> A bit better; anyone trying to screw up somebody's account would have to know how to use WHOIS and guess a short number.
The number appended to the admins last name isn't random. If you do a whois lookup on yourself or your domain, you'll find this is actually your ns 'handle.' The number NS has appended to your last name (usually the entire last name, plus the uid), and is just as easy to obtain as any other piece of info you've registered.
That's just silly. Requiring windows would make their potential user base a subset of what it was before. Sure, this would mean every customer they had was a windows user, but it doesn't mean they'd be getting any more windows users that way, just less non-windows users.
What you mean is people won't like it unless it's free. If Corel is writing applications that aren't derivative from GPL, like a word processor, they're going to look for a profit model, so they might release the source, but not the rights to redistribute it.
It's interesting the line that's being drawn. They're not making Linux for the open source crowd. They're making a platform to lure 'normal' desktop users, so they're borrowing some conventions from the Linux world, and keeping others to keep in business.
A more recent (and applicable) example is that of mobile communication standards in the US vs. the Rest Of The World. Isn't it interesting how we're the only nation that's not compatable with the rest of the planet's GSM network?
How about PAL vs NTSC? PAL has higher resolution and is used nearly everywhere else on the planet (that doesn't have HDTV already).
Imperial vs. Metric? Heck, even the Brits have abandoned their own system.
Letter size vs A-4?
120V vs 240V?
Why should we expect anything more tha a second-best solution to come out of the lobbying process in the US, have we been brought up to think anything else?
Somehow the comments drifted from porn in email to porn surfing. I'll be brief and limit my comments to three:
First, what is porn? It was only a couple years ago that a wife (girlfriend, boyfriend, what have you) writing to her (her, his) husband mentioning that she (blah) bought a new nightie and was going to wear it tonight would be pornographic.
Second, is it legal for a company to go through the email on the computers it owns without reasonable cause or suspicion? Yes. Is it legal for them to terminate someone for one of the above emails? This depends on the circumstances, primarily on whether the employee signed an employee handbook and exactly what was in it.
Third, if you, as the sysadmin, start romping through computers, you have to be damn sure of what you're looking through. If you scan someone's home machine they brought in to work, or RAS'd in to the network, a personal hard drive hooked up to an on-site company computer, or even a personal floppy or jaz, that person could sue for invasion of privacy and though the target would most likely be the company, it doesn't take Stephenson to figure out that you might be the next target in the witch-hunt-of-the-month.
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The number appended to the admins last name isn't random. If you do a whois lookup on yourself or your domain, you'll find this is actually your ns 'handle.' The number NS has appended to your last name (usually the entire last name, plus the uid), and is just as easy to obtain as any other piece of info you've registered.
That's just silly. Requiring windows would make their potential user base a subset of what it was before. Sure, this would mean every customer they had was a windows user, but it doesn't mean they'd be getting any more windows users that way, just less non-windows users.
| People who care won't like it unless it's GPL.
What you mean is people won't like it unless it's free. If Corel is writing applications that aren't derivative from GPL, like a word processor, they're going to look for a profit model, so they might release the source, but not the rights to redistribute it.
It's interesting the line that's being drawn. They're not making Linux for the open source crowd. They're making a platform to lure 'normal' desktop users, so they're borrowing some conventions from the Linux world, and keeping others to keep in business.
A more recent (and applicable) example is that of mobile communication standards in the US vs. the Rest Of The World. Isn't it interesting how we're the only nation that's not compatable with the rest of the planet's GSM network?
How about PAL vs NTSC? PAL has higher resolution and is used nearly everywhere else on the planet (that doesn't have HDTV already).
Imperial vs. Metric? Heck, even the Brits have abandoned their own system.
Letter size vs A-4?
120V vs 240V?
Why should we expect anything more tha a second-best solution to come out of the lobbying process in the US, have we been brought up to think anything else?
Somehow the comments drifted from porn in email to porn surfing. I'll be brief and limit my comments to three:
First, what is porn? It was only a couple years ago that a wife (girlfriend, boyfriend, what have you) writing to her (her, his) husband mentioning that she (blah) bought a new nightie and was going to wear it tonight would be pornographic.
Second, is it legal for a company to go through the email on the computers it owns without reasonable cause or suspicion? Yes. Is it legal for them to terminate someone for one of the above emails? This depends on the circumstances, primarily on whether the employee signed an employee handbook and exactly what was in it.
Third, if you, as the sysadmin, start romping through computers, you have to be damn sure of what you're looking through. If you scan someone's home machine they brought in to work, or RAS'd in to the network, a personal hard drive hooked up to an on-site company computer, or even a personal floppy or jaz, that person could sue for invasion of privacy and though the target would most likely be the company, it doesn't take Stephenson to figure out that you might be the next target in the witch-hunt-of-the-month.
That's three decimal numbers (10*10*10) Not three digits from a keypad of 3 where repeats aren't allowed (3*2*1)...