Jerry L Kreps wrote:
George Toft wrote:
Jerry L Kreps wrote:
pons wrote:
George Toft wrote:
Jerry L Kreps wrote:
Checks your PC against hacker attack while you are connected to the web...
Thanks for the tip. I have finally achieved "stealth" mode, except for port 80 (can't help that).
For a guy that's paranoid about Windows vulnerabilities, I'm mildly surprised his web server OS is NT. At least he wrote his own httpd. -- George Toft http://gtoft.dynip.com
via netcraft: www.grc.com is running Steve's own HTTPD on NT4 or Windows 98
hmm, I honestly dont know, what to say....
mmmm.... I have a paranoid thought - maybe he isn't returning a true evaluation and is really looking for a way to 'legally' probe known Linux machines so he can evaluate was to block Linux machines from Windows driven sites. ??? JLK
I doubt it - I know of his work from 11 years ago. He wrote disk sectoring program that would speed up hard drives (SpinRite). He's probably got more talent than half of Redmond's Empire. -- George Toft http://gtoft.dynip.com
Wow! Now that you mention it I remember SpinRite. Didn't it actually just create a faster buffer?
No. Back in the dark ages, when sector order was important, he wrote SpinRite which analyzed the hard drive and set up the interleave to be the most efficient in a non-destructive fashion. This was a function that was normally performed in BIOS, using DEBUG (g=c800, or some such command), and it reformatted your drive. IDE drives made this program obsolete, but that was SpinRite and SpinRite 2. I don't know what SpinRite 5 does. -- George Toft http://gtoft.dynip.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/