You just make sure that the web server is also on the write-only drive.. It'd be easy enough to set up a server where everything (OS, server software, data) is on a read-only hard drive, and the only writable partitions would be tmp and var (for logging). And you can limit the size of those partitions sufficiently that they could not do a lot with them.. Even make them network partitions.
It would need to use option 2 for a performance gain.. Otherwise you'll actually incur a performance hit due to contention for the armature between the 2 machines.
It shouldn't be too difficult to add a second arm, that wouldn't interfere with the primry R/W head. Of course it does double the chances of a head-crash... This is the way that it appears to be being done according to the web site
It'll probably be free, but not open-source. I suspect they'll want everyone to run their stuff blindly, saying that to give out the source would make it too easy for virus writers and hackers to get around it...
I would not be surprised if it starts out as a simple virus scanner, totally benign.. But baloons into a full blown security enforcement tool that would close off ports and such.
Security violation detected! Disabling FTP port Security violation detected! Disabling sendmail (Please use US Gov't approved mail server software such as MS Exchange) Security violation detected! Your mail is not housed on a Gov't monitored host. Forwarding all mail folders to FBI.GOV Security violation detected: Removing non-commercial software (please see US Gov't website for approved applications) (etc...)
Sounds more like a patent on the idea of compression. Someone in that firm probably just found out that compression algorithms use similar methods to what was proposed by this patent (frame comparison, et al) and said "Let see if we can get someone to give us money by claiming this was our idea!"
It's kinda like filing a patent for the idea of transmitting pictures and text in a standardized format over an electronic medium, then trying to tell people you patented HTML 10 years later..
[sarcasm] Think I'll patent the idea of transmitting the quantum information from one place to another and creating a replica of the original quantum particle on the receiving side.. Then in 15 years if anyone has managed to make it work I can claim it was my patented idea! [/sarcasm]
From what I've heard, most cards don't even use the AGP4x bus to it's full potential yet
Further than that, the EVGA Geforce4 Ti4600 lists the preferred setting for AGP transfer mode to 1X. They claim support for 4X, but it's apparently not fully stable depending on your motherboard, chipset, etc...
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It shouldn't be too difficult to add a second arm, that wouldn't interfere with the primry R/W head. Of course it does double the chances of a head-crash... This is the way that it appears to be being done according to the web site
I would not be surprised if it starts out as a simple virus scanner, totally benign.. But baloons into a full blown security enforcement tool that would close off ports and such.
Security violation detected! Disabling FTP port
Security violation detected! Disabling sendmail (Please use US Gov't approved mail server software such as MS Exchange)
Security violation detected! Your mail is not housed on a Gov't monitored host. Forwarding all mail folders to FBI.GOV
Security violation detected: Removing non-commercial software (please see US Gov't website for approved applications)
(etc...)
Sounds more like a patent on the idea of compression. Someone in that firm probably just found out that compression algorithms use similar methods to what was proposed by this patent (frame comparison, et al) and said "Let see if we can get someone to give us money by claiming this was our idea!"
It's kinda like filing a patent for the idea of transmitting pictures and text in a standardized format over an electronic medium, then trying to tell people you patented HTML 10 years later..
[sarcasm]
Think I'll patent the idea of transmitting the quantum information from one place to another and creating a replica of the original quantum particle on the receiving side.. Then in 15 years if anyone has managed to make it work I can claim it was my patented idea!
[/sarcasm]