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Awesome, if you've got one of these little things.
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Awesome, if you've got one of these little things.
Awesome, been waiting for this :)
Will get one for Christmas I think! I still have my A440 :D
Hmm tempted to get one and have a play, never actually experienced RISC !
I'll try it out, will be interesting to use another OS that isn't Windows/Linux/BSD/DOS
Wonder if "Lander" will run :)
Sadly not, as Lander required assembly.
Anything in BBC BASIC will of course run without issue.
Just had a very brief play with it, it's cool. I was pretty disappointed with how slow Raspbian runs, modern desktop debian just isn't designed/written for the pi. But RISC OS boots really quickly, and feels snappy, which is awesome.
Makes for a great safe surfing device, after all, the likelihood of any internet based malware running on RISC OS is quite slim.
Don't get me wrong, I loved risk OS, the star prompt, so much to love.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobF64
It's security model is piss poor..... Who are we kidding, it doesn't even have a security model.
I think you could safely say the security model would be based entirely around security by obscurity.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
But it wasn't obscure enough, as the demand for a product from Pineapple Software IIRC showed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Funkstar
Whilst its not immune from RISC OS based viruses, and theyre probably still around somewhere, only some like the Module virus will still function as they were written in BASIC.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
The majority of threats on the internet are aimed at Windows, OS X and occassionally linux, or more specifically, applications that run on those platforms.
Is it completely secure, and can you be as smug and conceited as Mac users used to be? no, but at least its vastly less likely to succumb to some script kiddie virus or web exploit.
Used to be? Most still are.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobF64
The issue with RISC OS, create folder starting with !, lets say !Foo, then put in a bat file called !Boot, do what you want.....
Kinda an issue really. For epic lols you then put it on HardDisc4........
Anyway, this is what its all about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_directory
Like I say, I do love my RISC OS, but secure, designed for a networked environment with all the threats that brings, it most certainly is not.
The harddisk in my A440 has exactly that 'problem'. I made a password application and used the !Boot method.
Fifteen years on and I have no idea what the password is, so I can't get past it :laugh:
I was going to hook the drive up and look at the data with a hex-editor or something....until I realised its pre-IDE :rolleyes:
There has to be a command line to edit the files without it executing !Boot....I've just not looked into it.
just press SHIFT + CTRL while booting.......
Will try it out, it's in the loft at the moment. Cheers mate :)
True, but once Apple admitted OS X wasnt as safe as they had claimed, I was happy.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
Indeed, its the same problem Windows had with autorun.inf on the root of removable media.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
Only difference is, it requires you to explicitly go out of your way to target something at RISC OS, which, at least for now and probably the forseeable future isnt likely to be an issue.
And its not a "bat" file, its an Obey file.
Yup, it was always nice to be able to fiddle with the innards of an "application" by virtue of it being just a folder with a pling in front of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheAnimus
It's a lot worse because one could be merrily using SparkFS to 'de-zip' something and blam, there is a !Boot that is executing code. It can happen at any level. Autorun.inf at least could only happent at root letter level.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobF64
That's the chap! Couldn't remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobF64
But yes I loved so many things about RISC OS.