DamnCat
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Posted: May 26 2004,16:59 |
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I'm a Network Consultant up in Sebastopol about 70 mi north of Foster City. I grew up in your neck of the woods! Damn FINE Work son! I've always been a big fan of tight efficient code and you and your pals here are definatly on the right track.
I would like to see Java and the "Virus Hammer" java script, combined with NTFS mount and USB WiFi (Netgear, Linksys and Centrino/Intel).
I'm not a code slinger any more, but after reading what I've read here so far I can see a pattern growing. May I suggest a Two disk system like we had in the "old days" of the PC/XT before hard drives? An "A" disk to boot from, and a "B" disk run from. Perhaps a "C" Floppy disk Or "B" floppy disk to mount as the user filesystem with a collection of .dsl files on it that the user can creat themselfs depending on their needs? The trick here would be to get at these disks early in the boot stage so that filesystem drivers and device drivers can be scanned for and loaded from them.
I know I'm rambling, but I want to complete the thought.
Here is how I see myself using DSL: I put the 50MB CD into a machine that is having problems, let's say XP machine (duh) with a virus (duh again). 50MB will fit into the HUGE memory that the typical XP machine needs just to get out of it's own way, so the CD Boots, creates a 50MB RAM disk and copies itself in there and continues. At this point, the original boot disk is no longer needed, (it's in a ram drive now) so the boot process prompts me to swap CDs and put my own custom disk in the cdrom drive and/or a floppy disk if nessesary for whatever job I'm doing. So I get out my VirusHammer.org diskette and pop it into the floppy drive, and I put my WiFi/internet tools CD into the CDROM drive and press ENTER to continue....
The VirusHammer floppy contains just the Hammer code and the latest definition file.
The CD (#2) contains Java, NTFS and other file systems drivers, many USB, PCMCIA, PCI Network drivers and some tools for internet access and network scanning for open ports on other machines that might be infected or vulnerable.
The NTFS file system mounts up, and the Linksys WiFi adaptor on the USB fires up, and the desktop comes up and I'm ready to go to work. I open the menu off the desktop and click on the menu item that says "Extras" and a submenu of all the tools I have installed on my special CD and Floppy are there and ready to use.
End of scenario. Thank you all for your patience.
What do you think?
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Chris Watson
Watson Enterprises
708 Gravenstein Hwy. No.
# 201
Sebastopol, Ca, 95472
http://www.watsonenterprises.com
chris@watsonenterprises.com
Phone 707-332-1146
Fax 707-566-0136
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