Subj : test-ipv6.com
To   : Björn Felten
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Thu Jan 30 2014 10:07:22

Hello Björn!

30 Jan 14 02:55, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 BF>    Alas, it's obvious that I'll finally have to let go of my trusted XP
 BF> systems. What a pity. Now that XP has become almost a perfect OS it's time
 BF> to abandon it. Because Microsoft says so...?  :(

 So why do you want to abandon it then. Do you use the system for general
 internet access, or only as a fidonet host.

 Do the patches you received concern the OS or mostly utilities like the
 webbrowser and the e-mail system?

 Do you have to drop it because you cannot reinsatll it on new hardware, and
 the patches from your installation version till now are no longer available.

 I know it is a bat habit not to be up to date on patches, but what are your
 risks, how open is the system to the outside world.

 I once had a hole in the mail system from another OS. There were reasons,
 why the system was not upgraded for years. The troyan failed, because
 the old setup dit not conform to what the troyan expected.

 This is not an advcice not to be up to date on your software, but sometimes
 you have to live with the fact.

 But making new setup can be a nice challenge. ;-)
 Try a Rapsberry PI and paspbian, it has no problem with IPv6. ;-)

Kees

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