I hereby retire my/. account. The posted responses to this article are so mindlessly idiotic and empty of any valuable thought, that my back has been broken by this straw. I know I am preaching to many members of the choir. This message is not directed to you. You already know the idiocy of many posts on this site. This is not a sudden realization on my part. I have seen many similar posts in the past. My brain hurts from trying to think of a way to describe the complete and utter stupidity of which I am in awe. Therefore, I am not even going to discuss it. Let it suffice to say that I will never read (or submit) another post on/. as long as I live. I will logout in a few moments, never to be heard from again. I will continue to visit the site for the simple purpose of finding news articles in which I am interested. That is it and that is all. I realize that few, if any, of you care. I just want to let the record show.
Berman allegedly opposes the bill that has his name on it as a sponsor
Does this not completely expose the utter absurdity of our legislative system in its current form. How f@cked up must our system be to completely deform a bill to the point that the original "author" no longer supports it. That inherently means the original intent of the bill was lost.
If DHCP lease duration is set very low on the DHCP server, it could be causing excessive IP lease renewal requests to be generated. I believe the client will try to renew an address when the halfway point of the remainder of the lease duration is met. So, the first renewal would occur at 1/2d (where d is lease duration), the second at 3/4d, and the third at 7/8d, and so on. At each renewal, there will be a burst of traffic (including broadcast traffic).
For example, a 4 day lease duration would cause renewals at 2, 3, and 3.5 days into the lease.
You may want to search your traffic logs for one particular client and see if its traffic follows this pattern. Otherwise, I agree with everyone who said "sniff the traffic".
1) Look at your (2 yrs coop) experience and what products/technologies you learned and/or liked.
2) Find a certification exam or exam "track" based upon those products/techs and get started.
For me to become an design level enterprise infrastructure consultant and instructor for the MS platform, it was appropriate to get my MCSE and MCT certs. I also find that some people do not need formal class training; self study can suffice (books, etc).
...on the right side of the table. IIRC, the elements with one or two electrons missing from their outer orbital fields (the two columns to the left of the noble gases) can react pretty violently with water. Specifically, the ones toward the top of the table (with s or p orbitals as their outermost orbitals) will react the most violently. Be gentle if I am wrong, IANAC.
Incidently: tree-structured databases were replaced by the superior set-theory based relational databases. There were reasons for this. What is old is new again; and what was once thrown out as inferior gets a fresh coat of paint and resold as new.
WTF? Trees have not been replaced by relational databases. NDS, Active Directory, and many LDAP (and X400) implementations are tree structured stores that are widely used today and will be for a long time. Both tree structured and relational dbs have advantages and disadvantages. The "superior" structure for a situation is determined by many needs like search performance requirements, data volatility, and the need for data replication. For example, a tree structure has a big advantage with flexible searching methods like breadth-first and depth-first. This gives a user (or developer) more control. If they know how the data will be used, the optimum search method can be determined. Neither structure is better, it depends on how it will be used.
you can't be "early" in the cycle of IP's to scan. It depends how far your ip address is from the ip of the infected system(s). The IP selection (for CodeRed and Nimda) were something like:
if infected ip=a.b.c.d
4 of 8 ip's targeted=a.b.c.#
3 of 8 ip's targeted=a.b.#.#
1 of 8 ip's targeted=a.#.#.#
where #=255*rnd()
...and at least one of them spread with 300 threads on Chinese versions of Windows (instead of 100 on English versions), so it would spread something like n^3 times faster (where n is number of infected systems) in.cn
...involving a switched network. Many networks, especially large enterprise networks, use different switches for backbones, servers, and desktops. Many switch offerings that are typically used for desktops, for example 3Com's Superstack Desktop switches with which I am familiar, are limited to very few (usually two) MAC addresses per port. I don't know all the reasons that this is done. I assume that security may be one reason. Perhaps they are cheaper to manufacture, as well. In any case, the result of this is that only two devices can go through that port when a hub or switch is cascaded off one of these "desktop" switches. So, if you plug a four port switch/hub like this one into the jack, two devices can get connectivity, but that's it. Of course, in many situations, a fix may be as simple as taking the jack out of a desktop level switch and plugging it into a more robust one. That may be practical for a limited number of these, but you may have to upgrade a lot of switches to deploy these on a wide scale.
