds so you can only
use IE to keep the support calls down.  Yes there are web deployed
applications here that are *may* only work with IE.  My unauthorised Mac
using Seamonkey has the occasional menu inconsistancy issue (which is
actually bad web programming) but has not had a failure to work on any
of the internal sites so far, except the one Windows only web deployed app.

<RANT>

You have Australian Universities whose management (or general staff as
is the case with UC) mandating that thou shalt not have access to
anything but Microsoft products on any PC.  You have IT courses that
only teach MSAccess as a business "Database" (yes my wife and a friend
are both on these courses, my wife at CIT and my friend at UQ) and both
failed modules when they used SQL99 statements as the answer and not
MSAccess' SQL equivalent.  The UQ learning friend was even failed on a
HTML course because she followed the standard for HTML 4.01 for
embedding sound in webpages, and not using the M$ Propriety <BGSOUND>
tag (or some such tag).  Sorry but whinge all you like about standards,
but when the Universities of Australia fail students for following
globally recognised standards and not M$ propriety crap, you only have
yourselves to blame.

</RANT>

/ M