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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17621)	2/24/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Now That's Distributed Computing zdnet.com Esteemed ilk sister Mary Jo digs up some choice words from deep inside www.microsoft.com. Quoted for entertainment purposes only. The Microsoft Research site, for one, is chock-a-block with some out-there stuff, like telepresence-the pet project of Gordon Bell(yes, THAT Gordon Bell of Unix fame, who works for Microsoft in its Bay Area Research Center). Ok, Mary Jo doesn't know everything. Gordon Bell was famous for the PDP-11, he worked for DEC, which didn't much want to have anything to do with Unix till late in the game. They had Cutler and crew doing the OS thing. There's Microsoft's MCoM effort, for example, dedicated to providing "location-transparent and location-aware tether-less access to distributed information via heterogeneous computing and wireless communications devices." The researchers describe the resulting software architecture and algorithms as enabling systems to "adapt to the radical differences in the communications substrate," and thus hiding from handheld device users how, when and where they are logged onto networks. And I thought DNA/DNS and the Web lifestyle was bad. Of course, it's research, so a certain amount of obfuscatory prose is required. Cheers, Dan.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17621)	2/25/1998 1:37:00 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Hiya, Dan-o! Yes, I saw that little bit of news from yahoo on ie4.0 "final" version, downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. Perhaps tomorrow I've give it a whirl, I'll use the Ultra 2 w/dual 300Mhz and 512MB, just in case. Haven't been by this thread in awhile, guess that's what happens when you get a real job. Doh!!! Actually I have a problem you or some other UNIX/NT programmer can help me with. I'm trying to create a daemon to change a UNIX users passwd (yppasswd) from an NT box. We have users with two or more NT domain passwds and a couple of UNIX passwords. I'm trying to create a single password change program to get them all sync'd up at once. I have the multi-NT domain stuff working but UNIX is beginning to cause me trouble, since I don't understand the (undocumented) rpc calls for yp, anything else is pretty insecure and of course the libraries don't exist for NT anyway. So now I'm doing a brain dead pop3 style (open text mode) daemon, there has to be something better out there - any ideas? I was wandering in the SUNW thread but it seems to have died down, along with all that Java hype from last year. Still waiting for that gigabit network drop to my house that would eliminate windows or any other OS, and "terminals" everywhere instead of "real" computers. PS: Sorry for the off topic blurb, but I don't know where to look next. An open question to Microsoft and Sun: Why can't we all just get along? Note: I don't speak for my employer, I don't rotate my tires, or follow directions or ...

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (17621)	2/25/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

IE4 for Solaris first impressions, First off it's big, really big. It weighs in at 42Meg compared to Netscape Communicator 4.x at 16Meg for Solaris. Second, it has no built in email or news reader - however it supports external tools. Third, it doesn't support Exchange mail. As for performance, it's much better than the beta, but I really need to use it some more to form an accurate comparison to Netscape. Wish List: Add in POP3, IMAP4, CCMail and Exchange mail native support along with a mail creation tool other than Emacs, understand the $HOME/Mail directory. Add in a native news reader. Do these things, especially Exchange Mail and you have a viable solution.