That's why, IMO, you force a strong password, but don't make the poor user change it every other friggin' day (ok, i'm exaggerating, but being forced to change a password for no good reason is a pet peeve of mine...system was hacked? fine, I'll change it)
I've never really agreed with this. If you force somebody to change passwords all the time, you will force them to always choose something easy to remember, and thus possibly a dictionary word. If you force both changes all the time AND a password resembling line noise, well, they'll then have to write it down. Also a bad security decision. This is amplified by the fact that people need to interact with many different systems. Having a different jumbled password for each is a pain to manage, and prone to compromise (a key part of good security is KISS...complexity breeds weakness)
IMNSHO, the best policy is to allow the user to have a password that does not expire, and force it to be a good password. That way the user will have a virtually uncrackable password that they can also remember. Of course if compromise of the password, or a system the password is contained or used on is suspected, THEN you force the password change.
Of course, all bets are off if you are using insecure protocols and hire web programmers who cannot figure out how to handle/store session data securely.
WTF does the government have to do with creating domain names??? And to pass a law about this? This is as obscene as business method patents.
This is like those local governments that think you need a separate law to cover driving while yapping on a cell phone. Isn't wreckless driving, or driving while distracted enough? Why does our government, and our lawyers, and courts lack so much common sense??
Or the school could hire a single DBA/programmer (or have a CS teacher do it...or even the kids...ok bad Idea for the gradebook:) to create a Apache/MySQL system tailored to the school...hell, check it into CVS, then other schools could use and contribute to it.
Schools do have people to admin their computers/networks, right? And with linux, the admin part is easy, so the admin could do other things, like writing custom DB's with web interfaces.
This would work so long as there was a compelling advantage (i.e. - lots faster file transfers). There's no point adding extensions just for the hell of it - they have to do something that users want done. Personally I'd like to see SSL support built into SMB, and adding that to the Samba implementation with a seamless Win32 client would be enough for me to switch all the Windows boxen I use to the Samba implementation.
One that I can see would be the ability to have file permissions when it is a linux/winnt/win2k file system that is being 'exported'.
Still the most bass-ackwards governments in existence. The local governments are horrible. The state isn't much better.
They are trying to make you believe they are 'hip' to technology, but it's all such a mess. The state web pages are next to useless for any real information. Their 'online forms' end up being a downloadable PDF (better than nothing, I guess).
And this is the same state that is banning mountain bikers from the state game lands. I still can't see the sense in that...where else will they ride?
And a huge breach of etiquette. Not that you would understand what that is. Your posting a blatant advertisement for your book on a news/discussion site is disgusting, to put it mildly. In other words, OFFTOPIC.
If you want to advertise your book, do it on your own website, or pay for ad space on tv/radio/magazines/whatever. This is not the place to advertise your personal creations in a sad attempt at selling something.
My non-technical g/f and her two children use linux. Why? Because it was pre-installed on the machine I built for them.
People use, and figure out how to use, what comes with their computer. What needs to change is M$'s ability to strongarm companies into putting that shit on every system they ship and penalizing them if the don't.
Linux users who wonder why drag-and-drop doesn't always work between applications may find themselves treated to a lengthy philosophical discourse on the difference between Gnome and KDE -- a difference they may not have known existed.
Ya know, there is a perfectly good model, that does not require a huge fscking 'environment' that is easily implementable in EVERY X program. There is also a very cool other protocol, XDS, that allows you to drag files FROM an application to your filesystem. NEITHER of these require the bloat that is KDE and Gnome (more KDE than gnome).
WTF don't these environments just use THAT elegant standard?!?
Shouldn't the government be using open standards that work on every (modern) platform? I mean, they require ATM's at drive-throughs to have braille (I've yet to see a blind person driving a car though:)
Then again, state.pa.us's unemployment online forms are java or activex, IIRC...for simple fill-out forms. *sigh*
What *I* really want is and ftp server, or SMB share, on my Clie (any palm, really). Sure would make grabbing stuff from it or putting stuff on it quite nice. It shouldn't be hard, somebody just has to write it...yeah, I know, but it's not so important to me to take my time away from other projects yet:)
Depending on what type of firewall is in front of those machines (if any), those scan results could be false positives. Many proxying firewalls will report a port as open for all the machines it protects if any of them have that particular access allowed. I bet if you scan the whole subnet, you may find exactly the same results on every machine in the subnet.