First, Sun says: but the concept of open applies to architecture, not to implementations
Then, Sun slams MS (Ballmer) for saying:
Microsoft will continue to protect any intellectual property that it embeds as objects in XML wrappers. 'We will have proprietary formats to protect our intellectual property
Sun is saying that it is OK for their implementations to be proprietary, but it is not OK for MS to do the same.
This opens the door for a machine which consumers (and corporates) can buy off the shelf which is easy(ish) to use. Like an iMac or a G4, for instance.......
First, corporate customers look for easy to MANAGE systems, not easy to USE systems. Systems management is where the money savings can be found. Licensing costs are fairly static, they don't change much. Management costs can be reduced greatly with a good mgmt tool. The availability and quality of desktop mgmt tools for linux and MAC are not as good/available/supportable as those available for win32.
Second, a win32 machine is already easy to use in corporate eyes because that is the OS that most users know how to use. That is just the way it is.
There are noises that M$ are looking to kill off or restructure the volume discounts to corporates
What noises are you talking about? They have restructured the licensing model for new products to be a per CPU license (and maybe some old products, too). However, on volume discounts, I assume you are talking about the enterprise/select agreements, which will remain. Come on, do you really think a company with the business sense of MS is going to alienate their customers like that? I don't think so.
They have announced plans to kill off the 95/98/Me line, to try to move the world ultimately towards Whistler. Thing is, many PCs have been sold with Windoze on board in the last three years almost as home appliances. How will these users react to being told that the PC which (sorta) functions as they expect, will need an OS upgrade, and they will have to pay for it ?
Who is going to tell these users that they need an upgrade? MS won't have to. Those machines will be naturally phased out of use, just like win 3.1 has been. The fact that the 9x line of windows is not being continued does not mean that it can not still be used. MS will still have support for it. When a new linux kernel is released, do you say "Darn, now I MUST upgrade ALL my linux machines."? I don't think so.
You know, I hear (read) many linux people complain about MS spreading FUD about linux, but SOME linux people do the same about MS.
Microsofts break into servers is stagnet due to Linux and Sun
Linux has a stronghold in web servers, but not servers in general. Have you been in any organizations lately? MS does have a stronghold in many more server roles than does Linux. Windows as a NOS has little competition from Linux. Same for file and print servers. Same for groupware servers. Unix/Linux gives competition in the application/db server roles, but I still would not say that Linux has stronghold.
It amazes me how some people are so anti MS that they are oblivious to the truth. I don't know if it is ignorance or denial. There are reasons that so many companies use MS sw like Exchange. It is good. I am currently in an enterprise (about 10,000 users) that just had Notes implemented. It will probably get ripped back out and replaced with Exchange because it is not fulfilling their needs. Does Linux even have a decent groupware package (groupware, not email server sw, there is a difference)?
A full description of the statement can be found here.
A full description of @Stake's response can be found here.
A full description of Microsoft's response can be found here.
in addition to windows update, has links to hotmail, msn, and msnbc. Those are links back to sites directly related to (owned by) ms. The rest of the built in links go to media sites like espn, fox, etc. These do not bother me at all and here is why. They are easily removeable from ie. You just organize your favorites and delete them. No big deal. Also, the ones they have are not that bad for a novice user. Hotmail is free email. Who (especially/.ers) would have a problem with free (as in beer) email service. Not I. Although I do prefer other email services to hotmail. Who cares about the ads? Isn't that how most (or all) free mail services get their money? msn is an isp/searchsite/newsite. Nothing wrong with that. (begin offtopic rant) It is amazing how quick people will crucify ms for things they do that other companies/people do, too. If anyone were to say that ms does not make any good sw, I would call them a liar. It is simply not true. If it weren't for ms, where would the personal computer world be today? I will tell you one thing. You would not be able to buy your cheap barebones system for a few hundred bucks to throw debian on to if pc's weren't so commonplace. MS is a big reason that they are so commonplace.
I hear alot of people talk about the better stability (uptime) of Netware as opposed to NT. NT on its own is stable. Especially, with the 4 and up SPs. Example, I installed a NT server as a PDC on a 486/100 with 32MB of RAM. It was to be used as a RAS server. I configured the modem and RAS for the single user it would serve (why is another story). After testing, I turned off the monitor and forgot about it. About six months later, I was thinking about it and thought, "That box is probably in dire need of a reboot." I turned on the monitor, logged on, and opened task manager to see how much memory was in use. To my amazement it was not even using the pagefile! It was sitting at about 20MB, IIRC. Needless to say, I damn near fainted. I decided to not reboot that box that day. It was still running when I left the company. My point is, NT servers themselves are stable. Probably not to the level of Linux or NW, but they are. NT servers become unstable due to poor configuration and management (like installing Office or PCAnywhere). You don't see that type of thing happening on NW because there is no sw like that which runs on NW. Linux people just generally know better. IMHO, MS almost made NT too easy to use to the point that idiot admins think they know what they are doing and don't see the ramifications of installing apps on servers.
