* None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels? How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful? It's all explained away with one or two sentences. We're just supposed to accept it because it's "symbolic" of something. Reloaded seemed to treat itself like a bridge to some sort of great explanation for everything in the third movie. Guess what? It never comes! What the fuck?
Oh come on! It's the most obvious question you could ask! Smith entered Bane in the Matrix, infectig the "residual image of his digital self" (cit. Morpheus, Matrix I) Of all the loose ends in M2 people keep asking, this is the most geekily correct one. Once Smith overflowed a buffer in Bane's avatar he captured his uid and became a trojan into the Real World. Come on!
Linux isn't ready for the desktop? Now wait a minute: it's not linux that isn't ready it's unix that's not yet tuned to the desktop. KDE & Gnome jump fiery hoops to get the broadest range of *NIXes under the hood including rough example config files to get the thing to work "just right" but it never does... Now... wait... hey, wait a minute I'm coming to it! Apple! So what have these folks done? They've taken *UNIX*, ripped off the cruft accumulated in years of geeky "it works for me" workarounds, rebuilt the desktop features in a consistent manner and engineered their way out of extincion. So I say: UNIX is here, and it's alive and spanking, more than ready for the desktop. It's the details that fall short and scare away the massses... do what Apple did, get the rought edges lapped and steamroll: I've imposed unix on a bunch of unwashed and after some initial struggle they got used to the beast and loved it. It's the details that give the smoothness features: nobody cares if it's spaghetti or vulnerable code under the hood, people want colourful shite to just use it and act cool. Apple did it keeping the engineers at the helm and made the most popular unix in the world. Now, say someone invested in some linux kernel distribution, refactored everything, from boot scripts to the window server, and integrated the whole lot with working, complete (kde admin tools are cool but you always want an open console to touch-up the/etc) environment. I've daydreamed of a DirectFB Qt KDE with flawless ACPI and service managment with automount, and working compliant CIFS... seen it? No. Because linux is a kernel, the system tools are GNU, XFree is another layer and GUI tools are just wrappers around console commands to config files that live under variable locations with different options... ugh. No virus will ever wipe out such a mess but no luser will ever have a clue on get it's work done. Linux as a kernel was a success because it gathered critical mass around a design; likewise, the desktop needs an architectural reference to tune the whole interface... that requires money or personal commitment... and investments... someone/s willing to become the desktop equivalents of Linus. None have made it... yet.
Wasn't LDAP just about a directory service for just about anything you can think of? Anyone wishing to use LDAP to do HW accounting can get an unique id in the LDAP namespace and write an LDAP compliant schema to mirror PCI, mobo serial num, ATA ids (hw serial codes hardwired in the peripherials) and write boot scripts in new hardware wizards to upload them to an LDAP master. The only challenge in such a thing is getting to know the OS platform and write sw to fetch the data from the registry or/proc... hell if I were to administer > 100 meachines that's the first thing I'd do! This patent reminds me of a.sig I once read:
-- At that point, "you're no longer patenting the corkscrew," explained Duke University law professor James Boyle. "You're patenting the idea of taking the cork out of the bottle so you can drink the wine."
So CMU is supposed to pay 25$*client for every ACAP client? Oh, that's not the same thing... how 'bout putting a shameless cache to app config in the acap client and get in the lawyers' crosshairs?
The Big Bang was a Troll against catholic physicits pushing a scientifically viable theory to creationism: the primordial egg was proposed by a gesuit priest. Try reading E. J. Lerner's "The big bang never happened", it's a wonderful book and gives pretty sensible explanations to cosmological data; shame that no scientific institution wants to question the enstablishment... perhaps those that run the business built their careers on these theories?
The crowds are longing for a commercial alternative to Microsoft; linux does just fine but there are so many people that just can't handle the glitches and quirks of the good penguin. Sometime in the near future Linux based distributions will obtain OS X grade nirvana but until then people want an escape from Microsoft without the hassle. So Apple fills the void but people are also terrified at the thought that under the sheep hide is a wolf in disguise so many are too trigger happy. I'll give them some slack and wait for the Software Update to bounce on my dock. I'm holding my breath...
