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Re: Freedomnet on a Mac!



UPS idiot.

>>For anyone who hasn't used Virtual PC yet, it's some features that make it 
>incredibly 
>>convenient for day-to-day use. You can choose to quit the application without 
>shutting 
>>down Windows, and it will save its state to a file on the (in my case, 
>encrypted) 
>>disk. Coming back into that instance, with Windows 95 already booted and my 
>>applications still running as I left them, takes less than 10 seconds.  I tell 
>
>>Freedom to create a route (I leave Freedom running so I don't have to type my 
>>passphrase -- what the fuck, it all get encrypted before I walk away from the 
>machine, 
>>right?), and another 10-15 seconds later I'm surfing.  If someone battered 
>down the 
>>door while I was composing this message, I could hit cmd-Q, <enter> and 
>VPC 
>>would take five seconds to save state and exit.  A minute later, the PGP Disk 
>would 
>>automatically dismount.
>>
>
>And what about when the first sign that the black ninjas are coming thru 
>your window in 
>short order, is when Special Agents Johnson and Johnston (no relation) hit 
>the Big Red 
>Switch at the substation and black out your neighborhood?
>
>- Do Macs (and does your VPC) try to save CPU state to disk (which one) 
>for recovery when the
>  power is cut?