These days, it is nearly impossible to find a computer that doesn't support suspend to ram properly. Do people really shut down their computers so often that this feature would actually be useful? I just don't understand it.
Four reasons: 1. Security-- Using whole disk encryption, the machine is well-secured when completely powered off. When on, the key is in RAM and the disk is accessible. This also goes for services that are running. 2. Energy savings-- Why keep a machine using energy, even a few watts, if that adds up to something over the life of the machine? 3. SSD-- My computer boots and halts in about fifteen and five seconds, respectively, only slightly longer than the resume from hibernate. 4. Freshness-- Though rarely an issue, there's nothing like starting with a clean slate each day. No stray processes, memory leaks (FF v4) or conflicts.
Yes, finally ZRTP (Phil Zimmermann's Zfone prototcol) and OTR. I'd like to see H.323 next, please! It also works over XMPP and Google's gChat infrastructure.
I have to concur with Jitsi being an excellent FOSS (FLOSS) replacement for Skype. The developer has gone multi-platform with Java and some native elements for video and audio. It needs some simplification of the UI, but that's not the hard part. The story of it's development was recently included in a/. story on OSS projects book earlier this week:
First, don't bet your life on this technology or OpenSSH or other tech.
Second, rather than run TOR on an everyday personal or work computer (Windows or Mac or Linux) with sensitive data and identifiable traits, I'd recommend booting a LiveCD: TAILS (v0.7.1 is the latest) and Liberté Linux:
Change your MAC and connect at a coffee shop (if paranoid-- on the other side of town, and wear sunglasses in case of surveillance), not from home. Or connect to someone else's open WiFi, or get the key with Backtrack. Less secure is running a LiveCD in a VM (virtualbox or vmware). Another less secure option is running a hardened Linux, or at least running the Bastille script.
What am I missing? The main trouble with the LiveCD/DVDs is the NIC driver/module, but Knoppix is good for that.
Hey that sounds incredible. Do tech, pay the bills, and save the Earth!
I have spent a great deal of my life in search of meaningful and rewarding work that I would do for free. I had been groomed by parents for banking, business, and country clubs. I saw the misery on the faces of many "successes," and I am grateful I steped away from the herd. I love my job right now, but this would be up there if I wanted to be in DC
Check out Zonbu.com They are making green/low-power, silent, inexpensive thin clients that are managed from the company. They include 50GB of encrypted Amazon S3 space, instead of a hard drive. I'm interested in modifications to include a VPN and back procedure for other computers on my network. I'm not affiliated with them. I think it's about time we get off the supercomputer for grandma hamster wheel.
Cheers,
fellow
Has anyone else tried Phil ZimmermanN's Zfone? Available on OS X, Linux, and windows, it does end-to-end (up to applications) encryption, from the father of PGP. The code is available for review. The interface is quite slick and his reputation is platinum. Is there anyone else trusted more?
It works with many sip clients: X-Lite, Gizmo, XMeeting, Google Talk VoIP client, SJphone, and Asterisk PBXs. It also works with iChat audio and video and these VoIP providers: Free World Dialup, iptel.org, and SIPphone. It does not work with Skype.
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I was thinking of this the other day. I was concerned that two users might conflict since they are each running a whole OS session to themselves, right? It was wonderfult to use MOL to send my Mac OSX experience around a network via X, and I would love to do this for two users at a time. Is it really possible???
I would love Apple to add remote display/input like X Window to OSX, even if speed wouldbe poorer on remote sessions.
In addition, Apple's existence benefits m$'s legal position when they can demonstrate there are other companies making software in the world. That reasonig may have been behind Bill's "investment" of $150 million about 5 years ago. Though that's is giving him a lot of credit he may not deserve. Did this not "save" apple? They were in some trouble.
I would like to see the specs on bochs but also hope for VPC and other options, perhaps VMWare-- a wondeful product on linux!
Excellent point. I think that is exactly why.
Finally m$'s immoral and unlawful business practices will be addressed. Justice will be done not by the DOJ, but by the goodwill behind open-source!
Depending on how much you need Windows Apps, you may want to consider LTSP (www.ltsp.org) for Linux thin-clients.
The 400MHz boxes are plenty fast for video and graphics input/output via X, while the processing is done on fast servers. You can invest in one fast workstation/server (even a high-end desktop) per 5-20 clients. Budget about 50 MB RAM on the server for each concurrent client and study the ltsp.org site. Management cost is dramatically reduced when all clients remote-boot off a central image or images. If things get slow, upgrade three servers rather than 60 clients.
Many Windoze apps (including Office) are accessable via WTS/Citrix or even via Win4Lin or VmWare. Lindows is coming too.
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These days, it is nearly impossible to find a computer that doesn't support suspend to ram properly. Do people really shut down their computers so often that this feature would actually be useful? I just don't understand it.
