i did the same back on my old barton. 80 and 92mm vantec tornadoes. mofo took a chunk out of my finger...

that's always been the truth; security is very much inversely proprotional to convenience. and most (99.999%) people want nothing more with your information than to provide all the best services you would like to use.

Security isn't the joke on the internet, the ones expecting it are.

You shouldn't be asking yourself how to be more secure, but who you are trying to secure your information from. If you are trying to secure your information from the government, you have no more problems than an overinflated ego.

Don't even think about typing what you want kept secret. that's the first step on the path to idiocy. contrary to popular belief, the telephone was actually invented BEFORE the internet.

lastly, don't trust any computer but your own if you're saavy enough to trust your computer. and more importantly, you shouldn't trust security software anymore than you would a virus with your personal information. software meant to secure your information and computer is meant for the paranoid, not the security conscious.

to be secure is a state of mind, not something you can simply buy or use.

Notice how the amount of initiative a US government program takes to solving a problem is inversely proportional to the amount of revenue companies 'influenced' by said program generates ?

Less scare tactics, more results. kthx.

PulseAudio.

heh, i'm not quite so fortunate. N270 Atom in the AOA150, 1.5gb of ddr533. my intentions for this netbook lay with mounting it into a car to use as a mediapc interfaced to the headunit via bluetooth (A2DP; soldered in) - also, i've got tethering setup over BT.

720p was an afterthought, i really just want to eventually stick a 2.5" 1tb hdd in it (christmas, maybe?) and continue expanding my music/dvdrip collection.

So yeah, i'm pretty locked in when it comes to hardware.

I'm sure it does not, but if netbook cpus in general were to pick up IVT support, there's always the 'XP Mode' download provided at Microsoft's site for the Pro and Ultimate users. A friend of mine has MSDN AA access and got ahold of a legit key for me that way; running Win7 Pro.

Fedora 11 has GUI's for many SELinux features, but i'm sure there's stuff lacking. I just used the GUI to disable all of it.

Speaking of 720p netbooks, i assume you've been following the next line-up including the HD card. I wish i held off, not being able to play 720p movies has been a real downer for me.

actually, i do apologize in part. it's not you so much as the first guy, seemed unnecessary and now i'm taking it out on you.

i'm not terribly concerned with how win7 is performing, i just want to have my cake and eat it, too. otherwise, the touchscreen is really working out nicely. and i am willing to lose the flicks and such for what is definitely ms's best OS, yet. i dualboot fedora 11 as well, and i am pleased to say that i don't mind being in either OS, these days.

no, friend. this is the part where you cut your losses and move on.

no, no. you are failing to understand. an asinine response deserved it in kind. see, if you both read my entire post, you can see that i plainly said that hopefully things would be fixed before long and i was just addressing the current state of affairs. using the 'beta' argument is just a snooty 6 digit Slashdot UID way of looking elitist, and i found it to be rather pathetic. lame attempt, but i guess everybody is a troll now.

that aside, one might think that perhaps these drivers shouldn't be marked 'beta', when some may consider these to be 'alpha' in the development cycle.

hm, i don't think most sane people want it as a mouse replacement so much as a convenient touchpad replacement. for the netbook, it's great as most seem to have ridiculously tiny touchpads, as-is. i typically only use the touchscreen in mine when i take it off the charger, resulting in the touchscreen being a much more efficient way to browse the web or perform simple tasks with the netbook in tow. enhancement, maybe. convenience, definitely. gestures and the like to me just seem like a cool gimmick, like compiz.

i expected win7 to recognize it, naturally. you know, like it did before i installed the drivers. comprende?

I recently modded the Acer Aspire One with an eGalax touchscreen. initially, windows 7 recognized it, but for the life of me, i could not get it to properly calibrate without installing some beta win7 drivers provided on the manufacturer's site. now it works perfectly, but windows 7 doesn't recognize it as a touch screen anymore? meaning, i don't get any of the win7 features like gestures and the like. just standard touchscreen support. hopefully, this will be improved by the time win7 is officially released, but it until that time comes, eGalax touchscreen users seem to be screwed. keep in mind, i'm not looking for multi-touch support, i wasn't expecting it on what is a relatively cheap mod. but not recognized at all as anything more than a generic input device? as i said, the eGalax touchscreen as a touchscreen works flawlessly in win7, but not much more.

P.S. Server box uses 4.2.2.1-3 for it's own dns lookups. I believe dnsmasq is capable of fixing 'fixed' nx records with this route. at least, i believe that was talked about last time i was reading up on it.