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Really On Top Of Things (12/11/03)
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Speaking of security, we're going to close out this episode with a quick retraction, because here at AtAT, accuracy is our number one priority. Well, okay, no, it isn't-- it's actually number thirty-seven, ranking just below "squeezing the toothpaste tube at the bottom" and just above "making inane priority lists at least thirty-eight items long." In fact, we'll take "entertaining" over "correct" any day of the week. That said, we're making this correction precisely because it'll be more fun than not making it. Follow us?
Okay, so, yesterday we mentioned that Microsoft, who has had to move to a once-a-month security patch release schedule to avoid drowning its customers in incessant updates, actually announced that there would be no patches released for December. (That actually sounded good until the company admitted that "no patches" didn't mean "no holes"; they just didn't get the updates done in time.) Well, our retraction is this: true, Microsoft did announce that there would be no updates this month, but as faithful viewer Boesterific points out, a CNET article reports that a patch went out anyway. And Microsoft has no idea how or why.
Yup, "the company scrambled on Wednesday morning to figure out why a patch had been issued through its Windows Update service, when the software maker had declared on Tuesday that it would not issue any fixes in December." Unscheduled software fixes propelling themselves through the ether onto customers' systems? We suppose there are worse problems to have-- except that if the Windows Update servers became self-aware at 2:14 AM Eastern time and are now patching FrontPage holes on their own, sooner or later they're going to get the idea that the only thing more bug-ridden and riddled with inconsistencies than Microsoft's software is the human race itself. And "patching" that would probably take on some pretty violent overtones. We sense some kind of SkyNET thing in the offing.
But no worries; if it's a bug, Microsoft will just patch it, right?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/11/03 episode: December 11, 2003: Rumor has it that Larry Ellison is letting Steve hire Oracle sales dudes to help out with Apple's growing Enterprise Sales division. Meanwhile, yet more anti-Apple ignorance gets spewed all over the 'net (what else is new), and Microsoft tries to figure out why, after it announced that there would be no software patches for the month of December, a patch went out anyway...
Other scenes from that episode: 4385: Friends In Beige Places (12/11/03) And we're back! Sorry about the late broadcast, kiddies, but just like we warned you, we spent the greater chunk of today with no 'net access as we hooked the AtAT compound into a different and hopefully less problematic cable company... 4386: It Just Makes Us So TIRED (12/11/03) Decisions, decisions... with limited airtime at our disposal, which ignorant and/or brain-damaged Apple-bashing article currently making the rounds should we decide to chomp on? Because, see, on the one hand there's PC Magazine crowing about that one recently discovered Mac OS X security flaw as if it somehow puts Panther on equally perilous footing with any of those Redmond-born "operating systems"; on the other hand, we've got BusinessWeek actually cheering those guys who defaced a slew of iPod posters with outright lies a few weeks back because an Apple tech gave them some lousy advice...
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