Celebrate "Patch Day"
 

Not. Enough. Coffee.

I'd like to take a moment to give a big, fat "fuck you" to Microsoft for releasing a flood of patches Wednesday that will have me at work late each night for the rest of the week and keep me here over the weekend to ruin all of my plans. You guys up in Redmond sure make a quality product.

I'll give a slightly lesser "F" to the code-chimp that has cranked out an application that is already taking advantage of one of these vulnerabilities -- an action that has all the higher-ups wetting themselves in fear.

Finally, I'll emit a quiet "thank you" for all these problems that keep me employed. Keep up the good work, guys.

Original Sin?
 

All OSes from Microsoft share the same burden, they were born under a bad sign. They were cursed when they chose expediency over thoroughness when choosing network authentication strategies. By defaulting to "connect" rather than "challenge" their software made it easy, relatively so, to connect machine to machine. The user's were not burdened with strict login credentials. Every new OS since then has been cursed, yea unto the seventh generation, with open doors. Hey, come on in!

It was drawn wrong, built wrong, and is wrong, if your standard of right includes only permitting desirable connections. Back when there were no malicious threats in the area where Windows was implemented, this was irrelevant. We have move far beyond those times.

I, too, am thankful for the work and all the good that comes from it. But I don't feel conflicted when I also say that "hangin's too good for 'em" with respect to the criminal, malicious, destructive behavior of those "code-chimps" (and insult to chimps around the world).

Earnin' my keep on my monthly "Second Tuesday". Yay patch day. :yawn: boring and tiring.

However, I am rockin to the music louder than I could normally play it in the office, and between (numerous) restarts, I have the cellar to play in this time!

Whew! Finished. Gonna drag m'self home for a couple of hours of horizontal rest... See y'all t'marra.