I can confirm this. Back in the days I used to smoke pot I'd drive home very very very carefully, not because of paranoia but that's what I felt like doing. Mind you, I never smoked myself into oblivion (while I did pass out on alcool) so I can't tell how I'd have performed under THC hallucinatory condition. On the other hand I really have to take great care to restraint myself when I get in the car after a couple beers because alcool really does screw my cautiousness. Nicotine... ha! It's months I'm trying to confvnce myself it's time I quit cigarettes before I compromise my health definitively but keep failing. That's addiction plain simple. The day I felt pot wan't fun anymore I haven't looked back since, plain simple. All this drug hype is plain WMD falsehood, lies.
no MS's success is about strangling ISVs dating competitors, threatening HW manufacturers to withhold developer builds in case driver support for competition is written. Your argument is indeed true but MS isnt' an example; I've seen colleagues struggle with libc funcions only to discover that some undocumented (the Holy MSDN!) non standard default flag chocked on their vendor neutral code. Is that what you call quality? Oh, if only they'd have stuck to the one true WIN32 API they'd have saved themselves so many hassles wouldn't they? (bastards! that's sabotage!) Then came SUN Java threatening to erase the hidden minefield laid against interoperability (or common sense)... so they broke java just to make things clear... Now MS makes the copernican revolution and bestows upon the masses.NET grace, yeah thanks a lot. No, I don't buy your arguments. While they do make sense and are somewhat insightful (but why, isn't there QT already as a standard interoperable API platform?), it certainly doesn't apply to MS. Apple? Well, although it's been quite a closed market for most of it's past life, I tend to believe OS X as a quite open, documented and fairplaying platform; anyone dissenting?
How about plugging more ram? For the price it costs today the more ram the better. OS X is a ram pig, easily eating though 512 MB and swapping tends to suck on laptop HDs (it does anyway). We all know anyway that DDR is bottlenecked in pre G5 architectures but plugging a gig of ram won't hurt and for the same multitasking performance it might cost less than bumping the processor speed. So the 12" PB does have an edge on that. Also, the larger cache and (presumably) better vid card will more than enough make for the 100$ delta between the top iBook and the PowerBook). Of course most of the sales will be on the lower target iBook because very few looking for a faster laptop will fret for those lasst 100$. BTW, according to the ram combinations it might look like the first 128MB are soldered on the mobo while on PB (I've seen titaniums, sorry) all ram is dimm-ed so you really have all the possible freedom. iBooks are cheaper and kind of "tablet" equivalents; throw them in the suitcase/rucksack, scribble for hours on a comfortable layout and do some odd multimedia/game... centrino's were designed against them and Apple should focus on battery life for these devices or intel will eat into their pie (uh, I just made an odd statement, sounds like I've taken it the other way around... seriously though... Apples rule... the only things missing are Applications... I know of entire faculties like civile/mech engineering just dreaming to jump ship only to be held back by AutoCAD!)
3 WHOLE megs? WOW! That's a pittance. Please. Ram is cheap. If you're complaining about an app taking 3 megs of memory, you need to upgrade. And quicktime is there to encode/decode the audio files.
Don't you worry, the kid is just whining in a FUDish troll me too kind of way typical of some part of the/. population. Take it as some kind of "... Hot Grits..." "... I for one welcome our new * overlords..." etc... Probably he hasn't even removed MSN Messenger from his system, just registered on hotmail and set it to autologin to get rid of the nag (great MS marketing strategy...) Even more likely he hasn't removed the service/vulnerability hell installed by default on W2k/XP bur still is whinig for 3 Megs.
And in 10 years time some couple will get jailed for not installing the device, denounced by the local school teacher that called the police ("... I always thought those two would never make a responsible couple...") once she discovered the two were having a jolly good time on the veranda without the bloody snooper at earshot (can *you* have sex with the intensive care hearbeat monitor pounding your brain?;-) ) Ok, I'm just joking... I'm all for this kind of tech but hey, if it's not clear what causes the deaths there's no way you can tell if your kid is at risk so what then, monitor every single kid? Man! I thought neo-parents were aleady paranoid as it is today!
