[Rule-list] "Advance to the past" and FAQ

Martin Stricker shugal at gmx.de
Sun Oct 27 16:53:07 EET 2002


Eugene Wong wrote:

> Meanwhile parents are concerned about the kids downloading and
> viewing porn, and the parents still want a computer that is powerful
> enough to do homework, email, browse, etc. Well, it's pretty hard to
> view porn with lynx, wouldn't you agree?

> Well, I'm sure that there is a way, but still, it would be harder.

Well, you could write an image viewer that uses framebuffer... Actually
I'd love to be able to view images on text-only boxes! Oh, and I have a
nice collection of ASCII-"porn" from news:alt.acii-art ... ;=D

> Also, having those partitions mounted as read-only will allow us to
> cumstomize scripts so that they won't have to run a full RH boot &
> shutdown process, and would avoid using fsck on the whole hard drive
> in the envent of a crash.

Now this is interesting! It is also a very nice idea for a (web)server -
if a hacker cannot write to the disk his potential damage is quite
limited...

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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