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Journal Journal: Butterfly Ideal

Journal by yara on Wednesday July 23, 2003 @02:25AM

By the time I was 15 I started to be concerned about a sensation of emptiness. It started when I read some books about philosophy and could undestand more that I did not undestand a single thing of anything on Earth. If you start to question everything you will probably arrive to a question with no answer. So that is when a hole takes place in your life. What can you do with the hole?? Read to undestand and try to answer the question? Other questions come and when you step on a paradigma,

Comment US healthcare mandates are pushing this (Score 1) 37

by FieldS on Tuesday October 30, 2001 @06:09PM (#2499730) Attached to: A Better FTP?

Healthcare organizations have HIPAA requirements that are forcing them to look at encrypted processes (either standalone encryption products, or encrypted channels like SSL) to replace FTP for moving personal healthcare information across the internet.

Pretty much across the board, insurers are moving to HTTP based solutions (over SSL obviously). For a few lines of Perl/Java/PHP you can ride on top of existing SSL transport, easily provide redundancy, be universally available to any type of client, etc. Command line tools like cURL (a kick ass utility btw) make it scriptable / automatable.

Features like job control and smart restart aren't inherently included though with HTTP based apps.

FTP over SSL isn't fully standardized from what I can tell. See http://www.ford-hutchinson.com/~fh-1-pfh/ftps-ext. html for a rundown on available clients and servers. IME, there are significant incompatabilities between implementations.

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