Look, man, I don't have Netscape 4.x installed here, let alone any Micro$loth products. They lost a potential sale because I can't even look at their product. Idiots.
What really kills them is the fact that they are selling a linux-based product, yet turning away probably the most popular browser on linux today (that would be mozilla).
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Exactly. Somebody please mod the parent up.
That's why, IMO, you force a strong password, but don't make the poor user change it every other friggin' day (ok, i'm exaggerating, but being forced to change a password for no good reason is a pet peeve of mine...system was hacked? fine, I'll change it)
IMNSHO, the best policy is to allow the user to have a password that does not expire, and force it to be a good password. That way the user will have a virtually uncrackable password that they can also remember. Of course if compromise of the password, or a system the password is contained or used on is suspected, THEN you force the password change.
Of course, all bets are off if you are using insecure protocols and hire web programmers who cannot figure out how to handle/store session data securely.
This is like those local governments that think you need a separate law to cover driving while yapping on a cell phone. Isn't wreckless driving, or driving while distracted enough? Why does our government, and our lawyers, and courts lack so much common sense??
Then what other Dialup settings would it 'usurp?'
Schools do have people to admin their computers/networks, right? And with linux, the admin part is easy, so the admin could do other things, like writing custom DB's with web interfaces.
Based on the original OS/2 version.
Cable 'modems' and DSL 'modems' are actually bridges. I guess DSL still acts as a modem, but anyway...
That would be very sweet.
They are trying to make you believe they are 'hip' to technology, but it's all such a mess. The state web pages are next to useless for any real information. Their 'online forms' end up being a downloadable PDF (better than nothing, I guess).
And this is the same state that is banning mountain bikers from the state game lands. I still can't see the sense in that...where else will they ride?
And a huge breach of etiquette. Not that you would understand what that is. Your posting a blatant advertisement for your book on a news/discussion site is disgusting, to put it mildly. In other words, OFFTOPIC.
If you want to advertise your book, do it on your own website, or pay for ad space on tv/radio/magazines/whatever. This is not the place to advertise your personal creations in a sad attempt at selling something.
People use, and figure out how to use, what comes with their computer. What needs to change is M$'s ability to strongarm companies into putting that shit on every system they ship and penalizing them if the don't.
Oops. I was talking about XDnD, in case you couldn't figure it out :)
Ya know, there is a perfectly good model, that does not require a huge fscking 'environment' that is easily implementable in EVERY X program. There is also a very cool other protocol, XDS, that allows you to drag files FROM an application to your filesystem. NEITHER of these require the bloat that is KDE and Gnome (more KDE than gnome).
WTF don't these environments just use THAT elegant standard?!?
Then again, state.pa.us's unemployment online forms are java or activex, IIRC...for simple fill-out forms. *sigh*
What *I* really want is and ftp server, or SMB share, on my Clie (any palm, really). Sure would make grabbing stuff from it or putting stuff on it quite nice. It shouldn't be hard, somebody just has to write it...yeah, I know, but it's not so important to me to take my time away from other projects yet :)
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
Give sylpheed a try. Drag drop attachments even work (one way at least, *sigh*) with ROX.
It had to be done :)
weather.yahoo.com
movies.yahoo.com
tv.yahoo.com
news.yahoo.com
etc.
No, you are not. It's the same thing as ActiveX that everyone always complains about, judging by the description in the slashdot post.
Depending on what type of firewall is in front of those machines (if any), those scan results could be false positives. Many proxying firewalls will report a port as open for all the machines it protects if any of them have that particular access allowed. I bet if you scan the whole subnet, you may find exactly the same results on every machine in the subnet.
What really kills them is the fact that they are selling a linux-based product, yet turning away probably the most popular browser on linux today (that would be mozilla).
welp, that's a sale lost from me, at least. Idiots.