OK, now that I am done complimenting MS, flame away.
Really. Too much or too little of just about anything is bad for you. Everything in moderation (not as in +1). I am sure that it goes both ways. The net has improved the lives of many, including mine. I am sure there are some people that the opposite is true for. It all depends on the person. IMO it is pointless to try to guesstimate (that is all these type of studies really do) how much better or worse off people are due to things like TV, the net, video games, etc. Children on the net need supervision just like when they are playing. I don't think problems arise due to the use of things like TV and the net. I think the problems come when parents use these kind of tools to babysit their children for them. I am really sick of hearing people blame things on tools like mass media and even guns, for that matter. How does the saying go? Guns don't kill people; people kill people. The problems lie in the irresponsible use (or lack of supervision thereof) of these tools.
The reason people think their vote doesn't matter is because that is what they have been spoon fed by the media. The media that sold out to the same corporate crap that the two big parties sold out to. That is why people don't vote. Non-voters don't like any of the candidates they see. The problem is they don't see all the candidates because they don't get coverage. None of the third party candidates get coverage. People don't know they are there. That is why they don't vote. People think they have two choices. It is the fault of the media. Often, third party candidates are made out to be extremists by the media. If the media took them seriously and gave them equal coverage, people would, too. Just vote! A non-vote is not a protest. It is submission.
Any network interface card on a networked computer "taps" all of the traffic traversing a particular network segment.
The previous statement is not true. (How does that sig go? All generalizations are false.)
First, many computer networks are now switched. A net card on a switched network segment does not "tap" all of the traffic traversing the segment. In fact, it does not even come in contact with it. The switch only sends data to a machine that is destined for that particular machine (done by mac address). This is, of course, with the exception of broadcast traffic.
Second, even if the net card is on a hub vs a switch, it still does not "tap" all the traffic on the segment. Any traffic that is not destined for that particular machine gets discarded. It only begins "tapping" all the traffic once it is put into promiscuous mode (sniffing mode).
Someone correct me if I am wrong, buy my understanding is that the Carnivore boxen will be inline on the ISP's network. In other words, all the ISP's traffic will pass through it. Seems to me he is playing down the sniffing functionality like it is something that every networked system does. This is simply not true.
IMO, someone who is supposed to be reviewing a sniffing system should not be spreading false information. Either he does not know what he is talking about, or he is spreading misinformation on purpose. Either way, I will not trust any information that he publishes about the system.
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I noticed the specs on this particular machine were rather beefy. This is not necessary. They should make them good enough to run terminal software (like Citrix's ICA Client or remote X) and give them wireless capability. Then people could just connect to their home PC and work/play. This has several advantages.
If I have cable/dsl at home, I can terminal in over a slow wireless (or modem) connection (no need for a fast one) and surf at broadband speed.
Also, the hw makers can focus on size/weight of these systems instead of speed.
If the home system is doing the work, you aren't going to lose that work/download/whatever you were working on when the remote system loses connectivity (and it will).
Any management that thinks auditing is an effective way of encouraging good work ethics...
I think your post misses a key point. Most companies do not implement auditing to encourage good work ethics. It is done primarily for accountability. As someone already said in this discussion, the computers of a company do not belong to the user, but the company. For the same reason, the company is responsible for their use. If a computer is being used for non-business, illegal, or malicious purposes, they have to be able to hold the appropriate person accountable. I am an engineering consultant and have been in many environments that audit certain computer use. I can tell you that rarely, if ever, do most companies actively track audit records (except maybe for statistics generation like: most visited site(s) this month). It is usually done ex post facto (after the fact). In other words, it is done to see who performed some certain action after it has already been performed. Most audit records would go untouched if there were not a reason to review them. Auditing is something that is and should be used by responsible admins.
BTW- Auditing can also be effectively used to troubleshoot certain problems as well as foresee future ones.
