I cover my credit card pin entry, usually with wallet in other hand, then I apply false pressure to a couple of the keys during the entry to limit tampered machine managing to get my pin (I check machine anyway, in UK though shops now have pin entry).
As for passwords, I'm so use to typing my more secure ones that it would be unlikely for someone to be able to figure pass from hand movements without actually filming it and slowing it down. And I prefer no echo at all, that way even a rough guess at it's length is likely to fail.
I've backspaced corrected errors a my non echo password prompt on my full screen Linux terminal. Just have to know you made them. WEP/WPA/WPA2 keys shouldn't be masked. Hard enough to type them right when they are in plain text. Total non echo of pass confused me the first time, but it's actually great. Teaches people to type better.
SSI card details are on an electronic database, as are birth certificates now.
As for driving licence, the laws were updated to require proof one is competant enough to drive. Give a metal box has less impact absorbtion properties than a horse. Also mass to acceleration ratio is a lot higher.
You do not have galloping horses dragging carts other than chariots in war/arena which have a lot less mass than most modern cars.
I did a little experiment once, I removed a windows user from windows and left them with Linux for a few weeks. When I gave windows back to the user, the user turned out not to want to use it other than for those specific things, like syncing some ipod touch apps, etc.
And also, in these server farms they create a new image for each new peice of kit they get. They may have started out identical, but they don't always stay that way. However if one were to display a list of available images boot, and choose right one. This can be done easily for OEM installs, and is no different from windows where they may need different driver sets. In fact I think it's only really wireless cards and graphics cards where you may have seperate images for with linux.
To do PXE, one donwloads and boots a root filesystem image remotely. That's all PXE itself does, whether you boot into a thinclient system, or write the image to drive (by booting an image writer) and then boot it is upto you.
Servers in data centers already use disk imaging techniques where they litterally just boot from a disk. It does the rest automagically (grab image for that machine from known server on network, extract it to machine hardrive).
You can use disk imaging with any operating system! In fact, I think it was available on UNIX first with dd, however there are more intelligent methods that can be used. All a knoppix install did at one time was disk image from the CD to the hardisk.
Server farms mass image linux machines all the time. And how do things like PXE boot work without it?
As for finicky hardware, it was Windows XP and Windows Vista RC2 that both BSOD on motherboard and ram change (I blew them) the ubuntu dapper drake boot at the time worked fine!
That's not a fair test, as most of IE is already running to run windows. Also, just how many extensions are you loading. Certain extensions very quickly kill firefox start time.
Yeah,like my university. Where the only place they use the information security department's smart card system is in information security. Rest of the campus works on a bought in solution...
It took me ages to learn su -c "shutdown -h now". Then after several years, and learning init 0 or telinit 0 did the same thing... I learnt about poweroff... hmm...
My first install was slackware when I was ~13, and I played with xorg.conf somewhat the first thing I did... And seeing just how "great" Mesa software rendering was...
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I cover my credit card pin entry, usually with wallet in other hand, then I apply false pressure to a couple of the keys during the entry to limit tampered machine managing to get my pin (I check machine anyway, in UK though shops now have pin entry).
As for passwords, I'm so use to typing my more secure ones that it would be unlikely for someone to be able to figure pass from hand movements without actually filming it and slowing it down. And I prefer no echo at all, that way even a rough guess at it's length is likely to fail.
I've backspaced corrected errors a my non echo password prompt on my full screen Linux terminal. Just have to know you made them. WEP/WPA/WPA2 keys shouldn't be masked. Hard enough to type them right when they are in plain text. Total non echo of pass confused me the first time, but it's actually great. Teaches people to type better.
SSI card details are on an electronic database, as are birth certificates now. As for driving licence, the laws were updated to require proof one is competant enough to drive. Give a metal box has less impact absorbtion properties than a horse. Also mass to acceleration ratio is a lot higher. You do not have galloping horses dragging carts other than chariots in war/arena which have a lot less mass than most modern cars.
This however is not the argument the GP was using!
Last time I installed windows 7 release candidate, it took an hour just to boot the damn installer.
I did a little experiment once, I removed a windows user from windows and left them with Linux for a few weeks. When I gave windows back to the user, the user turned out not to want to use it other than for those specific things, like syncing some ipod touch apps, etc.
Sounds like something is wrong with your computers internal clock. It should be somewhere handy without ntp.
you could start by disabling compositing while playing games, several games disable aero on vista/win 7 when they launch.
Most of those run well in wine...
And also, in these server farms they create a new image for each new peice of kit they get. They may have started out identical, but they don't always stay that way. However if one were to display a list of available images boot, and choose right one. This can be done easily for OEM installs, and is no different from windows where they may need different driver sets. In fact I think it's only really wireless cards and graphics cards where you may have seperate images for with linux.
To do PXE, one donwloads and boots a root filesystem image remotely. That's all PXE itself does, whether you boot into a thinclient system, or write the image to drive (by booting an image writer) and then boot it is upto you.
Servers in data centers already use disk imaging techniques where they litterally just boot from a disk. It does the rest automagically (grab image for that machine from known server on network, extract it to machine hardrive).
You can use disk imaging with any operating system! In fact, I think it was available on UNIX first with dd, however there are more intelligent methods that can be used. All a knoppix install did at one time was disk image from the CD to the hardisk.
Server farms mass image linux machines all the time. And how do things like PXE boot work without it?
As for finicky hardware, it was Windows XP and Windows Vista RC2 that both BSOD on motherboard and ram change (I blew them) the ubuntu dapper drake boot at the time worked fine!
That's not a fair test, as most of IE is already running to run windows. Also, just how many extensions are you loading. Certain extensions very quickly kill firefox start time.
Same with windows with all the drivers. It's no different.
So you have no online shopping sites in france? Outlawing encryption is futile at best. US proved that with it's export laws.
Git was always known for its performance at the start. I admit haven't used mercurial more recently but it use to seem to be a bit slower than git.
Git is a bit of a pain on windows but I always preferred git out of the two. At least we have a choice.
I want to know whether it would be wrong if they steal my phone which has GPS tracking set up to be available to me?
Any one here not already know that?
Yeah,like my university. Where the only place they use the information security department's smart card system is in information security. Rest of the campus works on a bought in solution...
you also wouldn't have any proof identification or citizenship. No driving licence... And someone stated some health records were stolen in this case.
nah, they should be using OpenBSD ;)
It took me ages to learn su -c "shutdown -h now". Then after several years, and learning init 0 or telinit 0 did the same thing... I learnt about poweroff... hmm...
My first install was slackware when I was ~13, and I played with xorg.conf somewhat the first thing I did... And seeing just how "great" Mesa software rendering was...