On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Vince Hoang wrote: >I was replying off of Wayne's description of transparency, which I >translated as reducing the gotchas in moving away from a windows world.
This is a valid definition. There are many projects that sees this as their main goal, i.e. KDE. >I personally think DHCP setting the hostname is mostly a non-issue, but >acknowledge that it can confuse the end user, within the context of a >windows user switching to linux. Can you elaborate? Do you mean it's no longer transparent for the user, and that is why it's confusing? >Possessing a firewall helps with security. As a side effect, it >also aids with the transparency issue because you run your own >DHCP server, so your IP/hostname is even less likely to change. I agree with the first sentence. But I'm not sure I understand how the side effect comes about. How does a firewall reduce the likelyhood of changing the hostname? --jc -- Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]