Max Wanadoo
max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 02:16:24 CST 2010
Rocky, I am not a guru of any sort but I would have thought it would be feasible for say MS to annouce Vista SP2 for 64 bit machines (which came down this morning). I could then go to their site and pay my money and have a flash update onto my OS Eprom. Once updated, the eprom is then locked again thus preventing any further changes until I unlock it - manually using DIP pins like we used to have. This could be done weekly or whenever you fancy. The urgency would go out of the need to FIX virus attacks etc because there couldn't be any affecting the OS itself. Similar things for Major software installations and upgrades. A side motherboard add-in could hold maybe a dozen eproms plugged in via a USB so the user could get to them easily. Etc Max -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin Sent: 28 February 2010 04:47 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OS on Eproms Given the amount of configuration and options you can do in an OS like Windows and the seemingly endless updates from MS - security patches, hotfixes and whatnot - could you really put the OS in an EPROM? Unless you included hardware in the comp to reprogram the EPROM. Then it might be more feasible. R -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:20 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] OS on Eproms This my life... Fixing broken software and OSs is my forte and curse. (So much for weekends) I would relish seeing an OS on an EPROM (We do have Ubuntu on a Memory stick). I would like to see a 5 minute backup and recovery and I guess that is why there has been so much interest in what would be perfect backup configuration. Oh yes, my condolences. Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 2:02 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] OS on Eproms Twice in the last week I have had to go back to Restore (Manufactures setting) on two different machines and I am just so sick of all the Krap that involves. Why or why can we not buy an OS on an Eprom like we used to do. Plug it in and job done. Different versions at diffenent levels give you what you pay for. IOW, after all the krap I have had to go through- twice - you just plug it in and go - no virus, no trojans, nothing but the OS and what ever level you pay for. Boot time 0 seconds. Max _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com