Hey I'M a stupid european! YOU sound like the caricature of the AMERICAN REDNECK asshole. Do you think us europeans say "Ah those american twits!" everytime the USPTO burps some clumsy patent or some frivolous laswuit is filed? Get your head out of your ass... (ok, I fed the troll but hell! if all Murdock's FOX does is feedback these brain-farts I'd gladly jail the whole bunch for the sake of National Security).
I'm not demoting science but I'd rather avoid giving it some kind of ontological meaning. Science is about extracting ratios and formulae from experiment, not reading God's mind. In this sense it isn't any better than carving wood, an exceptionally decent and beautiful activity. I don't know how to make a chair but I can feel the dedication put in some carved furniture and I respect that; on the other hand I'm weary of priests pretending to teach me the Truth just as of scientists who pretend to put their science on the pulpit.
Dear AC, this happens because the very same kind of fools although right winged get their rants blared on FOX, SKY, CNN and big newspapers. It's only fair that our share of cretins get to blow off in less known websites, hosted on cheap beige boxes. Don't like this national hero bashing? There's plenty regimes left you can move to, some are even friendly countries according to the USA.
Ohh... that's typical! First the snake oil chap chatters about some credible science any layman reasonably believes it's true. Next, he starts associating this fumous concoction to some metaphor of a greater unproven truth transposing the initial credibility to the bunch of crap (supposedly, of course) Then... boh, he asks for a credit card no. to further his research?;-) Hah! I'm really sorry for the chap... actually I *hate* the real scientists that hack up similar explanations for those that "lack academic training"... bah, that's how people start believing in big bangs, strings and naughty elves...
... that's it. Science is cool, a mind monopolist for those that obsess themselves to the subject. Those that get to that point are happy enough to wade through dusty libraries, tex formatted articles and worse. It's like hacking... ever wonder why the movies show pretty GL gfx to portrait hacking? Because few will get excited for green pixelated nmap scans, only those that know the code, concepts behind the strings. That's not something you understand in a 45' infotainment docudrama, bla, bla. I'm the first to feel the pain for the discrepancy... I'd love to play with startrek sci-fi technology, see photons interact with phonons in superlattice crystals, feel, watch with my very eyes distributed backscattering oscillations (which is ormai, ordinary textbook material...) yet the closest I've got was a lousy diagram plotting some montecarlo simulation. Science isn't dramatic enough... the knowledge deltras are extreme and the background to appreciate them, even on plain paper, are just as dramatic. I'm not pissing on science nor am I despising those that don't care, I'm just claiming that science isn't any better than carpentry or farming. It's an activity that requires skill, dedication and passion, nothinfg else. Those that don't have it can't really care, those that do will hate the pretty GFX fluff. Would you spend years learning metal welding? Wood engraving? Paint? Would you tolerate simplifications just to keep the avg specator tuned in? Which takes me to the pont: would *I* endure a lecture on sculpting? Would it hold my attention without recurring to cheap tricks? No, I'd listen to some art geek praising the David, maybe I'd be interested in watching a demo on "how does a marble brick become a plastic form" but given a hammer and a scalpel I'd fall asleep in no time. I'm not a carpenter nor a scientist either... (sigh, I love the pretty GFX) so I chose to become an engineer... despised by both parties.;-)
Ok, frankly you should remove winamp from your pc now! WMP? Oh, I suppose that shold go too... I'm afraid you're simply feeling the pain of using a cool user friendly GUI while jumping into microsoft app hell;-)
Our Prime Minister too told the press some outageous comment on Mussolini about "... just recluding dissindent to exclusive summer resorts..." He backed off claiming he had drunk too much wine during the interview... watch Billy say the same...;-)
Shame you posted AC; I'd wished a reply form you. Anyway: as far as I know wrappers are rather useless as they poke the security onion shell. If someone enters my trusted ip range (say with an unsecured wifi or wallplug on some dhcp) I'm in the untrusted root's hand. ACLs are useless if the rouge machine can pose as anyone in the ACL (and pull the user list from some yp server to find interesting uids... I've seen examples that handed the whole/etc/passwd unshadowed!) I've never played with ipsec but I feel it's meant for something else: poking secure tunnels thru firewalls. An insightful post mentioned secure RPC: cool. Never became a baseline standard for God knows what reasons but in v4 it's a prerequisite... this will make NFS secure but as it is now NFS (linux/FBSD, not propietary stuff) is good for home or stricly closed nets.
