Yeah the ancient Greek mathematicians in invented the mathematical aesthetics were geeks, but Geeks should especially be aware that all math is context sensitive.
It's their opinions that matter to them.
Go find someone who thinks your opinion matters and have fun with them.
On a Mac it has been, for the first (default admin) user the setup script walks you through building. Sure. Probably still is. That's not a Linux distro, however.
My memory is that I had to go in and set sudo up by hand in a Fedora box. Period. So anyone capable of running rm as root on a Fedora box should be able to read through that particular piece of social engineering malware.
Power costs, especially in areas like where I live, can cover the cost of a dedicated small box like the Soekris boxes, or like Buffalos boxes (see Kurobox at wikipedia) et. al. in just a year or two.
(And, yeah, a year or two goes quickly, especially since those boxes need practically no maintenance once they're in place.)
Let us all praise intel for getting yet another thinly veiled attention grab on slashdot!
(As noted already above.)
Or is it for putting their own product markets at risk to grow another product market? No, these are not competitive products, except in one particular application (boot media), as also noted above. (Not that you necessarily would have seen the comments above. I didn't check the posting times.)
Sure does seem to be a lot of misunderstanding about the purpose of this product. Not that I appreciate it that intel is building the chipsets for both the mobo and for the on-board bulk flash, without, apparently, publicly referenced standards (Or did I miss something?), but the basic idea is one whose time has come.
Your comments are prime examples of one of the reasons why I hate USB:
iNTEL sells it as a cure-all.
There is absolutely no reason at all to put that many hardware and software layers between the CPU and flash you're mounting (or socketing) on the motherboard. Built-in floppies, well, yeah, sort of. Maybe. (But I'd still rather the defacto standard for slow/small mass storage/IO devices to have been not so, well, braindead.)
Can't figure out what they could have redacted that would have been more damaging than the fact of the redaction itself.
If these briefs aren't filed as evidence against Microsoft in all the anti-monopoly actions, I'm wondering why.
(And we can start calling assertion contrary to evidence when people say Microsoft doesn't manufacture computers, since it sounds like Dell is just a subsidiary of Microsoft.)
Judging from recent moves from my ISP (They were much better before being taken over by OCN.), the ISPs are expecting a huge windfall profit from static IPs real soon now.
There are also those who expect IPv6 to bring more control over (and more profits from) the content they "provide".
(Never attribute to malice alone what can be augmented by stupidity.)
I have noticed that we can't seem to get out of the flow of time as long as we are (alive and) subject to death.
But, yeah, some (many) people seem to be able to temporarily alter their consciousness of the rate of flow. Not the direction, and not entirely stop, but slow it down or speed it up.
(I hate it when I'm trying to get something done and find myself stuck in a faster swim down the current. Sometimes I wish I could slow the rate down at will, too, of course, but I have resigned myself to the lack of utility in actually being able to do it.)
Let people compete at their level, and when they graduate from that level, move them up, if they want to continue.
I'm also thinking that the big deal we make out of professional sports is more the problem than questions of any one person's gender. What is so important about assuming the illusion of being #1 (for game X by rule set Y for year ZZZZ or whatever)?
There is some data that the cleaning crew should not be trusted with. There is some data that the cafeteria crew should not be trusted with. There is some data that the electrical maintenance staff should not be trusted with. There is some data that department Alpha should not be trusted with. Etc.
Drawing lines of trust should not be seen as drawing battle lines.
USB drive? Well, maybe. But not flash, of course, proper hard disk in a USB enclosure. Prefer firewire or serial SCSI or even SATA.
Oh. And be careful whose server you call your server. Or what you mean by "your". It's your responsibility to manage, and, yes, you should be emphatic about getting certain data off of it. But not (just) because management is behaving like twits.
Either way, our current data systems are way too complicated. If the ordinary user's workstation is too complicated for the ordinary user to secure, it is not secure.
Yeah, they just want it to work without knowing even the rudiments of how. Ergo, their business education was not an education.
We need some excuse to educate them in some kind of hard science, and information science, being intimately connecting with real management methodologies, would be a good place to start.
But, no, you really can't trust people. Not the way the sales brochure proposes.
The trust you're talking about is a different kind of trust, based on being able to verify.
Not enforce, of course. Not constantly monitor, that doesn't really save either money or time.
What money buys is just enough that you have to buy more.
But, yeah, what I have in mind is to somehow drag the current crop of managers through some sort of schooling that they can't fake their way through with essays justifying demands for turnkey solutions.
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Yeah the ancient Greek mathematicians in invented the mathematical aesthetics were geeks, but Geeks should especially be aware that all math is context sensitive.
It's their opinions that matter to them.
Go find someone who thinks your opinion matters and have fun with them.
Okay, I'll play the straight man and ask, "MSWindows? Worhtwhile?"
Shoot, throw in some Amiga, Be, FORTH, and other interesting OSses, too. And some prototyping hardware with nothing but monitor ROMs on it.
I wonder if the BIOS will allow disabling USB boot. Or if the admins who sold the AU government the bill of goods will think to disable it.
On a Mac it has been, for the first (default admin) user the setup script walks you through building. Sure. Probably still is. That's not a Linux distro, however.
