<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>></span> wrote: a bunch of stuff I deleted...<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">OMG! Someone on the interwebs has an OPINION!?!?!?!<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Mine is:<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">As I see it both OP and MT are correct. Nicely working tool is now broken because of developers design change. But not upgrading leaves system open to security vulnerabilities. Especially in the Android realm, app updates often come with onerous new changes; some are UI design changes that break hearts while others are access changes that privacy.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">It's a toss-up on what to do.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I've learned from painful experience to try and get some info about the upgrade BEFORE I punt a system to "there goes _that_ week cleaning up after a messy upgrade" status. But on my phone, which must "JustWork", I avoid upgrades like the plague. Does that increase my security risk? Yes. But a non-working phone is just a $500 brick. Might as well been cracked and made useless.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I, for one, am happy to learn that K9 did a Ui change before I upgraded. I like K9. One thing I've learned over the past number of years is how to work with stuff that can't be constantly upgraded to latest-greatest. Scientific equipment that was designed to run on Win98 that still works perfectly and will cost another $250k to upgrade to newer version (hardware change) or a specialty application that ONLY runs on RedHat 5.2 (yep - finally closed that one about 2 years ago!).<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Those are the challenges that make being a sysadmin worthwhile from the puzzle-solving perspective. Those are also the challenges that tend sysadmins to heaving drinking.<br></div><br>-- <br>
-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://electjimkinney.org" target="_blank">http://electjimkinney.org</a><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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