State of Secure Boot detailed
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/State-of-Secure-Boot-detailed-1741460.html
Red Hat and Fedora developer Matthew Garrett has detailed the range
of subtle changes that have taken place since he began working on
Secure Boot support. In a blog posting,
Even if one doesn't want to dual boot, even if one CAN disable secure boot
[which may be easy or not], there's still a reason to want to use Secure
boot with Ubuntu or whatever -- it will provide an added layer of
protection from malware for you Linux, just as it does for Windows.
(The malware is
This is the best Neal Stephenson quote I've ever seen, at least
pertaining to open source software:
Hacker with Bullhorn: Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks!
It is invulnerable, and can drive
across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred
miles to the
Just lost a 500 GB 2.5 inch SATA drive made in Thailand from my Mac
Mini server. A half hour to boot was the signal. While I could have
set up RAID, all the data I care about is in a Dropbox folder, and I
have Time Machine to get at any apps. My data is on three computers I
control, the drop
