Not to sound like a elitist or any thing, but if you are working in a enterprise environment, you really need a fast PC with lots of RAM. Currently I am sitting at a P4 with 2.5 Gigs of RAM.
Even if Eclipse consumes 75MB of RAM doing nothing, I prefer that as it appears a lot more responsive. May be it's time you talk to your boss about getting you a proper workstation.
Are you suggesting mapping a Web Application's users to OS users ?
I can't think of one advantage of doing this and probably a thousand ones to not do so.
Well may be for a intranet application within the company, but surely not for an internet application.
On that note , here are 2 main problems I am facing with
JAAS authentication that make using JAAS in my Web APP a PITA
1) Can't pass anything else in login form except username and password. e.g.
Create a web login form with username and password.
Create a custom login module by extending appropriate base login modules.
The web login form has to submit the data to 'j_security_check'
The form can be submitted to a Struts Action or another servlet but then
the following won't work
request.getUserPrincipal() won't return the username, neither will the
authenticated prinipal be passed transparently to EJB layer.
Single sign-on across multiple web application won't work as that part
is usually implemented by j_security_check.
Now problem with j_security_check is that when It calls your custom login module it only passes username and password in the Callback Object. So if
you need other fields from the login form you are out of luck.
2) Authentication thru login module is limited to YES or NO.
The login module can only indicated whether the user was authenticated or not.
But if you have other security policies, such as user must change password
on first login, or every 90 days etc, they can't be implemented from the login module. As the login module can't drive which JSP/Action to display next, neither is there a way to set these kind of flags, from the login module that can then be used in the web layer once the user is authenticated.
first of all thank you for an unbiased answer. Every time I ask this question, I end up
getting replies either from Pro-Microsoft or Anti-Microsoft people, and they are equally biased in their own ways.
To be honest I don't know. But this is often one of the reasons put forward
by non IE browsers, to tout that they are inheritantly secure as they are not
embeded in the OS.
Having not used windows for a while now, I really am not sure what the status
of IE "built-into-windows" is.
Umm, wouldn't the settlement amount be just written down as a loss in sony's balance sheet, and Sony execs after some clever accounting will lower the quarter's forcast, and thus screw only the shareholders, which happen to be little guys while they would have sold short long time ago. (I know it's illegal and all that, but it is done all the time)
How may TOP sony executives will have to be accountable for this, more specifically, the next time some VP/EVP/C*O of a media company plans to do something as evil as this, will he think "Man this could hold me accountable, and get me in some serious deep shit", or would he think, "Well if this blows up, our PR dept can put a spin on it".
Besides, most people outside the geek community will not have even heard of this, let alone care what a rootkit is.
Most of the lawsuits will be class action lawsuits, which sony will be too glad to settle with the lawyers, thus making a few lawyers very rich.
What you may get is a discount of 1$ on an already overpriced 20$ CD.
Sony made a stupid PR mistake, but they are too big a company to really suffer from it so badly, so to completely give up DRM.
Come release date of PS3, and all those who critisize sony now, will line up before stall drooling...
Like it or not, fair use will be a thing of past, in the years to come.
Aren't the JVM specs free ? Write your own JVM for BSD, no one's stopping you.
Besides how difficult is this to find.. http://www.freebsd.org/java/. If you read closely,
although the official release is at 1.3.1 , binaries for 1.5 are also available.
Never again pure IE, atleast use avant browser. IE based engine and no pop-ups , activex/java disabled. javascript much tightly controlled.
Also install "Open in IE" extension and configure it to use avant browser. Remove all shortcuts to IE or avant browser, and make FF use mandatory. For sites that don't run properly , just right click and do "Open in IE".
I don't think the GP was sad that the guy was not allowed to install FF. what he was sad about was that the sysadmins at the workplace had never heard of what firefox is, let alone know that it is much much more secure than IE., which shows not only lack of knowledge on their part as well as poor software auditing practices.
I onced worked at such a place, IE/Outlook only and had to remove FF/TB when I installed it. The problem is , every time a worm was on the loose, these guys would lose half the pcs in the network and kept sending emails about not opening emails containing so-and-so subject.
Having a strict software control policy is good if only it helps in achiving the target goal of a secure and stable network. Otherwise it preety much works like DRM, locks out honest folks and the pirates are not even affected by it.
Banks charging for internet usage ? What is this 1996 ?
Banks should encourage more and more people to go paper less and use online banking from what ever device the user prefers.. it saves them paper, time and money.
I have used quite a lot banks' online banking without any problems in firefox, on rare occasion I have to set the user agent to IE , but never actually have to use IE.
what you call shutter lag is determined by AF speed; all good manufacturers now (since ~3 years ago) have their shutter lag after AF measured in small numbers of milliseconds
That is not fully correct, shutter lag and AF speed have nothing to do with each other. AF speed is time it takes for the camera to focus on the subject.
Shutter lag is time it takes for the camera to save the picture once the shutter release button is fully pressed.
Shutter lag comes in to picture after the button is fully pressed, the camera has already auto focused by then, when you half press the shutter release button.
Shutter lag is determined by write speeds of the memory card, in which case sony offers not much advantage over others.
AF speed will affect shutter lag only if you were to press the shutter release button all the way down, (i.e. no half press to lock focus). But if you are shooting snapshots/landscapes , posed shots, there is no reason for you to not half press the button, get a proper focus and then fully press it down, thus removing the AF speed from the shutter lag equation.