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I hereby retire my /. account. The posted responses to this article are so mindlessly idiotic and empty of any valuable thought, that my back has been broken by this straw. I know I am preaching to many members of the choir. This message is not directed to you. You already know the idiocy of many posts on this site. This is not a sudden realization on my part. I have seen many similar posts in the past. My brain hurts from trying to think of a way to describe the complete and utter stupidity of which I am in awe. Therefore, I am not even going to discuss it. Let it suffice to say that I will never read (or submit) another post on /. as long as I live. I will logout in a few moments, never to be heard from again. I will continue to visit the site for the simple purpose of finding news articles in which I am interested. That is it and that is all. I realize that few, if any, of you care. I just want to let the record show.
"Goodbye. Nice to know you." -Incubus
Berman allegedly opposes the bill that has his
name on it as a sponsor
Does this not completely expose the utter absurdity of our legislative system in its current form. How f@cked up must our system be to completely deform a bill to the point that the original "author" no longer supports it. That inherently means the original intent of the bill was lost.
Think about it for a little bit.
Vote libertarian.
If DHCP lease duration is set very low on the DHCP server, it could be causing excessive IP lease renewal requests to be generated. I believe the client will try to renew an address when the halfway point of the remainder of the lease duration is met. So, the first renewal would occur at 1/2d (where d is lease duration), the second at 3/4d, and the third at 7/8d, and so on. At each renewal, there will be a burst of traffic (including broadcast traffic).
For example, a 4 day lease duration would cause renewals at 2, 3, and 3.5 days into the lease.
You may want to search your traffic logs for one particular client and see if its traffic follows this pattern. Otherwise, I agree with everyone who said "sniff the traffic".
...for you would be:
1) Look at your (2 yrs coop) experience and what products/technologies you learned and/or liked.
2) Find a certification exam or exam "track" based upon those products/techs and get started.
For me to become an design level enterprise infrastructure consultant and instructor for the MS platform, it was appropriate to get my MCSE and MCT certs. I also find that some people do not need formal class training; self study can suffice (books, etc).
...on the right side of the table. IIRC, the elements with one or two electrons missing from their outer orbital fields (the two columns to the left of the noble gases) can react pretty violently with water. Specifically, the ones toward the top of the table (with s or p orbitals as their outermost orbitals) will react the most violently. Be gentle if I am wrong, IANAC.
Incidently: tree-structured databases were replaced by the superior set-theory based relational databases. There were reasons for this. What is old is new again; and what was once thrown out as inferior gets a fresh coat of paint and resold as new.
WTF? Trees have not been replaced by relational databases. NDS, Active Directory, and many LDAP (and X400) implementations are tree structured stores that are widely used today and will be for a long time. Both tree structured and relational dbs have advantages and disadvantages. The "superior" structure for a situation is determined by many needs like search performance requirements, data volatility, and the need for data replication. For example, a tree structure has a big advantage with flexible searching methods like breadth-first and depth-first. This gives a user (or developer) more control. If they know how the data will be used, the optimum search method can be determined. Neither structure is better, it depends on how it will be used.
you can't be "early" in the cycle of IP's to scan. It depends how far your ip address is from the ip of the infected system(s). The IP selection (for CodeRed and Nimda) were something like:
...and at least one of them spread with 300 threads on Chinese versions of Windows (instead of 100 on English versions), so it would spread something like n^3 times faster (where n is number of infected systems) in .cn
if infected ip=a.b.c.d
4 of 8 ip's targeted=a.b.c.#
3 of 8 ip's targeted=a.b.#.#
1 of 8 ip's targeted=a.#.#.#
where #=255*rnd()
...involving a switched network. Many networks, especially large enterprise networks, use different switches for backbones, servers, and desktops. Many switch offerings that are typically used for desktops, for example 3Com's Superstack Desktop switches with which I am familiar, are limited to very few (usually two) MAC addresses per port. I don't know all the reasons that this is done. I assume that security may be one reason. Perhaps they are cheaper to manufacture, as well. In any case, the result of this is that only two devices can go through that port when a hub or switch is cascaded off one of these "desktop" switches. So, if you plug a four port switch/hub like this one into the jack, two devices can get connectivity, but that's it. Of course, in many situations, a fix may be as simple as taking the jack out of a desktop level switch and plugging it into a more robust one. That may be practical for a limited number of these, but you may have to upgrade a lot of switches to deploy these on a wide scale.
If it were a packet using IPSec AH (authentication headers), the authenticity could be verified.
First, Sun says:
but the concept of open applies to architecture, not to implementations
Then, Sun slams MS (Ballmer) for saying:
Microsoft will continue to protect any intellectual property that it embeds as objects in XML wrappers. 'We will have proprietary formats to protect our intellectual property
Sun is saying that it is OK for their implementations to be proprietary, but it is not OK for MS to do the same.
