Interestingly the BBC ran a project in 1986 to celebrate the 900th birthday of the original Doomsday project. The system comprised of 12 inch laserdisks, and the hardware needed to read them.
Today, only 20 years later, you'd be hard pressed to find any way of reading those disks without the orignal hardware.
Unlike the original 900 year old copy...
http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html
Please, people, just move to linux and your automount/autorun problems will be all solved
This wouldn't solve the problem, The only reason that all the trojans etc run under windows is because it's so prelevant. If everybody moved to Linux, don't you think the virus writers would too?
There's a very fine line to be maintained, between allowing people enough access to do their jobs, and restricing access to anything else. - There will always be a grey area between the two that somebody will find a way to exploit.
Isn't this standard NASA policy? After all, most of the recent MARS missions have been designed to crash rather than land.
And then they wonder why they don't work afterwards....
But how do I force the encryption of all incoming mail.
Specifically those that get sent from the "I've forgot my password - please e-mail it to me" buttons on websites?
I had one of those, in fact I think I've still got the 1802 chip somewhere! - I seem to remember the first program in the manual was to turn an LED on and off, and at a whopping 3.5MHz (NTSC Colour Burst?) It was so blindingly fast you couldn't see it. I later upgraded it with it's big brother - the 1805 - It amazingly featured a subroutine call and return!
Back then programmers were real programmers, computers were real computers, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!.
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Interestingly the BBC ran a project in 1986 to celebrate the 900th birthday of the original Doomsday project. The system comprised of 12 inch laserdisks, and the hardware needed to read them. Today, only 20 years later, you'd be hard pressed to find any way of reading those disks without the orignal hardware. Unlike the original 900 year old copy... http://www.atsf.co.uk/dottext/domesday.html
The same question was asked on the Gentoo forums some time back, and generated quite a long thread.
See here
Please, people, just move to linux and your automount/autorun problems will be all solved
This wouldn't solve the problem, The only reason that all the trojans etc run under windows is because it's so prelevant. If everybody moved to Linux, don't you think the virus writers would too?
There's a very fine line to be maintained, between allowing people enough access to do their jobs, and restricing access to anything else. - There will always be a grey area between the two that somebody will find a way to exploit.
Isn't this standard NASA policy? After all, most of the recent MARS missions have been designed to crash rather than land. And then they wonder why they don't work afterwards....
I'm Pink! Therefore I'm Spam!
But how do I force the encryption of all incoming mail. Specifically those that get sent from the "I've forgot my password - please e-mail it to me" buttons on websites?
I remember reading about on some time ago. - http://runt.mybox.org/
I had one of those, in fact I think I've still got the 1802 chip somewhere! - I seem to remember the first program in the manual was to turn an LED on and off, and at a whopping 3.5MHz (NTSC Colour Burst?) It was so blindingly fast you couldn't see it. I later upgraded it with it's big brother - the 1805 - It amazingly featured a subroutine call and return! Back then programmers were real programmers, computers were real computers, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!.