On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 18:24:49 -0400, L.D. Best wrote: > In a perfect world, trust and respect would be the way to fly.
> When I was on a number of additional lists than I follow now, I found > that at least half the people used their e-mail at work ... using the > resources of the boss's computer/network/investment for non-work > purposes. Studies have shown that 30-50% of "work time" can be spent > doing non-work surfing and reading/writing. Dear List: LD is quite right about that one. A horror story we had to contend with is that a computer in an outback town managing data aquisition modems for train traffic control stopped. The cause turned out to be that the staff had been playing windows games on the machine and not closing them. 18 concurrent games of solitaire had halted the machine! A current project is to write "hot swap" software for train traffic control computers. It all runs on DOS computers and talks through RS232 ports, but with unconventional data flow. For the requisite Windows GUI there will be a whole extra computer. How is that for a firewall! Bye Kali
