AmigaBen - Slashdot User

Comment Teachers need instructed in Technology? (Score 1) 325

by AmigaBen on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:11PM (#33852416) Attached to: What Tech Should Be In a Fifth-Grade Classroom?

These comments are all over the place, so I'd like to add another random 5 cents... Having worked in education, I have an unexpected observation for you: Teachers are one of the single most unteachable groups of people around. So, that complicates things. :)

Comment Uhm, no (Score 1) 308

by AmigaBen on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @01:25AM (#32428124) Attached to: CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent

That's not the top 3, that's 1, 2 and 4.

Comment Re:Do you believe them? Really? (Score 2, Insightful) 107

by AmigaBen on Sunday August 16, 2009 @12:13AM (#29080819) Attached to: Sony To Convert Online Bookstore To Open Format

When was the first Sony portable music player released, and when was the first one that supported anything other than Sony's proprietary formats released?

Uhm, 1979 and 1979? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman#Cassette-based_walkman

Comment Re:No cnt++ (Score 1) 321

by AmigaBen on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @07:29PM (#28355287) Attached to: Ideal, and Actual, IT Performance Metrics?

I applaud your reply.

Comment Re:hate to say it... (Score 1) 409

by AmigaBen on Sunday January 18, 2009 @03:14AM (#26504009) Attached to: Best FOSS Active Directory Alternative?

dirXML is still available, they just call it Identity Manager now.

Submission + - Is 802.1X for real? If so, how do I pull it off?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 15, 2007 @01:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: I have been asked by management via auditors and regulatory compliance to deploy an 802.1X wired network at my work. This project has been going on for some time and with little success. The biggest problems we have seen is that the native windows supplicant does not work all that well and completely breaks down if you try to RDP in to a machine (which the support desk does all the time). It also has no support for EAP-TTLS/PAP, which we need as our user accounts are stored in Kerberos (MIT's). I have looked at a few other supplicants from Juniper and Cisco, but then stumbled upon XSupplicant from Open1X and read on their email list today that they have released 2.0 for Windows XP. Doing a little bit more reading I found out that this release comes on the heals of the announcement that Aruba Networks and HP Procurve have joined Open1X and the OpenSEA Alliance along with Extreme Networks, Identity Engines, Infoblox, Ja.net, Symantec, TippingPoint, and Trapeze to further secure network authentication via 802.1X. So with all of these vendors backing XSupplicant, does that mean it is pretty solid? I guess my big questions are, who is deploying 802.1X?, what are people's views of 802.1X? and does it really make the edge of my network more secure or are the auditors just up in the night? Thanks

Submission + - Photos Of The $100 One Laptop Per Child Laptop

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 27, 2007 @11:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: InformationWeek has photos of the One Laptop Per Child $100 laptop from the O'Reilly ETech conference in San Diego. The OLPC looks like a toy, with its hard plastic enclosure, soft plastic keyboard, bright colors, and handle. But it's a fully functional computer, designed for children in the emerging world, with open source software, browser, word processor, wireless networking, and more.

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