It's not as bad as any other machine on your net - you can limit it by the real host. I know a few people (I have considered it myself) running firewalls in VMWare. Then the "host" machine has ipchains rules blocking against the VMWare system. So it adds a second layer of protection. Then, if somebody ever does break it, you simply copy over the last saved hard drive image file, patch what they had cracked in with, and you're on your way. No need to reinstall the OS from scratch if you have a backed up known good. In fact, a friend of mine burns to CD the hard drive image of the firewall, then has a cron job on the host shut down the VM, replaces the hard drive image file, brings it back up. Every night.
...visit your local library.:) No really, I recommend checking out the National Cryptologic Museum just off of 295 in Maryland - http://www.nsa.gov/museum/index.html
In my endless pursuit for a decent IMAP client on Windoze (still using Eudora 4), I found a beautiful bug in The Bat!'s IMAP support - it treated IMAP as just another protocol to download the mail like POP and then happily cleared it from the server!:(
- RR
[Feel free to mod humorous]
In the regular prefs and the "quick prefs" (F12 under Windows version) Opera lets you turn off referrer logging. The only time I need to turn it on is certain sites, like my credit union, which is no big deal...
What about similar to what the MSIE and Netscape installers do - choose what parts you want to download...? Have the equivalent of a 'make menuconfig' that you run on your local machine, which will then just download the required/selected source, or even better calls some kind of CGI that custom packs your source tree into a tgz file for you?
I think 'make depend' may kill it tho... unless that information can somehow be downloaded ahead of time also.
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It's not as bad as any other machine on your net - you can limit it by the real host. I know a few people (I have considered it myself) running firewalls in VMWare. Then the "host" machine has ipchains rules blocking against the VMWare system. So it adds a second layer of protection. Then, if somebody ever does break it, you simply copy over the last saved hard drive image file, patch what they had cracked in with, and you're on your way. No need to reinstall the OS from scratch if you have a backed up known good. In fact, a friend of mine burns to CD the hard drive image of the firewall, then has a cron job on the host shut down the VM, replaces the hard drive image file, brings it back up. Every night.
- RR
Stupid me... missed the preview button. Here's a place to click for the lazy folks... - RR
...visit your local library. :) No really, I recommend checking out the National Cryptologic Museum just off of 295 in Maryland - http://www.nsa.gov/museum/index.html
- RR
In my endless pursuit for a decent IMAP client on Windoze (still using Eudora 4), I found a beautiful bug in The Bat!'s IMAP support - it treated IMAP as just another protocol to download the mail like POP and then happily cleared it from the server! :(
- RR
[Feel free to mod humorous]
In the regular prefs and the "quick prefs" (F12 under Windows version) Opera lets you turn off referrer logging. The only time I need to turn it on is certain sites, like my credit union, which is no big deal...
What about similar to what the MSIE and Netscape installers do - choose what parts you want to download...? Have the equivalent of a 'make menuconfig' that you run on your local machine, which will then just download the required/selected source, or even better calls some kind of CGI that custom packs your source tree into a tgz file for you?
I think 'make depend' may kill it tho... unless that information can somehow be downloaded ahead of time also.
- RR