On 10/5/06, Christoph Frick frick@sc-networks.de wrote:
the #2 folks are proficient enough with their systems to know what they are doing. the #1 folks hope to get away from the world of #2 things they are forced on the windows world when they change to unix.
Not nescessarily. I'm thinking specifically of some of the more exotic forensic data-recovery software. Think Joe User (Joe Friday?) prefers to use *nix, however, the software he uses to simplify gathering all the various data he needs for an investigation (could be law-related, could be an intrusion, etc.) runs only on Windows. It'd be nice to grab an image of the drive with dd and work with it on his Linux machine.
Just a note... this might be possible today... I believe setting up raw disk access for an actual disk or a file is possible under Wine currently... It would be nice to handle this case in a somewhat more regular-person-friendly way - and it's logical to include handling of sandboxed raw disk access in the same way.
--tim