Re: [LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

2006-10-22 Thread Maddog
Maybe the $100 laptop from MIT? - Original Message - From: Nakashima [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LUAU luau@lists.hosef.org Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet On Saturday, October 21, 2006, at 01:17 PM,

Re: [LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

2006-10-22 Thread Tim Newsham
Would the system be safer if it was all on a CD and there was no hard drive? In a way. The system could still be attacked and used by attackers to stage attacks against other machines, but without a way to save any persistent state, you'd get back to a clean state by just rebooting (barring

Re: [LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

2006-10-22 Thread Julian Yap
Just on the original subject line. MS does a good job trying to ban all other OS's from the Internet anyway. For the web site: http://video.msn.com I get the message: To use this product, you need to install free software This product requires Microsoft© Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft© Media

Re: [LUAU] Its time to simply ban Windoze machines from the Internet

2006-10-22 Thread Nakashima
On Sunday, October 22, 2006, at 07:30 AM, Maddog wrote: On Saturday, October 21, 2006, at 01:17 PM, Maddog wrote: OS's are only as secure as the users that use them. I think that's a repeat of what Tim said. Aside from the obscure OS's Jim reffered too (not to say they are not in use,

[LUAU] Nokia 770 review?

2006-10-22 Thread Jeff Mings
Hello all, I've been considering getting a Nokia 770 internet tablet for quite some time after seeing the newer firmware and the development for it. Surf to: http://planet.maemo.org/ to get an idea of the activity there. I specifically want to use it more as a PDA to track / sync