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There are things about Linux that I love and really do miss on Windows...
Certainly Linux is a great OS and I think for students or serious hobbyists
or real professionals it is the OS of choice.

But, as you say, there are tons of documentation pages and you actually have
to READ it to get anywhere. NT or XP server is more of a "just get going"
solution that will do most of what we need with little or no reading of
manuals. The updates can be (are for XP) pretty automatic. And configuring
it is simple. On screen help for everything. Just a few dialog boxes. No
cryptic command line options.

I've also been watching my dShield reports today and I think I may have been
a bit biased in my reporting of ports... I do see a LOT of 137/139 action.
And the firewall doesn't stop the zombie web server attacks... checking the
logs for that is truly scary... I get way more traffic from those than from
everything else combined. Ok so I guess Windows boxes do get hacked more
often.

So why have I been so lucky? Could you guys please all go attack
www.piclist.com and tell me what I've left open?

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