You might take a look at BestCrypt from Jetico. I used to use it when I was using both Windows and Linux. It supports a number of ciphers including Rijndel (AES), IDEA, Blowfish, Blowfish-448, Blowfish-128, DES, 3DES, CAST andTwofish. There is also an availible development kit if you are interested.
I don't recall the details of the license but all the products are availible for free download and evaluation.
IEEE1394b is being finalized (or already has been) and the EEs working on it managed to reduce the cost of the silicon necesary (compared to IEEE1394a). In my opinion 1394 makes much more sence for this application. Most laptops alreay have USB (v1.1 and soon to be v2.0) on them. Why do we need more ports? 1394 makes a lot more sence for connecting devices like hard drives and other ATAPI/SCSI devices.
Maybe it's just me but I would have gone with 1394.
--adam
Years and years ago HP used to do something along these lines. All of the cards could be removed from the back without opening the box. Just loosen the thumb screws and slide it out. Kind of like CompactPCI.
Garbage Collection make any language totally unsutible for most if not all embedded (device) programming and deffinitly unsutible for an realtime (soft or hard IMHO) programming.
The problem is that you can never be sure when everything is going to come to a hault while GC does it's business.
Most places I've had the "pleasure" of working at have had your typical magnetic security/time cards. If the employee loses it they have to pay about $20. It isn't that the cards cost $20, it's the fact that it takes resources (i.e. time) to get a new card, encode it, associate it with the employee and to invalidate the old lost card.
Why not do this with passwords? People in IT (should) get paid quite a bit. Even if it is just a "help desk" person they get paid enough for it to cost the company a fair amount of cash.
Just because passwords don't have a physical incarnation like timecards do doesn't mean they don't cost money (otherwise you wouldn't be in this situation to begin with).
--adam
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You might take a look at BestCrypt from Jetico. I used to use it when I was using both Windows and Linux. It supports a number of ciphers including Rijndel (AES), IDEA, Blowfish, Blowfish-448, Blowfish-128, DES, 3DES, CAST andTwofish. There is also an availible development kit if you are interested. I don't recall the details of the license but all the products are availible for free download and evaluation.
Sounds like a good idea now. I'll have to wait till I'm sober to make a "reasonable" decision.
This is a great question and thread. I think it shows very well that X's network transparency is a great feature and is very useful. --adam
IEEE1394b is being finalized (or already has been) and the EEs working on it managed to reduce the cost of the silicon necesary (compared to IEEE1394a). In my opinion 1394 makes much more sence for this application. Most laptops alreay have USB (v1.1 and soon to be v2.0) on them. Why do we need more ports? 1394 makes a lot more sence for connecting devices like hard drives and other ATAPI/SCSI devices. Maybe it's just me but I would have gone with 1394. --adam
Years and years ago HP used to do something along these lines. All of the cards could be removed from the back without opening the box. Just loosen the thumb screws and slide it out. Kind of like CompactPCI.
--adam
Garbage Collection make any language totally unsutible for most if not all embedded (device) programming and deffinitly unsutible for an realtime (soft or hard IMHO) programming. The problem is that you can never be sure when everything is going to come to a hault while GC does it's business.
It's umount not unmount.
Most places I've had the "pleasure" of working at have had your typical magnetic security/time cards. If the employee loses it they have to pay about $20. It isn't that the cards cost $20, it's the fact that it takes resources (i.e. time) to get a new card, encode it, associate it with the employee and to invalidate the old lost card.
Why not do this with passwords? People in IT (should) get paid quite a bit. Even if it is just a "help desk" person they get paid enough for it to cost the company a fair amount of cash.
Just because passwords don't have a physical incarnation like timecards do doesn't mean they don't cost money (otherwise you wouldn't be in this situation to begin with).
--adam
[Please don't mark this post "funny". I'm being serious.]
From http://www.dspace.com :
"Welcome to DSpace, a newly developed digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT.
For the user: DSpace enables easy remote access and the ability to read and search DSpace items from one location: the World Wide Web.
For the contributor: DSpace offers the advantages of digital distribution and long-term preservation for a variety of formats including text, audio, video, images, datasets and more. Authors can store their digital works in collections that are maintained by MIT communities.
For the institution: DSpace offers the opportunity to provide access to all the research of the institution through one interface. The repository is organized to accommodate the varying policy and workflow issues inherent in a multi-disciplinary environment. Submission workflow and access policies can be customized to adhere closely to each community's needs."