Replying to LO28341 --
Dear Organlearners,
Richard Karash <Richard@Karash.com> writes:
>REPEAT WARNING... Please re-read my April 1
>note below... The virus mentioned ("w32.Klez") is
>running rampant right now!
Greetings dear Rick,
I feel sorry for you and every fellow learner affected by this and many
other virusses and the problems which they cause. I myself received email
messages infected by this virus, but fortunately our firewall is aware of
it and simply deletes these infected mail.
But I expect that one day that a virus will slip through because the
firewall has not been notified soon enough to watch out for it. That is
why I do not use any MS Office applications.
You wrote in your earlier message
>>I can identify cases in which it has been sent in
>>messages appearing to have come from "learning-org"
>>and from my personal address. This is bad.
>>Thank you, Microsoft!
I wonder whether fellow learners are aware that all these virusses and a
certain corporation's (say Macrohard) products go hand in hand. I wonder
whether fellow learners have not wondered themselves why Macrohard, even
in the old days of the DOS operating system (a kind of computing manager),
has not yet done something about it. It has very much to do with the kind
of Systems Thinking which Macrohard is following.
Any computer program has to run safely with respect to all other computer
programs which are also opened on the computer at the same time. Once
again the 7Es (seven essentialities of creativity) come into play in order
to create such safety. Impair just one of them seriously and destructions
will abound. The openness of the application programs of Macrohard is
seriously impaired. Allow me to explain.
Any system's openness has much to do with how its boundary operates. Some
things must come into the system, but the rest of all things outside the
system must never come into it. Furthermore, some things must come out of
the system, but the rest of all things in the system never must never come
out of it. The system for any application program is nothing else but a
section (called the memory space) of the computer's whole memory. When any
program is opened, it requests the OS (manager) for an amount of memory
space which it then gets.
All computing operations to made by that program, has to happen within its
allocated memory space. Information of a declarative nature (statements)
may enter or leave the system (memory space) during its operation, but no
imperative information (commands). Those commands have to be loaded into
the memory space at the beginning when the program is opened, but then
have to stay within that space for its entire duration of operations. One
system (program) can ask another system (program) to do certain tasks for
it. That system will then use its own commands to do these tasks. But when
one system (program) uses its own commands to do tasks outside its
allocated memory space in another system (memory space), the days of safe
computing are over. Computing safety immerged with DOS and stayed immerged
with its successor Windows. First Pepin and then Charlemagne.
That is how Macrohard began its business and that is how it is still doing
its business -- allowing one program to interfere inside another program
like a dictator interferes in the lives of ordinary people. In its major
applications it allows this to happen by way of VBA (Visual Basic for
Applications). This VBA is nothing else than a set of computing commands
such as those with which an application has been programmed originally.
The user can then use this VBA in the application to modify the
application's operations beyond that which were originally programmed for
it.
Some of these VBA commands like some of the old DOS commands allow the
user to command from one system (program's memory space) another system
(another program's memory space). The Macrohard imperialism is exacly what
every computer pathogen (virus or worm) needs to do its hideous deeds.
Will Macrohard change its imperialistic ways? No, that is how it became so
rich. It is easier for a leopard to get rid of its spots.
Will people learn and stop buying from the imperialist, whoever the
imperialist is and whatever he sells to have become so rich?
Some individuals do learn, but their effect is neglegible. But it is when
they began to learn collectively as organisations when the puppets begin
to dance.
In Team Learning one learner in it never commands another learner in it.
This is the Macrohard way. A friendly request allowing that learner to
execute his/her own learning commands as he/she wishes and replying with
the results as had been requested is all which is needed. This is the LO
way. In it the learner's own mind is respected. It is what I love to call
authentic learning.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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