Andrew Sterian - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Win vs Lin (Score -1, Troll) 304

by Andrew Sterian on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @10:07AM (#18249060) Attached to: Linux Systems and the New DST

If you want to see even more Win madness, take a look at these instructions (in three phases) for dealing with the DST problem on a Novell GroupWise e-mail system.

What a nightmare! And that's just for one (closed source, painful to use) application.

Now if my university were running an open-source mail server with proven software (*cough* Slackware *cough*) the upgrade would have gone something like this:

wget 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-1 0.2/patches/packages/glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-7 _slack10.2.tgz' upgradepkg glibc-zoneinfo-2.3.5-noarch-7_slack10.2.tgz

Submission + - NIST Rejects Paper Trail

Submitted by

emil10001

on Wednesday December 06, 2006 @01:36PM

emil10001 writes: "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) rejected a proposal to suggest that electronic voting have a paper trail. From the Post article: "The proposal was based on draft recommendations developed by scientists at NIST, who said in a document released last week that voting machines that do not produce a paper record of each vote 'cannot be made secure.'" Committee member Brit Williams, who opposed the measure, said, "You are talking about basically a reinstallation of the entire voting system hardware." The proposal failed to obtain the 8 of 15 votes needed to pass. "Five states — Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland and South Carolina — use machines without a paper record exclusively. Eleven states and the District either use them in some jurisdictions or allow voters to chose whether to use them or some other voting system.""

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