"Stop tarring NFS with the Linux brush." Ahem... chill out. As far as I'm concerned NFS is as FreeBSD/Linux put it; sorry but I never had access to OpenBSD or Solaris; but to the avg linux user NFSv3 is insecure and will always be until NFSv4. BTW, I've never read any docs on these strong RPC auths you mention nor have I ever played with solaris: is the solaris implementation encumbered somehow (a'la active directory)? Why weren't these security features implemented earlier? Is the v3 spec abiguous? Was it hampered by export restrictions? Please elaborate, I'd rather learn something than just be slapped in the face and eat humble pie:)
NFS lives in the kernel, Samba in user space. So you're right but remember NFS is utterly insecurable, Samba not. For home NFS is the system of choice but in a larger environment... you want to run Samba (at least until NFSv4 becomes available)
Ah, the power of marketing;-) Altough MS does push similar services down user's throats: OE sign up for HotMail! icon.NET messenger nag popup, MSN icon defaulting on desktop... Apple on the other hand offers the hooks without forcing you to click through them; admittedly, reserving System Preferences panes to the service with the "Internet" keyword is a little misleading, but it's a minor sin;-)
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* None of the questions in Reloaded are answered. How does Neo really stop the Sentinels? How did Smith enter Bane? How did he get so powerful? It's all explained away with one or two sentences. We're just supposed to accept it because it's "symbolic" of something. Reloaded seemed to treat itself like a bridge to some sort of great explanation for everything in the third movie. Guess what? It never comes! What the fuck?
Oh come on! It's the most obvious question you could ask! Smith entered Bane in the Matrix, infectig the "residual image of his digital self" (cit. Morpheus, Matrix I) Of all the loose ends in M2 people keep asking, this is the most geekily correct one. Once Smith overflowed a buffer in Bane's avatar he captured his uid and became a trojan into the Real World. Come on!
Zngevk, jung Zngevk? V gubhtug vg jnf Wrfhf Puevfg Fhcrefgne!
Linux isn't ready for the desktop? Now wait a minute: it's not linux that isn't ready it's unix that's not yet tuned to the desktop. KDE & Gnome jump fiery hoops to get the broadest range of *NIXes under the hood including rough example config files to get the thing to work "just right" but it never does... Now... wait... hey, wait a minute I'm coming to it! Apple! So what have these folks done? They've taken *UNIX*, ripped off the cruft accumulated in years of geeky "it works for me" workarounds, rebuilt the desktop features in a consistent manner and engineered their way out of extincion. So I say: UNIX is here, and it's alive and spanking, more than ready for the desktop. It's the details that fall short and scare away the massses... do what Apple did, get the rought edges lapped and steamroll: I've imposed unix on a bunch of unwashed and after some initial struggle they got used to the beast and loved it. It's the details that give the smoothness features: nobody cares if it's spaghetti or vulnerable code under the hood, people want colourful shite to just use it and act cool. Apple did it keeping the engineers at the helm and made the most popular unix in the world. Now, say someone invested in some linux kernel distribution, refactored everything, from boot scripts to the window server, and integrated the whole lot with working, complete (kde admin tools are cool but you always want an open console to touch-up the /etc) environment. I've daydreamed of a DirectFB Qt KDE with flawless ACPI and service managment with automount, and working compliant CIFS... seen it? No. Because linux is a kernel, the system tools are GNU, XFree is another layer and GUI tools are just wrappers around console commands to config files that live under variable locations with different options... ugh. No virus will ever wipe out such a mess but no luser will ever have a clue on get it's work done. Linux as a kernel was a success because it gathered critical mass around a design; likewise, the desktop needs an architectural reference to tune the whole interface... that requires money or personal commitment... and investments... someone/s willing to become the desktop equivalents of Linus. None have made it... yet.
