In the financial services industry, most people have to be bonded - that is the FBI gets your fingerprints and they do some sort of rudimentary background check on you. Would that placate the "homeland security" wolves? At any rate, it would be more information on foreign students than they have on most Americans.
Maybe this isn't done because with the FBI doing background checks, their information would be limited to the activities of those students while in the U.S. The FBI's charter is domestic investigation. They can probably do this quite well for U.S. Citizens, but not as easily for foreigners.
For me, it's applications and hardware support: Quicken GPS and Mapping Software DV Editing Particular Scanners, Digital Camera Memory Card Readers, DV Editing
If this stuff doesn't get 1) supported, 2) stable under Linux, I won't make the move.
As an end user wanting what I described above, can I add VMWare to my *own* Knoppix CD ISO?
This would rock to be able to go to work and have a trusted environment for web browsing, personal email, etc., and drop into the corporate (untrusted) OS to do my work.
One really neat use of this would be to bundle VMWare into the CD dist so that you could actually drop the CD into a machine you don't trust (maybe your employer's?) to be free of keystroke loggers, etc.
Use Linux for any "private" work you want to do, use encryption tools (ssh, tunneling, etc.) to get out your corporate firewall to a trusted machine, and then simply run your other operating system inside VMWare for doing your work.
Does Knoppix make it easy to add new things into the cd image?
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In the financial services industry, most people have to be bonded - that is the FBI gets your fingerprints and they do some sort of rudimentary background check on you. Would that placate the "homeland security" wolves? At any rate, it would be more information on foreign students than they have on most Americans.
Maybe this isn't done because with the FBI doing background checks, their information would be limited to the activities of those students while in the U.S. The FBI's charter is domestic investigation. They can probably do this quite well for U.S. Citizens, but not as easily for foreigners.My father used to always reply to their request for last name by saying CASH.
For me, it's applications and hardware support:
Quicken
GPS and Mapping Software
DV Editing
Particular Scanners, Digital Camera Memory Card Readers, DV Editing
If this stuff doesn't get 1) supported, 2) stable under Linux, I won't make the move.
Nope. At some point you just have to give up. They own the hardware, network, etc.
So, see what I posted the other day...
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This should help you deal with the problem.
I realize VMWare is commercial.
As an end user wanting what I described above, can I add VMWare to my *own* Knoppix CD ISO?
This would rock to be able to go to work and have a trusted environment for web browsing, personal email, etc., and drop into the corporate (untrusted) OS to do my work.
One really neat use of this would be to bundle VMWare into the CD dist so that you could actually drop the CD into a machine you don't trust (maybe your employer's?) to be free of keystroke loggers, etc.
Use Linux for any "private" work you want to do, use encryption tools (ssh, tunneling, etc.) to get out your corporate firewall to a trusted machine, and then simply run your other operating system inside VMWare for doing your work.
Does Knoppix make it easy to add new things into the cd image?
How many resumes do you think will be submitted because of this /. attention?
This isn't quite HAM packet radio. Packet radio on HAM frequencies disallows gatewaying content to/from the internet at large.