Re: [Fed-Talk] JAVA and Yosemite
Re: [Fed-Talk] JAVA and Yosemite
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] JAVA and Yosemite
- From: William Cerniuk <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:55:56 -0500
Thinking that stability for users would be nice :-). Users swear by FileVault2, and swear at...
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> On Jan 14, 2015, at 22:49, Joel Peterson <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Semi off topic, but...
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> Rumor has it that Symantec is going to only be an enterprise management front end to FileVault 2 and nothing else. Oh, how I wish that happens. Here in the VA the current status of Symantec development is so in flux, for 10.9 and above they want us to use PGP, not SEE. So where they told us to go 2-3 years ago has flip-flopped and now we have to have servers to manage both. Fun!
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> I’d think this would be a huge win for Symantec as they would no longer have to deal with huge changes every kernel release, they could support partition encryption versus whole disk (hello, no dual boot), they could ditch a silly dependency on Java, and never have to worry about how horrible their boot loader has always been.
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> Joel Peterson
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>> On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:21 PM, Beatty, Daniel D CIV NAVAIR, 474300D <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Hi gang,
>> On the installer for the native versions, I hope that it goes well. Also, I would have to agree with the gentleman. Calling all of Java a "common attack vector" is a false advertising gimmick. While it is true that any unmaintained software dependency is such a risk. It is a little unfair to the parts of Java that are well maintained.
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>> Thus, I have a simple question. How much effort do system admins in government circles endure to include development environments for developers of any stripe? These stripes may be from rank amateur, scientist or mathematician working a tool, and to Turing award winning - Steve Jobs blessed champion. This would also apply for environments as simple as Xcode to some far more exotic.
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>> V/R,
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>> Daniel Beatty, Ph.D.,
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>> From: fed-talk-bounces+daniel.beatty=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+daniel.beatty=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Campbell, Paul Madison (ARC-TH)[ASRC RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS]
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>> To: Carlos
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>> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] JAVA and Yosemite
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>> If you can get an upgrade to EPP, 12.1.4 no longer has a Java requirement.
>> That was released at the very end of 2013 I think - they rewrote LiveUpdate to be native.
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>>> On 1/12/15, 7:06 PM, "Carlos" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Symantec Endpoint Protection. My IAM makes me install some AV on my Mac.
>>> At home I actually broke down and installed it since I was sometimes
>>> using my Mac for work.
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>>> Carlos
>>>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Joel Peterson <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>> Symantec what? Why are you using Symantec anything?
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>>>> Joel Peterson
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>>>>> On Jan 12, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Carlos <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>>>> After installing Yosemite and installing the JRE, my Symantec update
>>>>> still complaints with an error and I get a message to install the JRE.
>>>>> I installed it again, still did not work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I then decided to uninstall the JRE which Oracle says to delete the
>>>>> plugin. But the System Preferences pan still remains. Right clicking
>>>>> on it to remove it results in an error. Rebooting did not help.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is ti possible to remove the preferences pane for Java?
>>>>>
>>>>> On my other Yosemite machine I need to get Java to work, if nothing
>>>>> else to keep Symantec updated. Any tips on that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Carlos
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