You don't know what you're missing! ;>) -----Original Message----- From: Bejon Parsinia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:11 PM To: William Holmberg; 'Eric Zatko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question.
Bill, The only problem with that is that Connectix VPC is only at 4.3 for Win and is 5.0 for Mac. No Mac's allowed on my wire. :-) Thanks, Bejon -----Original Message----- From: William Holmberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Eric Zatko; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. I disagree on one small point: If you try out VPC5 you will see dramatic improvements; even more enhanced if you are using a G4 processor (the VPC5 takes advantage of the Altivec engine). My .02, Bill -----Original Message----- From: Bejon Parsinia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:49 AM To: 'Eric Zatko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. Eric, Here is what I would suggest. Definitely go with dual boot over a virtual OS installation. Why? I've used VMWare and I've used Virtual PC, neither of them allow any kind of real performance. Case in point, I have a P4 1.6 GHz PC with 512 MB of RAM, the guest OS always ran poorly. No matter how I allocated my resources, I had next-to-zero performance. Now, for my suggested software, take a look at Partition Magic (which comes with Bootmagic as I recall). This is a GREAT utility to have. It can perform NTFS-FAT32 FAT32-NTFS transitions and more. Not only that, but it handles disk partitioning much better than Windows does on any day of the week. A clear choice for partitioning your hard drive in my opinion. And, Bootmagic will definitely be a plus when you setup the dual boot. It is a commercial app, but it is one I have happily forked over the cash for. Hope that helps, Bejon -----Original Message----- From: Eric Zatko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nessus follow up question. Hello Everyone, First I want to thank everyone that passed along advice regarding free system hardening software. Nessus seems to be the undisputed choice, but there were a few other options and I will look into all of them. Secondly, I will need to put Unix/Linux on a machine to use Nessus so I'm looking for advice. First, are there advantages to putting it on my laptop? If so, any recommendations for dual-boot software? Next, has anyone used VMWare, and if so would it work in this application, or is there a better solution? I know there are a lot of questions here... so if you rather, just give me your best solution. Again, in a bureaucracy, free is always better. Many thanks in advance. Eric Zatko e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
