I hate to say it but this is almost making a case for using Wdoze in insecure situations.
Why? There is a theory that if you are sent into a hostile jungle environment and given the choice of a knife or a gun to protect you from the wildlife that you take the knife. The reason for this is that if you have a gun you might get too cocky and be taken by surprise as you stroll down the middle of the jungle paths, secure in your firepowers supremecy. However if you take a kinfe you realise your mortality and frailty and skulk through the bushes and tree tops, all the while watching your back, thus avoiding surprises. Using windows in an insecure situation is analogus to having the knife. You know its security is crap, you know its unsafe and so you act accordingly. Whereas, trusting in a 'secure' environment does tend to make one lazy or less careful. Just a thought. Shane -----Original Message----- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 6:00 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Nick's comment on the radio - security Richard Tindall wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > >> The simplest way of doing this is to reboot after the money runs out. >> Use a readonly image. Sorted. > > > A place I serviced had the coin-power cut off the screen only. And how > would SuSE (et. al.) take to having the switch flicked several times > an hour? > > Is an image file bootable from hdd, or is it reinstalled to hdd at > each boot? > > Incidentally, today I found a UK-rising RedHat "Enterprise-class Linux > Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a > prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor", that looks worth > checking out: > > http://www.centos.org > > Thanks Steve, > > Rik > Neither. You would never[1] use a general purpose tool for a single specific task like this. Use embedded technology, based on linux, and solid state storage. Steve [1] If in your right mind!
