[SC-L] how far we still need to go

2007-07-25 Thread William L. Anderson
I was trying out a new web service that permits sharing files from the desktop to others online. It does seem a bit dodgy, but I was curious about how it worked. Well after a few attempts to install it on a Mac OS X system I finally dope out that it only seems to install and run as admin. That

Re: [SC-L] how far we still need to go

2007-07-25 Thread William L. Anderson
install them. But, then ordinary folk need to know the difference between admin and ordinary. ... Uh oh, I'm getting a headache. Thanks for the clarification. -Bill Blue Boar wrote: William L. Anderson wrote: I am flabbergasted. When I first encountered Unix in 1983 I was taught that you

Re: [SC-L] quick question - SXSW

2008-03-12 Thread William L. Anderson
Dear Ben, having just been at SXSW Interactive (I live in Austin, TX) I did not see many discussions that pay attention to security, or any other software engineering oriented concerns, explicitly. There was a discussion of scalability for web services that featured the developers from digg,