[Nottingham] Installing distros via the WWW

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:40 +0000, Michael Leuty wrote:
> On 16/02/06, Andy <andy at forlinux.co.uk> wrote:
> >    I have no idea what you guys are talking, about.....
> >    But hell it sounds exciting
> 
> There has been talk of the next generation of PCs being fitting with
> flash memory so that your copy of Windows Vista will restart almost
> instantaneously when you turn your computer on. This will be a big
> advance because trojans can return swiftly to active memory without
> having to be laboriously loaded from the hard drisk.
> 
> I suppose if you are upgrading the graphics, processor and RAM to cope
> with the requirements of Vista you might as well add a bit of flash
> memory at the same time.
> 

Flash memory fails after ~ 10,000 writes giving these new PCs a life
span of ~ 1 month after all the reboots to install windows ;) 
I suppose that is one way to manage malware.  Make them change hardware
at regular intervals.
> 
Have fun,
Duncan