Posts by old486whizz

Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process

what's the point in moving the initrd?

So... Moving initrd and the kernel image into one image file - how does that fix ANYTHING?

Drivers still need to go in the image, the image still needs to be built on the host, which means you still have a "trust" issue.

All you need is some sort of signed mechanism on the initrd image, some way to use the RPM to sign the image in the first place.

.. so why shift to UKI? What's the actual benefits?

OK, Google: Why does Chromecast clobber Wi-Fi connections?

Idiocy from the routers and el reg

So, the routers suffer from too many UDP packets.. you know, the ones which have no guarantee to be delivered.. the ones which should be dropped under high congestion or load etc...

So the routers, instead of dropping these packets, suffer from a DoS attack and can require a reboot, and instead of blaming the routers you blame Google devices for sending out these packets "in a short amount of time".

So mdns packets of 512-bytes, X 30,000 = 15000Kb, = 15Mb... So 15Mb of transmission data can take down a network router because it "cannot handle it" ?

I transfer far more TCP data over the network and that is guaranteed!

Sure, Google shouldn't be sending this data, but let's not pretend that they are sending digital nukes, they are sending digital peanuts through the mail system, which is collapsing because someone has a nut allergy!