My idea was to save a disk image in a separate partition or drive
That's the general idea. What I have done with a number of machines i'm non-voluntarily supporting is: 1. Figure out how much storage a freshly installed windows takes up on the partition it is installed to. It was around 2-3 gig in XP times, these days it's probably more like 10. 2. Split off a new partition of roughly that size 3. Install windows to the big, and a small unix (or Linux) to the small partition 4. Fill up the free space on the big partition with repetitive data that compresses well, e.g. by creating gigabyte-sized files consisting solely of the same byte over and over again until the partition is full. 5. Let it sit for a few minutes (*) then delete those files again 6. Boot the small partition, and use dd | gzip to create a compressed image of the windows partition. The resulting file will have around the size estimated in step 1, or a little less. 7. (Optional) Write a wrapper-script around gzcat | dd that knows the right parameters to write the image back to the HDD, adjust/etc/motd to tell the user how to run that script ("type "root", hit Enter, type "recover", hit enter, wait until it reboots, don't power off."). Add a nice entry in the boot loader labeled 'Factory reset'. This way, the user might even be able to restore without calling you anyway.
(*) So that the last few gigs also end up on-disk, rather than never leaving the buffer cache (-equivalent on windows)
You will still need a cable going all the way into your mum's basement. Or are you suggesting to wear a giant solar panel, or a big battery pack, in addition to the computer and the actual headpiece?
Well first of all, a toddler is never going to be able to pull back the slide, so the gun must have had a round in the chamber already. Next, I wouldn't expect a toddler to be able to disengage the safety lever (OK, maybe accidentally after a while). Leaving a guy unattended in that state is a major fuckup on the gun owner's part.
Fingerprint scanners are a good idea for anyone but the person who actually wants or needs to reliably discharge it. That's a pretty huge problem, likewise your squeeze-hard idea. No way.
A perhaps feasible alternative would be making the safety lever harder (more force, not a puzzle lock) to disengage. That, and a mecha(tron)ism that makes the lever flip back after a while of inactivity, say, 5 minutes of neither shooting nor tapping the safety in order to reset the timer.
Maybe it has something to do with the cable being submerged in water, you know, much like sea lions. But noo, right, it's probably because we just *love* to make subtle^W references to the nazi time.
$ ftp ftp.slashdot.org ftp: Can't connect to `216.34.181.48:21': Connection refused
It's just a stale DNS record.
it's a firewalled service
Yeah, because our technically literate Dive overlords would for once do everything right? (Must be a whitelisting firewall then which ALSO has the courtesy of not being a blackhole (since it returned a RST), then).
Somehow, I doubt it. But in all cases, whether there's no ftpd running at all, or a polite, whitelisting firewall, the outcome is the same, i.e. good.
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[incoherent gibberish]
Sorry, I can't parse your message for the most part, maybe because it is full of advertisements.
Where exactly do I find the source code to your program?
Where is the source to that software you're advertising in a way more obnoxious than flashing modal full-screen ads?
/. going beta one step at a time
On windows? I doubt it.
I had no specific "free software solution" in mind, other than basic OS functionality. See sibling, anyway.
My idea was to save a disk image in a separate partition or drive
That's the general idea. What I have done with a number of machines i'm non-voluntarily supporting is: /etc/motd to tell the user how to run that script ("type "root", hit Enter, type "recover", hit enter, wait until it reboots, don't power off."). Add a nice entry in the boot loader labeled 'Factory reset'. This way, the user might even be able to restore without calling you anyway.
1. Figure out how much storage a freshly installed windows takes up on the partition it is installed to. It was around 2-3 gig in XP times, these days it's probably more like 10.
2. Split off a new partition of roughly that size
3. Install windows to the big, and a small unix (or Linux) to the small partition
4. Fill up the free space on the big partition with repetitive data that compresses well, e.g. by creating gigabyte-sized files consisting solely of the same byte over and over again until the partition is full.
5. Let it sit for a few minutes (*) then delete those files again
6. Boot the small partition, and use dd | gzip to create a compressed image of the windows partition. The resulting file will have around the size estimated in step 1, or a little less.
7. (Optional) Write a wrapper-script around gzcat | dd that knows the right parameters to write the image back to the HDD, adjust
(*) So that the last few gigs also end up on-disk, rather than never leaving the buffer cache (-equivalent on windows)
Yes, let's spend money on something that is trivially achieved by using free software!
VHS tapes aren't either. What's your point?
Just 5 years ago there's no way we'd be celebrating 20 years of open bsd on slashdot.
Yeah no shit, sherlock. That's because that would've been 15 years of "open bsd" (sic).
An iPad runs 3D graphics [...] and I don't see any reason whatsoever that there should be anything especially demanding when running VR [...]
Uh. Take a look at the system requirements then.
You will still need a cable going all the way into your mum's basement.
Or are you suggesting to wear a giant solar panel, or a big battery pack, in addition to the computer and the actual headpiece?
Well first of all, a toddler is never going to be able to pull back the slide, so the gun must have had a round in the chamber already.
Next, I wouldn't expect a toddler to be able to disengage the safety lever (OK, maybe accidentally after a while).
Leaving a guy unattended in that state is a major fuckup on the gun owner's part.
Fingerprint scanners are a good idea for anyone but the person who actually wants or needs to reliably discharge it. That's a pretty huge problem, likewise your squeeze-hard idea. No way.
A perhaps feasible alternative would be making the safety lever harder (more force, not a puzzle lock) to disengage. That, and a mecha(tron)ism that makes the lever flip back after a while of inactivity, say, 5 minutes of neither shooting nor tapping the safety in order to reset the timer.
No shit, sherlock.
Sorry, Virtucon is currently busy.
Alas, GPL. Forget it.
How can this be shown to be false before he actually tries it?
Maybe it has something to do with the cable being submerged in water, you know, much like sea lions. But noo, right, it's probably because we just *love* to make subtle^W references to the nazi time.
+5 You-owe-me-a-new-keyboard-and-one-gulp-of-coffee
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
$ ftp ftp.slashdot.org
ftp: Can't connect to `216.34.181.48:21': Connection refused
It's just a stale DNS record.
it's a firewalled service
Yeah, because our technically literate Dive overlords would for once do everything right? (Must be a whitelisting firewall then which ALSO has the courtesy of not being a blackhole (since it returned a RST), then).
Somehow, I doubt it. But in all cases, whether there's no ftpd running at all, or a polite, whitelisting firewall, the outcome is the same, i.e. good.
$ ftp ftp.slashdot.org
ftp: Can't connect to `216.34.181.48:21': Connection refused
It's just a stale DNS record.
I'm not so sure if hard drives help mitigate DDoS. But hey, feel free to give it a try!
continually improve the _existing_ software.
I'll just leave this slide of a presentation by Theo here
"Disruptive innovation is encouraged"
Openbsd uses PF.
Yes.
(NetBSD uses npf as of late, formerly ipfilter)
FreeBSD uses pfSense.
No.
FreeBSD has both ipfilter and pf available.
pfSense is FreeBSD, and probably uses pf
Because it is an app. Like, the future! Also very cyber.