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Re: [LUG] MSO, OOo and the executable metaphor

 

Kai Hendry wrote:
> On 2006-07-12T10:21+0100 John Daragon wrote:
>>> My point is your network is on the Internet. 
>> No it's not. I'd be pretty surprised if you could work out where I am at
>> the moment.
> 
> Eh? Your address is in your signature? What is your point?
> 
> I am very surprised if your network isn't connected to the Internet. How
> do you keep up to date for one?
> 
> Have you ever considered using remote disks with encryption?
> 
>>> What is scalix supposed to mean?
>> It's an open-source mail and diary repository that talks very nicely to
>> MS Outlook.
> 
> What's that to do with this discussion?

Look, I'm sorry if some of the people I get involved with don't fit your
world view, but that's just the point - different organisations need
different solutions.

We have more than one network. Is that beyond belief ? Jesus, there are
still people out there using manual typewriters because they're worried
that TEMPEST isn't good enough.

We keep up to date by having a group of people employed just to keep us
up to date.

We don't use remote encrypted disks because we own a server farm with a
SAN attached to it.

In one of the installations I've worked for we maintained security by
*shooting* anyone who tried to read our data. Did it ever traverse a
network ? No it did not.

Horses for courses.

This is, I think, one of the reasons that Open Source is so hard to get
accepted - there's a whole sector of the advocacy base that just can't
get it's head around different people having different needs.

jd

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