What the Hell has happened to this group???

We are currently designing a rackmount scientific instrument controller that uses a Kontron Mini-ITX cpu board running Linux. It talks PCIe to the FPGA on our board, which is full of fast signal processing stuff and microengines and cool things like that. That makes sense for an embedded system where we want reliability and speed and will mostly write our own code. Windows Embedded is a cruel joke.

John

Linux is ideal for control situations. Used widely by government device vendors. That should tell you something.

After they killed the w2k DE environment. That embedded DE got praise. This new crap is... well... crap.

lant

LOL!! No I'm not, my headers are spoofed so I don't get those annoying "your browser is not compatible with our site blah blah blah" messages.

As long as your 'Doze system isn't plugged directly into the internet, I see no problem. If you _need_ internet connectivity for your Eng. apps, then hire a Linux geek to put a proper firewall in your gateway box.

I use Linux for all my internet stuff, but when I need to use 'Doze, (Windows 2000 Professional, FWIW), I disconnect.

Cheers! Rich

You sound like a pragmatist, i.e., "What works?" ;-)

Did you know that in CP/M, hitting control-C reboots the whole system? ;-) And you had to write your own BIOS! =:-O

Cheers! Rich

I saw that on the teevee, and almost fell off the couch laughing!

Thanks! Rich

I wonder who the bobble-headed lackey behind him is?

Thanks, Rich

I haven't had any problems. I do a virus scan now and then, but none so far.

John

You tell 'm, Rich! BTW, here's another important tip: never run Linux as Root whilst connected to the internet. You'll likely as not end up with a rootkit installed and never know about it...

You tell 'm, Rich! BTW, here's another important tip: never run Linux as Root whilst connected to the internet. You'll likely as not end up with a rootkit installed and never know about it...

Paranoid retard behavior.

The thing is titled Obama "resolved to confront" piracy, when the idiot clearly states that he is resolved to confront privacy.

But we all already knew that.

Total bullshit.

Accessing UNKNOWN networks and servers *can* result in this, but the likelihood is low.

It is unwise to spend a day that way, but a few minutes performing specific tasks is usually safe enough. I have been doing it through ten years of Linux distros and have NEVER had "a rootkit installed".

I think you heard something years ago, and make up your own scenarios and stats to make yourself appear as being intelligent.

Look, fucktard... ONE post is enough. Either get a decent news client or get out.

Goddamned web browsing of Usenet is even more retarded than the shit you say while you are here. Goddamned double posting is retarded. Knowing the group's luck, you probably did it thinking it hadn't shown up soon enough to suit you, which is about as 100% clueless as it gets.

s,

I have run a Puppy linux CD as root for days and days without anything getting in.

I run 'Doze98 under Bochs when I absolutely have no choice. The nice thing is that after I'm done, I can mount the faked C drive, copy the resulting files out and then overwrite the faked C. This works out quite nicely. 'Doze 98 will run for several hours without crashing from the image of a fresh install.

How many has it ever found?

ent

I'm so sorry, I didn't realise the group now had a moderator. Actually, I do have Agent lurking about somewhere in the archives which I could easily re-install, but I can' t be bothered for a nobody like you. If you don't like it, that's just tough, pal.

Yeah, it's obvious you have the group's best interests in mind.