This opens the door for a machine which consumers (and corporates) can buy off the shelf which is easy(ish) to use. Like an iMac or a G4, for instance.......
First, corporate customers look for easy to MANAGE systems, not easy to USE systems. Systems management is where the money savings can be found. Licensing costs are fairly static, they don't change much. Management costs can be reduced greatly with a good mgmt tool. The availability and quality of desktop mgmt tools for linux and MAC are not as good/available/supportable as those available for win32.
Second, a win32 machine is already easy to use in corporate eyes because that is the OS that most users know how to use. That is just the way it is.
There are noises that M$ are looking to kill off or restructure the volume discounts to corporates
What noises are you talking about? They have restructured the licensing model for new products to be a per CPU license (and maybe some old products, too). However, on volume discounts, I assume you are talking about the enterprise/select agreements, which will remain. Come on, do you really think a company with the business sense of MS is going to alienate their customers like that? I don't think so.
They have announced plans to kill off the 95/98/Me line, to try to move the world ultimately towards Whistler. Thing is, many PCs have been sold with Windoze on board in the last three years almost as home appliances. How will these users react to being told that the PC which (sorta) functions as they expect, will need an OS upgrade, and they will have to pay for it ?
Who is going to tell these users that they need an upgrade? MS won't have to. Those machines will be naturally phased out of use, just like win 3.1 has been. The fact that the 9x line of windows is not being continued does not mean that it can not still be used. MS will still have support for it. When a new linux kernel is released, do you say "Darn, now I MUST upgrade ALL my linux machines."? I don't think so.
You know, I hear (read) many linux people complain about MS spreading FUD about linux, but SOME linux people do the same about MS.
Linuxes strongholds are servers
Microsofts break into servers is stagnet due to Linux and Sun
Linux has a stronghold in web servers, but not servers in general. Have you been in any organizations lately? MS does have a stronghold in many more server roles than does Linux. Windows as a NOS has little competition from Linux. Same for file and print servers. Same for groupware servers. Unix/Linux gives competition in the application/db server roles, but I still would not say that Linux has stronghold.
It amazes me how some people are so anti MS that they are oblivious to the truth. I don't know if it is ignorance or denial. There are reasons that so many companies use MS sw like Exchange. It is good. I am currently in an enterprise (about 10,000 users) that just had Notes implemented. It will probably get ripped back out and replaced with Exchange because it is not fulfilling their needs. Does Linux even have a decent groupware package (groupware, not email server sw, there is a difference)?
A full description of the statement can be found here.
A full description of @Stake's response can be found here.
A full description of Microsoft's response can be found here.
Whoever modded this up to five is an idiot.
in addition to windows update, has links to hotmail, msn, and msnbc. Those are links back to sites directly related to (owned by) ms. The rest of the built in links go to media sites like espn, fox, etc. These do not bother me at all and here is why. They are easily removeable from ie. You just organize your favorites and delete them. No big deal. Also, the ones they have are not that bad for a novice user. Hotmail is free email. Who (especially /.ers) would have a problem with free (as in beer) email service. Not I. Although I do prefer other email services to hotmail. Who cares about the ads? Isn't that how most (or all) free mail services get their money? msn is an isp/searchsite/newsite. Nothing wrong with that. (begin offtopic rant) It is amazing how quick people will crucify ms for things they do that other companies/people do, too. If anyone were to say that ms does not make any good sw, I would call them a liar. It is simply not true. If it weren't for ms, where would the personal computer world be today? I will tell you one thing. You would not be able to buy your cheap barebones system for a few hundred bucks to throw debian on to if pc's weren't so commonplace. MS is a big reason that they are so commonplace.
What would that digit be on a first gen Pentium?
you had more than one 3.141592653589...? Would you have multiple pi/pis/pies/pii?
