It was, in fact, my last and only computer course. Subsequently, I was
gizmoless until the mid 1980s when I got my 2 floppy zenith 8088 laptop
which, shortly thereafter, got an upgrade (out with one floppy and in with a
10mb hard drive, innovation at its best) and a few years later it got a 20mb
o
WTF are you talking about? Compressed data isn't any harder to recover
than non-compressed; just the opposite, since it resides in a smaller
area and often contains recovery info.
As for your "system that can be quickly installed on any hardware I
have available", I have no idea what you're talkin
Yes, I've read it now. the content certainly seems to disagree with
the title, as it's a love-fest for clouds.
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On Dec 26, 2009, at 4:26 PM, db wrote:
If my machine had the symptoms this one has, I would do the works:
BIOS flash & turn on BIOS virus protection,
Since the machine is new enough to be returnable I would skip the
tough stuff.
Keep the computer disconnected from the LAN and WiFi off. Use
That's as good an explanation as I have heard. It makes sense.
Too bad Jobs doesn't have a wife with GUI design skills to give him a
boot in the butt occasionally ... a little personal democracy :)
db
mike wrote:
Well Apple is not a democracy, which is it's greatest strength and
If my machine had the symptoms this one has, I would do the works:
BIOS flash & turn on BIOS virus protection,
Boot sector cleaning,
partitions removal/ format,
Free Zone Alarm firewall w. ask turned on
...all done while keeping the machine off the net.
... and the presently existing data
The EFI physically resides in a ROM (chip) on the motherboard. If the chip is
flashable (writable), then it's vulnerable, n'est ce pas? And EFI extensions
are written to the hard/boot drive? So that's vulnerable also.
Fred Holmes
At 02:54 PM 12/26/2009, mike wrote:
>Not really, but whatever.
And it doesn't jive with what Tom said about Danger's problem with the
sidekick. And recent outages with BB.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
> At 02:23 PM 12/26/2009, tjpa wrote:
> >Most useful was the quote from Google: "clouds are more secure than
> >whatever you're using
At 02:23 PM 12/26/2009, tjpa wrote:
>Most useful was the quote from Google: "clouds are more secure than
>whatever you're using now."
Depends upon your security model.
Maybe tjpa's quotation is what your government wants you to believe.
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Any evidence here? You just posted a story where you complained about
anecdotal evidence being it...now that's all you got. Please, I've asked
now twice for the benchmarks...anyone? I never said RAID was the only
answer, that is Tom's job to be black and white, for cost, uptime, I/O...?
On Sa
As I said, you've clearly had zero experience in any kid of elevated
environment where more than just a couple of macs were needed.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, tjpa wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2009, at 1:43 PM, mike wrote:
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>> Uptime is important though to many businesses as the one I mentioned.
Awesome, it will install on more systems than if you just used os x at
least.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:38 PM, tjpa wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2009, at 1:46 PM, mike wrote:
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>> So you are installing linux then?
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> BSD UNIX.
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Not really, but whatever.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:26 PM, tjpa wrote:
> On Dec 26, 2009, at 1:39 PM, mike wrote:
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>> In point of fact, I don't think Apple systems have BIOS any longer, they
>> switched to EFI when they went to intel.
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> A BIOS by any other name...
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On Dec 26, 2009, at 1:46 PM, mike wrote:
So you are installing linux then?
BSD UNIX.
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On Dec 26, 2009, at 1:43 PM, mike wrote:
Uptime is important though to many businesses as the one I mentioned.
The thought of Mike being in charge of a nuclear reactor is really
scary.
I should also mention that RAID has not kept up with the data
robustness features built into modern driv
On Dec 26, 2009, at 1:39 PM, mike wrote:
In point of fact, I don't think Apple systems have BIOS any longer,
they
switched to EFI when they went to intel.
A BIOS by any other name...
And W7 eliminated the BSOD (by eliminating the blue background). Ah
progress!
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On Dec 25, 2009, at 10:31 PM, chad evans wyatt wrote:
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/24166/
The writer interviewed a lot of people, but did not or could not go
beyond a bunch of anecdotes and quotes. No analysis here.
Most useful was the quote from Google: "clouds are more secure than
So you are installing linux then?
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM, tjpa wrote:
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> I find it is best to have a system that can be quickly installed on any
> hardware I have available (so installing Windows is out of the question).
> Then copy over the data and go online.
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Changing the subject again and not answering the questions. To most home
users uptime isn't critical. I don't use RAID at home, my main system if I
had a hard drive failure of my boot drive would be back up in about 20
minutes from an acronis image I keep updated on an external drive.
