[TenTec] SPAM & VIRUSES

[LARRY GREENBERG, N5BEA]

Of course, There is a facility that I visit in one of the largest cities in 
the US.  This is the kind of place that has rows of Linux based servers all 
in neat racks, big air conditioners and emergency generators. It is located 
at the junction point of two major fiber optics networks.  Each day, prior 
to distribution , a minimum of 135,000, spam and virus files are removed, 
that is deleted prior to data distribution.

The filtering is minimal.  There is no way to gage the amount of unwanted 
data enter the Linux based servers.  They are resistant to infections but 
when infected, fixes are usually non-existent.  This means hard disk 
formatting and redundant systems to facilitate minimum down time at xx 
thousand dollars per hour.

Linux is a great system. I use it for many operations.  I believe Mapper was 
tremendous, the answer to all problems when Sperry developed it back in the 
80's .  Do you recall the name  of the Operating System developed for DEC?

The point is : So What?



Larry Greenberg, N5BEA

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