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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Andrew Dorsett > Sent: March 15, 2004 11:17 PM > To: John Kristoff > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo? > > > > I'm not referring to the time required to implement. I'm > talking about the time it takes for the user. On the user > end. Lets do some simple math. Lets say I turn on my laptop > before I shower, I power it down during the day while I'm in > class and I turn it back on when I get home in the evening. > This means two logins per day. Lets say that the login > process is very rapid and takes 30 seconds. This is a whole > minute per day required to login. Now multiply this by a > month and you've wasted 30 minutes of my time. I coulda > spent that time watching TV or heaven forbid, doing homework. > :) My big thing is that often users are the one who are > paying the price and spending the time. I think either > system (the mac-ip lookup or the user auth) system could be > created in a week using C++ or perl. This week of > development is nothing in the long run when compared to the > amount of time it now costs the users. Come on, how many > users save their mail passwords so they don't have to type it > in everytime? What about your dialup password? Too bad I > can't automate the web logins. You must be talking about a different Netreg system that the one everyone else has used. The one we're talking about involves you logging in when you connect with an unknown MAC - once you've used the system to match your MAC to your student number/login/etc, then the DHCP server will give you a real IP the next time you request a lease... Vivien -- Vivien M. [email protected] Assistant System Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.org/
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