On Friday 28 January 2005 05:14, Will Hill spake: > So, you say it's the hardware. What magical hardware would make Microsoft > the equivalent of OpenBSD in terms of time to ownership on a network and > uptime?
Forget about Microsoft... has AMD done anything to improve things with their 64-bit architecture? Note, I'd ask about Intel's, but they dropped theirs in favor of cloning AMD's model (yay!). -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net GPG key fingerprint = 8F11 D859 81A6 DE8C 5429 4A07 7146 1AFD 5C41 161E "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: signature Url : /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050129/e27c5802/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 30 00:36:38 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric G Ortego) Date: Sun Jan 30 00:36:21 2005 Subject: limitations of x86 = Windows insecurity? was Re: [brlug-general]LSU Nemeaux? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:06:23 -0600, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Baudouin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 9:10 AM > Subject: Re: limitations of x86 = Windows insecurity? was Re: > [brlug-general]LSU Nemeaux? > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:06:02 -0600, Eric G Ortego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:21:30 -0600, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > AFAIK Linux offers propolice, a stack protection mechanism. > >> > >> Its a gcc offer http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/security/ssp/ > > > > Thanks for your attention to detail. ;) I'm sure you know that I > > understand the difference between the Gnu Compiler Collection and the > > kernel, it's just easier to refer to the OS containing the tools as > > Linux. > > if so, > did he know that you knew that he knew that you knew? I don't know a thing.
