David Boles wrote: > on 7/5/2007 5:59 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> David Boles wrote: >> >>> You talkin' ta me Les? ;-) Probably not. <sigh> >>> >>> First, before the speech. You mentioned nVidia by name. So here is a >>> 'readme" for those that are interested. It is about 9 months old but it >>> just goes to show what closed source software can do for you. >>> >>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 >> Not only is rather old....but the bug is fixed. Checking nVidia's change log... >> >> 2006-10-19 version 1.0-8776 >> >> * Fixed Security Advisory R7-0025. >> >> So, the bug report is dated Oct 16, 2006 and fixed on Oct 19, 2006. >> >> Or, maybe that is what you wanted to point out? I've not really been >> reading this thread. > > Did you read the whole post? You <sniped> the import part. I know it was > long. ;-) No, I was kind of bored with the whole thing. ;-) > That part, about NVida, was put in just to show that a Newbie that can't > figure out how to do this in the first place sure as heck will not know > how to fix it. That's good. I put my $.02 in (relevant or not) just to point out that the closed source folks do fix reported problems in a timely manner. ;-)
