B is for Bullshit

Why bullshit? Thinking what our world biggest and richest technologist-cum-bullshitter has in mind is not that pleasing.

Let me put up an example. Imagine this, you are not feeling that great, you might be or might not be sick. So you have a regular family doctor that you alwayz go to for your checkup, and he provides the services for you for free. Then one day, he tells you that this medicine is good and hopes that you will take it to let you be stronger. But he gives you an option to decide if you want to swallow the pill. Then in another month and half time, he will take away the option and makes you swallow the pill, irregardless if you like it or not.

Now, why do I feel there's is a conspiracy in the story? The worldest best selling Operating System is also the whole mosted hated Operating System as well as the Most-full-of-bugs Operating System. So now, the medicine was ready back in August 2004 had to be taken, whether you like it or not, by this coming April 2005. Why are they so insistences on it? Since their NT days, they have never force you to swallow the pills, but now they do.

Oh yeah, security is on their mind since they have been strongly criticized for their lack of it. But secuirty is not something you can roll out as simple as ABC. It is always the user training that you need to take care of. Setting the rules of host-based firewall is already a tough one. No matter how easy you made it, if users set the rules of "allow all", it is as good as placing your guards on the front door but stop and report no one. Then what is the point?


Just like the new upcoming rising firefox that is causing a lot of waves in the internet browser catogory. It has been a long while since the downfall of Netscape that we see anything that is putting a dent on Micro$soft Internet Explorer market share. Since firefox going official on 1.0 and its latest update on many of its issues addressed in 1.01, it has rised to 7% from its 2% since its beta days. Meanwhile IE has slipped, losing the 9 and falling onto the 8, that is 89%. Probably with its next major release, it might goes into a double digit market share. That I hope to see.

But let me remind all, hackers like to attack the most popular, and I don't see the possibility of firefox having the biggest share of all browsers but I would want to see a big big dent on the IE market shares. Firefox is still not very well-liked but it is becoming better since its beta days. I'm 100% supportive of it, since it gives me much less problems that IE.

So as long as continue to use Micro$oft products, we are going to eat this shit accept the helpful services provided by them. I am of course still using Windows though I'm looking at the possibilities of moving over to Linux, once I got to sorting out the things I need on the penguin.