Uptime is
In point of fact, I don't think Apple systems have BIOS any longer, they
switched to EFI when they went to intel.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM, tjpa wrote:
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> If I may. let me point out that to flash the BIOS on a Mac you have to
> shutdown the computer, then start it up by holding do
I had a couple PC motherboards that could do this, they had a secondary ROM
chip I believe...you could flash the BIOS from these back to default.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM, tjpa wrote:
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> If I may. let me point out that to flash the BIOS on a Mac you have to
> shutdown the computer
On Dec 25, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Tony B wrote:
Except that, as his tech person, it's my responsibility to see to it
that he's made aware of all the latest tech whether he likes it or
not.
OMG, we all know what the looks like and have great sympathy for your
boss.
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On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Tony B wrote:
Disk imaging is the way to go, with some level of compression to save
space.
Backups should never be compressed. You can find yourself locked out
of your data.
Disk imaging is a possibility, but I prefer to focus on protecting the
data. If you i
On Dec 26, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Fred Holmes wrote:
What do you do when uptime is important? Do today's drives never
fail?
When is uptime important? Was uptime important when M$ lost all the
files used to run the Sidekick cell phone system? That was running on
a "storage array" and I'm pretty
It always struck me that any attempt to alphabetize names, especially ones that
were written "full" (so that the machine had to determine what part of the
seven-word name was the last (family) name, and what part was the middle name,
etc.) would be doomed to failure. I just used an extra column
Huh? So a mac-based Windows machine has this lock? That's nice. Many
other companies have various schemes to prevent BIOS flashing as well.
I'm sure if this ever becomes a real problem many more will join in.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, tjpa wrote:
> If I may. let me point out that to flash
Actually, if we ignore the old time BIOS viruses that were targeted to
specific hardware, the modern (but still only theoretical I think)
BIOS virus will likely simply render the machine *dead*. Replacing the
BIOS chip would bring it back to life, but realistically nobody would
go to all that troub
We're really beginning to stray here with all this talk of rare BIOS
and boot sector viruses. And now a question about backups.
Disk imaging is the way to go, with some level of compression to save
space. Ghost, Acronis, and many freeware apps will do this. They all
have basic Windows PE cds that
On Dec 25, 2009, at 10:39 PM, katan wrote:
Except in the BIOS. WHat I'm wondering is, if a BIOS virus can
intercept a BIOS update and re-infect the BIOS being updated.
Here's a scary story from Tom's Hardware...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/bios-virus-rootkit-security-backdoor,7400.html
"I
On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:04 PM, rleesimon wrote:
Yes, in 1965-66 as an undergraduate I took a computer course at NYU
which
comprised learned to program (entry level, PL-1)...
PL1, wow that was my programming language of choice for may years.
The horrible input was standing around waiting to s
Yes, in 1965-66 as an undergraduate I took a computer course at NYU which
comprised learned to program (entry level, PL-1) and my assigned project was
writing a routine to alphabetize a list of names including all variants
(multiple first, middle names, hyphenated, with degrees, etc.) ...which took
I haven't done a BIOS flash update in a long time, but it used to be that one
booted to a boot floppy (some version of DOS or similar OS), and executed a
utility on the floppy that wrote the revised code to the BIOS. Presumably
today, one downloads a Windows Program that creates/makes a CD disc
At 10:17 PM 12/24/2009, Tony B wrote:
>Spoken like someone that has never heard of Windows XP, or all
>subsequent versions of Windows. Do you still have a floppy drive in
>your computer? :)
No but I do have an external USB-attached floppy drive, which works as well as
a motherboard-attached one,
What do you do when uptime is important? Do today's drives never fail? With a
RAID mirroring system, you generally will have the system stay up on single
drive failure, and the bad drive can perhaps be swapped hot (although I would
still wait until 2 a.m. to do it so that the rebuild process w
At 11:50 AM 12/24/2009, Reid Katan wrote:
>Absolutely. What I don't understand is, if you're trying to infect as
>many computers as possible, why would you write a virus that so screws
>up a computer that the victim is *sure* to take action. . .and
>quickly, as in the case of Gail and her son
One talks of "formatting", but one needs to remove all of the partitions as
well, so that the disk is clean. Then it would be a good idea to wipe the disk
if you have such a utility -- boot from floppy or CD, plugged into a USB port.
Make sure the disk is really "like-new". If the manufacture
I think the old BIOS is deleted from memory before the new one installs.
db
katan wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:38:36 -0800, db wrote:
If you disconnect the hard drive while you do that it has no place to
hide...
Except in the BIOS. WHat I'm wondering is, if a BIOS virus can
inter
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