I don't think I've ever needed to install windows updates twice in a week. Maybe twice in a month if there's a major issue.
But that report is counting Adobe Reader updates. Java updates. Firefox updates. That annoying update that tells me I need to ugrade TortoiseSVN from version 1.6.4.12.a to 1.6.4.12.b. Etc.
Well FireGPG is a firefox plugin that integrates with Gmail, among other stuff, but...
(1) You need GPG installed for it to work.
(2) You're crazy if you're using your private key on a public terminal.... so it doesn't make using day-to-day encryption any easier.
I think the basic point the above poster is making is valid. Once you recognize that email is inherently insecure, does it really matter that it's google (potentially) reading your email, rather than some unknown student intern at Yale (potentially) reading your email?
Well obviously it's not as simple as just putting in a cluster. And seamless failover is difficult. But if you need really that system availability, you can't rely on a single piece of hardware. It will eventually fail. And if you can't failover reliably for a couple of minutes for a scheduled reboot, then you're going to be screwed when you have a real problem that could take minutes, hours, days, etc... to correct.
The tech is cool, but relying on it to keep a mission critical system up is a bit like using raid as your backup strategy. Not that you're saying that. But three posts up or whatever... If you've got that availability requirement, you've got to design cluster.
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If you can score a copy. I hear it's big in Japan... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead
I don't think I've ever needed to install windows updates twice in a week. Maybe twice in a month if there's a major issue. But that report is counting Adobe Reader updates. Java updates. Firefox updates. That annoying update that tells me I need to ugrade TortoiseSVN from version 1.6.4.12.a to 1.6.4.12.b. Etc.
Well FireGPG is a firefox plugin that integrates with Gmail, among other stuff, but... (1) You need GPG installed for it to work. (2) You're crazy if you're using your private key on a public terminal. ... so it doesn't make using day-to-day encryption any easier.
I think the basic point the above poster is making is valid. Once you recognize that email is inherently insecure, does it really matter that it's google (potentially) reading your email, rather than some unknown student intern at Yale (potentially) reading your email?
Pine works great with IMAP: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~csadmin/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_Pine_(Alpine)_for_IMAP_Gmail
Well obviously it's not as simple as just putting in a cluster. And seamless failover is difficult. But if you need really that system availability, you can't rely on a single piece of hardware. It will eventually fail. And if you can't failover reliably for a couple of minutes for a scheduled reboot, then you're going to be screwed when you have a real problem that could take minutes, hours, days, etc... to correct. The tech is cool, but relying on it to keep a mission critical system up is a bit like using raid as your backup strategy. Not that you're saying that. But three posts up or whatever... If you've got that availability requirement, you've got to design cluster.
Control Panel -> Automatic Updates -> Download updates for me, but let me choose when to install them.
I don't know if this was his only reason, but TrueCrypt doesn't support TPM, and from the trash-talking in the FAQ, probably never will.