SoylentNews first reported the vulnerabilities on January 3. Since then, we have had a few stories addressing different reports about these vulnerabilities. Now that it is over two weeks later and we are *still* dealing with reboots, I am curious as to what our community's experience has been.
What steps have you taken, if any, to deal with these reports? Be utterly proactive and install every next thing that comes along? Do a constrained roll out to test a system or two before pushing out to other systems? Wait for the dust to settle before taking any steps?
What providers (system/os/motherboard/chip) have been especially helpful... or non-helpful? How has their response affected your view of that company?
What resources have you been using to check on the status of fixes for your systems? Have you found a site that stands above the others in timeliness and accuracy?
How has this affected your purchasing plans... and your expectations on what you could get for selling your old system? Are you now holding off on purchasing something new?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 19 2018, @09:29PM
Not sure where you're coming from. I'll presume that you are young, and never used floppy disks. There was a little sliding plastic tab at the top corner of the disk. Slide the tab closed, and your floppy drive could write to the disk. Slide the tab open, and your floppy drive could not write to the disk. The term generally used was "write protect".
http://www.techbuzz.in/how-can-i-enable-or-disable-write-protection-of-a-3%C2%BD-inch-floppy-disk.php [techbuzz.in]
image here http://art-design-glossary.musabi.ac.jp/wpwp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/039_floppy-disk_03_2_en.jpg [musabi.ac.jp]