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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?