I hate to politicize things, but re the ZoneAlarm stuff there's something I've been thinking of. Products which are not commercial (such as VNC) tend to be neglected by any software OEMs I think, possibly due to the fact that there isn't another corporate entity which will say nasty things on it's website about compatibility issues. A less paranoid reason is that in the absence of a unified point where problems with a particular application are raised, it's easy for overworked developers to discount issues as being to user misconfiguration.
On the other hand, a strength of open source applications such as VNC is they usually have a large, active base of technically literate users who communicate with each other. In a case such as this, if an OEM gets a sudden bunch of emails from many people all pointing to issues with a particualr application, citing the circumstances under which the problem occurs, it sticks out in the problems list like a sore thumb. It is simply not easy to ignore 15 emails from 15 people in a two day period saying there may be a problem. Just a thought; it's a useful lobbying tactic to get something done. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shing-Fat Fred Ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday/2002 February 02 02:02 Subject: Re: Win 98/95 setup - slow access : Actually, there was a spat of ZA+VNC postings : about 1.5 months ago. Someone found that the : latest ZA didn't have that problem, but I still : have the problem (WinME). I also get the : scripted response from ZA posted by David Colliver : (come to think of it, I might have bugged them more : than once, and the scripted reply was the most : detailed I ever got). : : For now, I find it works to restart ZA after : starting up VNC (tightVNC in my case.. maybe : that's where the spat of postings happened). : I have to be sure to shut down ZA before completing : the VNC connection e.g. before providing the : password. Otherwise, that initial screen will : take a long time to load. : : Fred : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- : Fred Ma : Department of Electronics : Carleton University, Mackenzie Building : 1125 Colonel By Drive : Ottawa, Ontario : Canada K1S 5B6 : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ======================================================================== == : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: : 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY : See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html : --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
