The author seems to contradict himself. On one hand he argues that centralization of services by Microsoft and Sun is evil and on the other he says that "Self-regulation doesn't work anymore." And if self regulation doesn't work the what would? Govt. regulation? I should think not.
Hotmail is not the the only kid in town. It seems everyone is offering free email theses days. So why do so many people use hotmail. Hotmail was one of the first web based email systems and had the largest user base. Thats why microsoft bought them. They saw it as a way to flash the microsoft name in front on more people. So now everytime the average joe gets on the internet, he fires up internet explorer(not netscape that would take a bais aginst ms since he already has a perfectly good web browser preinstalled) and sees FREE EMAIL on his default home page. The Hotmail user base grows exponitaily from all of this new advertising. And all ms did was advertise on their own site.
But WHY do people uses it? Their ISP gave them an email account, which is arguably better. I started to say that it gives people a feeling of anonminity(sp) but most people use their real names and have probably never though about encrypting their email.
Which brings me to my point. People, meaning the masses in general, want a centralization of services. MS and Sun know this and want to offer those services. "Aunt Suzie uses Hotmail so logicaly if I do too things might work better." Now, that much thought probably never go's into it but you get my point. People use hotmail of their "own free will". It's just Microsoft is getting very good at manipulataing that "own free will."
sorry, It's too early to put very much thought into someting like this.
There is no way you can control every box on a university network. Texas A&M uses their firewall to block all incoming connections on everything but port 80 and allows all outbound connections to go through. The goal is to limit outside access without imposing too many limitations on the users behind the firewall. If a system has a need for other connections the to be let through then it must meet university security requirements and be certified by a sysadmin.
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The author seems to contradict himself. On one hand he argues that centralization of services by Microsoft and Sun is evil and on the other he says that "Self-regulation doesn't work anymore." And if self regulation doesn't work the what would? Govt. regulation? I should think not.
Hotmail is not the the only kid in town. It seems everyone is offering free email theses days. So why do so many people use hotmail. Hotmail was one of the first web based email systems and had the largest user base. Thats why microsoft bought them. They saw it as a way to flash the microsoft name in front on more people. So now everytime the average joe gets on the internet, he fires up internet explorer(not netscape that would take a bais aginst ms since he already has a perfectly good web browser preinstalled) and sees FREE EMAIL on his default home page. The Hotmail user base grows exponitaily from all of this new advertising. And all ms did was advertise on their own site.
But WHY do people uses it? Their ISP gave them an email account, which is arguably better. I started to say that it gives people a feeling of anonminity(sp) but most people use their real names and have probably never though about encrypting their email.
Which brings me to my point. People, meaning the masses in general, want a centralization of services. MS and Sun know this and want to offer those services. "Aunt Suzie uses Hotmail so logicaly if I do too things might work better." Now, that much thought probably never go's into it but you get my point. People use hotmail of their "own free will". It's just Microsoft is getting very good at manipulataing that "own free will."
sorry, It's too early to put very much thought into someting like this.
There is no way you can control every box on a university network. Texas A&M uses their firewall to block all incoming connections on everything but port 80 and allows all outbound connections to go through. The goal is to limit outside access without imposing too many limitations on the users behind the firewall. If a system has a need for other connections the to be let through then it must meet university security requirements and be certified by a sysadmin.
Texas A&M uses the drawbridge firewall package. It can be found at http://drawbridge.tamu.edu