Four reasons:
1. Security-- Using whole disk encryption, the machine is well-secured when completely powered off. When on, the key is in RAM and the disk is accessible. This also goes for services that are running.
2. Energy savings-- Why keep a machine using energy, even a few watts, if that adds up to something over the life of the machine?
3. SSD-- My computer boots and halts in about fifteen and five seconds, respectively, only slightly longer than the resume from hibernate.
4. Freshness-- Though rarely an issue, there's nothing like starting with a clean slate each day. No stray processes, memory leaks (FF v4) or conflicts.
Features here: http://www.jitsi.org/index.php/Main/Features
Yes, finally ZRTP (Phil Zimmermann's Zfone prototcol) and OTR. I'd like to see H.323 next, please! It also works over XMPP and Google's gChat infrastructure.
I have to concur with Jitsi being an excellent FOSS (FLOSS) replacement for Skype. The developer has gone multi-platform with Java and some native elements for video and audio. It needs some simplification of the UI, but that's not the hard part. The story of it's development was recently included in a /. story on OSS projects book earlier this week:
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/05/23/2227232/The-Architecture-of-Open-Source-Applications
http://www.aosabook.org/en/jitsi.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP
First, don't bet your life on this technology or OpenSSH or other tech.
Second, rather than run TOR on an everyday personal or work computer (Windows or Mac or Linux) with sensitive data and identifiable traits, I'd recommend booting a LiveCD: TAILS (v0.7.1 is the latest) and Liberté Linux:
http://tails.boum.org/
http://dee.su/liberte
or get Knoppix and harden it:
http://knoppix.com/
Change your MAC and connect at a coffee shop (if paranoid-- on the other side of town, and wear sunglasses in case of surveillance), not from home. Or connect to someone else's open WiFi, or get the key with Backtrack. Less secure is running a LiveCD in a VM (virtualbox or vmware). Another less secure option is running a hardened Linux, or at least running the Bastille script.
What am I missing? The main trouble with the LiveCD/DVDs is the NIC driver/module, but Knoppix is good for that.
integral-fellow
Hey that sounds incredible. Do tech, pay the bills, and save the Earth!
I have spent a great deal of my life in search of meaningful and rewarding work that I would do for free. I had been groomed by parents for banking, business, and country clubs. I saw the misery on the faces of many "successes," and I am grateful I steped away from the herd. I love my job right now, but this would be up there if I wanted to be in DC
Sign me up if I can stay in San Francisco!
Any other takers?
Check out Zonbu.com They are making green/low-power, silent, inexpensive thin clients that are managed from the company. They include 50GB of encrypted Amazon S3 space, instead of a hard drive. I'm interested in modifications to include a VPN and back procedure for other computers on my network. I'm not affiliated with them. I think it's about time we get off the supercomputer for grandma hamster wheel. Cheers, fellow
Has anyone else tried Phil ZimmermanN's Zfone? Available on OS X, Linux, and windows, it does end-to-end (up to applications) encryption, from the father of PGP. The code is available for review. The interface is quite slick and his reputation is platinum. Is there anyone else trusted more? It works with many sip clients: X-Lite, Gizmo, XMeeting, Google Talk VoIP client, SJphone, and Asterisk PBXs. It also works with iChat audio and video and these VoIP providers: Free World Dialup, iptel.org, and SIPphone. It does not work with Skype.
I was thinking of this the other day. I was concerned that two users might conflict since they are each running a whole OS session to themselves, right? It was wonderfult to use MOL to send my Mac OSX experience around a network via X, and I would love to do this for two users at a time. Is it really possible???
I would love Apple to add remote display/input like X Window to OSX, even if speed wouldbe poorer on remote sessions.
True, very true.
In addition, Apple's existence benefits m$'s legal position when they can demonstrate there are other companies making software in the world. That reasonig may have been behind Bill's "investment" of $150 million about 5 years ago. Though that's is giving him a lot of credit he may not deserve. Did this not "save" apple? They were in some trouble.
I would like to see the specs on bochs but also hope for VPC and other options, perhaps VMWare-- a wondeful product on linux!
Excellent point. I think that is exactly why. Finally m$'s immoral and unlawful business practices will be addressed. Justice will be done not by the DOJ, but by the goodwill behind open-source!
Depending on how much you need Windows Apps, you may want to consider LTSP (www.ltsp.org) for Linux thin-clients.
The 400MHz boxes are plenty fast for video and graphics input/output via X, while the processing is done on fast servers. You can invest in one fast workstation/server (even a high-end desktop) per 5-20 clients. Budget about 50 MB RAM on the server for each concurrent client and study the ltsp.org site. Management cost is dramatically reduced when all clients remote-boot off a central image or images. If things get slow, upgrade three servers rather than 60 clients.
Many Windoze apps (including Office) are accessable via WTS/Citrix or even via Win4Lin or VmWare. Lindows is coming too.