On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:39:50AM -0800, Winelfred G. Pasamba wrote: > about shopwise, totoo bang kita ang icewm taskbar sa mga POS dun? if > true, is that intentional? > > coz i know it's possible to hide/disable it. and even to do away > completely with the WM while still running X apps. that's for securing > the terminal from unintended use.
We don't use IceWM in the Shopwise POS deployment, and as far as I remember, there is no taskbar at all. Unless our understanding of what a task bar is differs, of course. Here's what I had in mind: <http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/t/taskbar.htm>. A big part of securing the Shopwise POS deployment, or any POS deployment for that matter, is physical security. Try coming up to any of the POS terminals to use it and you'll find yourself getting dragged away by the internal security force and slapped with charges. We've worked to make them acceptably secure, but the physical security threat to a POS deployment is very different from that of say, public Internet kiosks. At any rate, thank you for your feedback. I will take your input into account the next time I sit down to work on our POS setup. I hope you did some shopping while you were snooping around to take a look at our GNU/Linux-based POS systems. ;) --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