I hear alot of people talk about the better stability (uptime) of Netware as opposed to NT. NT on its own is stable. Especially, with the 4 and up SPs. Example, I installed a NT server as a PDC on a 486/100 with 32MB of RAM. It was to be used as a RAS server. I configured the modem and RAS for the single user it would serve (why is another story). After testing, I turned off the monitor and forgot about it. About six months later, I was thinking about it and thought, "That box is probably in dire need of a reboot." I turned on the monitor, logged on, and opened task manager to see how much memory was in use. To my amazement it was not even using the pagefile! It was sitting at about 20MB, IIRC. Needless to say, I damn near fainted. I decided to not reboot that box that day. It was still running when I left the company. My point is, NT servers themselves are stable. Probably not to the level of Linux or NW, but they are. NT servers become unstable due to poor configuration and management (like installing Office or PCAnywhere). You don't see that type of thing happening on NW because there is no sw like that which runs on NW. Linux people just generally know better. IMHO, MS almost made NT too easy to use to the point that idiot admins think they know what they are doing and don't see the ramifications of installing apps on servers.
OK, now that I am done complimenting MS, flame away.
Really. Too much or too little of just about anything is bad for you. Everything in moderation (not as in +1). I am sure that it goes both ways. The net has improved the lives of many, including mine. I am sure there are some people that the opposite is true for. It all depends on the person. IMO it is pointless to try to guesstimate (that is all these type of studies really do) how much better or worse off people are due to things like TV, the net, video games, etc. Children on the net need supervision just like when they are playing. I don't think problems arise due to the use of things like TV and the net. I think the problems come when parents use these kind of tools to babysit their children for them. I am really sick of hearing people blame things on tools like mass media and even guns, for that matter. How does the saying go? Guns don't kill people; people kill people. The problems lie in the irresponsible use (or lack of supervision thereof) of these tools.
The reason people think their vote doesn't matter is because that is what they have been spoon fed by the media. The media that sold out to the same corporate crap that the two big parties sold out to. That is why people don't vote. Non-voters don't like any of the candidates they see. The problem is they don't see all the candidates because they don't get coverage. None of the third party candidates get coverage. People don't know they are there. That is why they don't vote. People think they have two choices. It is the fault of the media. Often, third party candidates are made out to be extremists by the media. If the media took them seriously and gave them equal coverage, people would, too. Just vote! A non-vote is not a protest. It is submission.
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Any network interface card on a networked computer "taps" all of the traffic traversing a particular network segment.
The previous statement is not true. (How does that sig go? All generalizations are false.)
First, many computer networks are now switched. A net card on a switched network segment does not "tap" all of the traffic traversing the segment. In fact, it does not even come in contact with it. The switch only sends data to a machine that is destined for that particular machine (done by mac address). This is, of course, with the exception of broadcast traffic.
Second, even if the net card is on a hub vs a switch, it still does not "tap" all the traffic on the segment. Any traffic that is not destined for that particular machine gets discarded. It only begins "tapping" all the traffic once it is put into promiscuous mode (sniffing mode).
Someone correct me if I am wrong, buy my understanding is that the Carnivore boxen will be inline on the ISP's network. In other words, all the ISP's traffic will pass through it. Seems to me he is playing down the sniffing functionality like it is something that every networked system does. This is simply not true.
IMO, someone who is supposed to be reviewing a sniffing system should not be spreading false information. Either he does not know what he is talking about, or he is spreading misinformation on purpose. Either way, I will not trust any information that he publishes about the system.
I noticed the specs on this particular machine were rather beefy. This is not necessary. They should make them good enough to run terminal software (like Citrix's ICA Client or remote X) and give them wireless capability. Then people could just connect to their home PC and work/play. This has several advantages.
If I have cable/dsl at home, I can terminal in over a slow wireless (or modem) connection (no need for a fast one) and surf at broadband speed.
Also, the hw makers can focus on size/weight of these systems instead of speed.
If the home system is doing the work, you aren't going to lose that work/download/whatever you were working on when the remote system loses connectivity (and it will).
It is cool, though, and has much potential.
Any management that thinks auditing is an effective way of encouraging good work ethics...
I think your post misses a key point. Most companies do not implement auditing to encourage good work ethics. It is done primarily for accountability. As someone already said in this discussion, the computers of a company do not belong to the user, but the company. For the same reason, the company is responsible for their use. If a computer is being used for non-business, illegal, or malicious purposes, they have to be able to hold the appropriate person accountable. I am an engineering consultant and have been in many environments that audit certain computer use. I can tell you that rarely, if ever, do most companies actively track audit records (except maybe for statistics generation like: most visited site(s) this month). It is usually done ex post facto (after the fact). In other words, it is done to see who performed some certain action after it has already been performed. Most audit records would go untouched if there were not a reason to review them. Auditing is something that is and should be used by responsible admins.
BTW- Auditing can also be effectively used to troubleshoot certain problems as well as foresee future ones.