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On 14 Dec 2009, at 16:25, Dale wrote: |
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> I'm somewhat clueless about this software issue but wonder about |
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> this way of seeing things. Since it appears there is a signature, |
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> as in what is at the bottom of a letter or a bank check, wouldn't |
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> they want to make it so that is not able to be extracted at all? If |
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> I had a digital signature, I wouldn't want to put it somewhere that |
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> it could be used by someone that I wouldn't want it to be used by. |
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My customer, an agency which rents out apartments on behalf of |
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landlords, has a server on which they store all their files. These |
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letters are generated by their property management software, and are |
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written to their landlords, tenants &c. Obviously they have to keep a |
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big archive of copies of all the letters they've written in the past. |
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The letters are stored in .doc format, but when they're originated I |
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think they're actually just printed out and posted. Storing the |
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signature in the .doc is, I think, just a convenience to save the boss |
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(or other members of staff) having to physically scribble a signature |
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at the bottom of each letter. |
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I'm guessing the office might manage c 100 properties, and I imagine |
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that they may generate some thousands of letters per year. So a 1meg |
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image in a letter might well start to consume gigs of disk space. |
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"Gigs of disk space" is only a little bit of a problem because when |
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this server was manufactured, 4 years ago, decent RAID meant |
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horrendously expensive SCSI disks (it is still under support contract |
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for another year) and because I haven't got around to migrating them |
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away from an offsite-backup provider who is somewhat overpriced. |
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Hope this clarifies, |
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Stroller. |
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PS: a couple of great suggestions have been made this afternoon. I'm |
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going to watch some of the fruits my labours - my labours involving |
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get_iplayer earlier today - and will try these suggestions later. Many |
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thanks! |