Re: Obsessed with a clean system
William Ballard wrote:
> ...
>>I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor
>>in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it.
>
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> But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk
> space. Why download upgrades to all those packages you never need?
> Why fight broken upgrades on things?
It's also about minimising the number of security bugs that actually
affect you.
I used to work on HP-UX servers, and i routinely deleted the audio
subsystem on them because they didn't have audio hardware. Everyone
thought i was crazy, until one day a trivially exploitable security bug
was announced. Then i got to thumb my nose at all the people who
thought i was being anal, and i saved our team a lot of time in security
patching.
--
Paul
<http://paulgear.webhop.net>
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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and
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