[gentoo-user] Nice job,

2020-03-07 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm just writing to congratulate the linux community for F-ing up something as semingly simple as a terminal window as well as they did... Fortunately X-term is OK, you have to manually adjust the settings of each one you pop open but well... atg@tortoise ~ $ konsole QCommandLineParser: already

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 12:21 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2020-03-07, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > In this case we're talking about a TPM where a threat model > > is an attacker with physical access that is trying to play games with > > the busses/etc, and as such it is important that it initializ

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-07, Rich Freeman wrote: > In this case we're talking about a TPM where a threat model > is an attacker with physical access that is trying to play games with > the busses/etc, and as such it is important that it initialize using > code in ROM that is known-good. Note that the person b

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 11:26 AM Ivan T. Ivanov wrote: > > Quoting Rich Freeman (2020-03-06 23:13:55) > > > > The patched firmware executes before any software you boot, assuming > > your device was patched before the hacker got his hands on it. > > > > Well, they say that vulnerability is inside R

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-07 Thread Ivan T. Ivanov
Quoting Rich Freeman (2020-03-06 23:13:55) > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 3:55 PM Wols Lists wrote: > > > > On 06/03/20 19:39, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > > They don't detail the effort required. If the firmware is patched it > > > sounds like it still requires tinkering with hardware. > > > > By the

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-03-07 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:57:37 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 2020-02-15 8:48 a.m., Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process > >> when it comes to the loading of