Wasn't LDAP just about a directory service for just about anything you can think of? Anyone wishing to use LDAP to do HW accounting can get an unique id in the LDAP namespace and write an LDAP compliant schema to mirror PCI, mobo serial num, ATA ids (hw serial codes hardwired in the peripherials) and write boot scripts in new hardware wizards to upload them to an LDAP master. The only challenge in such a thing is getting to know the OS platform and write sw to fetch the data from the registry or /proc... hell if I were to administer > 100 meachines that's the first thing I'd do! This patent reminds me of a .sig I once read:
--
At that point, "you're no longer patenting the corkscrew," explained Duke University law professor James Boyle. "You're patenting the idea of taking the cork out of the bottle so you can drink the wine."
Bah...
So CMU is supposed to pay 25$*client for every ACAP client? Oh, that's not the same thing... how 'bout putting a shameless cache to app config in the acap client and get in the lawyers' crosshairs?
The Big Bang was a Troll against catholic physicits pushing a scientifically viable theory to creationism: the primordial egg was proposed by a gesuit priest. Try reading E. J. Lerner's "The big bang never happened", it's a wonderful book and gives pretty sensible explanations to cosmological data; shame that no scientific institution wants to question the enstablishment... perhaps those that run the business built their careers on these theories?
The crowds are longing for a commercial alternative to Microsoft; linux does just fine but there are so many people that just can't handle the glitches and quirks of the good penguin. Sometime in the near future Linux based distributions will obtain OS X grade nirvana but until then people want an escape from Microsoft without the hassle. So Apple fills the void but people are also terrified at the thought that under the sheep hide is a wolf in disguise so many are too trigger happy. I'll give them some slack and wait for the Software Update to bounce on my dock. I'm holding my breath...
I can confirm this. Back in the days I used to smoke pot I'd drive home very very very carefully, not because of paranoia but that's what I felt like doing. Mind you, I never smoked myself into oblivion (while I did pass out on alcool) so I can't tell how I'd have performed under THC hallucinatory condition. On the other hand I really have to take great care to restraint myself when I get in the car after a couple beers because alcool really does screw my cautiousness. Nicotine... ha! It's months I'm trying to confvnce myself it's time I quit cigarettes before I compromise my health definitively but keep failing. That's addiction plain simple. The day I felt pot wan't fun anymore I haven't looked back since, plain simple. All this drug hype is plain WMD falsehood, lies.
no MS's success is about strangling ISVs dating competitors, threatening HW manufacturers to withhold developer builds in case driver support for competition is written. Your argument is indeed true but MS isnt' an example; I've seen colleagues struggle with libc funcions only to discover that some undocumented (the Holy MSDN!) non standard default flag chocked on their vendor neutral code. Is that what you call quality? Oh, if only they'd have stuck to the one true WIN32 API they'd have saved themselves so many hassles wouldn't they? (bastards! that's sabotage!) Then came SUN Java threatening to erase the hidden minefield laid against interoperability (or common sense)... so they broke java just to make things clear... Now MS makes the copernican revolution and bestows upon the masses .NET grace, yeah thanks a lot.
No, I don't buy your arguments. While they do make sense and are somewhat insightful (but why, isn't there QT already as a standard interoperable API platform?), it certainly doesn't apply to MS. Apple? Well, although it's been quite a closed market for most of it's past life, I tend to believe OS X as a quite open, documented and fairplaying platform; anyone dissenting?