My memory is that I had to go in and set sudo up by hand in a Fedora box. Period. So anyone capable of running rm as root on a Fedora box should be able to read through that particular piece of social engineering malware.
and if you're looking to escape the x86 world, there are other options, like Buffalo's Kurobox (here if you read Japanese).
The OP indicates he's interested in saving power.
Power costs, especially in areas like where I live, can cover the cost of a dedicated small box like the Soekris boxes, or like Buffalos boxes (see Kurobox at wikipedia) et. al. in just a year or two.
(And, yeah, a year or two goes quickly, especially since those boxes need practically no maintenance once they're in place.)
Soekris
Or even kurobox (or, if you read Japanese, here).
And there are other such devices around that allow you to escape the x86 world.
The fan?
Let us all praise intel for getting yet another thinly veiled attention grab on slashdot!
(As noted already above.)
Or is it for putting their own product markets at risk to grow another product market? No, these are not competitive products, except in one particular application (boot media), as also noted above. (Not that you necessarily would have seen the comments above. I didn't check the posting times.)
Sure does seem to be a lot of misunderstanding about the purpose of this product. Not that I appreciate it that intel is building the chipsets for both the mobo and for the on-board bulk flash, without, apparently, publicly referenced standards (Or did I miss something?), but the basic idea is one whose time has come.
Your comments are prime examples of one of the reasons why I hate USB:
iNTEL sells it as a cure-all.
There is absolutely no reason at all to put that many hardware and software layers between the CPU and flash you're mounting (or socketing) on the motherboard. Built-in floppies, well, yeah, sort of. Maybe. (But I'd still rather the defacto standard for slow/small mass storage/IO devices to have been not so, well, braindead.)
Okay, I read it.
Can't figure out what they could have redacted that would have been more damaging than the fact of the redaction itself.
If these briefs aren't filed as evidence against Microsoft in all the anti-monopoly actions, I'm wondering why.
(And we can start calling assertion contrary to evidence when people say Microsoft doesn't manufacture computers, since it sounds like Dell is just a subsidiary of Microsoft.)
"all"?
Maybe I'd better read the friendly article.
nt;
Judging from recent moves from my ISP (They were much better before being taken over by OCN.), the ISPs are expecting a huge windfall profit from static IPs real soon now.
There are also those who expect IPv6 to bring more control over (and more profits from) the content they "provide".
(Never attribute to malice alone what can be augmented by stupidity.)
Are you thinking that the spirit is subject to entropy?
Or, how about anything at all that isn't made up of small stuff?
There is a real external world and a real internal world, and our consciousness of the flow of time occurs at the interface.
And the fun pills screw the interface up in the end.
I have noticed that we can't seem to get out of the flow of time as long as we are (alive and) subject to death.
But, yeah, some (many) people seem to be able to temporarily alter their consciousness of the rate of flow. Not the direction, and not entirely stop, but slow it down or speed it up.
(I hate it when I'm trying to get something done and find myself stuck in a faster swim down the current. Sometimes I wish I could slow the rate down at will, too, of course, but I have resigned myself to the lack of utility in actually being able to do it.)
Death seems to be the end of entropy, doesn't it?
I'm thinking more in the line of golf handicaps.
Or, rather, boxing/wrestling weight divisions.
Let people compete at their level, and when they graduate from that level, move them up, if they want to continue.
I'm also thinking that the big deal we make out of professional sports is more the problem than questions of any one person's gender. What is so important about assuming the illusion of being #1 (for game X by rule set Y for year ZZZZ or whatever)?
There is some data that the cleaning crew should not be trusted with. There is some data that the cafeteria crew should not be trusted with. There is some data that the electrical maintenance staff should not be trusted with. There is some data that department Alpha should not be trusted with. Etc.
Drawing lines of trust should not be seen as drawing battle lines.
USB drive? Well, maybe. But not flash, of course, proper hard disk in a USB enclosure. Prefer firewire or serial SCSI or even SATA.
Oh. And be careful whose server you call your server. Or what you mean by "your". It's your responsibility to manage, and, yes, you should be emphatic about getting certain data off of it. But not (just) because management is behaving like twits.
Either I am or the world is.
Either way, our current data systems are way too complicated. If the ordinary user's workstation is too complicated for the ordinary user to secure, it is not secure.
Same goes for small networks and key servers.
Like whatever management has deluded themselves into believing is that valuable.
Yeah, they just want it to work without knowing even the rudiments of how. Ergo, their business education was not an education.
We need some excuse to educate them in some kind of hard science, and information science, being intimately connecting with real management methodologies, would be a good place to start.
But, no, you really can't trust people. Not the way the sales brochure proposes.
The trust you're talking about is a different kind of trust, based on being able to verify.
Not enforce, of course. Not constantly monitor, that doesn't really save either money or time.
Verify.
And you can't verify what you don't understand.
That's an illusion.
What money buys is just enough that you have to buy more.
But, yeah, what I have in mind is to somehow drag the current crop of managers through some sort of schooling that they can't fake their way through with essays justifying demands for turnkey solutions.
I know. I'm a dreamer.