Re: thinking of giving this a go.

[mimus]

On Mar 28, 11:48 am, Uncle Steve <stevet...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 09:41:31AM +0000, happy zombie jebus wrote:
>
> > arch linuxhttps://www.archlinux.org/
>
> > i love the fact that you don't have a pain in the arse gui to
> > partition the hdd's, just like in the good ol' days. i realy do not
> > like gui's for partitioning. back in the day i always favoured os/2's
> > fdisk and still have it on floppy along with a few old dos tools i
> > loved.
>
> > one thing i like about this linux, you have to do everything yourself,
> > which means no getting out of learning how to do stuff, unlike your
> > out of the box linux which does everything for you.
>
> > i was thining it was kind of like middle ground between building your
> > own linux system from scratch and an out the box one. after this, i
> > guess build your own system would not seem as daunting
>
> > i installed that mint linux on sara's old laptop yesterday. went on
> > fine, only when it is closed and you reopen it, you cannot get it to
> > come out of hybernation. i'll have a look to see if there is a fix for
> > that and this laptop model, if not, i'll try the above arch linux.
>
> The problem with Linux these days is you still have to install a
> bloody great big massive system to run just one stupid little service
> like DNS.
>
> Back in the Good Old Days when Linux could be installed on a floppy,
> running a small system was as simple as setting the root filesystem in
> the kernel with rdev, and installing lilo on the floppy, as well as a
> minimal system to run whatever it is that needed running.  Try that
> with archlinux, let alone Ubuntu.
>
> There are obvious security implications, which the average Linux user
> is completely unprepared to appreciate.  The whole issue is somewhat
> reminiscient of the whole PGP debate from years past.  The integrety
> of the PGP crypto algorithms is a relative non-issue in comparison
> with the security of your passphrases.  What good does it do to use
> strong crypto when keyboards are designed to broadcast RF signals with
> each keypress?

What's the alternative? none of the microkernel OSen seem ready for
prime-time as *NIX distros yet (I've mooned over Minix 3 for years).

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[Uncle Steve]

The alternative is to understand WTF you are doing, but there are
fundamental limits without provably secure hardware.

A partial solution is to avoid companies like Samsung.


Regards,

Uncle Steve

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[mimus]

And don't forget the chips: I've brooded over the implications of
Vista's so-called "tilt-bits" (which actually did or initiated
reporting) for years, too:

Who needs to worry about hacking people or even rootkits if they have
surveillance built into the chips?

Makes one wonder if a nice open-source RISC microprocessor might not
be valuable.

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Back to the abacus. Why is it looking at me like that?

[Uncle Steve]

I was speaking about the chips.

> Who needs to worry about hacking people or even rootkits if they have
> surveillance built into the chips?
>
> Makes one wonder if a nice open-source RISC microprocessor might not
> be valuable.

The design that led to the Mips architecture is a good candidate,
though I am not current on its licensing encumberance. But a
microprocessor design is only a start. The chip manufactory has to be
trustworthy, which necessarily includes the hardware and software that
runs the fab itself.

I have software methods that allow the theoretical detection of
run-time interference of the application, but until I am let out of
this shitty prison and the "wardens" and all their racist
collaborators are in prison, it ain't going to happen.

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the maple leaf forever

[mimus]

I'm sorry to hear that. I assume you're not being metaphorical.

Federal? I'm trying to get everyone to go to FCI Loretto (PA).

Email if you wish.

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Andrew Auernheimer is on his way, I hope.

[Uncle Steve]

shut up, you know nothing simpleton

[Uncle Steve]

Nobody knows; it's not like there was a trial with lawyers and stuff.

> Email if you wish.

Right. And talk to whom?

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are you having a happy day

[Uncle Steve]

Well, fuckwit, considering the number of years I've been penetraiting
this right-supremist segregationist secret-poice full-employment
circle-jerk, you'll just have to imagine how fucking pleased I am to
lose so many irriplaceable years.

I don't think my uncle is all that enthusiastic either.

However, I'm sure this racist arrangement satisfies all of your stupid
little right-tard aspirations.

[mimus]

"It's part of the New Way . . . ."

> > Email if you wish.
>
> Right.  And talk to whom?

OR DON'T IF YOU WISH.

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Fuck.

[Uncle Steve]

It is somewhat troubling. Little things like appeals, parole review,
pre-trial motions, cross-examining witness, and such are rather more
difficult. It's possible even that my some of my human and civil
rights may have been slightly violated. I wouldn't know since there
are no lawyers available to consult.

In fact, it's enough to make me think about starting to consider
campaigning to reinstate the DEATH PENALTY for such as those who may
have inadvertently wasted my time accidentally.

> > > Email if you wish.
> >
> > Right.  And talk to whom?
>
> OR DON'T IF YOU WISH.

What I mean is that emails are usually intercepted by someone's goon,
who masquerades as the intended recipient, and who is invariably
completely full of shit.

[mimus]

"Excellent and moral men had been selected upon every occasion of
vacancy. But it unfortunately has uniformly happened, that as these
worthy divines crossed Hounslow Heath, they have been regularly robbed
and murdered by the highwaymen frequenting that common, who seize upon
their robes and patents, and come over to Ireland, and are consecrated
bishops in their stead."

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Swift.

[Uncle Steve]

Well played.

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like yo momma

[happy zombie jebus]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:50:18 -0700 (PDT), mimus <mim...@gmail.com>
wrote:

not so long ago intel was thinking about cpu's that phoned home. if
they did that, what else would they say when they did?


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