And even you can agree memory stick is not the fastest memory out there.
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Even if Eclipse consumes 75MB of RAM doing nothing, I prefer that as it appears a lot more responsive. May be it's time you talk to your boss about getting you a proper workstation.
Sometimes it's best to leave a good humor alone, those who get it, get it, those who don't, may probably never will.
On that note, name one "VIRAL" open source license.
with steve vowing to fucking kill you (TM).
Here is how I rank various browsers based on criteria
I can't think of one advantage of doing this and probably a thousand ones to not do so.
Well may be for a intranet application within the company, but surely not for an internet application.
On that note , here are 2 main problems I am facing with JAAS authentication that make using JAAS in my Web APP a PITA
1) Can't pass anything else in login form except username and password. e.g.
- Create a web login form with username and password.
- Create a custom login module by extending appropriate base login modules.
- The web login form has to submit the data to 'j_security_check'
The form can be submitted to a Struts Action or another servlet but then
the following won't work
- request.getUserPrincipal() won't return the username, neither will the
authenticated prinipal be passed transparently to EJB layer.
- Single sign-on across multiple web application won't work as that part
is usually implemented by j_security_check.
- Now problem with j_security_check is that when It calls your custom login module it only passes username and password in the Callback Object. So if
you need other fields from the login form you are out of luck.
2) Authentication thru login module is limited to YES or NO. The login module can only indicated whether the user was authenticated or not. But if you have other security policies, such as user must change password on first login, or every 90 days etc, they can't be implemented from the login module. As the login module can't drive which JSP/Action to display next, neither is there a way to set these kind of flags, from the login module that can then be used in the web layer once the user is authenticated.I am waiting for some early adopters of intel iMac to sell their G5 Towers for much cheaper than what apple is selling.
Another advantage is that most of these systems are loaded with RAM and Software. I have already started seeing some on craigslist.org.
Here is hoping there are a lot of early adopters ...
Thanks for clearing some of the doubts.
Having not used windows for a while now, I really am not sure what the status of IE "built-into-windows" is.
How does an insecure application (which I don't doubt IE is ), with no hooks in to the kernel space (unlike IE on windows), make mac insecure ?
For argument sake, if IE/Safari/Opera/Firefox all have same # of vulnerabilities in their mac versions. Will they not be equally secure or insecure ?
This is obviously a strong contrast against IE on windows v/s Opera/Firefox on Windows, as IE seems to work a lot in OS or kernel space.
Well they don't claim to be independent...that's a start.
belive it or not mosquitos are the no. 1 killers of the modern world
(Disclaimer, I just pulled the list , I don't listen to these...:-)
May be not all at 20$ , but close enough, and I only searched bestbuy.
How may TOP sony executives will have to be accountable for this, more specifically, the next time some VP/EVP/C*O of a media company plans to do something as evil as this, will he think "Man this could hold me accountable, and get me in some serious deep shit", or would he think, "Well if this blows up, our PR dept can put a spin on it".
Besides, most people outside the geek community will not have even heard of this, let alone care what a rootkit is.
What you may get is a discount of 1$ on an already overpriced 20$ CD.
Sony made a stupid PR mistake, but they are too big a company to really suffer from it so badly, so to completely give up DRM. Come release date of PS3, and all those who critisize sony now, will line up before stall drooling...
Like it or not, fair use will be a thing of past, in the years to come.
Besides how difficult is this to find .. http://www.freebsd.org/java/. If you read closely,
although the official release is at 1.3.1 , binaries for 1.5 are also available.
Don't you mean it is a shame, the contest doesn't allow entries from japan.
Also install "Open in IE" extension and configure it to use avant browser. Remove all shortcuts to IE or avant browser, and make FF use mandatory. For sites that don't run properly , just right click and do "Open in IE".
I onced worked at such a place, IE/Outlook only and had to remove FF/TB when I installed it. The problem is , every time a worm was on the loose, these guys would lose half the pcs in the network and kept sending emails about not opening emails containing so-and-so subject.
Having a strict software control policy is good if only it helps in achiving the target goal of a secure and stable network. Otherwise it preety much works like DRM, locks out honest folks and the pirates are not even affected by it.
Yes but how easy is it for these malware producers to actually put that malware on your PC...not as easy as IE me thinks.
Banks should encourage more and more people to go paper less and use online banking from what ever device the user prefers.. it saves them paper, time and money.
I have used quite a lot banks' online banking without any problems in firefox, on rare occasion I have to set the user agent to IE , but never actually have to use IE.
That is not fully correct, shutter lag and AF speed have nothing to do with each other. AF speed is time it takes for the camera to focus on the subject.
Shutter lag is time it takes for the camera to save the picture once the shutter release button is fully pressed.
Shutter lag comes in to picture after the button is fully pressed, the camera has already auto focused by then, when you half press the shutter release button.
Shutter lag is determined by write speeds of the memory card, in which case sony offers not much advantage over others.
AF speed will affect shutter lag only if you were to press the shutter release button all the way down, (i.e. no half press to lock focus). But if you are shooting snapshots /landscapes , posed shots, there is no reason for you to not half press the button, get a proper focus and then fully press it down, thus removing the AF speed from the shutter lag equation.
And even you can agree memory stick is not the fastest memory out there.
But I concur with all your other points,
you do know , you are asking this question to americans, right ?
I live in D.C. you insensetive clod.