Comments on: Patching the patchmen http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html I came here to apologise and eat biscuits, and I'm all out of biscuits Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.30 By: Christoph C. Cemper http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-598 Fri, 26 Dec 2003 07:45:09 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-598 This whole thing is rather weird… I do not dare to apply any of these patches… using opera is the real solution for me and reveals PayPal-hoaxes as I received tenth alike only today!
regards,christoph

]]> By: Christoph C. Cemper http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-597 Fri, 26 Dec 2003 07:44:58 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-597 This while thing is rather weird… I do not dare to apply any of these patches… using opera is the real solution for me and reveals PayPal-hoaxes as I received tenth alike only today!
regards,christoph

]]> By: Muddy http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-596 Mon, 22 Dec 2003 01:58:00 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-596 “Frankly, the only real patch is to move to Firebird.”
I agree whole-heartedly with that.

]]> By: Yoz http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-595 Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:15:40 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-595 Ahem – my grovellingest apologies. Fixed. 🙂

]]> By: Paul Hsieh http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-594 Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:28:56 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-594 What — I only get the distinction of being called “someone else”? Sheesh … and here I was thinking writing OS code would make me famous … 🙂 Anyhow the bug I solved is a very common problem with string handling in the C and C++ languages in general. For more information on safe string handling in C/C++ in general please visit the following:
    http://bstring.sf.net/
    http://www.pobox.com/~qed/userInput.html

]]> By: technofodder for the masses http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-599 Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:04:42 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-599 assorted sweets #22

I’m just mad about organizing, just mad I tell you Open source patch for the open source patch for MS bugware The ultimate web traffic dashboard If it’s Tuesday, they must be sending Buying online, buying offline – turning it into a beneficial cycle W…

]]> By: Lee Maguire http://cheerleader.yoz.com/2003/12/patching-the-patchmen.html#comment-593 Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:15:04 +0000 http://cheertest.yoz.com/?p=189#comment-593 “MS has to push its patches through a longer QA system for fear of 1% of installs breaking and clobbering a million machines”
It’s almost a shame that MS doesn’t use the bleeding edgers on the internet for QA. Imagine if the “Automatic Update” had an option along the lines of “I’m prepared to accept patches during a testing period and issue bug reports if problems arise”.
The analog in Debian GNU/Linux is setting your machine to “unstable/testing/stable”, where each is a trade-off between newness and stability(stability here meaning general use for a period without critical bug reports).
So when I run “unstable”, I’m contributing in some way to those that wait for the tested updates.
(As far as I know, MS might already have that, if so ignore me…)

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