Wandering Thoughts archives

2007-02-16

ThreeTypesOfAuthentication

QOTD: There are three types of authentication

There are three types of authentication:

They are:

Something you've lost,

Something you've forgotten, and

Something you used to be.

The full entry includes an illustrative story and bonus comments (and, unfortunately, a certain amount of comment spam, at least right now).

(From Richard Johnson of river.com.)

ThreeTypesOfAuthentication written at 17:25:17; Add Comment

2007-02-10

JavaMakeBelieve

Link: Why the ease of installing Java matters

In Java in The Land of Make Believe, Ryan Tomayko unloads a righteous rant about why Java's license matters and what effects it has in the Linux and *BSD worlds, with great bits like:

If you want to get on the bad side of software developers and system admins, the fastest route is to waste their time.

Amen. What he said.

(The good news is that Sun GPL'ing Java may finally be changing all of this mess, which Tomayko happily acknowledges.)

(From many places, but I saw it originally on Planet Python, as Tomayko's blog is syndicated there.)

JavaMakeBelieve written at 14:02:18; Add Comment

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