On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 03:38:05PM -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Sorry to butt in here butt, what are those 3 different Netscape
> > files that you gotta download, common, and the other 2?
> >
> > Do they do it tat way so it is not one long download?
> >
> Don't know why they did it that way. I assume you're
> correct in the assumption that they did it that way to
> reduce the download time and to make it more "modular." You
> download two of the three for a complete install....
> download the "common" RPM and either the "communicator" or
> the "navigator" depending on which you want.
They did it that way so I could build nice kiosk's with a web browser
interface without having to worry about little fingers sending mail or
glancing at the porn in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.*
Seriously, for a stand-alone information station, it's an ideal solution.
Start X without a window manager, put "exec netscape -geometry 1024x768"
into ~/.Xclients, and away you go!
Now if I could just figure out a way to disallow the use of "file://" URLs,
I'd be all set!
BTW, a neat trick I picked up from a budding "cracker" at work: (I chastised
him severely for the action, but you gotta love his spirit!)
We completely lock down the factory floor workstations running
Win95 using a product called WinLock95. There's nothing runnable
on that machine outside the data entry application they need and
IE4 for their quality manuals. I felt pretty comfortable with
the situation.
Wrong! IE gives you the ability to browse the network by just
punching in the domain (e.g. \\GRAND_RAPIDS). Surf to your
hearts content. Read whatever you'd like. BAH!!!
We've since removed IE.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
