Re: Must Have apps for the next BDI

[Steve White <steve.white-at-lomar.com>]

Very well put.  I too share this view.

Steve


John Sheahan wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:26:14AM -0400, Mike Joyce wrote:
> >
> >  its not really important which firewall we end up
> > using. It is more the principle of are we going to use it or not.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Exactly my concern.
>
> Considering - my suggestion would be to _not_ position BDI as a secure
> system. That waay leads to an ongoing patch/upgrade support work.
>
> Run good services, and only required services by all means - but put
> the onus elsewhere for frontline web defense.
>
> If BDI is the only computer, when it will probably dual-boot a
> supported software system, be it windows or linux. So the key is to
> talk to that part of the box to allow communications. iF XP is the
> 'other' part support for a small usb drive, a floppy, or a non-ntfs
> partition could work.
>
> If multiple computers, then getting data to it is the key. probably a
> samba or nfs shared file system. And the ability to read html / pdf / tex
> documentation would suffice in BDI.
>
> john
>
>

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