How about plugging more ram? For the price it costs today the more ram the better. OS X is a ram pig, easily eating though 512 MB and swapping tends to suck on laptop HDs (it does anyway). We all know anyway that DDR is bottlenecked in pre G5 architectures but plugging a gig of ram won't hurt and for the same multitasking performance it might cost less than bumping the processor speed. So the 12" PB does have an edge on that. Also, the larger cache and (presumably) better vid card will more than enough make for the 100$ delta between the top iBook and the PowerBook). Of course most of the sales will be on the lower target iBook because very few looking for a faster laptop will fret for those lasst 100$. BTW, according to the ram combinations it might look like the first 128MB are soldered on the mobo while on PB (I've seen titaniums, sorry) all ram is dimm-ed so you really have all the possible freedom. iBooks are cheaper and kind of "tablet" equivalents; throw them in the suitcase/rucksack, scribble for hours on a comfortable layout and do some odd multimedia/game... centrino's were designed against them and Apple should focus on battery life for these devices or intel will eat into their pie (uh, I just made an odd statement, sounds like I've taken it the other way around... seriously though... Apples rule... the only things missing are Applications... I know of entire faculties like civile/mech engineering just dreaming to jump ship only to be held back by AutoCAD!)
3 WHOLE megs? WOW! That's a pittance. Please. Ram is cheap. If you're complaining about an app taking 3 megs of memory, you need to upgrade. And quicktime is there to encode/decode the audio files.
/. population. Take it as some kind of "... Hot Grits..." "... I for one welcome our new * overlords..." etc... Probably he hasn't even removed MSN Messenger from his system, just registered on hotmail and set it to autologin to get rid of the nag (great MS marketing strategy...) Even more likely he hasn't removed the service/vulnerability hell installed by default on W2k/XP bur still is whinig for 3 Megs.
Don't you worry, the kid is just whining in a FUDish troll me too kind of way typical of some part of the
And in 10 years time some couple will get jailed for not installing the device, denounced by the local school teacher that called the police ("... I always thought those two would never make a responsible couple...") once she discovered the two were having a jolly good time on the veranda without the bloody snooper at earshot (can *you* have sex with the intensive care hearbeat monitor pounding your brain? ;-) ) Ok, I'm just joking... I'm all for this kind of tech but hey, if it's not clear what causes the deaths there's no way you can tell if your kid is at risk so what then, monitor every single kid? Man! I thought neo-parents were aleady paranoid as it is today!
Hey I'M a stupid european! YOU sound like the caricature of the AMERICAN REDNECK asshole. Do you think us europeans say "Ah those american twits!" everytime the USPTO burps some clumsy patent or some frivolous laswuit is filed? Get your head out of your ass... (ok, I fed the troll but hell! if all Murdock's FOX does is feedback these brain-farts I'd gladly jail the whole bunch for the sake of National Security).
I'm not demoting science but I'd rather avoid giving it some kind of ontological meaning. Science is about extracting ratios and formulae from experiment, not reading God's mind. In this sense it isn't any better than carving wood, an exceptionally decent and beautiful activity. I don't know how to make a chair but I can feel the dedication put in some carved furniture and I respect that; on the other hand I'm weary of priests pretending to teach me the Truth just as of scientists who pretend to put their science on the pulpit.
Dear AC, this happens because the very same kind of fools although right winged get their rants blared on FOX, SKY, CNN and big newspapers. It's only fair that our share of cretins get to blow off in less known websites, hosted on cheap beige boxes. Don't like this national hero bashing? There's plenty regimes left you can move to, some are even friendly countries according to the USA.
Ohh... that's typical! First the snake oil chap chatters about some credible science any layman reasonably believes it's true. Next, he starts associating this fumous concoction to some metaphor of a greater unproven truth transposing the initial credibility to the bunch of crap (supposedly, of course) Then... boh, he asks for a credit card no. to further his research? ;-) Hah! I'm really sorry for the chap... actually I *hate* the real scientists that hack up similar explanations for those that "lack academic training"... bah, that's how people start believing in big bangs, strings and naughty elves...
