From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 10 13: 6:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pc89225.stofanet.dk (pc89225.stofanet.dk [212.10.22.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A971A37B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 13:06:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from morten@hotpost.dk) Received: (from morten@localhost) by pc89225.stofanet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id WAA02413 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 10 May 2001 22:06:26 +0200 From: morten@hotpost.dk Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 22:06:26 +0200 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: workstation application question Message-ID: <20010510220626.A2404@hotpost.dk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010510145706.B92417@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010510181529.A97681@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 08:00:10PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 10, maj, 2001 at 08:00:10 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 6:15 PM +0100 5/10/01, j mckitrick wrote: > > > So if you buy a Xerox printer, you have to pay for a sun workstation as > > well? That seems kind of odd, not to mention expensive. > > Maybe they don't use Suns for the low-end printers, but the > high-end ones certainly do (and they're totally separate boxes which > either sit on top of, or next to the printer that they are > controlling). However, that's included as part of the price. > > When we got one, I groaned that this would be yet another Sun I'd > be responsible for managing, but so far as I can tell, no > administration was ever actually done to it by anyone, and it was > probably completely and totally wide-open as far as security (or lack > thereof ;-) was concerned -- just waiting to be r00ted as soon as > someone could get packets routed to the damn thing. I heard about a printer somewhere that turned out to be a very active warez ftp site, it had a sun OS on it, not sure whether it was a Xerox model though. Nobody had ever thought of checking it ... -- lynx -source http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach/pgpkey.html | gpg --import - UNIX, reach out and grep someone! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message