It doesn't restrict ssl's to paying customers, it simply warns if the cert is self-signed, but does give you the option of accepting it anyway. What's wrong with putting good security first, but letting the user over-ride.
NDIS wrapper has never been a great idea. It puts you at the mercy of Microsoft bugs and malice all for the benefit of a $30 network card. The kind of card that needs NDIS wrapper is usually worst of class and should be shunned. It's brain dead much like a winmodem and the "firmware" game is intentional. The card maker wants to be Windows only so don't buy it. Sooner or later hardware vendors will have to come around.
As far as I care, NDIS wrapper IS! a great idea. I can't always choose what network card I get, specially in laptops and until now it has many times be the ONLY option to get my machine to get connected.
If any of the purists out there are willing to give me another $500-$1000 so I can buy a laptop that has the perfect linux supported card, I'm happy to take it. But until then I have no choice and NDIS wrapper has saved me many times.
The bottom line is, while it's nice to be all "high and mighty" and keep things pure, until ALL hardware manufacturers provide linux drivers, there is a need for programs like this. It would be nice if people would come back to the real world for a change and think of how their decissions affect the end users.
... and I had thought he'd tripped for real and done a face plant on the stage.
Sooo.. only windows crashed on him, heck, that happens every day to (tens of)thousands every day.. that's not even news worthy anymore. People have got used to that... when you use windows anyway..
Slashdot Mirror
I think the following is misleading:
restricting encrypted HTTP to paying customers
It doesn't restrict ssl's to paying customers, it simply warns if the cert is self-signed, but does give you the option of accepting it anyway. What's wrong with putting good security first, but letting the user over-ride.
If any of the purists out there are willing to give me another $500-$1000 so I can buy a laptop that has the perfect linux supported card, I'm happy to take it. But until then I have no choice and NDIS wrapper has saved me many times.
The bottom line is, while it's nice to be all "high and mighty" and keep things pure, until ALL hardware manufacturers provide linux drivers, there is a need for programs like this. It would be nice if people would come back to the real world for a change and think of how their decissions affect the end users.
Nuff said.
... and I had thought he'd tripped for real and done a face plant on the stage.
Sooo.. only windows crashed on him, heck, that happens every day to (tens of)thousands every day.. that's not even news worthy anymore. People have got used to that... when you use windows anyway..