Text 6078, 49 rader
Skriven 2006-05-15 17:43:10 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 6074 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
Ärende: Re: sensors, pnpbios
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Hey Kenneth!

May 15 02:03 06, Kenneth Parrish wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 KP> a tv show i saw used a flash memory card that could be remotely 
 KP> erased. it delivered sensitive data to a double agent and was erased 
 KP> once he had paid.

Must have been an embedded program on the flash disk that responded to a remote
signal.  I don't see how else that could be done.

 KP> suspend to ram and disk don't work with linux on this box, the cyrix 
 KP> chip lacks one processor instruction the code wants, it seems.

That can happen but is usually a software (code) issue and not really the fault
of the cpu.  I've been having simular issues with floppy based source and newer
gcc's.  Not really a big deal to me in either case (power management or
floppies).

 KP> but you only need to run the opteron for an hour a day :)

:-)  I sort of doubt that.  I'd prefer seeing them in action before committing
to such a thing and looking around here I doubt I actually need any no matter
how good/fast they are.  Maybe an athlon64 later on but even then it would be
just to port to 64-bit if it becomes an issue with me, which it hasn't as of
this writing.  If one shows up for nothing then I would but am not seriously
thinking about it in terms of purchasing.  I don't need it ... yet.

 KP> for awhile.
 KP> buggy and via are almost the same word it seems sometimes

They are not the only ones but they do tend to stand out from the crowd it
seems.  I do like the VIA Samuel 2 I have here and would like to find a few
more of them for a cluster.  I think they would work well for my scheme.  I am
betting I could get that to compete with a single opteron and use far less
power.

 KP> some people make cross-compiling environments available over the 
 KP> internet, also software analysis and benchmarking tools.

So I hear.  I prefer knowing how to do that for myself as this way I can limit
the damage caused by unwanted dependancies and other leakage, such as too much
DOS-think.

Life is good,
Maurice

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