[rescue] FW: Sun Microsystems to Cut Jobs, Sees Wider-Than-Expected Loss

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 05:17:18PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > I hate that phrase.  I think anyone who uses it seriously should literally
> > have PHB or Managerial Putz tattooed on their forehead.
> 
>   What's a PHB?

Pointy Haired Boss.  From Dilbert.
 
> > > isdn
> > 
> > OK, what is wrong with ISDN?  If there is no DSL or cable in the area, it
> > is the next best thing.
> 
>   ISDN sucks.  It's full of inter-implementation incompatibilities, it's
> slow, and it's unreliable.

So, if the choice was a 23.6k modem or ISDN would you choose the modem out
of principle, or settle for ISDN?  
 
> > > key
> > 
> > So, what did you say your SSH key was again?
> 
>   I don't use SSH.  I have a lot of machines, and SSH isn't scalable
> enough.  I use Kerberos5.

Yeah, I knew that, but I don't really know anything about kerberos, like
whether it uses keys or not.
 
I'm willing to conceed that SSH might not be as good as
Kerberos.  However, SSH is the only thing supported for communicating to
the school's computers, and it seems to be good enough, but I don't really
know all that much about security intricacies.  I still set up all
accounts on my home machines by editing /etc/passwd, and have to do this
for each and every machine (except for the lamo wintel boxes of course).

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd