michael wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:15:54PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > michael wrote: > > > Personally, I have found extensible autostart mechanisms which process > > > third-party data to be more useful to trojan authors than to users so > > > I'm mildly inclined to consider such mechanisms to be a misfeatures > > > > really? i'm not sure where the "third-party" data comes into it. i > > suppose with browse, maybe, but my .xsession has started two xterms on > > my desktop for many years, and i've never considered it a security > > issue. just a time-saver. > > Depends. Any software you run can write to your .xsession, yes? > Afterward, will you really notice an extra instance of 'bash', or > 'kdmgd', or some other nonsense running in the background, capturing all > your keystrokes, aliasing 'sudo', running 'xauth ++', setting up a > spambot, or querying an IRC server for recent local root exploits?
eek! time to retire. ;-) your point is well taken, but since any program i run manually can also write to lots and lots of things that i run, or use as config, i'm not sure why autostart makes a huge difference. and although i have little windows experience, i'd have to imagine the case is much the same vis a vis the Start directory. but perhaps there's a distinction i'm missing. > > > Also, where does hibernation fit in your taxonomy? > > > > i'd think that's pretty different -- coming out of hibernation > > should leave the system exactly as it was when it went in. > > (unless i'm misunderstanding.) > > You understood correctly. It has been previously proposed that we should > (more or less) always hibernate. I was curious if you had thought about > the resulting system. if the system can yawn and wake up from hibernation appreciably faster than from a cold boot, clearly that will be a Good Thing. (for some reason this isn't noticeably the case on my current ubuntu (gutsy) laptop.) (this is wandering from sugar performance perceptions.) paul =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 45.0 degrees) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
