When: June 16, 2010 7PM (6:30PM for QA)
Topic: Secure Data Deletion Under linux
Moderator: Federico Lucifredi.
Location: MIT Building E51, Room 325 (note: room change)
Using Linux to securely erase hard drives
With $30 in new hardware, inventiveness and some Perl and Shell glue, we
design and
Folks,
I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good price.
This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk.
I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare to load
Windows for my Windows work.
I was thinking of Ubuntu 10.04. My
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:21:36 -0400, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote:
Folks,
I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good
price.
This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk.
I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare
On 06/15/2010 01:21 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
Folks,
I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good
price. This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB
disk.
I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare to
load Windows for my Windows
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:21:36 -0400, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote:
Folks,
I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good
price.
This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk.
I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare
I was thinking of Ubuntu 10.04. My question is should I do 32 or 64
bit? If I go 32-bit I will not be able to use all the ram, and if I go
64-bit I may not have all the drivers.
These days I would not worry too much between not having the proper
support for 64-bit Intel products over the 32-bit
I was thinking of Ubuntu 10.04. My question is should I do 32 or 64
bit? If I go 32-bit I will not be able to use all the ram, and if I go
64-bit I may not have all the drivers.
As to not using all of your memory with a 32-bit OS, I think you have
a misconception of how virtual vs real memory
On 06/15/2010 01:48 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
It is true that a 32-bit machine can only access 4GB, and sometimes even
less than that (depending on how the application address space is
organized) in one *virtual* address space, but this does not necessarily
stop the kernel from using all of
And doesn't the pae kernel address these issues?
Yes, and a lot of the distributions use the PAE features of the kernel
as a default.
Of course I would still recommend going with the 64-bit version of the
OS, as others have mentioned.
md
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On 06/15/2010 01:58 PM, Susan Cragin wrote:
And doesn't the pae kernel address these issues? I'd grab that, whatever
you're using.
Yes, as I mentioned when our emails crossed. The Linux 32-bit kernel
supports PAE by default.
One comment on Ubuntu Live CDs is that while they are excellent
The X86_64 benchmarks beat the IA64 in many cases.
They did not call the IA64 architecture the Itanic for nothing.
To be fair, a lot of the libraries for X86_64 have probably had a lot
more eyes go over them and more optimizations done than for the IA64,
particularly for Linux.
On the other
Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com writes:
I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good price.
This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk.
I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare to load
Windows for my Windows work.
I
This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback.
I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox.
BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from Craigslist. Pretty
good deal for a decent dual-core box.
Thanks!
Gerry
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:08 PM,
Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com writes:
This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback.
I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox.
BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from Craigslist. Pretty
good deal for a decent dual-core box.
Oh,
On 06/15/2010 02:22 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
The X86_64 benchmarks beat the IA64 in many cases.
They did not call the IA64 architecture the Itanic for nothing.
To be fair, a lot of the libraries for X86_64 have probably had a lot
more eyes go over them and more optimizations done
I am curious to see if the BIOS supports virtualization.
On 06/15/2010 02:29 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback.
I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox.
BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from
I personally prefer the PDP-8 approach :-)
Ouch. That was a bit too RISC-y, even for me.
Still it was a great machine for the time.
md
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I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to get an account on sourceforge,
so I could request a help ticket on a project.
I had to login using IE! because only IE would allow the broken
registration page to display. Firefox on both Linux and win32 would not
display the page at all. :(
In both
Sourceforge is not our friend. Best avoid it.
Very few serious projects are hosted on it anymore.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to get an account on sourceforge,
so I could request a help ticket on a project.
I had
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com wrote on 06/15/2010 03:20:49 PM:
Sourceforge is not our friend. Best avoid it.
Very few serious projects are hosted on it anymore.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:12 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to get an account on
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
So, am I doomed to IE and this infernal W32 machine??? If that isn't a
desperate cry for help, what is! Are there any settings on FF I could
change to block/allow stuff through without being singled out as an IT
risk?
I
On 06/15/2010 03:12 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to get an account on sourceforge,
so I could request a help ticket on a project.
I had to login using IE! because only IE would allow the broken
registration page to display. Firefox on both
On 06/15/2010 03:20 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
Sourceforge is not our friend. Best avoid it.
Very few serious projects are hosted on it anymore.
Why?
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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The company that owns Sourceforge (and slashdot, Ohloh, etc) derives almost
all their income from advertising, and look who their top advertisers are.
Money corrupts. Sourceforge has been corrupted for a long time, I'm just
hoping Ohloh doesn't go the same way soon.
Besides website design, why
Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote on 06/15/2010 04:12:18 PM:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, bruce.lab...@autoliv.com wrote:
So, am I doomed to IE and this infernal W32 machine??? If that isn't
a
desperate cry for help, what is! Are there any settings on FF I could
change to
On 06/15/2010 04:19 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
The company that owns Sourceforge (and slashdot, Ohloh, etc) derives
almost all their income from advertising, and look who their top
advertisers are.
Money corrupts. Sourceforge has been corrupted for a long time, I'm
just hoping Ohloh doesn't go
Pressure from advertisers. Sourceforce could not survive by charging
users/projects for the hosting, they would just go elsewhere, so they're
reliant (heavily) on Microsoft and other proprietary software companies for
funding.
You run into the same problem with newspapers. Journalists are
On 06/15/2010 06:30 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
Pressure from advertisers. Sourceforce could not survive by charging
users/projects for the hosting, they would just go elsewhere, so they're
reliant (heavily) on Microsoft and other proprietary software companies
for funding.
You run into the same
Hi Arc,
Sourceforge has been corrupted for a long time.
In what ways has this corruption evidenced itself?
md
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On 06/15/2010 06:40 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
On 06/15/2010 06:30 PM, Arc Riley wrote:
Pressure from advertisers. Sourceforce could not survive by charging
users/projects for the hosting, they would just go elsewhere, so they're
reliant (heavily) on Microsoft and other proprietary software
On 6/11/2010 4:34 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
It's *us*. *We're* the Software Freedom Squad.
Since when?
Since *now*.
We don't have to wear spandex, do we??
I, for one, definitely do not look good in spandex.
But a cape might be cool.
My business partner, Keith, actually would look
Thanks for everyone's thoughts on open source auction software.
Digesting the options. I'll share my results.
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*** Technical Support Excellence for four decades.
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My 2c.
Sourceforge used to LOOK like a place geeks hung out. It was amateurish and
fun. It was simple and ugly and easy to read. And it was fast. The sorting was
fast, you could get files easily, and so on.
Now the site is slick, busy-looking, confusing and annoying. Too much color.
Too many
The Linux 32-bit kernel supports PAE (the extension that allows
access to more than 3GB RAM).
Actually, PAE is an MMU feature providing an additional 4 bits
of physical address to be specified in the page table entries;
this allows the kernel to rig the page tables such that they can
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote:
We don't have to wear spandex, do we??
I, for one, definitely do not look good in spandex.
But a cape might be cool.
No capes! Thunderhead, Stratogale, the list goes on...
-- Ben
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen
roz...@geekspace.com wrote:
Unfortunately, there's now a native
64-bit Flash plugin and more recent versions of the `flashplugin-nonfree'
package use that instead of using nspluginwrapper; so Flash is back
to taking the browser down with it
One option would be to try FF with user-agent-switcher. I've logged
into many sites with FF that claim to require IE, but when I use UAS
to set FF to claim to be IE, they work fine.
jeff
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