HOWTO: Security

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Wed May 25 00:22:04 UTC 2016


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> I like it.  The disadvantage is that you may need some adapters.  Has the 
> world switched to HDMI yet?  (I'm still using VGA and PS2, but I have USB 
> keyboards.)

There's a lot of both HDMI and DVI out there. New monitors tend to have both
jacks. I believe VGA is in sharp decline due to not being able to drive today's
screen sizes well.

I'd like to see HDMI win because the connectors are less fragile and fussy.
I don't know if this is happening.

HDMI-to-DVI adaptors are cheap.  I *do* know that this has occasioned
great consternation among the suits running the media cartel; they
hate it when their immensely expensive scheme to replace a relatively
open standard with one DRM-locked out the wazoo gets totally derailed
by $3 parts mass-produced in Taiwan.  Well, they can't say we didn't
warn them, repeatedly.  Idiots.

> Both areas can link to an outside document (or appendix) for how-to-do-it 
> without a display or kbd.

It's simpler than that, as you'll see.
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