Re: PostgreSQL in article I wrote

From: Walter Vaughan <wvaughan(at)steelerubber(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL in article I wrote
Date: 2006-10-26 16:17:41
Message-ID: 4540DFA5.5040200@steelerubber.com
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Roman Neuhauser wrote regarding:

http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?id=56095

> The firefox / thunderbird section should rather warn them to pay
> attention to bugtraq. All those buffer overflows in libwhathaveyou
> will make sure their single-user (root) KDE installations will need
> mkfs as often as they needed format c: in windows.

Yeah, I was concerned about that as well so I worded it "a safer environment" in
the context of the typical reader who will be a MS-Windows user. I knew I
couldn't win, cause the only safe browser is composed of clay (a brick) rather
than silicon.

On the otherhand (to bring this back on topic) the editor did choose to put a
nice screenshot of postgreSQL's website in the paper version of the article.

--
Walter

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