... that's it. Science is cool, a mind monopolist for those that obsess themselves to the subject. Those that get to that point are happy enough to wade through dusty libraries, tex formatted articles and worse. It's like hacking... ever wonder why the movies show pretty GL gfx to portrait hacking? Because few will get excited for green pixelated nmap scans, only those that know the code, concepts behind the strings. That's not something you understand in a 45' infotainment docudrama, bla, bla. I'm the first to feel the pain for the discrepancy... I'd love to play with startrek sci-fi technology, see photons interact with phonons in superlattice crystals, feel, watch with my very eyes distributed backscattering oscillations (which is ormai, ordinary textbook material...) yet the closest I've got was a lousy diagram plotting some montecarlo simulation. Science isn't dramatic enough... the knowledge deltras are extreme and the background to appreciate them, even on plain paper, are just as dramatic. I'm not pissing on science nor am I despising those that don't care, I'm just claiming that science isn't any better than carpentry or farming. It's an activity that requires skill, dedication and passion, nothinfg else. Those that don't have it can't really care, those that do will hate the pretty GFX fluff. Would you spend years learning metal welding? Wood engraving? Paint? Would you tolerate simplifications just to keep the avg specator tuned in? Which takes me to the pont: would *I* endure a lecture on sculpting? Would it hold my attention without recurring to cheap tricks? No, I'd listen to some art geek praising the David, maybe I'd be interested in watching a demo on "how does a marble brick become a plastic form" but given a hammer and a scalpel I'd fall asleep in no time. I'm not a carpenter nor a scientist either... (sigh, I love the pretty GFX) so I chose to become an engineer... despised by both parties. ;-)
Ok, frankly you should remove winamp from your pc now! WMP? Oh, I suppose that shold go too... ;-)
I'm afraid you're simply feeling the pain of using a cool user friendly GUI while jumping into microsoft app hell
I second you... I'm still cleaning the wine i spat on my monitor... sigh ;-)
Our Prime Minister too told the press some outageous comment on Mussolini about "... just recluding dissindent to exclusive summer resorts..." He backed off claiming he had drunk too much wine during the interview... watch Billy say the same... ;-)
Shame you posted AC; I'd wished a reply form you. Anyway: as far as I know wrappers are rather useless as they poke the security onion shell. If someone enters my trusted ip range (say with an unsecured wifi or wallplug on some dhcp) I'm in the untrusted root's hand. ACLs are useless if the rouge machine can pose as anyone in the ACL (and pull the user list from some yp server to find interesting uids... I've seen examples that handed the whole /etc/passwd unshadowed!) I've never played with ipsec but I feel it's meant for something else: poking secure tunnels thru firewalls. An insightful post mentioned secure RPC: cool. Never became a baseline standard for God knows what reasons but in v4 it's a prerequisite... this will make NFS secure but as it is now NFS (linux/FBSD, not propietary stuff) is good for home or stricly closed nets.
"Stop tarring NFS with the Linux brush." Ahem... chill out. :)
As far as I'm concerned NFS is as FreeBSD/Linux put it; sorry but I never had access to OpenBSD or Solaris; but to the avg linux user NFSv3 is insecure and will always be until NFSv4. BTW, I've never read any docs on these strong RPC auths you mention nor have I ever played with solaris: is the solaris implementation encumbered somehow (a'la active directory)? Why weren't these security features implemented earlier? Is the v3 spec abiguous? Was it hampered by export restrictions? Please elaborate, I'd rather learn something than just be slapped in the face and eat humble pie
... with Panther. Longhorn (or some interim SP) should include Samba 3 for CIFS protocol support... *evil grin*
NFS lives in the kernel, Samba in user space. So you're right but remember NFS is utterly insecurable, Samba not. For home NFS is the system of choice but in a larger environment... you want to run Samba (at least until NFSv4 becomes available)
Ah, the power of marketing ;-) Altough MS does push similar services down user's throats: OE sign up for HotMail! icon .NET messenger nag popup, MSN icon defaulting on desktop... Apple on the other hand offers the hooks without forcing you to click through them; admittedly, reserving System Preferences panes to the service with the "Internet" keyword is a little misleading, but it's a minor sin ;-)